This is a feature and future revenue stream for Google.

Imagine the number of YouTube cooked-cat videos and the resulting ad revenue!

Ideal, spherical cows, I presume in this case?

I interpreted this sentence to imply that these versions (prior to 4.1) can not even be PATCHED. Poorly worded to say the least.

And that is the likely goal!

Remember, it is the Templeton Foundation (they of the Templeton Prize) funding this research. This is just a wild-goose-chase that will add another pseudo-argument to the quiver: "See, Intelligent Design it is plausible. "Science" has looked for Dyson Spheres and didn't find any! Therefore we must be alone in the universe and therefore we must be the special unique creations of God."

They even get to pretend to be impartial because they funded it. Ugh!

Having spent 2 days at a Renewable Energy conference talking to power generators, utilities and distributors recently, this is exactly what I asked of the people who are justifying building these projects.

1. Are these projects (wind, solar, landfill gas, waste-to-energy) cost effective without subsidies? ANSWER: No
2. Can the industry place some monetary present-value-of-future-worth on the reduced environmental impact from renewables? ANSWER: No

Unfortunately, while it seems logical that we should be able to take into account our children's children's fresh air/current coastline/climate/etc., nobody seems to be able to do this. Without some significant technological leap in efficiency or materials, it appears renewables cannot compete on a purely economic calculation without government subsidies. Unfortunately, that means we are dependent on the changing political will of each subsequent congress/administration.

What was particularly telling was the chart I saw showing MW of Wind Generation added per year. There would be significant installations (100s of MW) in one year, then almost nothing the next, because the Federal Installation Tax Credit was not renewed that year. The next year the installations spiked again due to new tax credits. The following year, bupkis, due again to no tax credits.

Jumping on the bandwagon...
I would appreciate an invitation please, if you have some left. jpyeck[at]gmail
Thanks in advance!

There are more targeted organizations to give your money to than a church if your goal is to help the needy. United Way, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross come to mind. When you give your money to a church, however, you lose control of the end goal of your money. Presumably, some fraction will go to administrative costs (pastors would fall under this category) in either case, but churches do not exist solely for charitable causes. Your money will in some measure be supporting the message and recruitment of the churches next generation. This is the same issue with having the government handle your charitable money... the organization in question has many goals and once they have your money, they can funnel it wherever they want. For me, it is important to separate the message (potentially something like this anti-gay application) from the charitable action.

Scrolling isn't bad on my rooted Nook Color in Dolphin HD 4.2. The top bar seems to follow me with a major lag though.

Who wants to look away from their monitor to figure out which icon they are clicking? There are plenty of multi-button, context-aware mice out there already. This seems wasteful and distracting.

oh... also forgot something that a later post reminded me of:

SIP to access our phone account while traveling.

Although I think I'm convinced the consensus, even here, is "wait", I'll address your question for the crowd.

Some of the things I would like to use it for:

• Dock in my car for GPS/Navigation
• Dock in my car for OBD2 data feeds via Arduino hack
• Carry at work for lab notes and PDF drawing pull-ups
• Home automation panel via Arduino hack
• Books and Wired mag
• Surfing Slashdot when the kids and wife have the PCs all tied up!

I'll reply to you to address all the "save the $" and "6 mo CD" comments.

I've already set aside >2x the amount I'm willing to spend on this "treat", plus payed some debt down.

This exercise is trying to maximize the remaining bang-for-the-buck.

My daughter has an iPod Touch. It's just a bit too small for my older eyes and big, fat fingers.

That said, it is what got me researching.

I know the iPad2 will be fabulous, but as I said in the submission, I need a little more hackability. I picked up an Arduino kit for Christmas and have seen some interesting stuff integrating those two platforms.

P.S. FWIW, I don't need to mow lawns to afford the iPad... I could get the 3G version now with the money I have reserved for this.