absolutely agree; if we set winter time to be so that the sun set at 8pm on the winter solstice (in Edmonton!) then i'd be happy (we'd have to jump forward about 4 hours... or 3 from DST)

Yes, we should really be falling forward and springing back rather than the opposite; the sun sets at like 4:40pm here now =/ on DST that'd be 5:40; if we fell forward, that'd be 6:40; in fact, we could fall forward *TWO* hours and it'd be getting dark at 7:40pm... that'd be more reasonable...

I call for DST (+1) in the summer, and Super DST (SDST, +3) in the winter!

(the sun would get up at 10:50am, but np... at least I'd see the sun; right now it gets up at 7:50am, and i'm getting to work at that point anyway; rises and sets while i'm at work =/)

This is definitely true of some people; my father once emailed his MP, saying he would not vote for him again if he continued to have "egregious grammatical errors" on his webpage. He recieved an apologetic reply basically stating that the MP in question hadn't written the webpage, and that it would be corrected.

I AGREE! THE SHIFT KEY IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST!

:) (I had to add this small section to get through the filter)

We'll know things have gotten horribly out of hand when we initiate shock & awe vs Antarctica.

Clean energy technologies typically are users of rare earths, not avenues to avoid using rare earths.

It feels a bit like... Why would you need a web browser, when you can get all the same things with wget, nano, and the gimp! All your text reading and image viewing desires in 3 completely separate, inconvenient things?

Yea, I also use iGoogle in Chrome; I don't see how chrome is at all a replacement for this; I happen to have slashdot, ars technica, wired, bbc, micheal geist's blog, linux today, phoronix, Gmail, the weather, torrentfreak, fsdaily, and a graph of the crude oil price all on one page in iGoogle. Oh and the time. And links to any other google service I want to use....

I don't see how that functionality is duplicated by *anything* else; least of all Chrome; or RSS readers... as others have said, I don't want to have to click through each one to find stories I want to read, I want to see them ALL at once, expand the summary, and read the whole thing if it sounds interesting.

"Your batteries will last all day"

This is the part I have trouble believing, assuming of course that it's not a massive battery pack; yes, batteries have been getting better, and they probably will get better still; and yes we've been making advances in using less power per device; but if you want a large fancy screen, a GPU powerful enough to drive it, a powerful CPU, and want to do ACTUAL WORK on it for an entire day... I have trouble believing we'll get to the energy densities required to do that.

As an aside, I was out of town on the weekend and tried continuing my coding on my 14" laptop; after about 20 minutes of frustration I decided just to wait 'till I got back to continue on my 2x24" 1920x1200 screens...

...and as cool as a 40" (collapsable?) tablet would be I don't see it happening in the near future...

Agreed; it seems odd to me that they'd kill something that (at least to my eyes) doesn't look like it requires any maintenanace, and is really quite a good tool. Maybe they have something up their sleeves, but I'd have appreciated if they did that they'd release it before killing something like this...

This; it's so useful it's all I've used since it came out; I haven't tried google reader, but I doubt it will it allow me to spread out various feeds all over + have the weather and some stock prices, all in one place, so i don't *HAVE* to switch between tabs or apps or programs or whatever....

haha brilliant! :) maybe samsung should have included that pic as prior art...

When I read the title first, I thought it said "Robots to Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Phone"

... and then was thinking that I could use a robot like that.

Why is it that I never hear about these places until they close?

Unfortunately, with Apple practising predatory patent behaviour, it seems as though they were justified...