In the rest of the world it is understood that drinking a can of soda is not the same as drinking clear, fresh water.

People generally don't drink enough clear, fresh water. Often, when they're taking a pill it's the only circumstance they're doing so. Perhaps that's the reason why even placebos work.

The EU will pump € 85 billion into Ireland.

I guess this is just for the ones who want a solution right now. The others still can wait until the next kernel update, which will probably include the 200-line patch.

True ... but to me, it's all about the display technology. I wouldn't be interested in them otherwise. E-Ink displays don't require power when they're not flipping pages. I.e. you can even remove the batteries and see the same image that was loaded last. Can't do that with a Palm! ;)

Booking space for DVD printing is scarce, and when the game isn't ready to ship at this point, then boom, lots of bugs in the shipped product, b/c the booking slot had to be used. Happens to many game publishers.

This video shows off E-Ink displays running color video. In principle, it's possible, even if the frame rate is not particularly high.

TFA says the device does have WiFi ... the only question is if there's a way to program it in some way. E-Ink earlier complained that with better drivers, a lot more could be done with the display. This video shows off various E-Ink displays, some running color videos ... it is possible to some extent with the right software, so I figure with the right drivers, it could be used as a regular computer display, which in turn would enable the development of arbitrary applications.

Why? People waited decades for that technology, but that doesn't mean it's old ...

Uh ... really? ...

The printing solution exists, from Toshiba, using erasable plastic sheets.

That printing technology does exist. There was a Slashdot article about it a while back. Can't remember from which company, though.

Have you ever tried to use the tiling function that's built-in in Windows? Windows always had that function. In Windows 7, you simply right-click on the task bar and choose the menu item. :)

The pages aren't there when I surf the online help in German language, but in US English, all chapters are there. Sorry for this spur-of-a-moment article!! ;-))