It's no worse than in Canada where we measure height in feet/inches, distance in KM, people's weight in lbs, deli meat in grams, liquid in liters, dry baking ingredients in cups, indoor temperatures in F, outdoor temperatures in C...

I run Windows 7 on a 15" 1920x1200 screen already - the only program I use that has any trouble with the higher DPI is photoshop elements - their custom chrome doesn't scale - it's all fixed to the individual pixels. Since I use the keyboard and a tablet for that anyway, it's not a problem. Everything else runs fine. I don't imagine going from 150% to 200% would be any harder.

Give it some time - Apple only just released the retina display. The thing is when Lenovo does release a retina diplay for their T/W lines, I'll be able to order the appropriate part and upgrade my current laptop to the latest and greatest, while every mac user who wants the new display will have to buy a whole new machine.

Hands down if you're wanting a technological solution, an XP or Windows 7 convertable tablet (you want a real keyboard, and a proper digitizing pen) with OneNote. Yes it's proprietary and evil, but it's the best new thing that MS has release in 10 years.

You can record the lecture, while taking notes, and the notes get linked to the time durng the lecture. You can search the audio recording!

You can import all sorts of file formats and annotate them as you go. Those you can't directly import you can print into Onenote and then annotate. Imported images are OCR'd behind the scenes so you can search them.

Typing and handwriting work together. You can either convert your handwriting to text, or leave it as is, but still search it.

Note the emphasis on searching - you can in one shot search text, handwriting, audio, and images for a keyword. The last three use fuzzy algorithms - when it OCR's an image, it doesn't OCR it to an exact text, but rather to a set of possible texts, all of which are searched. Likewise for audio and handwriting.

Neil_Brown recently came out with his new #40767049 comment response to Moblaster's comment. In a surpising move, it was available for immediate reading at the time of its announcement. While missing out on some of the features we've come to love about his line of comments, I find it a refreshing level of meta-commenting that hasn't been seen in a while. Whether it's worth refreshing the browser to read responses to his comment has yet to be seen. We'll have to give it some time out in the wild to really get a feel for its general reception, but its +5 funny moderation does suggest that it will be read by many.

That still leaves 70,000,000. The order you sort things doesn't change their number.

Unfortunately for the world, there is also a good number of batshit crazy Christians who believe the same thing.

As a current parent, I can tell you that with all probability, your parents knew you had the flashlight and were reading at night, and put up just enough of a fight that you'd get the thrill of getting away with something. If my kid is up at night reading, I'm going to have to put up some argument, since they are supposed to be sleeping, but I'm not going to really try and stop them from reading.

For sending internal messages? I would hope so! If my company has it's own internal, monitored, secured, approved, etc.. email set up, and I go and start doing all my work correspondance from a gmail account, I would assume that they would take issue with that. Likewise, if I started using Siri to dictate emails which were then sent over that corporate network.

You're not seriously worried about Windows BSODs in 2012? If there's a hardware error serious enough to cause a Windows BSOD, you can bet that Linux / Android will give you a kernel panic - these really haven't been an issue since 2000 and have gotten better since.

No, it's just a factor of samples/second and the frequency. If you use 44 KHz, you get no sound at 17641, if you use 48KHz, that lets you generate samples up to 19200Hz.

9/11 wouldn't happen today in a world where the assumption is that when a place is hijacked, everyone is going to die. At the time, the standard assumption was that the hijackers just wanted money and would land the plane somewhere, and everyone would go free after the negotiations, provided no one tried to act the hero.

After 9/11, that's no longer the default assumption. When you add in the extra cockpit security, hijacking a plane to crash somewhere is no longer an easy way to do a lot of damage. Putting billions of dollars into protecting against one, very specific and unlikely to succeed, avenue of terror is a misuse of security funds. Given the ease of hundreds of other avenues of terror, we're far better off investing in intellegence.

No, the article specifically says that they'll let third parties take care of DVD playing. A decent set of codecs will already be installed by default, and apps can also include additional decoders (such as FLAC, MKV, OGG, etc.) in their apps package for use within the apps. Windows media player will still be installed (just not windows media center), and will stil be able to use the codec packs floating around. Also, VLC and other third party software will continue to work as before.

This would *require* someone to change it, to work.

Which is why one-time-pad wouldn't work. But for any of the other "real-life" cryptosystems, manipulating the input to provide another viable decryption key with a chosen output would effectively mean cracking the system anyway.