Current readers are great for text. Where text is the main focus of a work : books and decent periodicals, and you spend more than 30 minutes reading the text an e-reader with e-ink makes sense. Don't need to worry about colour much, and you reduce eyestrain (for people who still have strong vision) and avoid further damage ( for people who don't).
Magazines and comics, however focus on pictures and usually in vibrant colours. E-ink is slowly getting there but it's going to be a while before the colour e-ink truly does justice to the colour intended in many magazines a image based works. Similarly, these publications tend to be monthly and are generally designed to let a person pick up a volume, read a 15 minute article, take a break, and come back later. This is exactly the kind of methodology publishers want to encourage with the use of a back-lit screen. Similarly, such works tend to lend themselves more to interactive tie-ins like video, that do better on the lcd/o-led screens than e-ink.
Who's doing the testing and what they are testing. In other reviews for Q1 MSE has come up middle of the pack and near top of the free systems. I also have to question AV-test's findings as AVG is ranked awfully high, and I've seen amazingly dismal failures both with their free and pay for product, (as well as the services for their pay product). AVG tends to rank low on most head to head shoot outs over the last several years, so as with everything
It's a question of who you want to believe as not all of us can setup a test lab and keep a virus farm on hand.
I'll toss in the notion that a lot of people I talked to were almost sold on some of the Android tablets out, and were about to make a purchase when Google came out and said Honeycomb would require a multi-core processor. That slammed the brakes on for them. The general sense I am getting right now is that people are looking for something similar to what they had thought they were going to buy but has honeycomb on-board. As of right now the general murmur I'm hearing is LG's slate and new version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab. While there are certainly a number of reasons these could still end up flopping. Given that people aren't going on spending sprees right now, I think the current lineup of slates is being viewed as filler and won't be touched until these two devices are out and can be compared.
While there is a number of mentions of the Xoom, in general, there seems to be a plague treatment of it going on. For some people it's the fact that it's on Verizon, others are it's lackluster designs, and other potential failings. Suffice to say most people are who are contemplating getting an Android are looking at it as a pale comparison to the promise of the Slate or Tab and are going to hold off. Frankly, I think this market is a bit more discerning then the one for phones and I think that coupled with people's current financial cautionary activity is what's mostly being reflected in buy in.
....of being wary of geeks bearing gifts?
I think it might be a joke. All the other ICE'd sites have a much bigger graphic, and point to 74.81.170.110. Essentially I.C.E. is legally poisoning the DNS for seized sites.
GPF-Comics is pointing to 208.75.87.203, while this isn't proof it hasn't been seized, it seems strange and I want to be hopeful.
Uhm, I thought the same thing happened for Haiti. Wasn't that why people on the news were advising against texting in donations?
I wonder if this is how my school did it. In grade school we had rather simple looking analogue clocks that essentially mimicked the clock on the control panel for the PA system. If there was a power outage the clocks would stop, and when the power came back we would see them run quick to catch up.
Same with DST, if we got in early enough we would see the clocks run fast to spring 1 hour ahead or run really fast to "fall" 11 hours ahead. (Never ran backwards)
A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle
