I treat my phone as a consumption device even though I've installed a full html editor, can use google docs, and can compose long lengthy emails. The tools are there -- the process is so painful that I don't do it though.

My phone is a consumption device. Yes, it's possible that it can create things, but that is not its primary purpose. It's equivalent to racing Nascar in a prius. Yes, it's possible, but you won't be very quick and you're pitstops will take forever.

Maybe not everywhere, but in the Midwest they are. Whenever I eat lunch on campus I see college students with their iPads and some have BT keyboards, some don't. but all of them are typing away at them.

I think it's an age thing. College kids today don't appreciate the full diversity of an actual laptop, and instead opt for a consumption device. I don't see the new ipad making this any different - it is still primarily a consumption device, but now it has creation tools.

I must be old, because I still prefer a keyboard to a mouse, and a computer to a tablet.

I loaded Windows 95 from 20+ floppy disks.
I loaded Windows 98 from 1 CD (with a MSCDEX boot floppy disk)

No, they're using iPads with bluetooth keyboards.

12 ply.

"You can stream video over youtube over Wifi!" er...
"You can hook it up to your TV with HDMI" um...
"I can send text messages to anyone" wait...
"Angry Birds!" Ooooo....

"given the current state of air travel hassles in the US, do people even travel for recreation anymore?"

Yes, but not via air travel.

I haven't been to the site (I still like my job) - but I assumed it was slander based on the description.

If it's all true information, sounds like he has a whole different problem.

It sounds as though his issue is with the site, not with Google. Google is just presenting information that exists -- it is the site that is the problem for him.

So....doesn't he know a lawyer or two to address the site in question?

When the websites I routinely visit stop posting content in Flash, I won't want it on my mobile devices anymore.

Until then, I either put flash on my android phone, or email myself a link to check out the site when I'm near a desktop computer.

<quote><p>While it would be great if all employees simply took a break when fatigue started setting in, it can sometimes be difficult for people to tell just how tired they really are.</p></quote>

It would be great if my employer allowed a break when fatigue sets in, rather than making me wait until my mandated break time.

If this becomes common, expect the slave mines to get even worse.

In other words --

kids, go outside and eat dirt like when I was a kid!

I would have loved to have been fired. I tried for two years to get fired before I did manage to find another job.

They couldn't fire me, they could never free up anyone for knowledge transfer...even after I put in my notice.

This ^^

I did this as well, ticked my boss off to no end - I offered to re-license it if he wanted to pay for the software. He shut up pretty quickly after that.