...for every other gift you receive with origins you might disagree with, be it sneakers from overseas or any form of plastic.

Assuming it's not vaporware, it's a little late to the party. I predict next year there'll be better screens yet. Look at me go.

Anyways, they're sticking it in golf stroke training systems and carwash controls, so maybe they'll find a niche. But as for tablets, wake me when one thrives for a couple of months in the market.

...I can only hope it means a decreased presence in North America. Good riddance.

All those people accusing half the internet of being paid shills have finally actually caught one. Even if it's a "stopped clock" moment, it fuels the fire.

"I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it, what's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies, maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?""

- Jonathan Coulton, Skullcrusher Mountain

"Well, if you are into the whole social network hype, you kind of deserve to get tracked and ripped off. You basically asked for it yourself."

And if you got a telephone, you deserve to be called by telemarketers and scam artists. And if you got a car you deserve to be carjacked. And if you have electricy you deserve to be electrocuted.

You basically asked for it yourself. Those are all possible consequences of choosing those products.

Stay in your luddite cave and disconnect. Toodles.

The only way to "prove" it would be to identify a definitive proving mechanism, and nobody has done so. No computer simulations have been able to solve it, nor have any participants. That's going to be as good as it gets.

...screw it. FUCK YOU, you pricks. Hey... I didn't read the article first... Well hot damn! I'm finally a slashdotter after so many years!

...lest they get sued by "big insecticide".

...and what a wasteland of failure lies before us... :)

Failure to envision appropriate and unique uses for the device is a failure of your imagination - not a failure of the device. There are plenty.

I'd like to take a moment to address the question of C-11. I have, in fact, read it in its entirety, since media coverage is never without bias.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=5144516&file=4

I'm sure you've heard from people who are far more rabid in their disdain for this legislation than I, and you've likely heard all of the arguments against it.

I will therefore restrict myself to declaring that, should this legislation pass, I will not be voting for you in the future. That is an unconditional promise.

Yours,

Petersko

"excuse me here, but i thought a retina display implied ~300dpi this one falls a fair bit short of the mark if i'm not mistaken so once again apple marketing triumphs over al"l

264 dpi, 2048x1536 in 10 inches... maybe your complaint is about some imagined deficiency, but if you'd care to explain how this is actually a failure, I'd love to hear it. Are you actually complaining that if you freeze frame and squint really hard from two inches away you can actually make out... (gasp)... pixels? Because you couldn't make them out at normal viewing distance.

In other words, tell me how your post isn't just a knee-jerk, pointless, anti-apple jab with no redeeming value.

Why did you need proof of the perfectly self-evident?