How about not outputting Dolby 5.1 through the HDMI?
Those silly Motorola DVRs...
I can't begin to count how many hours people waste trying to get that to work before they have to call someone like me and I tell them "Oh, you'd expect them to send proper audio signal, but they don't. We need to send audio through Toslink and reconfigure your receiver to take that as the preferred audio signal".
And then there's the universally valid business model of being a trademark holder and licensing the use of mark... for...
???
P R O F I T!
Psion is doing everything right in defending their trademark and shouldn't be called a troll. I call these things subnotebooks. Sony calls them PictureBook (tm) by the way. I haven't even heard the term Netbook until a month or so ago.
Smart companies increase marketing spend during recession. It's a cheap way to grab marketshare.
It's one way for geeks to get cozier with girls...
1. Burn a livecd with Firefox and OpenOffice
2. Laugh at administration attempts at censorship
3. Offer to do it for her...
4.
Any attempts to censor hardware that is capable of booting alternatives will fail. You are on Slashdot, so I expect you to know this.
That being said, Macbooks are expensive. The end goal is probably a computer capable of being an Internet gateway and of running an office suite. This can be done for much less. LTSP could be used to provide students with a consistent desktop for school work.
Minor thing... Please avoid the Seagate 1TB drives for the time being. You'll thank me for this.
You finally explained why I never "beat" most of my games!
Air travel costs by 2030 will be a distant memory of today due to rising costs of jet fuel.
It will cost a lot to build our high speed rail, but it is essential to our state. Previously sparsely populated communities will be within commute range of Silicon Valley.
I can't wait for this project to start getting built.
You can probably thank Scratch Live http://scratchlive.net/ for this.
They are rapidly replacing actual vinyl records and CDs as DJs' tools of choice.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
