They have left out the Radome. Maybe in the next edition. The Radome is the original satellite receiver for the first TV transmissions between Europe and North America. With it's associated telecommunications museum and interesting tours it is a great place for a geek tourist.

Not to mention that he dismisses the wrong answer Mathletes as overestimating their abilities in Maths. Logic of preconceived opinion.

An 8.9" netbook is very close in external dimensions to a 7" inch model. All have WiFi. Get a solid state device like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 running Ubuntu or get an ASUS EeePC 701 for the absolute cheapest. Use any PDF reader and screen rotation, hold netbook sideways. With a big USB Thumb drive (or SD card) and headphones it can also be used as a movie player, or a music player and you can surf the net. This is the sort of use netbooks are good for, better than trying to make them mini notebooks.

It is not the C# language that is the issue, it is the underlying mono libraries that may infringing patents on parts of the .net libraries. If no one can say yes this is clean and clear then why use it. As for Wine, Wine is not part of GNU/Linux or Gnome itself, it is an add on to allow some programs from a foreign OS to function through GNU/Linux. If Wine disappeared it would be sad but Gnu/Linux would continue on. There has been suggestions by Mr de Icaza that Gnome, or parts of it, should be re-written in C#. The threat is where Gnome itself becomes dependent on patent encumbered libs and one court case can stop all comercial sales. It is not simple and it is not easy.

However there is a proposal to make mono part of the default installation of both Debian and Ubuntu in their next releases. Debian's next stable release will be a lot further into the future than Ubuntu's next release, at least allowing Debian time to have a serious debate on the matter.

You are correct, this article is about one limited form of Geoengineering. The best form of Geoegineering is one that pulls CO2 from the atmosphere directly. A few hundred million "Artificial Trees" working day and night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_air_capture Given the trillions of dollars just pissed away in the global financial crises I am sue they can come up with a few more trillion. We would still need CO2 emission reductions as well, but it is too late for reductions alone to save us. A term being bandied around is "Thermageddon", a very descriptive word for what is happening.

Won't be a problem. If the corporations stop paying tax there won't be any Military or Government.

Actually install Ubuntu and dual boot. Run Ubuntu in the class. Being technologically challenged they will take one look and never ask again.

You seem to be suffering from the delusion that Linux is supposed to run Windows programs, that it is a replacement for a Microsoft Operating System. GNU/Linux is an alternative operating system, just like a Mac is an alternative. Linux runs Linux programs very well, Mac runs Mac programs very well, Windows runs Windows programs. The fact that Wine can run some Windows programs is a bonus, not the goal of the operating system. You do not try and run iLife on a Windows box. The latest kernels have more built in drivers than any operating system ever, even 10 year old gear is not left behind.

I have Ubuntu Intrepid on a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. I plugged in spdif to my Yamaha amp. I selected digital out in the mixer and out came the sound. No settings. Earlier versions required me to hand write asound.conf, but the instructions for that also abound in the Ubuntu forums and the alsa and pulseaudio forums. Pulseaudio is also now working for me without issue, although I accept that took about a year for Ubuntu to get right. I also had a Creative Audigy 4 installed, and it was also as simple to setup. The first time I setup spdif it took hours to get right, but that was years ago.

No they are not. Windows gets more viruses and trojans in a day than have ever existed for Linux. The Linux vulnerabilities are quickly removed, and even the few bits of malware that have existed were unable to do anything.

New definition of a Netbook, a notebook without an inbuilt DVD drive. The manufacturers lost the plot when they went past 9", now they just make cheap notebooks. I do not have a problem with cheap notebooks, just call them that. A netbook is something you chuck in the car to read your email or check the football scores when you are away from home, if you want to type for more than a minute then a netbook is the wrong device for you.

Synergy will allow you to share keyboard and mouse over an ethernet connection, but not a monitor.And it is free. http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/

Buy a usb keyboard and mouse and a 19" external monitor. Set the power saving to just turn off the screen when you shut the lid, not go into standby. Instant energy efficient desktop computer. What you do with that is the same questin of what you do with any surplus computer.

I was an avid user of eMusic, but as an Australian I was denied too many downloads so I lost interest. But, for North Americans eMusic is a great service for the discovery of new music and indie material. Plus the artists actually make some money out of the downloads. The other place to go is YouTube, anyone can upload a video of their music to a large audience. As has already been stated Bittorrent is just a transport medium, I would have no expectation of it to promote an unknown artist.