I felt the pain from the very first release, and after awhile, the only time I spent in Gnome was trying to figure out where Redhat had hidden the desktop switcher... this time. I could never understand why they would make THAT fugly, buggy, cartoonish and damn near unusable GUI (that managed to incorporate a Windows-like registry for settings, for gods sake) the default, with crud for other options.

Sorry, not meaning to troll, but I have ALWAYS loathed Gnome, all versions.

One of the main reasons I grew away from Redhat many, many moons ago.

So much for internet polls, eh? The sheeple rule.

I never quite got why HP never pushed the Touchpad for enterprise use.

I can't think of another tablet that had Java SE available to install.
(Ignoring the Win7 versions running on x86, mostly reskinned keyboardless netbooks)

There are a ...few... companies that use Java for many internal apps, (or at least user facing portions) and given the tablets specs it seems a natural.

I'm still hoping to score one Monday assuming HP still does the Ebay dump, the (sold) prices for the 32gb seem to have been hovering around $250, with some occasionally going for ~$150 for no apparent reason.

Perhaps HP will end up doing something "like" IBM, in the way IBM makes ...a few bucks... off Linux, perhaps WebOS will get some traction and provide some return.

Absolutely, and all 5 users of each branch love it. >;-
(come on, you know you wanted to say it )

Hopefully HPs Chinese suppliers will be pissed enough to release this hardware for sale at a sane price, with Ubuntu/Android dual boot.

WebOS LOOKS excellent, and Debian/Ubuntu chroots are well done, and the hardware specs are top of the current heap.

Someone also supposedly has Honeycomb running on it.

I tried from 0930 central time online and around Dallas with no luck...

Well, they DID have some in Durant OK but they wanted $499 for it, and didn't care what Walmart.com said the price was.
(Tried everything, store magnager... all inbred)
I would have bought it if I had $499 free/available today, as sooner than later that idiocy would be cured.

I have to slightly disagree... Large portions of the earth have very innefficient>no trasportation infrastructure, resulting in huge inefficiencies in getting crops from where grown to where needed, resulting in the vast majority of fresh food spoiling.(worldwide)

OTOH, that's largely the result of wealth inequality and corrupt politician issues you referred to.

Just giving everybody in Saharan Africa a fat check will not fix infrastructure issues though.

(Look to Ireland for inspiration, the EU spent huge money on Irish roads to great effect)

Slim Pickens was simply playing a defense contractor in a tech support ride.

You do what you have to do to get the job done. >:)

No, it may mean MS is subsidizing the units (at least initially) and doesn't want to lose money on extra sales that aren't linked to an XBox.

I agree, we totally need more "Evil Wizard kicks everyones ass and takes over the world" books/games ;-)

(Love the idea of a King et. al. text adventure)

Slight correction---The aircraft is broadcasting this UNENCRYPTED information constantly.

There, clear definition of the real problem.
If the Iphone can track it, making something else track it is likely trivial.