Because innovations like this can drive sales. ...and that, I think. is as far as it goes, honestly and in all candor.

To quote the Bard's Tale, in regards to these recurring typos: Beer beer beer, tiddly beer beer beer. Cheers.

Erm, to correct myself, I meant: If to enforce a sense of personal responsibility - though I'm afraid it only becomes political, at which point.

It seems I have a Freudian slip, at the matter. My apologies.

I'm for personal responsibility, not necessarily for government stepping in beyond the limits of basic law, if to enforce a sense of political responsibility - I think that it sets a bad precedent for government, to say the least.

I find myself distracted at the original occurrence of the word, "Infotainment" however. What a shiny.....

I hope it would be appropriate to denote the observation that your comment presents a fine example of common ethnography.

To return to the common vernacular, however: Lyk, geez you mean they don't do it like us?

(cough cough lol and such)

What "goofy little partly functional device" would you be referring to, then?

But then again, some people drive apparently without having payed any attention in driver's education, and society deals with that too. I think we should focus, moreso, on sense of personal responsibility, in such things.

As far as the app thing: We could try to stop that matter of innovation,but I do not know if we could succeed at halting it. I am, admittedly, biased about it however. I think it sounds like a reasonable development in concepts of vehicle utility - and I am not enough convinced that it would be of any concern for the many responsible drivers around - overall, per capita, and so on.

I have a tablet, namely an iPad, which I use in the kitchen on occasion. I would recommend a few apps for that: The All Recipes app; the Epicurious app; the Food Guru app. I'm sure that there must be apps about wine selection, and maybe even about beer, too.

For browsing, I'd recommend iCab. Atomic Web Browser is another good one. (iCab, as one of its many features, can synch its bookmarks with Dropbox, which I don't know if Atomic can, as of yet.) Either of those offers some more features than the conventional Safari mobile browser, in a pretty reliable browser platform. (App crashes seem like less of a concern, on the tablet platform, I think)

You can also take it outdoors with you - weather permitting, of course. There's pUniverseHD for iPad, when it comes to stargazing after dinner ;)

As far as TV, then, there's Netflix on iPad - it's close enough for my tastes ;) If you're into sports - Olympic sports, namely - Universal Sports has also put together an app for the 2012 Olympics kicking off in July. In the more "mainstream sports", and for existing cable subscribes - as I recall - there are apps from ESPN, also. Then there's RedBull TV, for the extremophiles in the family. If you're an existing cable subscriber, there are apps from HBO and I think from Cinemax, as well.

Lastly: For hanging it from the kitchen counter, Belkin makes a nice little temporary mounting bracket, and I'm sure there are more permanent options available. The major technology retailer, BestBuy, carries the Belkin bracket, in their iPad section.

Entertainment and utility abound on the well supported mobile platforms, these days - enjoy!

I don't mean any tomfoolery in my wording my response as so, just to take some brief liberty with the lexicon, in being no less genuine than salt and mud: Your comment intrigues and compels. Though I may not be able to produce any immediate answer to such a question, myself, but I can definitely see where there is a place for the question - and I would say that that place is on the very grounds of democracy. I hope that that question will be a recurring one, in these times.

n/t

Yup :}

n/t (dnrta)

Granted, it takes a few CPU cycles to run Jamin - a live multiband equalizer with three separate compressors, which integrates with the Jack audio system - but beside that, it makes for a very deep sound in what Jackd picks up (e.g. media player output). It can be really cinematic sounding. I expect that, together with Steam - except for the CPU cycles - I expect that it could make for a gaming experience that would sound, in a word, hot.

I also expect it may result in more attention towards the Linux platform. Some seasoned Linux community members might regard that as a mixed blessing, but I think it can be a good thing. I'm sure that the Ubuntu community might think to scoop this news, as well.

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I expect that that they'd want to keep the full production process and the market, too, in space, for those volatile materials as much as for the ores and minerals.

Of course, there'd have to be a market in space for those raw materials, in order for it to be a profitable enterprise.

It would seem to introduce many questions and opportunities for new technology and new business development, overall. I suspect that the NewSpace industry - if supported in the endeavor, popularly/culturally as well as economically - may undergo some growth, in response to and in the wake of such proposals as that noted, above, from Planetary Resources.