Considering many of the "bigger" tricks only works because 1) the audience is relatively far away from the stage and 2) have a very limited viewing angle, your comment isn't THAT false.

yes. I t runs emacs nicely, although the startup time can be a tad bit long (20-30sec in my case), depending on your .emacs . Once it's loaded it is completely useable and fast.

One of my two rpis (both are ~old~ ones with only 256MB RAM) is running apache, mysql, dovecot, postfix and bitlbee. It also has weechat (connected to bitlbee and 4 channels on #freenode) and mutt running 24/7. Additionally roundcubemail is installed. Again, depending on the amount of mails to sort and show, RCmail can be a bit slow. This is the rpi I use emacs the most on, mostly to edit config files, write mails and code a bit on side projects when bored at work.

The trick is to change the memory allocation depending on your useage. In the case of this mail server I set the mem to 240/16 as it is headless.(16MB for the GPU is apparently the absolute minimum you can allocate).

"i played the lite minecraft for 5 mins on my ipad, and I was really really dumb. i just dug a hole for 5 mins, but never got to the bottom. then i couldnt get out."

There.. fixed for you.

NWN ...

you'll also have to cope with the radiation.

you're an optimist. If I programmed that robot I'd just burn the house down, by .. dunno ... opening a gas valve for example.

Call *me* paranoid, but all the DARPA challenges soudns to me only superficially humanitarian in nature.

since you use the word "retard" while being "anonymous", I assume you are a pretty lousy troll.

just a small correction : many ebook readers have integrated mp3 players and, at least on my Sony PRS-T1, the web browser isn't really THAT bad ... it's good enough to read the huffpost, news.google or slashdot.

He asked specifically about electronic devices, so standard books are pretty much offtopic, besides, why you would suggest a badly writen novel whose only intrinsic value is that it can be used a narcoleptic is well beyond me...

Having myself both a tablet ( HP Touchpad) and an eBook Reader (Sony PRS1), there is absolutely no contest when it comes to textbooks. No matter how high the screen resolution of your tablet is, it can't beat e-ink for pure comfort. Additionally, ebook readers are generally a lot lighter and smaller than tablets. Techbooks are another matter. I have plenty of oreilly books on the reader (epub format), and whilst not bad from an handling and speed point of view, the small B/W screen is really a problem. Anyway, all this to say that Parent is clueless ...

Awesome answer. Where are my mod points when I need them?

Where are Prof. Abronsius and Alfred????

thanks for proving his point :P

Experience with Linux in the late 90s is completely irrelevant ... you do understand that, right? I mean, in the late 90s. Or would you compare Mac OS8 or Windows 98 with todays Mac OSX's feline Flavour or Windows7?