From the unboxing photos I've seen, it appears it is just a stopper over a slot for both an SD Card and a SIM card (to later upgrade to 4G) but I haven't been able to get it off just yet without worrying that I'd hack up the case attempting to. Supposedly the SD card slot only requires a software update according to Motorola's support department, and only the 4G LTE upgrade will require it to be sent in. Either way... it's a great tablet, but needs some polishing.

Flash is due in the marketplace on March 18th, according to the last system update I got on my Xoom. It's possible it's been delayed again, but that was their latest update as of last Saturday. Also the SDCard slot appears to have some sort of plastic stopper over it, so it'll probably be a hardware upgrade (and shipping back to motorola), but I haven't attempted to pull mine apart to verify that.

Netbooks are still too big to fit in a lot of women's purses, but a tablet might be the perfect size.

    It's not that most places have HID cards. Most big places do. Most small businesses don't. I kind of ended my post before I finished saying my thought too. My pack of HID cards were for various buildings, suites, and datacenters. Individually each knew when I came and went, but to them I was a customer. My company didn't know when I went through any of those doors. As far as I know, no one but me ever called to check up on anything. Even then, it was rare.

    I used last a lot to make my own timeline on events, but that was just to notate a report on a job.
It's better to log in and out properly, so you can see what you did, but your coworkers are getting around that by staying on. Eventually it may catch up with them, if someone finally asks, "Why are you shown as working 24/7/365?"

    When I was in charge of the department, I didn't really care how many hours people worked. I cared that the tasks were accomplished in a timely fashion. I told them on day 1, they have to work what the job dictates. If it's 20 hours or 80 hours in a week, you have to do it. I was very fair with them though, and the weeks were usually 20 to 30 hours. Occasionally things got busy, and they were happy to work the longer hours as required. They knew if I said "I need you for this.", it was because I really did, not because of an artificially created deadline to squeeze extra work from them. If it was something that could wait, I'd cut them off at about 8 hours, and say "just finish it tomorrow." But, if it was mission critical, we stayed on it. By "we" is was usually all of us. Since I was in charge, I took a lot of the really important tasks myself, so they weren't overworked, and then they'd volunteer to help. It made for a really good teamwork environment. That's something that is overlooked by most places these days.

How about http://bluestarairlines.com/?

If I didn't have a bandwidth cap I would leave mine open.

I blame the greedy telcos.

Interesting if they do use that. Though this brings up my other issue with the tablet vs kindle (okay, I'm biased) and that is the kindle lasts forever on a battery charge - I last charged mine last week leaving the cell service on and getting a newspaper daily and it's only 50% drained. With the cell turned off, I could easily go three weeks or more on a single charge. A tablet in kindle-only mode might get that, but if you're using it as a MID, the battery life is probably a lot less.

Then again, if you're only carrying one device (the tablet) instead of two (MID and kindle), then you have more space to lug along bigger batteries. :)

Or people wanting to routinely connect Nintendo DS? ;/

You are quite lucky, but unfortunately many employers/clients require a great deal of accountability. Working as I do for the NYC gov't, for instance, the very existence of consultants is a political football. Minute by minute accounting of money spent on our contracts is pretty much required, because at least half of the people we are working with are actively trying to get us fired at any point in time. Our group was recently told to be careful to clock in and out for lunch or going down to smoke because the office manager, a Dept. of Ed employee, had taken to scrutinizing the surveillance footage of the building entrance and comparing it to consultant timecards in an attempt (successful in at least two cases) to get people fired.

Exactly right, which is why GFWL have the kludgy in game login interface instead of the much better XBL interface which allows you to remain logged in all the time. Apparently they did this because it created issues around where they send messages if you're logged in from two machines, but this sounds like a smokescreen to cover the fact that they've tried to lock down the user profile as much as possible and in doing so made a rod for their own backs (I know from having just spent several days working out how the hell I can use my profile across two 360s and in the end having to buy a used memory unit - because nowhere seems to stock them new anymore - and ferry it around on there, which is ridiculous when both 360s are on my home LAN and have cable access).

I think that somewhere in the Microsoft World of Fantasy, 40ft barge poles are probably legal tender.

In that world, everything costs 38 feet of bargepole.

Consumer anger is pretty well established, though. Think of blood being thrown on mink coats, for example.

Hopefully this computer cat has been programmed to use proper grammar and spelling.

why don't you read my other comments buddy, I have plenty of links to MS skewing. the "where's your cites" thing is a waste of my time. I'll copy my own cites from my other comments. Oh right, here it is. http://www.bing.com/search?q=least+secure+os&go=&form=QBRE&qs=n&adlt=strict . How's that? I can add cites for everything I've done, but then again I don't need to.

That's your evidence of conspiracy behind Bing? If you enter the same search term into Google "Least Secure OS" then you get the same 'Linux' result as #1 that Bing gives you. The rest of the initial results are all similar too. Yahoo is slightly different - they drop the same 'Linux' result down to third position. So in summary - your citation has just been quickly discredited.

Very few results = 1. search for google on bing (just the word), and there is 1 result unless you hit show more. How many is 1. It's not 202 million, you putz. Counting is good, you know. Even the word Microsoft on bing shows more results. Remind me, do tell. Or remind me that there might be things I want other than just google's homepage when I search for google?

What are you talking about? I just typed "Google" into Bing and got a page full of results. Not 1. And the results are actually pretty useful. I get Google itself as the promoted top match, quickly followed by links to Google Maps, Google software, et al. And really, when you're comparing numbers above what a human would ever look through, does it matter whether the results number 200 million or 2000 million. A search engine's usefulness is the appropriateness of the first few pages of its results.

I hope you sperg out and earn a trip to jail for something stupid,

If you're going to have a go at someone for inflammatory language and trolling, you should probably cut back on statements like this.

Regards,
H.