Seems like a strange decision to use an Atmel chip when everyone is moving to Cortex M-3.

Yeah this is kind of pointless, and frankly I'm kind of pissed off the wikipedia actually blocked their site outside the US. What's the point? I'm already aware of it, and I can't really contact my congressman. A clickthrough would have been fine and would have spread the word just as well.

Fortunately they didn't truely block the site. You can get around it with the bookmarklet on this page: http://concentriclivers.com/?p=I%20don't%20live%20in%20America%20and%20can't%20do%20anything%20about%20SOPA%20Wikipedia

Electrofluidic displays, but they are probably beyond the horizon.

I don't think you understand this poll. They've always been called tablet computers as far as I know. Do you have a less buzzwordy option (not that tablet is a buzzword)?

I think it would take me less time to implement a turtle-like environment in Matlab or C++ than it would to relearn Logo. And then I wouldn't have to use Logo.

I'm not saying Logo isn't cool; it just isn't cool for anything other than learning very basic programming by drawing pretty pictures. And I have no idea how you would use it in multi-agent systems research. Can you even have more than one turtle? How on earth do you do matrix multiplication in Logo?

Yeah it's impossible with one microphone/speaker. Sorry batman.

I suppose in theory (read: it will never work) you could do it if you have lots of phones in an area. And you beefed up the phone speakers a lot.

Yeah... hence the two links to phoronix in TFS...!

I think upload speed is the killer feature for fibre. ADSL is effectively limited to 1 Mb/s upstream, which is pathetic. Hell, my phone has a better upstream bandwidth than that.

Things you need fast upstream bandwidth for: video conferencing, streaming videos (e.g. from your home computer to a friends house; 1 Mb/s is not enough), uploading photos to facebook (so tedious!), uploading music to google music, etc. All of those are currently really slow or don't really work.

You are correct. I didn't mean that foo +bar and "foo bar" are the same. Let me rephrase:

foo +bar -> foo "bar"
"foo bar" (or +"foo bar") -> "foo bar"

According to statcounter, Google still has an 83% share in the US...

+ was redundant. The only time it made a difference was for single words, and you can now achieve the same thing with quotes.

Before:

foo +bar
"foo bar"
+"foo bar" (this is the same as just "foo bar")

After:

foo "bar"
"foo bar"
"foo bar"

Erm, blackboards are still used...

Also, why do neither of these articles have the sounds to listen to? Seriously, this is as bad as all those articles about imaging that don't have pictures...

That's exactly what they want!

Seriously? Next you'll be posting about water-powered cars, or over unity devices...

Can we stick to real life please?

Nope, the patent is quite specific about there being an actual graphical thing that is dragged, and that there are graphical cues for the gesture.