I AGREE! THE SHIFT KEY IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST!

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We'll know things have gotten horribly out of hand when we initiate shock & awe vs Antarctica.

Clean energy technologies typically are users of rare earths, not avenues to avoid using rare earths.

It feels a bit like... Why would you need a web browser, when you can get all the same things with wget, nano, and the gimp! All your text reading and image viewing desires in 3 completely separate, inconvenient things?

Yea, I also use iGoogle in Chrome; I don't see how chrome is at all a replacement for this; I happen to have slashdot, ars technica, wired, bbc, micheal geist's blog, linux today, phoronix, Gmail, the weather, torrentfreak, fsdaily, and a graph of the crude oil price all on one page in iGoogle. Oh and the time. And links to any other google service I want to use....

I don't see how that functionality is duplicated by *anything* else; least of all Chrome; or RSS readers... as others have said, I don't want to have to click through each one to find stories I want to read, I want to see them ALL at once, expand the summary, and read the whole thing if it sounds interesting.

"Your batteries will last all day"

This is the part I have trouble believing, assuming of course that it's not a massive battery pack; yes, batteries have been getting better, and they probably will get better still; and yes we've been making advances in using less power per device; but if you want a large fancy screen, a GPU powerful enough to drive it, a powerful CPU, and want to do ACTUAL WORK on it for an entire day... I have trouble believing we'll get to the energy densities required to do that.

As an aside, I was out of town on the weekend and tried continuing my coding on my 14" laptop; after about 20 minutes of frustration I decided just to wait 'till I got back to continue on my 2x24" 1920x1200 screens...

...and as cool as a 40" (collapsable?) tablet would be I don't see it happening in the near future...

Agreed; it seems odd to me that they'd kill something that (at least to my eyes) doesn't look like it requires any maintenanace, and is really quite a good tool. Maybe they have something up their sleeves, but I'd have appreciated if they did that they'd release it before killing something like this...

This; it's so useful it's all I've used since it came out; I haven't tried google reader, but I doubt it will it allow me to spread out various feeds all over + have the weather and some stock prices, all in one place, so i don't *HAVE* to switch between tabs or apps or programs or whatever....

haha brilliant! :) maybe samsung should have included that pic as prior art...

When I read the title first, I thought it said "Robots to Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Phone"

... and then was thinking that I could use a robot like that.

Why is it that I never hear about these places until they close?

Unfortunately, with Apple practising predatory patent behaviour, it seems as though they were justified...

Having lost 3 drives (two of which were seagate 7200.11's surprise surprise) over the last 5 years which were part of my RAID1 array (first 200GB of four different disks in RAID1 arrays for / and /home) I can definitely say that RAID1 was far far less headache than losing all my stuff - pictures, documents, thesis - and website & database, and having to reinstall.

RAID1 is so unbelievably "worth it" that I would never consider anything less.

As for raid controllers, I can't speak to that, I've always just used mdadm

Legally Expedited Government Intervention Satisfying Lobbyists And Their Interests Ostensibly Nationalistically ?

Agreed; and engineering? Good luck doing that on your own as a hobby. Half of the point (or more?) of an engineering degree is to teach you a process and how to work in teams.