I've a older (winXP) notebook that I use sparsely, if it's been off-line much more than a week, it needs about 15-20 minutes on first boot for updates, before I can use it.

You can play H.264 with newer XBMCs on the original xbox. It's still our main media center. You only need to make sure the data rate doesn't saturate the CPU, by adding something like ":vbv-maxrate=2000:vbv-bufsize=750" to the advanced encoding settings in Handbrake. I also lower the resolution a bit in my default preset, but I'm not sure that's really needed..

I second this - I've a dual monitor setup and one of them in portrait. It's a real joy to browse in 1920x1200. Wide enough for most sites, and actually high enough that I seldom have to scroll.

Twitpic photo of my setup: http://twitpic.com/1585yt

Anyway, what I want is a Full HD screen in a 15" notebook - there are a few of them, but the choices a few.

I agree - I still have a few stars to collect in Super Mario Galaxy. I just don't have the time to reach the perfection it take complete those levels. They are hard!

He already authorized the Robot City series while he was alive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov's_Robot_City

(it has been a while, but I think I enjoyed the first couple of them)

He didn't mind other people writing on his ideas...

I stopped on a random page and read six page of nonsense on how to make a security taskforce of some kind - it was mostly concerned with titles of the members...

I still live with WinMo, but only because of the newest Opera Beta.... nice browser! http://www.opera.com/mobile/

Please, do not call it Orion unless it has small nukes coming out it's ass. Confuses this old timer, it does, yes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

In other words: anything that makes our crappy OS suck less...

It's kind of strange that they think this is okay, but they haven't added "email client" to one the above lists. Maybe they just forgot it or they know, that mobile outlook is so crappy that it would be useless...

The first and original version of the Asus Eee 701 netbook came in a web-cam free version. I know because I installed a webcam in mine... Can be found very cheaply used...

Never has the Six-Lesson Schoolteacher essay seems more relevant... http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html This is about enforcing and strengthening the part where people learn that they have no rights and no privacy.

... nice to see somebody who don't just ship the product and then hope to fix issues with later software updates. I was going to mention the IPhone here, but I actually couldn't think of a phone that didn't have issues on initial release. So I won't.... Oh, I guess I already did...

I'll probably stay away from this to... But as a former Palm Pro, V, T3 owner, I actually look back at the palm sync system with found memories, now that I have to live with abomination that is ActiveSync/MobileSync. Okay, I've never gotten a duplicate, but my device is routinely forgotten by activesync and I have to create it again. Sometimes I have the same effect you had, only with files sync. When the device is seen as new, it has to get a new name, and an empty directory is created for file sync - on first sync, the computer directory is empty and I have a lot of files on the Mobile. It seems random what Active sync decides should be the correct state on first sync....

Wow, somebody had a busy morning...