I am usually the last person plugging anything from Microsoft, but look at the Surface tablets. They are full Windows 8 devices with an active Wacom digitizer. Writing and sketching on a Surface is eerily smooth and natural-feeling. The screen is 208 ppi, which is not super high, but may be good enough. (You can also trivially pan/zoom your workspace.)

It may not be what you need, but if sketching notes is one of your big use cases, it's worth a look.

Kindle had text-to-speech but it may have been killed off by copyright matters:

http://www.fastcompany.com/116...

Or, it may still be in the devices, I don't know, I don't have one. I just remembered there was a big stink about it when they announced the feature years ago.

Thank you, Senator.

> But how plausibly can a car judge whether keeping me and my 2 year old infant alive is more or less important than the unknown occupants of another car?

Obviously, your car will need to be made aware of everyone's social graph so that it can weigh the value of all lives involved.

Just kidding! ... kind of. I can see this being a headline some years from now.

I took a look at their site, and it seems like their technology is too good to be true... it's Star Trek class.

http://georesonance.com/

I spent a few minutes looking at the linked site, and searching, and could not find the answer to that question. There were some promising-looking links to freedomboxfoundation.org but the site was not responding.

Either I need to turn in my geek card, or more likely, someone needs to turn in their web content editor card.

I had exactly the same idea the other day. I'm surprised that this doesn't exist yet, in some form or another.

If you get one but are not a developer, is there anything you can enjoy with it yet?

Your AT&T story reminds me of my own bad experiences with that carrier. I've been on a pre-paid carrier for a long time now and find I much prefer it.

My bill is completely predictable, and best of all, my phone company doesn't have access to any of my billing information. They can't just decide to charge me a mystery fee, or otherwise screw up the billing.

It's great and I will never go back to post-paid and contracts.

How did I not know about this firmware project? Thanks for posting that!

WDTV is fantastic... sometimes, even computer guys don't want another computer around.

"THAT IS TOO MUCH VERMOUTH."

It does seem obvious, and I'm on your side, but consider the mindset of the other side. There are people, a *lot* of people, who consider using almost any kind of recreational drugs to be deeply immoral.

Their concerns are not born of the violence of the drug business, but the chemical itself. If you miracled up a pot plant from another dimension and used it in perfect isolation, they'd still consider that act to be immoral and worth society's effort to stamp out.

You're not going to win the day with arguments of practicality. The pro-legalization forces have to beat both the folks who think that the War on Drugs is an important ethical position, and the folks who benefit from the growing police state that the War on Drugs sponsors.

They should have named Classic Shell "Tron" instead, because it fights for the User.

I have a Nexus 7. Both the 2012 and 2013 versions will get wiped if unlocked. If I find that I really do need to root, I will, but it's enough of an inconvenience that I haven't done it yet.

At least there's a nice tool for it:
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/

It would be nice if I could unlock/root my device without wiping it at least.