Whenever I hear the name Carly Fiona, I'm reminded about the fact that the best paid people are not necessary compentent at all.

Not only did she destroy the great manufacturer of high end electronics that once was HP, but she also manged to destroy Compaq as well. Quite impressive being the person to destroy these two great companies within less than 10 years.

why do you assume that there might not be undetected issues. Might this correlate with things like slightly reduced risk aversion, may it contirbute to depression, may it contribute to a lack of ability to control your food intake or may it contribute to imagining that when no direct link to symptoms have been discovered it is totally safe?

well, with custom keys and the excellent programming abilities on the unit I would think that you could create a "unlimited" undo function by just storing every keypress into a logfile and then roll that back as you need.

I still code a bit on my hp48gx for fun :)

maybe they thought that i the permafrost thawed in that area, the human population on this planet was about to be fucked anyways - so that there would not really be that relevant to keep some seeds :p

some organisation that seem fairly nice, and at least here in Norway they are in no way associated with religion

"save the children"
"Doctors without borders"
"frivillighetssentralen" - soup kitchens and whatnot
"alternativ jul" - christmas dinner for the unfortunate few

So, while you believe that religion is a prerequisite for human kindness - i wholeheartedly disagree.

so you're saying sysadmin for a traditional company?

yer, that might be. So far it hasn't caught a single one of those flashy things in the sky.

mostly due to my fear of all that wetness in the lightening fluid.

I also wonder how this could fail so misearably.

As a hobby photographer/nerd I created my own unit that seems to do pretty much the same as this one. It's got a motion detector, lightening detector, sound activated trigger, datalogger, tempsensor, variable timer for timelapses/shutter contro, bluetooth interface to control from a computer and "fairly long range" 868mhz wireless shutter control.

The last number I saw published here in Norway said that cash only accounted for about 5% of the daily transaction volume, debit cards are used in 80% of purchases. Published statistics also say that cash is more expensive to handle than electronic transactions.

I can't remember using cash a single time during the last few months.

Here in Norway, the company you work for pays your taxes for you based on a personal tax card. The personal tax-card is distributed electronically from the government to every citizen based on last years income.

When we get our tax return forms, all debts, interests, banksavings, stocks and property is already filled out. Most people only have to make small changes.

Everything you need to change in the forms, are available online.

If you own taxes or you've paid too much through the year, the final balace must be cleared by june.

Seems like the system you guys got over the pond is vastly overcomplicated.

vpn to your home network would solve that

agreed.

While I think that giving out tablets for school use seems like a daft idea, this is the best possible result. Lots of kids doing their own research into how they can make a device suit their needs.

Might even se some kids learning programming as well... The one item that had the most influence on my careerchoice was probably my HP48 that I spent a great deal of time programming and generally tinkering with.

Ditto.

I have two working N900s and one nonworking for spare parts. Not going to swap it out before something better hits the market, if something better comes to market that is.

With the CSSU and some overclocking, it is not _that_ slow compared to other phones/tablets

Several companies are starting their phase 3 trials about now. I've invested in one of them. If they are successfull I'll retire, but I mostly invested just to make sure someone is working on it.

It takes time to move from "killing viruses in a jar" to actually making something that removes the viruses from people without killing them at the same time.