I'd recommend the Wallee case/wall mount for the kitchen: http://www.thewallee.com/ We've got one on a kitchen cupboard and it makes the ipad the perfect kitchen PC, once you disable the auto-off. We use it all the time.

Heh, that'll teach me for reading Slashdot on a new laptop without logging in. The EzeScan comment was mine.

What utter bollocks. I've just replaced my Treo 650 that I bought second-hand more than four years ago. It's had one replacement battery (you're probably not familiar with that concept) and it went to a friend of mine who's still using the Treo 180 I gave him when I bought the 650. He'll get a few more years out of the 650, I'm betting.

Blackberries also seem to have a decent lifetime and they've been round a lot longer than the iphone.

The thing I like about Picasa is that it doesn't touch where your images are, or even the images themselves. I can't stand programs that insist on moving your shit around (iPhoto). I've never tried importing, I can copy images off a card quicker than it can.

Surely you're taking the piss. ALSA, various versions of OSS, PulseAudio enough for you?

Parent has it only partially correct, but here's your citation: http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx Word 6.0 for Mac was built from the same codebase as the Windows product, looked quite a lot like a Windows product, and used to occasionally throw Windows-style errors. The number of floppy disks required to install it on a Mac was equal to the number of disks for the Windows version plus 7 (?), which was the same number of floppies that Win 3.11 took. Hence why you'll see people claim it was emulated.

It's OK, at least you can spell!