I am looking to buy a new laptop and it really seems difficult to find ones with decent resolution. ie greater than 1200 px in height. They all seem to be 800 high.

The washington metro's computers did crash yesterday also. So call him quick!

I noticed it yesterday, I was cursing whoever changed the timing on one of the lights as it was causing a considerable backup. Then I read this.

I wouldn't call it gridlock though either. Just slightly worse than usual

It depends on your route also, if you are crossing the main routes rather than going on them it might even make your journey quicker.

I thought this would be one reason you are paying a defense lawyer, to check this type of stuff.

While not on a phone, regular skype on a laptop with a 3G dongle is fairly poor. On a good day it will work, but it is not consistent. 3g doesn't seem to be fast enough for it.

But you can't do what he described with a phone - finding somewhere close to where you are and giving you turn by turn directions.

How does that work without GPS?

There is a good bit that could be done with software to help this, settings to revert to the edge network with gps off when asleep for more than a few minutes for example. Or even a button that allows to toggle low power mode.

Going through the settings turning this on and off is annoying.

I'll save you a keystroke, windows-L works too.

You can even download directly on the kindle if you use the crappy web browser, for example manybooks.net has kindle versions for download. They appear in the home screen afterwards.

The article didn't seem to mention it, but from what I have seen elsewhere, not all information that twitter has is available with the free api. It could be stuff like who is actually reading the tweets (rather that just followers), where they are, where the people tweeting about you are, standard analytic stuff that business really like to know.

I can see this being quite popular and making plenty of money for them.

That is not how to win, there is a time in every game where you have to take a chance and bargain with other players for property to get some sort of monopoly going and also mortgage everything to build on it.
If you survive a few rounds, and if it is early in the game you probably will, you are flying!
If you conservatively play, you just slowly loose your money to the guy with all the buildings!

According to the Washington Post, they are selling a 65% stake and are retaining the other 35%. This values it at $2.75 Billion so not as big a loss as originally stated.

Here is an interesting link for you - USPS historical mail volume and population

Look at the late 19th century, There was a fair volume, but nothing huge, less than 100 pieces of mail per person per year. And not all that was personal correspondence. Literacy was quite high > 80%

I still think there is more writing going on now than before.

I think you are missing the point, she was not just examining class work but "everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions."

It is that people actually are producing a significant body of work outside of formal education that did not happen before.

I found this interesting:

It makes a lot of sense. This idea of their being a golden age of people hand writing letters to each other is bullshit for the vast majority of the populace.

She might not be popular with some people in actually praising a new generation. I remember watching a discussion on some TV show once where a professor stated that in his experience the current young people were much more diligent and hard working than previous generations. It didn't go down well at all with the rest of the tut-tuting panel.