Picture this: You're gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year's bash.

Great... now I'm going to have nightmares

So a quad-core tablet isn't for you, this doesn't mean nobody has a use for it.
This isn't Apple where you have a one size fits all product.
There are plenty of existing dual core Android tablets out there; and single core ones; and ones with small screens; and ones with big screens; etc.

Most iSheep under-use their $600 iPads and they have no choice because there is only one model (with various amounts of storage)
The good thing about Android tablets is the variety. Most people could save $400 and get a Kindle Fire, but if they want a big boy tablet, its nice that things like the Transformer Prime exist.

I would love to have one of these quad-cores with the new Ubuntu for Android running on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4plPGRG8o

http://xkcd.com/1005/

This one you need to download and turn down the contrast to get the obligatory part.

If Microsoft allowed Windows 8 on ARM to have desktop applications this is what could have been.

This sounds very intriguing. I hope something comes of this. I'm not sure I care about this for a phone but for a tablet it would be awesome.
Imagine the Asus Transformer Prime running Ice Cream Sandwich as a tablet, and when docked its a full blown laptop.

Money shouldn't be able to buy patents or the sole right to produce something that is obvious, the same as it shouldn't be able to buy laws. The fact that they spent a lot of money on it means nothing.

I love using my Android wifi tethering at sporting events.
I create names offensive to the opposing team.

This is what PS3, Xbox360, Nintendo Wii are for.

we can only hope this happens

It was curved because of a wide angle lens.
With that lens you can see a curved earth from sea level if the center is above the horizon.
When the center is below the horizon you get a concave looking earth.
Didn't you notice how the earth appeared concave up there too?

You can frame and compose using an electronic viewfinder or even the back display.

As for DoF, I would argue that this is better to do electronically.
Most dSLRs have the aperture WIDE open when not shooting. They do this for focusing and so that there is enough light to your eye. When I press my DoF preview button on my Canon 7D the light is reduced and I see a very dark scene on anything f/4.0 and up. I would have to imagine that DoF previewing on a mirrorless camera would be better because they could adjust the exposure (ISO and such) in software so you can preview now only DoF but exposure at the SAME TIME.

Electronic wins over mechanical as far as battery life. The mechanical moving of the mirror, shutter, etc will soon be a thing of the past. Displays will require less and less energy while those motors will consume the same since they are already highly optimized.

That was a 1:1 port. Using classes you could make it even more clean by having a gpio class.

gpios = [GPIO(i) for i in xrange(17)]

for _ in xrange(5):
        for gpio in gpios:
                gpio.setValue(1)
                sleep(TIME)
        for gpio in gpios:
                gpio.setValue(0)
                sleep(TIME)

Python makes everything cleaner.

# Make the 17 GPIO file systems & set them to output mode
for g in gpiotbl:
        with open('/sys/class/gpio/export', 'w') as fout:
                print >> fout, "%d" % g
        with open('/sys/class/gpio%d/direction' % g, 'w') as fout:
                print >> fout, "out"

# light effect on buffers
for rep in xrange(5):
        for g in gpiotbl[:12]:
                with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value' % g, 'w') as fout:
                        print >> fout, "1"
                sleep(TIME)
        for g in gpiotbl[:12]:
                with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value' % g, 'w') as fout:
                        print >> fout, "0"
                sleep(TIME)

test_motor()
test_motor()

sys.exit(0)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4