So did Douglas Adams.

Enlisted troops receive a clothing allowance of several hundred per year to replace worn out uniforms. Ergo, the clothing is employer supplied.

Only you can prevent crotch fires http://www.burnvictiminjurylawyers.com/article-laptop-burns.aspx

Does yours?

So...did that help you understand fugacity, activity coefficients, and solubility products? Just wondering...

"Dune has a lot of character-driven conflict that could just as easily be played out on an empty stage. "

So true. Shakespeare could have done a credible Dune with a handful of actors and one of those Chinese people-dragons made to look like a sandworm

You forgot "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers".

You should have heard the whining in ~82 when Conan had brown hair instead of black hair...Gygax (I think it was him) even complained about it in a Dragon magazine column.

I thought it was pretty good.

I didn't miss it. I was generalizing in a sarcastic way for humor value. You apparently missed that. If you want, assume each page was in fact five pages long. Now we are at 3 bucks a page. It will break within 3 years, or he'll buy a newer model, so that makes it, generously, a dollar a page. That's a lot of cash. The bottom line is that the thing is a fucking waste of money in it's current form, at least to me. If it works for him, great, but I'd rather have something more versatile for my money. He doesn't mention using it for other purposes beyond OneNote(excepting viewing porn, which is the unstated and intended use of a tablet computer), so I think you might, so I think you imagined the part where he said that OneNote wasn't the only software he used for it.

That's 15 dollars a page. You aren't planning on going into politics by any chance, are you?

I'd be more concerned about guidance systems than space stations.

...oh wait...my Blackberry has a 3.2M camera...and a video camera...and a GPS...and Word/Excel/Powerpoint...and an MP3 player...and a phone...and costs less than an iTouch. My bad. Nothing against Apple...I'm on my second iPod...but they are a bit behind the 8-ball when it comes to expanding the iPod's feature set. Would it really be that hard to allow the thing to act as a book-reader by letting it store a large text file (as opposed to splitting files into tiny ~4kb chunks)?

I would argue that the cost of Windows is trivial to the overall cost of a college degree.

How could you possibly evaluate the accreditation of a scheme like this? Who grades the work? Computers can't grade essay questions, and multiple choice isn't sufficient to evaluate college level work. Where's the exposure to other students you normally wouldn't interact with? College is a process of intellectual ripening and social coming of age; a computer can't substitute for a brick building, unless you are already past your formative years. Will there be enough revenue to compensate the person who puts the lesson plans together (you know, the one with the earned Ph.D).

Or just skip all this crap and get a free MIT education http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm .