It's not clear that these obviously looked like musical instruments to a person who isn't accustomed to seeing various kinds of flutes. Bundle of reeds with notches in them. Customs probably thought they were bongs.

I also don't see why this is on Slashdot. Customs official opens a bag and doesn't notice that these reed looking things are flutes, promptly destroys the reeds. Guy should have kept these with him if he valued them so much. Shit happens. Not sure why this particular shit happening made it on Slashdot.

I'd put releasing the XBone with Kinect on a list. It'll be out of the box by April is my guess.

Mine is a C7 w/ 320 gb hard drive. 16 SSD seems a bit small to me.

Everyone else kinda stopped selling netbooks didn't they? I would have preferred a netbook with roughly the same specs as a Chromebook and for roughly the same price, but such a thing didn't exist. Just a few years back there seemed to be plenty of different options.

From that standpoint the blame should lay with MS and Windows 8. No one wants to give anyone who may need support a laptop with Win 8 on it.

I wiped the Chome OS off of the Chrombook. For me it was just a cheap netbook.

Couldn't the whole system be redesigned in some way? Peer to peer cloud something or other. An Emule that does posts instead of files.

Office space yes. Desk space no. I've never had the problem of needing a computer crammed into a small cylinder because otherwise I just couldn't fit it into an office of any size.

Then put it on the floor. Is desk space really an issue for anyone? Seriously?

A problem occurs when a relative or whoever calls you and you need to walk them through how to do something on their Win 8 machine.

Spec out a $5k mac. How much does the PC equivalent cost?

Also, I think "as small as we can" is bogus. If this is supposed to be a business product who gives a fig about smallness. Make it functional and normal looking.

Because touch screen?

If someone doesn't have a CS background and yet would like to get into programming in some fashion, what should they be doing instead of Ruby? Python or Java?