Is there any trouble caused by the rest of the user's hand resting on the touch screen?

The app lets you define where your hand rests and ignores touch input from there. It looks like a hand rest that you draw up from the bottom of the screen. So, no no trouble. See the demo video at 2:20. I suppose at this point I should also add the standard disclaimer that I'm not affiliated in any way whatsoever with any of this. I just think it's a cool app. Especially when combined with a stylus (the video just shows them writing with fingers).

If you really want a tablet for professionals and business people, make one with a responsive enough stylus with no parallax error.

Hi, I used to be a complete skeptic when it came to tablets (not just iPads). Then, recently, I saw someone with an iPad + stylus + Notes plus in a meeting, just happily jotting down his hand-written notes on the iPad. And just watching the ease with which he could do that might just have sold me a tablet.

To elaborate a little: I dislike typing for note-taking, so I stick to the pen-and-paper approach but this means my notes are scattered across a number of notebooks (depending on which were lying around when I grabbed one for wherever the next meeting was). Being able to take hand-written notes that all end up on the same device, nicely browsable and printable - yeah, that can win me over.

So who died and made Google legislator, judge and executor on crimes against appropriate webpage content?

I agree, I can't find any actual reference to that either. What I did find is the following:

Celui-ci note que les militants ont été repérés lorsqu'ils ont franchi le premier grillage, équipé de caméras de sécurités. Les gendarmes du peloton spécial de protection de la gendarmerie (PSPG), affecté à la surveillance du site, auraient alors identifié les intrus comme d'inoffensifs militants et décidé de les interpeller sans usage excessif de la force, ni précipitation.

So basically, they were identified as soon as they were over first, security camera equipped fence. The security personnel in charge then figured out that they were harmless militants and decided to arrest them without haste or excessive force. Which sounds like a reasonable reaction to me, but nothing says that the activits called ahead..

root@skynet:~$tail /var/log/worlddominationprogress.log | grep WW
(WW) Human may have identified true purpose of PrisonBot trial (http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2543364&cid=38162180)
root@skynet:~$terminator --dispatch --to-address `locate "Anonymous Coward" | grep 38162180`

(No points for pointing out abuse of locate or silly use of tail on this one)

I knew. Is this one of those American vs British English issues?

Also aware of this, at a minimum, is everyone who speaks French (haut-parleur) or German (Lautsprecher).

I have no idea where you get the idea from that these distros have a hang-up about GUI and OS not being decoupled - you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu only differ in the choice of GUI. And if you don't care for Unity, Gnome 3 is trivially installed. (Which, I presume, is how Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) is doing it in the first place). If you favour an esoteric GUI, that is easily installed too; this is still a debian derivative!

So you really seem to be complaining that these distros ship have a preferred a default choice. Which, frankly, is just a bizarre thing to complain about.

I'm not sure where you picked up that concept, but it's not correct, unless I'm not understanding what you meant to say.

I think he may at least in part be referring to things like language processing. People used to point at Broca's area, draw some arrows to Wernicke's area and there ya go, here's yer language bits. Only now we know that's not really true and that language processing seems to involve, for instance, sensorimotor areas of the brain too.

So while you're certainly correct when it comes to sensorimotor areas but he has a point when we're talking about higher-level cognition.

I read it as "unplayable" game the first time. Might as well be true

To be fair, it only says that the game cannot be reset. I suppose it is still possible that it can be played as many times as one wants, just that once you start, there's no going back till you finish. So what it means for the second-hand market is probably that it would suck if you buy a partially played game since there's no way for you to start from scratch until you completed it. But it's not unplayable as such. Also, I imagine the simple fix would be intentionally switching off the console while saving, corrupting the save file and giving the game no choice but starting afresh.

The same works in Windows and OSX (and probably other OSes). It's an old thing called mouse keys.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mouse_keys

for any zombie invasion of the English countryside

Just nitpicking - the movie was set (and shot) in London. Getting to the Winchester may not be the smartest move if you're in the countryside :)

Of course I suppose it is up to debate whether it's smarter to be in a big city or in the country side during a zombie invasion - I'd go with remote countryside locations in the hope that Zombies just pass you by en route to the next major food source/city.

and you sure as hell didn't download anything better than a 64k MP3

I remember my first 128 kb/s mp3, complete with all the skips and bleeps from having been encoded on an underpowered machine. I remember how long it took to download. These days, it takes half as long to download a 4GB movie than it took to get those 4 puny MB back then. I still find that amazing.

Would you even give petrol a moment's thought today? No chance!

Hi, I live in Sweden. Let me introduce you to this country's idea of calculating the tax on diesel cars: 1. Calculate the tax as if it was a petrol-driven car. 2. Multiply by 2.55 3. Profit. So yes, I do give petrol a lot of thought since I'd need to do a very significant mileage every year before diesel even comes close to paying off. In fact, I just bought a new petrol car just the other week.

2. only report the right one

Except, as you might notice, TFA is from September 2010, so it's not a retroactive reporting of the one simulation of many that happened to get it right.

As an European, I have no idea what a checking account is

As I understand it, a checking account to us Europeans is a current account (compte courant / Girokonto / Lönekonto / etc).