Did you know, Adobe Acrobat has previously been full of security holes, embeds it's self in your browser, and frequently crashes (taking your browser with it?)

Even on my windows netbook I prefer free/open source PDF readers, if I want OCR I'll do it myself, I've never wanted OCR....

I use linux because I can make it do everything I don't want to do - windows sux for automation...

People reboot linux?

That was my first reaction - if apple hadn't started this shit it wouldn't be a problem

The mobile phone industry was getting along quite happily before apple came along, minor squibbles and scuffles but for the most part it was a quiet industry.... apple comes along and starts suing everyone...

Besides... how many small countries does apple want to buy?

Next up, suing the weather girl for saying it's probably not going to rain...

I feel like an apple user happy with incremental updates (only they pay $700 odd, I only paid $42)... but I'll have an original, an original with mounting holes, and now a 512 meg version... What'll you give me for the complete set? :P

I bought a tablet first, then went to an eReader - I can tell you I carry the eReader everywhere now, the tablet stays docked at home...

I didn't even make it through the title without exclaiming "No!"

Sony can get fucked.

Yeh I figured you'd be able to get keyboards much cheaper than that (we can get them here for $8 - but I wanted to at least pretend I was working - and I had a legit excuse to be on DX :D

In fact I figure for a bit of leg work you can get all those parts cheaper.

I was thinking the same thing. I was even considering dragging out my pic programmer to try it out :D

Seems like a worthy project for any self respecting hacker, get the cheapest possible ps2 keyboard you can find, integrate a battery compartment and an lcd...

Possibly even talking to phone recyclers, those Nokia phone lcd's aren't hard to work with.

Sourcing from DX for example

Cheapest 2 line lcd: $4.70
Or you could go up to a nokia graphical lcd for $4.90
You can grab 3 ATMEGA8-16PU's for $6.30
Keyboard for $15.12
AA battery pack $1.90

Buying in significant bulk (or even directly from manufacturers) would be cheaper - heck I have a couple of spare ps2 keyboards I could throw in :D

In fact there's two opportunities here.
1) for us in the rest of the world to chip in and build (hackerspace project for a week perhaps?)
2) teach the kids something about electronics and make building an 8 bit computer part of the course work :D

But having said that, how cheap can OLPC go?

Lucky bastard.

Our designers insist on trying to code... Managers let them... then require us to clean up the crap while tying one hand behind our back

yeh now imagine how much more awsome it'd be if it didn't have to waste time and power encrypting, signing and verifying that you can do what you paid to do (be it play games, or watch movies)

All pirated content just works all the time, sure some times you get a dodgy release but for $0 down, it's still not a bad investment for a night in - I'm not a piracy advocate but on more than one occasion I just have. (Recent purchase of the STNG bluray that I can't watch for example... I should have just downloaded when it was online days before it was released)

Every time I hear someone say "Think of the children" I bite my tongue to prevent myself from saying "like paedophiles do"

This is the thing, I'm suspicious of politicians creating laws like this.

Are they creating the laws because reading of child abuse turns them on?
If so, do they assume because it turns them on that it turns on a vast population?