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He didn't accidentally an apostrophe, he accidentally a word.

No it doesn't - the MS Research guys were his examiners, not his advisers.

At schools in Scotland in the late Eighties they did - I sat separate exams for Arithmetic and Maths. The former was all paper and pencil, the latter scientific calculators were allowed.

Wait, did you just equate building a heat-seeking missile to taping a can of spray paint to a pole?

Right, so when you say a computer and a tablet aren't the same thing, you mean Steve says they aren't the same thing.

Right yes, that's fine and good for *video*. I don't see HTML5 producing anything of the caliber of the examples I gave above though. Even if the major browsers implement it consistently. Which they won't.

Interesting for sure. I'd like to see the P&L for each category rather than the turnover though.

That's nonsense! Tablet PCs have been around for _years_, typically in two different form factors - slate (no hardware keyboard) and convertible (hardware keyboard, touch screen swivels down over the top). Available in many different configurations (think toughbook) and as powerful as a standard laptop; capable of running any flavour of Windows or Linux.

You've answered your own question there. One is a phone, the other is a computer.

There's been a lot of good discussion here about the device, (it's capabilities, it's pricing), the pros and cons of open versus closed hardware at a given price point, market need, etc etc. I'd guess a good majority of /. readers are well enough informed about the iPad to be able (to a greater or lesser degree) to make a fairly informed choice about whether the product is suitable for them or not.

The thing that gets my goat though, is that due to the Jobs effect, and the massive marketing might of Apple, a vast number of poor schmos will end up owning one of these devices without really knowing why.

'So what', I hear you cry; 'caveat emptor'!

The problem is, that I'm gonna have to listen to these clueless boguns banging on about their shitty iPads for years...

* Crysis /fixed

[citation required]

*cough - netbook

Sure, the problem being that you are renting a seat but paying enough to buy the cinema outright!

That's pretty short sighted to be honest. There are (believe it or not) many more applications for the Flash Player than playing video. A couple of examples, off the top of my head:

Audio synthesis: http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html

Image creation: http://aviary.com/

PDF creation: http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/

There are thousands more of course, these are just the ones that sparked my interest in the last couple of weeks.