Actually, if we are in nitpicking mode, it *goes* from 1BC/BCE to 1 AD/CE: no one at the time was having epoch rollover parties.
The calendar is a scale that remains in use, present tense is called for.*

*To avoid the next nitpick, it would be fine to say that the date went from 4 Oct 1582 to 15 Oct 1582 in Catholic Europe, because that was an event that happened.

No one messes with all that crap; they use mirror lenses which produce equal or greater results in a much smaller package.

Or,

20" 1600x1200 NEC S-IPS

The smallest 1900x1200 LCD is a 22" Lenovo L220x, AFAIK.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/875277.html http://t3.technion.ac.il/more_details.php?id=76

"Safe" FAT32, cheap RAID, RAID implied as backup, Microsoft.

Nice job, you successfully trolled the /. frontpage.

Doesnt't it feel like there have been three of the same stories in different form but identical in comments?

Anyway, The N810 is also an N800 with a transflective screen, making it very readable where the N800 is not, and thus fits the requirements better. Yes, I own both (and owned a 770, for good measure).

I would caution against any of the eink devices if you insist on webbrowsing on the same device. The refresh rate and limited web media and browser functions make for a frustrating experience. I carry my Sony 505 with me all the time, but it's for fiction, not random access (i.e. textbook, techincal, or webpage reading) as page flipping is still painful.

Your best bet, if the N810 is too small, is to find a tablet PC with a transflective screen. Motion Computing and Itronix slates can be had fairly cheaply on ebay; Fujitsu P1610/20 and U810/820 convertibles also are options if you can do without a transflective screen. I have a U820 and love it (and its high ppi and long battery life), but if I were you, I suspect the greater utility would be found in a P16x0 series.

Worse is that the OP lost point(s) for the (stupid) off topic mod, but the funny mods do nothing to restore it. While I understand not giving points for "funny," they should mitigate downmods on the same comment.

In the meantime, someone give the guy an insightful mod or two. Until the mod system corrects for the above flaw, there remains a manual solution.

$370 for cable? No professional courtesy amongst thieves, I see.

Shrug. I'm writing this response on a Z530 powered Fujitsu U820 with 1 GB of RAM. In Washington Square Park. And I mean writing: the pen input on Windows 7 is fantastic. 1 BSOD in a month of use-which was heat related (I left the thing on in a bag). The constraints on my use are not any worse than on similar hardware using XP or Ubuntu. I skipped Vista, but Win 7 has been very impressive.

your girlfriend convinced you to use linux?

trying to process...

are you a girl too?

wait, WTF?

WTF? Aside from the "I'm not picking the software" disclaimer, Blender is a 3D package, not a NLE. They are shooting a documentary, not Star Wars 7.

It is ironic: Win+OSX just beat the pants off of Linux in the low/no budget world, wheras Linux is just peachy for big budget 3D rendering clusters.

When you say "not to include editing," does that mean you are not choosing the editing software package but are choosing the machine which runs it? If so, what camera/format are you using? For example, if you are using an HMC150, it will affect your editing choices if you want to work without transcoding - something you might need to point out to your staff.

If these are just glorifed email/webterms, sure, you can pick anything and Linux might be ideal if they are getting thrown on very untrusted public networks. If that's the case, the question just boils down to: can the staff deal with using Ubuntu and Firefox - in which case, why Ask Slashdot - ask them! However, If these machine will be editing platforms or even dual use business machine+light editing/review(1) - you'll be using OS/X or Windows(2).

(1)yeah, even review. VLC has some HD problems, which are ffmpeg related as I understand, and may show up on other Linux/OSS players. My i7/GTX280/6GB RAM was choking on a Hitachi made 1080p H.264 demo yesterday using VLC (on Windows). OTOH, AVCHD 21MB seems to be fine straight out of the camera, FWIW.

(2)Remember that if you want to burn Blu-Ray discs in the wild, there are no Blu-Ray drives (let alone burners) available internally on MBPs.