I have an Acer Iconia Tab (It was side by side with the Transformer at Best Buy, but the $100 gift card sold me on the Acer). Same processor as the Transformer. I love it - lots of ports, fast, and as another poster said, apps from my android phone automagically appear on the Iconia.

I find it interesting talking to people about it. Their first words are, "Oh, you have an iPad?" Then the description of Android begins. Generally I get two responses: they either glaze over, or they say, "So it's an iPad knock off, then?".

The other night, coming back from a bar carrying my Acer, I slipped stepping on a friends boat. I went down, one foot in the water, the other on my knee (torn ligaments and a cast now). Where was the Iconia? Sometime during my fall, I managed to carefully lay it on the deck. I don't even remember doing it. Body broken, tablet fine. Even subconsciously I love this tablet.

South of Houston. You can even stop at the space-theme Fry's on the way down.

Learn how to do a mind map. Not only is it quick, it's easier to remember when your notes are organized graphically.

I had a minor epiphany the other day when an iPhone user was looking over my shoulder at my Android tablet. First words: "You probably can't get very many apps for it, can you?". Holy shit - Apple is pulling a Microsoft on the market. They've so fully saturated the market's hearts and minds that people see non-Apple portable devices as "less than".

While I agree with everything in TFA, I think just doing a little more advertising is probably not going to do it.

The scientist Ben Franklin (No, it wasn't Albert Einstein) said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

We had 8 years of a science-and-fact-loving conservative government, after which we had a doubled national debt, two wars, an economic crisis second only to the Great Depression, the demonizing of evolution, and oh yeah, a new attitude in the country that climate change was questionable and that it was probably the scientists that were to blame. Please excuse me if I remain skeptical that a single former representative is going to change much.

There is a reason why Mr. Inglis is a "former" Representative - his commie ideas about actually believing the scientists were clearly not well received by his former constituency.

Your point is taken, but at the risk of taking an analogy too far, let's look at the PE's web of responsibility:
The PE signs off the design. He might not have been 100% the creator of the design (it was most likely a design team), but he is the one who takes the ultimate responsibility and risks liability issues if he doesn't examine every detail and is confident the design will work and will be safe. He has numerous tools available to him to ensure that design is good, and he is responsible for ensuring those tools are up to the task. He also specs the steel for the girders, the concrete for the bridge and the depth of the pilings to support the building. He might have a civil engineer or or structural engineer participate, and sign off, on design and construction of those elements. If those people don't construct to his spec, he holds them accountable, but once he signs off on the final construction, it's his neck.

I see this as empowerment and a change of status software developers. The guy who has to sign off can choose the right language, compilers, testing methodology, and whatever else might be necessary to ensure his neck stays out of the noose. Otherwise he doesn't sign off. What's more empowering than that?

The same liability that a PE accepts when he puts his stamp and number on a design? That's the point. It's not about tricking customers into signing something, it's about people who are designing things accepting responsibility for that design. Why should software engineers be given any different treatment?

Yes, but.... what happens when the software that is landing a plane miscalculates the height above ground and it crashes? Wouldn't you hold the software developer accountable for that?

As much as I wish I could recommend Linux, you are probably better off with XP, if you have licensed copies. I recommend that you install SiteSafe so that normal users can only change what you want them to change, and see what you want them to see. Look at the site the same way you would look at a cybercafe - every user is a potential source of virus. If you use SiteSafe to flush changes after every user finishes, you can feel fairly confident that the computers aren't going to get so virused that you have to flatten them and start again.

If you are trying to drop these off and forget them, just train one of the administrators to login as admin from time to time so that they can do updates or whatever software changes might be needed.

So, why is that, exactly? Google has proven by it's actions that their solution to the need for more processor power is just to add more servers. Granted, it'd be tough to pull one of the old blades and play the most recent edition of Duke Nukem, but really, these systems will still be able to crunch numbers for a very long time. Would buying faster systems with more cores would allow a single system to crunch more? Sure, but really, those old systems can still happily serve their original purpose. As Google needs more systems, they buy the latest and fastest, but the old systems don't actually have to be replaced until they actually break.

Yikes. I worked in West Africa for a few years, and we dreamed about the day when SAT-3 would bring us more than a couple of satellite T1s. Next year, they are getting over 10Tbps capacity, and almost more importantly, it's coming in separate, redundant cables.

It's hard to imagine what that's going to do.

Now, if they could only keep their cable landings and their terrestrial infrastructure working.

I agree with the parent. When you have a user base that makes you the third largest country in the world, what, exactly, is the problem? Are there new features they are trying to add, reliability issues, or what?

CNN's coverage described George as a hacker who "Cost Sony 20 Million Dollars by hacking into the PlayStation Network. He also published instructions for how to do it online."

Sigh...

Has about as much chance for success as taxes on cigarettes and booze. You can see how much that has prevented people from indulging.

But, but, this has the word "nano" in it! It has to be good!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=nano&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0