re Linux, it's on all Android 2.2 and 2.3+. Closest you're going to get at this point.

Probably more realistic during the signal-pulsey days of TDMA/GSM before we all switched to the quiet CMDA variant.

Sounds kinda slow. My triple-raid0 SSD setup tachs at 400MB/s (Sony Z11). For your price, I guess it's good enough for general usage. After experiencing this, it's a hard stretch to try to go back to HDD speeds.

Latest Nook Touch avoids blanking the entire screen for a few refreshes, before it does the full refresh. So already in production and wide release.

It's called in short, Google Koolaid. You could call it white-tower hubris, or Buzz also.

Windows gained fingerprinting the hardware for activation/DRM. Any major hardware changes automatically broke it. You're not supposed to migrate an existing Windows deployment to new hardware.

This falls in line with the Nook Color 2 color e-ink rumors: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/02/barnes-noble-nook-color-2-to-launch-this-month/

It's hypocritical media buzz really excited about the upcoming color Kindle which is sounding very much an exact clone of the NookColor. Many are calling it "Amazon's tablet" while backhandedly refusing to acknowledge B&N's original effort beyond calling it an "e-reader".

>what difference does it make what the clock rate is

Does it really need to be spelled out? Battery life.

Let's treat social networks as Circles. There's the FB circle, Twitter circle, G+ circle, etc etc. Each with their idiosyncrasies and varying policies.

Then, choose not to use nor post to the G+ circle until special circumstances, as it been suggested.

Do you also not use Google? Do you also not use Apple products? Do you not use Windows? Do you live in a small, apolitical country that isn't a terrorist country like United States, China, Afghanistan, Iran, etc etc?

I'm curious as to how seriously you live your "DON'T .... USE THEM" as a personal example in the face of mainstream conformity vs marginalization - aka entropy.

Who is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Carvin ?

I found this off Google and it's Wikipedia, so that bio must be entirely unreputable.

You're thinking of Hulu: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/08/24/hulu-starts-blocking-the-hp-touchpad/

Agreed. WimPy7s skills won't even translate to a decent mediocre 9-5 job in the mobile market as most will want iPhone or Android experience. The time you invest in your skills must have near maximum payoff, and it's not in WimPy7s.

The webOS guy is at Android now. Let the Palm/HP webOS go away quietly.

The only nightmare was the lack of platform performance certification. MS was totally asleep at the wheel at the end letting HTC ship into production debugging DirectDraw drivers as "gold master" drivers. Just ask Don Couch about this.

IF MS had thrown Chassis requirements at WMobile instead of letting the OEMs do whatever they wanted, then it wouldn't have been so fragmented.

Android is walking this road, but at least the OEMs aren't half-assing the hardware as they used to (2.8" screens from HTC with partial and unreliable capacitive controls [Touch Pro] was the lowest point). At least Google throws out a reference device once in a while and works with an OEM to make sure the rest doesn't drift too far from the performance line (so far).