I do believe that if that car were to maintain at velocity of exactly 88 MPH while simultaneously turning on all that gear...

The N900 is a major step forward since it gives people root access and apt-get without jailbreaking and playing cat and mouse with the telcos. Unfortunately though, some dick decided to render it pretty much useless by shipping it with the worst touchscreen ever known to man.

Well, apparentley not since the intent wasn't criminal. Which kind of makes you wonder why we have to extradite Gareth McKinnon since he was only trying to find out the truth about UFOs.

You do realize that using a 'z' is the correct English usage and always has been? This is one area where our American cousins are actually more correct than we are. The usage of an 's' is commonly referred to as the 'Frenchified' version and is a dilution of the language due to cross-pollination with our Gallic neighbours. The misconception that the Frenchified usage is correct English has arisen since the Government adopted it for their official documents (in the 70s?). I can see the connexion, but read an early print of any of Tolkein's works and tell me how many instances you find. Use zeds.

I don't know how transferable it is, but I purchased an Asus Aspire ONE for my better half at xmas and it came with a Linpus Distro which is a Netbook OS based on Fedora 8. Out of the bag it's a little locked down but after a few minutes of searching you can unlock the desktop and get an XFCE window manager and package-installer. Support for drivers is great - but then you'd expect that since it was the original OS that came with the Netbook.

w32 can keep its lions share - that way the malware writers don't target much else and all the clueless users clog up the windows forums, leaving a high signal to noise ratio in the unix groups.

..Sun's Virtual Box does it easier, quicker and got there first.

Ordinarily I wouldn't rise, but honestly! Not only is Emacs behind Vi but it's neck and neck with Notepad. What the hell kind of a poll is this? I would have expected these results from digg.com.

I guess the selling points include that the presentation and interface will be very similar, users won't have to learn about and setup an IMAP interface or a new e-mail client like Thunderbird (easy for some, but less so for others) and you can spend 0% effort on house-keeping without having your in-box balloon to giant proportions. You'd assume the algorithm's pretty good, so there's a high chance you'll get what you need during the time you're disconnected. Maybe it's not for everyone, but I can certainly see some use in it. I just wish Google-Notebook would finally get the same Gears treatment!

Dolphin is.

I prefer the term; 'mutton dressed as pig'.

Finally! But how to get the Ctrl, Esc and Function keys???

...John C. Dvorak were no longer paid to write lame articles?

What if somebody inserts your email address into their AAC files before sharing them with the world?

No, not like that, the Google-Apps (writer, spreadsheet, etc.) are downloaded to your PC and you use them from there. So it's still the same mini-office suite that it is on-line and you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference (that is; the move from on-line to off-line mode is seamless). Or you can still just use them through a browser from any PC like you always did. MS/OO/3rd party tools don't come into it.