Currently, I'm reading Dumas' Musketeer Romances* on my Nook.

There are a lot of great books out there in the public domain, and available in electronic form on the Net. Reading them on a desktop or laptop computer is a chore, but these little Ereaders are great for them. Classics of literature, classics that aren't really literature (There are something like 30 of Percy Keese Fitzhugh's Boy Scout novels - Tom Slade, Pee Wee Harris, Roy Blakely - in the public domain and available online.)

I've had mine for nearly a year, and I don't think I've bought more than a handful of books. And most of them from Baen's web subscriptions, rather than from B&N.

*"The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte de Bragellone", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" - as epubs from Project Gutenberg.

From the blog post:

"I read Walt Mossberg’s review of four portable Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad 2 at All Things D and was intrigued–especially by the ZaggFolio, which cleverly builds a truly notebook-like keyboard into an attractive case. So I bought one. The ZaggFolio changed the way I use my iPad, and that changed my life."

I don't know about the rest of you, but I find notebooks relatively unproductive, largely because of the lousy keyboards. (Well, that and the limited display, and the lousy mouse-equivalents, but largely because of the lousy keyboards).

The only way I can do real work, without significant degradation in performance, is to plug it into a docking station with real monitors (at least two), and a real keyboard and mouse. I'm sure it'd be the same with a tablet. Equip it with a full keyboard, mouse, and a couple of large monitors, and it'd be fine.

I wondered that, myself. I doubt I would have recognized it.

But just on a lark, I put the bytes into a file, and hadded it to the Unix "file" command.

It reports that it is a "DOS executable (COM)".

They won't be, for much longer.

Yep. There are plenty of options. And whatever I use for remoting, I'll use for my primary desktop. And it won't be Gnome 3 or Unity.

So, when can I expect to see multiple monitors on my tablet?

I need a desktop that I can remote.

That is, something that renders in a responsive way, without GPU extensions. Something I can run in a Virtual, on a box that has other Virtuals running, or access remotely over DSL.

Glitz has it's place, but that place isn't in core OS functionality.

One thing at the Museum of Science and Industry, that any self-respecting geek would not miss: the U-505.

She's a German Type IX-C submarine, captured off of Cape Verde, in 1944. Two M4 Enigma machines and over 900 pounds of codebooks and crypto publications were recovered from her.

http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/activities/capture/

Actually, skilled readers generally recognize patterns of words and phrases, not just of individual words. That's why the "the the" brain teasers work. Folks don't even look at the individual words when the phrase is familiar.

Still, folks slow down and spell out, when reading unfamiliar words. And when you're just starting, all words are unfamiliar. That's why whole-word fails as a teaching method.

What bugs me about Mono in Ubuntu is their decision to include only one runtime.

You have to jump through hoops to get .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 running on the same machine.

If removing Mono from the list of official packages makes it easier to do parallel installations, I'm all for it.

And how much coal is China burning? Indonesia? Nigeria? How accurate are their numbers? Have their been changes in their collecting or reporting methods, over the period studied, that affected their numbers?

How much concrete has been manufactured in the US? In China? In Brazil?

There are thousands of sources, that are reported on in various ways, and other sources that can only be estimated. These numbers need to reconciled, converted into forms that can be added together.

Without the raw numbers, and precise details on how they were reconciled, this isn't science - it's just politics.

In climate change and public health, no, I don't trust peer review. Or rather, I don't think that reviews done by reading the paper, rather than by examining the data and the process, have much meaning.

The standards of peer review differ, from one field to another. In most fields, a paper wouldn't be accepted for review, let alone published, without making the raw data and the data processing methods publicly available. It's because climate change journals do not require that that I don't trust peer review in this field.

Just something to keep in mind -

We can't measure carbon dioxide output.

We can measure carbon dioxide levels, in the atmosphere. We cannot measure how much carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere, or being extracted from it.

These numbers are estimates, based on thousands of different point measurements, processed according to whatever number-mangling process that the folks who wrote the report have decided best accumulates the totals.

So in my mind, before anyone even starts to discuss these numbers as if they were real, they should have access to 1. the raw data, and 2., the specific programs used to process the raw data into the reported estimates. And not only for this year, but for the prior years that the report is comparing with.

Absent complete disclosure, this should not be treated as a scientific report.

Because most of the apps I use run faster under VNC than they do under X, even with ssh compressing enabled.

I was using VNC as an example only, though.

How does GNOME3 work, running in a virtual machine?

True. Which is why GNOME is no longer the future of Linux.