Is this good for America at all. A lot of the best of what comes out of Silicon Valley come from people who have cut their teeth elsewhere. New ideas, different ways of doing things often come from outside the Valley and move in. We've already seen a decline in how important business views tech workers. Many stalwarts of the Valley are beginning to show the cracks of age. To some degree, the Valley is already it's own boys club. You are in or you aren't or you know someone. The question is are the people in this club just repeating what those before them have done, or are they coming up with anything new? Separate yourself form the whole too much and you start to loose sight of the people you are building for, and you begin to overspecialize; We've all heard the line, over-specialize and you breed in weakness.

That's ok .. the article is on a Fox website. Means you probably followed the same procedure as the person who wrote it...

Right ... so it's officiall Groppler Jobs now?

I didn't know that German for France was "sufficient surplus reserve capacity" ....

Or rather, they should at least give you what various safety levels are. One of the big misconceptions is that we know what is a dangerous level of radiation: in fact all we know is what is too much radiation. Back in the 50's and 60's a group of scientist were asked to provide safety information on radiation and they came up with a scale using the points of zero and you aren't gonna see the end of the week. They then drew a linear line between these points because they had little to go on, and presented it as a best guess and further research was needed to prove it's truly linear, exponential, logarithmic, or what-have-you. Since then the linear graph has become kind of dogma and various groups have picked various points across it to set their safety thresholds.

You'll find that you have a set threshold in most Asian nations that is quite low, due to close experience and some might say paranoia in relation to the deployment of nuclear arms.
Roughly double these guidelines, and you get what is considered safe in many European countries.
Roughly double them once more, and now you are heading toward the Americas.
 

Yep, people seem to forget how much "Hackers looooooooooooooooove noodles". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen_worm

Current readers are great for text. Where text is the main focus of a work : books and decent periodicals, and you spend more than 30 minutes reading the text an e-reader with e-ink makes sense. Don't need to worry about colour much, and you reduce eyestrain (for people who still have strong vision) and avoid further damage ( for people who don't).

Magazines and comics, however focus on pictures and usually in vibrant colours. E-ink is slowly getting there but it's going to be a while before the colour e-ink truly does justice to the colour intended in many magazines a image based works. Similarly, these publications tend to be monthly and are generally designed to let a person pick up a volume, read a 15 minute article, take a break, and come back later. This is exactly the kind of methodology publishers want to encourage with the use of a back-lit screen. Similarly, such works tend to lend themselves more to interactive tie-ins like video, that do better on the lcd/o-led screens than e-ink.

Who's doing the testing and what they are testing. In other reviews for Q1 MSE has come up middle of the pack and near top of the free systems. I also have to question AV-test's findings as AVG is ranked awfully high, and I've seen amazingly dismal failures both with their free and pay for product, (as well as the services for their pay product). AVG tends to rank low on most head to head shoot outs over the last several years, so as with everything ... lies, damn lies, and statistics.

It's a question of who you want to believe as not all of us can setup a test lab and keep a virus farm on hand.

I'll toss in the notion that a lot of people I talked to were almost sold on some of the Android tablets out, and were about to make a purchase when Google came out and said Honeycomb would require a multi-core processor. That slammed the brakes on for them. The general sense I am getting right now is that people are looking for something similar to what they had thought they were going to buy but has honeycomb on-board. As of right now the general murmur I'm hearing is LG's slate and new version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab. While there are certainly a number of reasons these could still end up flopping. Given that people aren't going on spending sprees right now, I think the current lineup of slates is being viewed as filler and won't be touched until these two devices are out and can be compared.

While there is a number of mentions of the Xoom, in general, there seems to be a plague treatment of it going on. For some people it's the fact that it's on Verizon, others are it's lackluster designs, and other potential failings. Suffice to say most people are who are contemplating getting an Android are looking at it as a pale comparison to the promise of the Slate or Tab and are going to hold off. Frankly, I think this market is a bit more discerning then the one for phones and I think that coupled with people's current financial cautionary activity is what's mostly being reflected in buy in.