He got better.

Is that really the reason you don't have one? Or do you secretly want one and are just making excuses? Because that little flash is about as annoying as... turning a page.

God it's horrible, the text goes sideways, then disappears and you can see a page ahead for a fraction of a second, then it's sideways again and you can finally read it. Plus there's that annoying "Shhhh..." sound it makes. UGH! Turning pages is so disgusting!

Seriously man, I'll take my much, much clearer screen and much, much better battery life over instant page turns any day. Unless you're reading a thousand plus words per minute, the quarter second it takes to refresh the page is not annoying at all. Grey-scale LCDs are very low contrast, unlike e-Ink which is virtually the same as paper and ink. That makes them much easier to read on. And if you're reading over a thousand words per minute you probably aren't reading for pleasure anyway, so why are you bothering with the small display of ANY e-reader?

If you DO read that fast, well then, yeah, the page refresh would get pretty damn annoying, but like I said, why would you bother with an e-reader at that point anyway?

There is a reason LCD ebook readers never really took off, even though they are much less expensive than e-Ink readers. If you haven't figured it out, maybe you should try actually reading on one for once. My local Best-Buy has them on display, I'm sure an electronics store near you does as well. Note that I do NOT recommend actually buying a reader from Best-Buy, just to look in person before getting one elsewhere.

Here's Apple, trying to save everybody from lung cancer and all I see are complaints!

If you won't think of the children then Apple have to!

This has always been my problem with the concept of "cyberspace." Why assign metaphors of time and space to a medium whose primary advantages are that it occupies no space and is instantaneous?

Naive question: Why can't they just use two SRBs on this thing? More lift and it might even help mitigate the oscillation problem.

I see this mentioned a lot. Does anyone know if it's actually been done?

It's not free and it's Windows only but I've always liked Game maker.
In fact I wish there was something like this for Linux.

Hulu needs to let Boxee use them as a chabnel again

          Done.

http://lifehacker.com/5157524/bring-hulu-back-to-boxee-and-xbmc/

Thunderbirds are go!

Hey, Lundström! Is that an umlaut over your name, or are those your tiny balls?

Seriously. Isn't this just a wiki? Oh wait, a wiki that gets printed on treemeat.

we finally get our Heisenberg compensator?

I am not a molecular technologist. However I'm fair sure that "grain of salt" does not equal "nano"