All this is doing is changing the rules on which sites will be rated more highly, this changes what needs to be done to a site to gain artificially high ranking- maybe making it more difficult- but it'll still be done. I can imagine the SEO service sellers being delighted about this, new customers will still be buying their services to gain ranks and since old approaches will now be penalised they can start to sell again to those who'd bought their services before the change.

If everyone is immediately telling him he's doing it wrong then, possibly, he's doing it wrong? If everyone's able to suggest a different technology which is likely to work better than maybe the technology they're considering is one of the worst possibilities of those available?

If they want a way to make this information readily available to patients in the waiting room then there're sensible ways to do this as people have said, and if they're after ways to use tablet technology to improve their patient's experience then there's good possibilities there too such as the medical staff being able to use the interactive tablet content during actual talks with the patient, or even just providing a source of entertainment for the patients whilst they are waiting (..assuming the tables don't carry too much lurgy to the patients, and the patients don't carry too many tablets home).

This though is sounding too much like "I have a square peg and a round hole, what're your suggestions for getting it to be a good fit?". We could suggest various ways of trying to lock down a device (without knowing which OS it's running), but a lot of us feel that the end result would be less than useful anyway.

In the end this is Ask Slashdot, asking a bunch of techs for their opinion on a technical question for free. You'll get answers, and generally these will be fairly honest when they're not bouncing off on happy tangents. What these will not do though is restrict themselves to the brief if the brief seems wrong, and if people want that type of answer then possibly hiring a "Yes Man" consultant would be a better way to move things on.

I'm more interested in a moon colony in the US, whether it's The Clangers or other moonfolk doesn't matter too much.

There's even a small downloadable program called Steammover for simplifying the process, there's an article about it here.

When you've been asked an unexpected question and are quickly flicking through a document trying to find the relevant section you really do need a faster update than current generation e-ink will offer, something either the iPad or a bundle of printed notes manages.

I'm not saying e-ink won't reach the point where it'd be suitable, I'm sure it will, but it's not there yet and trying to adapt a technology before it's usable for a given situation is a good way to guarantee that it'll quickly be scrapped and unlikely to be reconsidered in future.

Odd. Yesterday when I unplugged my desktop computer from the mouse, keyboard, and monitor and put it in my bag it didn't work at all during the long train journey home.

Suppose the batteries must have been flat.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/ ...it's still $99/yr if you want to actually be able to deploy onto hardware and not just run it in the iOS simulator on a mac.

Surely it's more like selling a movie DVD after you've seen the movie on it, and the person you sold it to demanding to see the movie too?

Not sure I like the idea of a calculator which expects you to key in the answer too

The 5xx series has been moderately well-behaved on the power-usage, but other fairly recent generations have not been so kind. The GTX480 could pull 450W and the GTX295 would happily use 487W (Stats from Tom's Hardware), and from that I'd say that a ballpark of 500W is fair enough, after all the 6xx series could well be very different from the 5xx series and so again have increased power usage.

It's still under warranty anyway.

I do actually agree with you, I've not seen CS guys having too many problems getting work during the current recession but the BBC article you're linking says the opposite. It's saying that of all the university courses CS has the highest unemployment after 6 months, a rather nasty 17%.

People can be both at once.. all too often in my experience.

On serious servers, yes. There's nothing as reliable and standardised for getting console access on a headless server which has just decided to drop off the network.

The iPad's not exactly a pocket sized device either though and whilst it may be thinner than a netbook it's certainly not as luggable, the extra care needed to not shatter that screen would be a serious pain in a lot of environments.