I wish I had mod points.

"Historically, imitation has frequently been proposed as the central mechanism mediating the reproduction, spread, intergenerational transmission and stabilization of human cultural forms, population-specific behavioral traditions found in groups of non-human primates, or both"

-Sylvia's recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of human culture
http://www.ceu.hu/node/7740

er...I think they sold around 92 of the JooJoos. The tablet existed for a long time on their website, and it even had the same irritating design feature as that of the iPad - a rounded bottom.

I sometimes have the same fantasy. Unfortunately, the US is such a large and prestigious market that it would be suicide for a company to boycott it, plus the shareholders would summarily execute the management. To add insult to injury, Apple and its mind-controlled robots would claim victory.

This applies to component sales to Apple as well.

They have only killed it for Linux and Android, and it never existed for iOS. You can still target Windows and OSX users with it, do not despair.

The real question is, will nVIDIA allow it to run Linux satisfactorily?

Unlike the Harmony reference design on Tegra 2, for which it has stopped offering Linux (L4T - and Android driver) support, if the design Google chooses sells in large numbers, nVIDIA might be compelled to make specifications and drivers available for porting Linux on it.

Which brings us to the next question: is Linux ready to work on a full touch environment, or will we be forced to carry a keyboard or a dock wherever we go?

According to this article (http://www.engadget.com/updates/devices-ice-cream-sandwich/) on Engadget, devices with 512 MB ROM or less will be left out of ICS coolness. My GB phone is in the left out list too.

I have an Android tablet, and I don't use Apple products, but I have come to believe that the 16:9 format is not that good for a tablet. For one, it is too short vertically in landscape format to accommodate an on screen keyboard and have a generous amount of viewing space available. If one wants to type with one hand while holding the tablet in the other, the keys on the sides also seem a bit too far away (my experience is with a 10" screen). In portrait mode, the keyboard gets a bit too narrow. The screen also seems to be a bit too narrow when reading books in portrait.

On the other hand, I now find the 7" screen size to be much more handy, and probably the keys would not be too far away. Has anybody any idea about how easy or difficult it is to read books on such a screen?

Another thing that has me wondering is the price tag: how can Google afford to sell the tablet for $199 / $249 with a Tegra 3 board, while Samsung charges around $800 (in India, where I live) for the Galaxy S III?

I chose an HTPC with AMD processor and graphics over the one with Intel/nVIDIA, thinking it would have better Linux support, and an nVIDIA based Android tablet thinking it will get good OEM and driver support. Turns out that now I am stuck with both.

It took me a while to realize that the story you linked was from the year 2000! The DVD artefact discussion made me check the dates. However, looking at the story 12 years later makes me wonder how this poll might amuse us 12 years from now, if we are around (/. will live in archives somewhere even if it were to die in the present form).

...but the antenna section is in the hub-by.

How can you insert a pre-written sequence in an organism and ensure it plays out perfectly? Wouldn't the system monitoring and affecting the state of each particle introduce unintended changes in other particles? Also note that without this system, you would need to write down the state of every particle that interacted with the 'being' during its life time and ensure that the interaction was replayed exactly. However, this would necessitate isolating the new organism completely from any other external influence and close any path for information escaping, which would also mean that you would have no way in the world to know if the experience of the new organism was the same.

Oh, by the way, the act of measuring the particle states of the original organism would also introduce changes, which means that...eventually you would need to map and isolate the entire universe and measure it over infinity...and...

Well, you'd need to be a god, or something even beyond a god.