I would quite like a Lacklustre KDE, if that's one where they don't remove features with every "upgrade." (Panning, and now CPU scaling)

Including HDMI means it will work on your TV. That's the point. Nobody should care what resolution it is as long as it's usable.

Firstly, how is the $90 relevant? Secondly, you're assuming lower resolution is cheaper. This is probably not true; the cheapest option is the commodity option and right now that's HDMI 1080p.

In terms of personality, and approach to weighty matters of individual freedom, you will find that politicians fit into BOTH categories.

And that's why you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties.

They do... and restaurants often say "we can't be sure, so you'll have to eat elsewhere" because they can't be bothered with it. So by your analogy (which I like) there is a risk that pacemaker manufacturers will do the same.

The RIAA and friends are such a massive pain in the arse that perhaps we should just let them have SOPA and see what happens. The parts of the Internet that will break the most are exactly that parts where media are discussed and demand is generated. Let the idiots go back to physical and OTA completely, and THEN they will see what "loss of revenue" really looks like.

Which is what we all said about GPS. And then suddenly there's Galileo, and China are launching GPS satellites too.

Point is, American politicians might think they can hold the world to ransom; these days, there will quite simply be a European Internet just as soon as SOPA and friends annoy the world enough. And then global companies with headquarters in London have an advantage over global companies with headquarters in New York. The American government will have a rapid rethink at this point.

Nice? Shurely "Nicaea?"

My Advent (rebadged MSI Wind) will JUST fit into the map pocket of a Gore-Tex. (10" 1024x600)

Whether you can "see any reason" or not I can tell you this is THE most useful portable device I have ever owned.

Yeah they haven't thought this through at all... you can't eat the dairy, I can't eat the sandwich (coeliac.) I bet it has a nut topping too!

The 6502 was very American.

No.. it's... Alfie Noakes!

You need to think about what data you are protecting, why, how you RESTORE it, and whether it needs an offsite solution at all.

If you do that properly you knock a zero or two off your technical volumes, every time.

Conversely, it's seldom worth doing that at $SMALLCO because the entire enterprise fits into a Terabyte or less and storage is cheap. The danger is that throwing it onto something offsite - whether it's disk, tape, cloud, or ferromagnetic core memory - can lead to lazy thinking about what happens when you need the data in an emergency. Even if you do business by emailing spreadsheets around you might end up with inconsistencies in your backups, and if it's the payroll spreadsheet that Daphne left open overnight for a week...

Yes, because it's still ONLY drawing power when the display changes. Even if that's 30 times a second that's still better than drawing power throughout the entire second.

If you implement something well, you won't need to go back to it once every six months.Once you've done that to the five or six key systems, you run out of stuff to fix, and that's the end of that job in that organisation.