to be fair, Maemo also has "support" for USB host - its that you still have to use the mini-usb for the N8x0, plus a female to female USB adapter just to plug-in a USB keyboard or thumb-drive. This is exactly why I don't use USB host on my N800, because the point of the device is to have a portable "device" where things "just work" - otherwise I'd just carry my laptop.

You can also use a bluetooth keyboard, but now you've got to go spend $70 USD on that...

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/

Personally, this is why the Saiga exists - upscale an AK47 into a 12 gauge semi-automatic (full auto for Gov't/Military) shotgun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga-12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPI5j3jjqo&feature=player_embedded

Even with a 10 shell box magazine, load that with slugs. Assuming you're military with authorization to do so, get one with a short barrel, maybe an assault grip, and you'd have a helluva semi-auto hand-cannon or super high caliber smg...

As to so many people yelping about the Desert Eagle, it has the potential to *occasionally* look kinda cool, but if you're really needing a high caliber pistol, you'd be going with a revolver anyway. A revolver basically can't jam, and can use much higher and uncommon rounds that any other handgun design would not be able to handle the stresses of firing.

that while I love NoScript, my point is that it isn't even needed to achieve the effect...

No, one of the points of HTML5 is that it is controlled by the browser without plugins - the same way you've been able to choose to load images since almost forever...

Now will we be able to get hardware video acceleration through VDPAU, etc so that I can play it on my Zotac ION media center or low power laptop?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cake

But while necromancers can control some vampires, some vampires can also create their own minions - so wouldn't that make those ones more powerful?

Which is why my choice is Alucard, a vampire, immortal, can create minions, et all...

Koala Kola? "Mommy, why's the zookeeper going into the koala cage with a blender and Sprite?"

for Firefox I have the bookmarks moved onto the menu bar, and then navigation buttons, url and search bars on the 2nd line at one point I think I had it down to one bar with the compact-menu extension, where you can put all of the menus into a single menu button or icon, and had less bookmarks in in my "bookmark toolbar" - it made the url and search bars a bit short sometimes, but on my 12" Gateway laptop (before even the first netbook was out) a lot better in another case, with the 22" monitor on my desktop, it goes from having a ridiculous amount of screen real estate to an insane amount

I was going to ask why MS would be anti-Windows, but then I remembered, Balmer wants to fsking destroy all windows, with which he wages the fight with chairs...

I remember seeing a History Channel show on firearms or military jets interviewing some guy from Northrop Grumman or something, where he basically said "We could build a ray gun within a year - *if* somebody wanted it enough to give us the funding and resources"

While FTL travel is currently one of the more plausible inventions to come, I'll bet that immortality will come first - simply because there will always be enough politicians and rich people who want to live forever, thus enough people to pull funding/resources from. There was a time when people thought the atom bomb was an impossible fantasy, and that Tesla Death Ray gun projects were pursued harder.

FTFA:

All the nodes run Suse Linux. Unlike traditional Linux clusters, which focus on throughput, these systems are tuned for real-time performance - using features of the kernel such as memory locking, real-time scheduling and low-delay communication.

They didn't use Linux "just because it has zero licensing costs" - they used it because Windows isn't going to give them the real time performance on physics simulations that they wanted, to track every projectile and object within a given area takes power, but also has to be able to give the results instantly.

Everybody on here and Ars seems to be acting like this is the first of the N770/800/810's with a cell connection - when the N810 WiMax edition had support for Sprint's XOHM network since it was released April 1, 2008.

The biggest reason I would say that failed is because the XOHM network only covered like New York and Chicago at the time AFAIK.

Because that still doesn't work. You do realize the kids would still put phones in their pockets, and only pull em out when they wanna send a message, or in their backpacks. For years now backpack makers have had those dangly pouches for cell phones (bad idea though cuz that says "Hey, there's a phone in here! Steal me!"). Even though software and movie piracy is illegal, people still do it. Even though automatic firearms are illegal for people without the proper permits, gang members still obtain and use them. Even though lying under oath in court is illegal, politicians still do it...

I guess this really would teach the kids something useful for the real world - "It's only wrong if you get caught."

What this really is though, is a publicity stunt - like that moron politician or whatever he was a few months back "Let's Kevlar/armor plate textbooks so students can use them if they get shot at!"