Impressive. I think I'd have gotten too frustrated to keep using the same chassis.

ICBMs are never "low tech".

Ok, what part of this makes these e-books cost more than the paper version? Most of these are common between the two versions.

Is it the labor and material costs associated with printing? I don't think that the e-book will require more paper and labor than the print version. Is it distribution? Trucking boxloads of paper around is less expensive than spitting electrons down a wire? Advertising? I don't remember seeing special ads for the e-book versions.

Why should the e-book cost more than a paperback?

I'm a bit older than you, when I was in high school the words nerd, geek, and egghead were synonymous.

You ever opened the error console and scrolled down on /.? The amount of needless javascript is hilarious!

Well, I'd be about as ticked off as Steve Woz. Though in his case they simply dismissed it and haven't fixed it.

Exactly, and the scanner in the video had trouble picking identifying his mobile phone.

Is it possible to put an automatic in neutral while it's moving? They have all sorts of interlocks on them.

Of course if it's a manual you can just drop the clutch.

Of course it's news. Who would have ever thought that MS would sink to CHARGING for their software?!?!

I actually got to see the city people out and about with their picks and what-not cleaning the snow out - had never thought about that being needed until a recent storm. The hoods over the lights I saw did have open bottoms. Unfortunately, the snow managed to build up in there anyways, probably not unlike how I had an couple of inches sticking to the side of my car. (That's my own darn fault for not parking in the garage...)

Will they really need a carrier subsidy? We've been able to get netbooks at retail in the $300 range; rather than drop the price over time, they up the specs to hold at that price point. If components continue to drop in price or increase in capability, shouldn't the specs that were hinted at be possible at the $300 price point without a mobile carrier?

Where I am (upper Midwest), we have two seasons: Winter, and Road Construction.

I dunno - I've been using G-Mail and Google Apps since each was introduced, and this is the first time one of their outages has impacted me, or anyone else that I talk to (true, that's not a lot of people, but...).

>CSJA (Court System Judges of America)

Shouldn't that be Court System Judges Industry Association of America (CSJIAA)?

That's not entirely accurate... I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 from an older distro, and ended up needing to replace my video card because it was no longer supported. (Now, it may be true that I could have spent some amount of time making things work, but I thought the goal was to have things "just work" for the average person.) So, yes, it's true I didn't need to get a whole new machine, I did end up having to shell out for a new video card, which wasn't cheap.