Valid divisions for class groups:

  - reading level
  - reading speed
  - academic performance

That's the number I'd really like to see.

``... but it has to be done eventually''

Why does this have to happen?

What's to keep someone from hacking their system so as to get priority when two vehicles approach a traffic light?

What new possibilities does this create for bump-crash insurance fraud?

How could one prevent someone from:

  - removing the system from a car
  - mounting it on a small remote-control vehicle
  - causing traffic mayhem w/o any real repercussions (they salvaged the system from a junked car or stole it, built the balance out of commodity parts and cleared the area before the police could investigate)

I have everything in one file system and don't worry 'bout / feel the need to have it in a single program --- but I'll keep OneNote in mind now that I have it on my machine for a project which could make use of such an approach.

Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

1 - I do that sort of thing in FreeHand and FutureWave SmartSketch
2 - that's kind of nice, but I usually just sleep my machine and resume work later, not needing to save until something is done
3 - mostly I do my tables in LaTeX and FreeHand has nifty wrapping tabs
4 - While it's not quite on the fly, I place photos into FreeHand to mark them up.

I can see now that if one didn't have a nice vector drawing program one preferred to use, OneNote would be essential.

It's funny, I've been a bit Pen computing advocate / devotee for years (had an NCR-3125 running PenPoint as well as a Newton MessagePad 100), but I never warmed to OneNote.

There's Jarnal and Xournal, but they're both more like Microsoft's Journal (based on Aha! Software's InkWriter) than OneNote.

I did pick up a copy of OneNote 2003 for my ThinkPad running Vista SP2 though --- what should I do to make it useful? I'm still not seeing the appeal.

They should err on the side of caution and point out that the money being ``lost'' is only x percent of the money saved by not buying and maintaining snow removal equipment.

Complete story here:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

The problem is the command line is incredibly unintuitive in that one must learn / memorise a special language to make use of it.

The ``Outland'' interface would be ideal --- but I don't see much progress on it.

Where are the general-purpose natural language command languages and parsers?

However, one doesn't need to use solar cells in a vacuum --- add geothermal into the mix, and all one needs is the energy to run a heat pump.

Actually, there was a post a while back which indicated solar cells could power New York City (on a sunny day):

http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...

ny_area_sqmi = 302.6
ny_population = 8175133.0
ny_demand_watt_hours_per_year = 64500 * 10**9
panel_watt_hours_per_year = 230 * 8 * 365
panels_needed = ny_demand_watt_hours_per_year / panel_watt_hours_per_year
panel_cost = 360.0
panel_area_sqft = 17.6
total_cost = panels_needed * panel_cost
total_area_sqmi = (panels_needed * panel_area_sqft) / (5280**2)

print 'panels needed', panels_needed
print 'total cost $ %.2f' % total_cost
print 'cost per person $ %.2f' % (total_cost / ny_population)
print 'square miles %.2f' % total_area_sqmi
print 'percent area of nyc %.2f%%' % ((total_area_sqmi / ny_area_sqmi) * 100)
------

panels needed 96039309
total cost $ 34574151240.00
cost per person $ 4229.19
square miles 60.63
percent area of nyc 20.04%

Here's what might have been in an intelligence briefing for King George:

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/ar...

Interestingly, that (the number of possible moves in chess and whether it was finite or infinite) was used as a plot point in the sci-fi novel _Starstrike_

Is it possible to make lots of money from copyright infringement w/o breaking lots of other laws?

If that's not the case, why do we need more?

In particular, games which make use of their nifty controllers?

I really enjoyed:

  - Wii Sports Resort, (viewing it as a tech demo)
  - The Conduit / Goldeneye 007 (viewing them as a First Person Shooter done right)
  - Red Steel 2 (finally fulfilling the promise of verisimilitude in pretending to use a sword)
  - Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (continuing to make good on that fulfillment and really enjoying it as my first Legend of Zelda game, though I was disappointed that the balance board wasn't used for the tightrope walking sequences)

I managed to play through:

  - Dragonquest Swords (but was very disappointed w/ how poorly the sword tracked)
  - Xenoblade Chronicles (but wished that the gameplay was more involved)
  - The Last Story (but raged every time I had to aim the crossbow using the joystick)

and was very disappointed by the glitch in Pandora's Tower

Give me a full-fledged RPG w/ downloadable content, on-line play and immersive motion controls and I'll be sleeping on the couch when I'm too exhausted to play the game ('cause I'll have bought the game and the console w/o consulting the finance committee).

To balance it w/ people who prefer traditional controllers, provide for an alternate playing option which makes use of the tablet as the controller, say to control a magic-wielding character --- I could see using the tablet as a spell book working out really well (of course, co-operative play w/ both controllers would be great as well).

William