I don't think you're going much deeper than that with this thing. The gas from the tank won't be able to keep your lungs open so you won't be able to breath. OK, there is a tank filled with compressed gas, but how much power would that micro compressor get from a tiny battery?

Anyway, the tank could have some N2 in it to start with so the problem could be mitigated.

Is that the app or the web site?

The problem is: you don't want to have to setup and maintain your own map server when the Google alternative is include some JavaScript for free. For all I like OSM I can't see me going to a customer and tell him to spend 1000 per year (possibly more, HW plus labour) on that. Chances are the project goes to somebody else. What OSM needs is somebody providing a high traffic map server for free. What commercial model could use?

Are they starting to sell cans with a PCI bus or USB plug? Let me guess... Coca Cola Air Card!

Or first worlder that happen to live in a country where the content has not been distributed yet and don't want to wait for months or years or forever. Those piracy-afraid-companies should just bypass all the distributors and stream content directly to all the world at once.

A problem is that limited-purpose computing devices, such as tablets and Chromebooks, may erode the economies of scale that general-purpose computing devices enjoy, making it more expensive for people like you and me who need a real laptop to get a real laptop.

Yes, I do expect that the costs of general purpose computers will grow higher and higher as they'll become exclusively tools for professionals and no more consumer goods. There will be less manufacturers and less choice too.

On the other side there will be a time when one will be able to create a tablet app on a tablet (AIDE is a start) or a chromebook app on a chromebook (easier).

Actually I'm looking forward to a less than 150 g (5 oz) device with at least the computing power of a i5, 8+ GB RAM and 256+ GB of storage, that I can carry around and use as either a smartphone or a computer depending on if it's free or plugged to main power and connected to a screen, keyboard and mouse. The unborn Ubuntu phone was a step in that direction.

I don't think tablets are a fad. They are a zero maintenance and more mobile version of the laptop, much better for the vast majority of people that had to use a computer in the past 20 years only because of the Internet. They're now free from much of the hassle of managing a computer. Chromebooks might be a fat tablet for the guys that really need a keyboard but still don't need a traditional OS. Disclosure: I don't own a tablet because I don't have any clear use case for it. I need to use a "real" laptop and I have a smartphone, tertium non datur.

You're right. Nevertheless MS should still be worried if people buy chromebooks instead of Windows machines. Less sales, less profit for MS. The profit made by chromebook manufacturers doesn't matter. Actually I care about my profit, not theirs. It's much better for me if their margins are thin or even sell at a loss: it means more value for my money.

This is a non authoritative translation of a part of the law that I believe TFA missed, legal-Italian to plain-Italian to plain-English (as good as I can get it). Italics are mine.

Online advertising spaces and sponsored links in search engine result pages that can be viewed on the Italian territory during a visit to a web site or when using on online service on landline or mobile network, must be bought exclusively by companies with a registered Italian VAT account. This applies also to the case in which the sale has been made by the means of media centers, third parties and advertisers.

Think about the implications of the part in italics. Your US company buys an ad in English from Google aimed to the US market. Unfortunately I end up seeing it from my computer located in Italy. Ops, somebody is in trouble now, either you, Google, me or a combination of those three parties. There is nothing in the law about what happens in case of violations and to whom it happens.

Furthermore TFA missed that the law binds companies like Google to register a VAT account in Italy, not to pay taxes there. They'll end up paying just VAT there, which by the way comes from Italians, not from Google. The law aims at quantifying the turnover of those companies in Italy, which can only be estimated now. Unfortunately the way it's worded makes it difficult to enforce.

Luckily a motion (in Italian, Google translation to English here) has already been filed to suspend it. For another take on it you can read this Google translated post from wired.it.

PS: odd thing to do for me on Christmas morning :-)

+1

The height of a M in the lines I see on this page is a little less than 2 mm (I'd guess 1.8 mm) on my 1050p display and the text is ok to read. It would be better on a 1440p or 1800p display but probably I won't be able to keep such a small font on a 768p screen. I use a slightly larger font in my programming editor, just a hair more than 2 mm. Again, a lower resolution display would probably mean less rows of text. A higher resolution one might not translate into more lines, but a better rendered font should strain my eyes less.

I'm writing this on a 16:10 screen (old HP notebook). A 4:3 screen with the same width (33 cm, or 13.2") would be 24.75 cm tall (9.9"), 4 cm (1.6") taller than my one. That means 4 cm of extra depth for the laptop and a different backpack. Maybe it's too much but am I tempted by a 4:3 screen like that? Yes I do, because the extra vertical space is so valuable. 33 cm wide is already enough to put two windows side by side.

I really can't understand why PC manufacturers are shunning people asking for 16:10 displays. It's not like Apple builds its panels itself. It's buying them from Samsung AFAIK. I'm sure they'll cost more because of smaller demand but I'm happily paying for the difference (panel, case, different circuitry to antennas mounted on the top of the panel, etc). Just build a 16:10 variant of a business laptop and see how many of us buy it. Matte please.

Yes, that's it. You posted while I was writing my answer. Check it for more details.

I answer myself because I looked for it and found this paper (PDF) titled "An Analysis of Google Logs Retention Policies".

LM is the timestamp of the last modification to the user Google's preference. It can be used to track down the user because we update our preferences at different times. This applies also to non logged in users like me.

Luckily it's easy to reset LM. Just go to google.com, click the menu, turn on or off Safe Search, click again and turn it back to its original value. LM is different.

Obviously Google could store the old and new value and link them into a db ;-)

This firefox plugin deletes the PREF cookie and all the others as soon as you close a tab. This means that it's created again every time with a different value.

I went to youtube and got this (I must split the values with spaces because /. complaints about long strings of letters)
google.com PREF ID=b59d89f696da3efa:FF=0: TM=1386759139:LM=1386759139:S=mRC2qiDMZ3ir_5JK
google.com NID 67=c1dV2B25sq3P2XdfPrBzGx9yb89H089A9yORn8UeoYGlGbjOUIbHPs03t_7JesDo_7NcnT UlDm90BZEpoSPX9A7FmbYORqBl5WwLmUiCzjreycq2wGE1rAMOSuXlFaZg

I closed the tab, waited for the cookie destruction message, went to google.com:
google.com PREF ID=024924c1c44d8beb:U=9b9ed7f900bfc1f0:FF=0: TM=1386758246:LM=1386759139:S=GCtQO6AoyqL-fqze
google.com NID 67=lPuV792TXm6MLVCnzVYUN-U2Q7B-XRd1d5xCYp7DXjvXvKzEjxtn99DTIbvaFFIg9a8uk2 AmkokD1TaYRnXL3iNA9SrPc1hj3611xY66gObS6pCY4jTTMeQpF6YHLJnn

Different. Well, mostly different. That LM=1386759139 in both PREF worries me. I should understand what it is for.