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.

Bet they're really planning on just sending one of them up along with a full-length mirror for the photos, much less to get into orbit and who's really know the difference?

Is it intended to be a Big Brother reference? I always assumed that it had taken inspiration for the name, as Orwell did, from the real life UK ministry names such as "Ministry of Defence" as "Ministry of Justice".

Yes, "Puzzle Agent" was incompatible with the GeForce 460 graphics card despite having it listed under the supported hardware. It was a known issue but I don't search the internet looking for that kind of potential issue before buying a game. Complained to Steam, got an apology and a refund.