... metric time -- bring on kilodays, nanodays, all of it. I can't wait another microday for this.

The graphics performance isn't that shabby. I was willing to give it some points based on that and cost, and split the difference. But we're basically on the same page.

First of all, my comment was based on Linux over Android on the tablet, the relevance of which you seemed to conveniently ignore. If you're going to gripe about a reply, read the f-ing post being replied to. And your contention that Linux==Android certainly isn't the case either, on the face of it -- which is the whole point.

"Your out of date"

At least I'm on point and can compose a grammatically correct sentence.

"we have seen mainstream devices like the pi that use a TV for a monitor, that are in every way as functional as a hi-priced pc" ... of six years ago.

I too welcome the next eight years being heralded as "the Year of the Linux Tablet", after all of the success of Linux on the desktop.

> Wasn't its 1024x768 and 1280x1024 that were popular in the late 90's?
Maybe in the third world it was.

If I weren't just a capacitive bag of antenna-tuning water, why I'd... ... um.... er... humpf.

Penalty -- use of "sales" and "think" in the same sentence. 15 yards!

Anything that gives you a false sense of security when you have little or none is worse than knowing up-front that you have no security. As long as the PC itself isn't secure (keyloggers, rootkits, or any other type of snoopage), you shouldn't touch it if you actually care.

I'm making a new laser out of Cocoa Puffs, and it's the most powerful laser of its kind.

I figured this all out when I was a kid... share nothing!

It is. And they never get invited back to compete on the same course because of that they do to the sandtraps.

And M3.

Thought that I just read that almost everyone is *bailing* on PCM and looking into memristors because they can't get the power down on PCM. PCM work is farther along, but many feel that it's not going to happen and feel that memristors have more promise. I, for one, welcome our memristory overlords.

Definitely. Oracle is not so big that even time itself should bend to their will.

You really don't know anything about Larry Ellison, do you?

(Just kidding Larry... really! No, Larry... Larry!... nnnnnnnoooooooooo! ,,... )