jBPM is open source and free software, as pretty much all of the JBoss stuff is.

That being said, I would not use jBPM for a new project anymore. It uses it's own proprietary modeling language as opposed to the more standard BPMN2.0 notation, and a lot of the original developers left the project to start Activiti.

Activiti does use BPMN2.0 for it's notation, meaning you have much more choices in editing software.

As to the whole concept of BPM itself: it's very specialized software in that it allows you to do 1 thing: model business processes, and specifically those that require one or more human steps. Typical scenarios are where you call a company with some kind of request (say you want to upgrade your internet line speed), which will take them some time to complete. BPM software will handle the information transfer between the various people involved in the process, and also allow for easy tracking of the status of your request (e.g. our credit office is waiting for the results of your background check).

Not sure if it's available in the US yet, but I have the Archos 70 Internet tablet, and it was also around 250 euros... installing the market is a matter of finding the right .apk from the Archos forums, and you have a full-featured Android tablet.

Even before that they were able to do UDP hole punching.

In fact, Skype has a whole mechanism of graceful degradation, starting at direct TCP connections all the way down to routing all data through a supernode.

So yes, in some cases the supernodes work as go-betweens, but this is really a last resort. In most cases they only serve to set up a connection.

Sounds like you want an Archos 101.

Has all the things you mentioned, plus a hdmi Port.
It runs Froyo. I have the 70 myself, which is the 7 inch version. That one only has micro usb though whereas the 101 has a full size port.

Oh, and though it officially does not have the market, anyone with some google skill can install it.

Actually, by that logic giving a book a bad review would also be stealing, since you're costing the author lost sales as well....

Lost sales are a very sticky matter, and personally I've always found it a bad argument to base legal action on.

OK, replying to myself because I obviously didn't have enough coffee yet:

They list as the benefits over Scala
  - Extensible type system
  - Easy transition from Java
  - Reified Generics

From those 3 points, only the last one sounds useful...

From a quick glance it looks like Scala with a more Java-like syntax... I wonder what added benefit they hope to bring.

I'd be very interested to see an in-depth comparison of the two.

I agree: I've been running an EEEBox with an ion chipset for some months now, and the performance is excellent. I run mine with Ubuntu and XBMC, but I'm sure it would work equally well on Windows 7.

XBMC is one of the best interfaces out there IMHO, especially when combined with Lirc and an IR receiver (I use an ancient Irman with an USB converter).

Also, the EEEBox is quiet and is small, shiny and black... helping a lot with the wife-acceptance-factor :)

The thing about copyright law is: it was created to prevent people from using other people's works, and selling it as their own or making a profit off it in some other way. In short: it was created to make sure that the only person allowed to sell content was the original creator.

Because physical copying was hard, this made sure that content-creators had a fairly secure income from selling their content. These days copying is easy though, so now the "offenders" are often the people that may or may not have bought the content, but managed to get a free copy now. This (arguably) leads to lost sales.

This is not what copyright was created to prevent though. In fact, if I write a scathing review of your work, saying it sucks and that every time someone buys it, God kills a kitten, I am probably costing you sales too. I am costing you money in exactly the same way that I would be if I was sharing your stuff. In fact, if I shared it people might conclude on their own that it is worth buying anyway, where as if they believe my review they will never buy it.

In short: people burning content to CD's and selling them: still very easily procecutable. In fact, they probably suffered the most from file sharing since that market just dried up. Why buy a knock-off now?

Customers sharing files? Maybe morally wrong, but unenforcable. Yes, it's sad, but with the advent of digital technology content creators lost an avenue of possible income. It's what happens though, and other ways have sprung up. It also created new ways to reach your customers, and provide a more personalized experience.

The world is changing, and those that don't change with it get left behind.

You're basically proposing to use a website as a One time pad. In theory a one-time pad is unbreakable, but that does require that the content of the one time pad would be truly random, which a web-site text is obviously not.

Also, if the text of the site changes, your key breaks, though that may actually be a benefit.

This has to be the most biased write-up I've seen in a while... sure, most carriers are probably Lawful Evil, but this makes me want to avoid the whole article like the plague....

Yes, it does.

It's actually better than the zoom. The zoom itself is excellent, but it resets on each page turn, making it virtually worthless for the thing I use zoom for most: zooming in to remove margins in PDF tech books.

Way to go attacking someone, yet completely missing the point.

The argument was about freeware vs open-source software... freeware as in free as beer, but closed-source. Since it's closed-source, it can (and often will) contain loads of spyware and other crap.

So yes, it is not economically auditable, as opposed to open-source where you can have someone check the source.

Freeware really is the worst of both worlds: no source to check and use for support and/or changes, and no vendor to get support from.