Unless the target market ends up not big enough, in which case the product never gets mass-produced or falls out of production because not enough people want it. This happened to 4" tablets priced for use without a cellular data plan (such as the Nokia N810 in North America and the three years of Android prior to Galaxy Player introduction in October 2011), it happened to 3-4" tablets with a gamepad (such as GP2X), and it happened to 10" laptops at the end of last year.

Is it like trying to teach the Bible if you aren't fluent in ancient Hebrew and Koine Greek?

I don't know about ACT, but the math sections of the SAT Reasoning Test require the student to provide a scientific or graphing calculator, and this graphing calculator cannot have a touch screen or QWERTY-arranged keyboard.

You tell me how much it costs to find a job in a different city and move to that city, and I'll tell you why moving is or is not a problem.

So how should I search for works by whether or not their authors "want to share"?

Despite Wickard v. Filburn being what strict constructionists have called a blatant misinterpretation of the scope of "commerce among the several states" under the U.S. Constitution, it still hasn't annoyed legislators.

In legal systems that have the concept of binding precedent, the Supreme Court can completely misinterpret a statute and make its misinterpretation binding on lower courts.

Clarifying this situation is why laws like the U.S. Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (1998) had to be passed.

I guess from the fact that he published it. Copyright is a state-sponsored way to have a cake (publication) and eat it too (exclusive rights).

How is that possible when the movie studios control the means of getting into national government?

On a 1024x600 pixel netbook display, it'd mean a 6 pixel wide font. Currently, Terminal is using Droid Sans Mono 9, IDLE and gedit are configured with Liberation Mono 8, and Leafpad uses Droid Sans Mono 8.

In practice, 6 pixel wide monospace fonts haven't been painful to me, especially with subpixel antialiasing and the fact that a laptop display sits closer than the arm's length of a desktop PC's external monitor.

I continued to page two, and I am excited about something that it says "Shuttleworth is really excited about": Ubuntu for tablets allows a phone-sized application to be snapped to the side in "side stage".

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Could you elaborate? A 7" tablet's screen is big enough to contain two windows the size of a phone's screen, and a 10" tablet's screen is as big as that of the laptops they were selling from 2009-2012. I have one of those laptops, and I have no problem putting two 80-column text editor windows side by side. The only thing missing from Android is a manifest flag for flexible screen size that would allow this sort of window management. Currently, applications are allowed to assume window size is fixed at install time.

Mark Shuttleworth said in the article: "What's nice about Ubuntu is the phase change to the PC experience up from the tablet really just introduces window management." Does this mean that Ubuntu on tablets will run all maximized all the time, even when a tablet is docked to a keyboard? That hurts my use case, which involves doing a little Python coding during the commute. I currently have a 10" laptop, and my setup in IDLE puts a source code editor window down one half of the screen and a second source code editor or the output window down the other. But with the discontinuation of 10" laptops at the end of last year, I don't know where I'd go.

Wouldn't motorcycle riding be more moral than driving because of the fuel savings? Or does the health cost outweigh the fuel savings in this case?