>Calling paper books real as opposed to ebooks (which are... what? Imaginary?)

Virtual is what I thought was the agreed upon opposite to real in this context. So what should I pair "virtual" with if not "real"?

Intel webcam from the early 2ks? What a blast from the past. Does it have a composite video output per chance? If it does it works perfectly well with a cheap bt8xx tv card.

But the results of the research has to go somewhere! We can't have students write their thesises and do their accompanying work without putting it on the market, can we?
Apparently it's even unthinkable to let their undergraduate tinkering go to waste. Or maybe there is an actual reason for the mood lights built into the coffee maker at my local gas station.

I'm using an ipod touch with a vga adapter modded to accept a usb charger plus an audio cable connected to a monitor to watch itunes-U lectures. As a result I need to be careful to not loose any connections when interacting - such as changing the volume.
Every cable beyond a thin and light charging cable is a pain. So Apple had the right idea with making the new connector for i-devices. However I doubt it accepts long cable lengths.
I agree that we are getting close to our handhelds merging with the portables and even the desktops. But there are still a lot of problems to be solved that only present themselves when interacting with the actual implementation.

No. This is an inherent limitation of ebooks where the paper books interface is superior.
With a real book I quickly get to know the book well enough that I can just flip it open at a good estimate of how far in I am by the the thickness of the stack I'm flipping. A scrollbar doesn't convey that kind of information anywhere near as well.
A book has a mechanical preference to pages that have been looked at for longer. If I simply flip it open at random it will flip open to a page that has been looked at more because of the binding becoming weaker.
A book has infinite fps. By flipping through the pages with my thumb I can look out for and actually find a diagram I'm looking for.
No matter how responsive and high fps the reader software gets - It will not have the physical feedback a book provides and that is actually useful to find your way through that book.

At first glance I was shocked at the acceptance of ebooks this implies. On further thought however (and without reading the article) this could as well mean that 38% don't read at all. Or have a more complex opinion than can be stated as a preference.

I refuse to believe that 38% of any population actually prefers those slow to flip through ebooks.

Thanks. I'd prefer a solution that doesn't have steps 3 and 4 but I guess I could give this another try.
I tried that a while with a laserjet 1000. but i couldn't find any paper that transfered the toner reliably. now that I have a laserjet that can control the amount of toner used i may give it a try.
Could you explain to a non-native speaker what thermal resist paper is? It's not that stuff that becomes black when heated, is it?

wake me up when i can finally buy a cheap printer that creates circuit boards.

pi has a fixed value that you can calculate with increasing precision. that doesn't make pi grow. if you calculate the value of pi by getting closer to the value from above it even seems to shrink

Weird. I never noticed an increase in Pi.

but still I want to see the existing footage now. The teaser clip is pretty cool. Apparently this is not about getting up Pike's Peak but getting up fast. If there are ethical issues showing the helicopter footage at least show the footage from the cars onboard camera that surely exists.
This is so much more exciting than the stupid soccer bots with their Robocup.

Indeed, your inlaws aren't the only ones that leave those stickers on. In fact I think people might get angry if Laptops stop shipping with those stickers. After all how is it supposed to go fast if it isn't red?

What's even worse than peoples' attachment to those stickers is their attachment to the foil covering the panel thingies on remotes and all the tiny display screens. I keep peeling those off, telling them that they are a protective measure for production and "look how shiny it is now
". Still most panic when I do it to their devices and demand I put half peeled foil back.

I hate those foils and what they do to people with a passion.

if you cared to look at your own link, you'd see that it is about patching files without the need to reboot. On a running system the kernel is entirely in the memory.
Also the statistics Microsoft is giving aren't impressive at all. From your link:

The following examples demonstrate possible savings from reboot reduction:

        * Of the 22 updates that shipped for Windows Server 2003 RTM between April 2005 and August 2005, 15 of them required a reboot. Eight of these could have been hotpatched. This would have reduced the number of reboots by 53%.

        * Of the 14 updates that shipped for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) prior to August 2005, ten of them required a reboot. Four of these could have been hotpatched. This would have reduced the number of reboots by 40%.

It seems to me, after some googling, that while Windows actually does have mechanisms to patch functions of the in-memory kernel and libraries, that what hotpatching means in the context of Windows is pretty much a normal upgrade without a reboot.

isn't it obvious? get Robert Picardo to pose.

Could someone please come up with sources?
I looked it up in my school's grammar book and wikipedia. Both explicitly allow the combination of pronouns with contracted auxiliary verbs. But neither forbid the use of contracted auxiliary verbs with real nouns.
I'm not a native speaker - but it definately doesn't sound clumsy to me. And this obviously is a situation where informal use of a language is quite appropriate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)#English