Expensive tech aside, this is an example of monopoly even worse than MSFT's. Schools should have a say only over the course content, and that can be in form of a generic app designed to run on any device, even on a $25 Android tablet.

If I have paid for it, it should work for me out of the box; the way I want it to. Linux is free, so I don't mind spending hours to tweak it.

I don't know why the OP has been modded funny, but its correct that mobile version of Slashdot is too heavy on resources. I cannot browse it on my 2" (240x320) display low-cost Samsung phone on a 2G network. Saying this because I can browse BBC News, Reuters and Wikipedia comfortably on this very phone. And yes, its equally annoying that iPad won't allow you to open the regular version of any site even if you wanted to; not just Slashdot.

True, better kill or maim them by windmills rather than by say, air pollution. We rule the earth, its for us to decide which other species should inhabit it. Let not these wretched birds come in the way of our noble purpose of installing windmills, and in a sense we are doing this for their betterment anyway.

Really? I thought Yahoo! has always been in news, even before Mayers took over it, always for the wrong reasons; this piece of news being no exception.

And Ubuntu is based on Debian. So one could argue that they can use the work done by Debian but won't have to pay for it?

Somebody mod this up as informative..

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Which essentially translates to "I am a fanboy, and I won't listen to anything against Apple"

I'd say ditto for food reviews, movie reviews etc generally published on magazines and newspapers. They are written by youngsters with just a good command over language who don't actually understand the subject. Or worse the reviewers get sometimes paid to write favorable reviews. In Amazon Vine's case, reviews are sponsored by the seller of the product, you can hardly expect them to be honest in any way.

Others in fact also believe Red Hat to be incapable of doing any more than just throwing some code on top of GNU/Linux.
This somewhat sounds more correct.

I wish had points to mod you down - for saying that Windows 3.51 was a pretty good OS. You never really tried to make it work as a domain controller (or whatever it was called at that release, i don't recall), or tried to make it to work as a gateway or went deep under the registry tree to tweak key value, to just make a replacement hard drive work?

NT promised to be a riddance from Unix which it never quite was - more like an attempt to mount a truck body on a car chassis. And that pathetic attempt continues to this day, with Windows 2008.

Makes sense..but the idea might take off - some gadgets are created to make existing tasks easier and some are just created to do things that we really don't need at the first place. They start as a fad and end up as a necessity. Glass belongs to the this category.

Hope I am not the only one here who is praying that this stupid thing never comes into production.

Same here..I could never understand the reason behind xkcd fan following. This strip in particular, whats "so great" in it..?

Its hard to believe that Slashdot editing standards have sunk so deep that they can't even write a decent troll summary in English for their April Fool's Day stories. Logged in to Slashdot after two weeks, maybe next time it will be three more weeks before i see Slashdot again.