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  The problem with that E-Ink is expensive, slow (you can't 
  have moving cursors or any kind of video) and boring.

The price will decrease once the technology behind its production improves (and people stop there willingness to actually spend that much), it will also speed up over time (its just how things work. To address the last point: WTF?

Secondly, from the Pixel Qi site:

  Our screens use 1/2 to 1/4 the power of a regular LCD 
  screen, and when integrated carefully with the device can 
  increase battery life between charges by 5-fold. 

and from Giz:

  Jepsen says it's even possible to get a week of battery 
  life from LCD tech, of course depending on the device the 
  screens are embedded in.

I really don't see how those two can statements can coexist. Currently we get around 8 hours from labtops, improve that by her 1/4 estimate and we now get 32 hours which fall short of our weeklong estimate.

Lastly:

  Infrastructurally and perhaps historically speaking, the 
  odds are in LCD's favor.

I'm going to need this one spelled out for me...

  But the public domain books available through Google Book 
  Search are not likely to be the most popular titles, as 
  they are older books for which copyrights have expired. 
  In contrast, the Kindle library includes scores of newly 
  released books, including many current best sellers.

Of course, who would want to read anything by Mark Twain or James Joyce when you can read bestsellers by the likes of Janet Evanovich and Danielle Steel...

By adding a way to measure teaching ability, we can make good teachers a highly prized resource and reward them by giving them higher salaries and more prominent positions amongst their peers. With measurements we can set standards of how good a teacher have to be and demand that someone be so good at teaching that significantly less Americans can fulfill these positions, driving their worth up.

Is it possible to feel strongly about being unsure?

> the kindle is in fact not selling well.

  Availability
  Due to heavy customer demand, Kindle is sold out. Please
  ORDER KINDLE NOW to reserve your place in line. We 
  prioritize orders on a first come, first served basis. 
  Note that Kindles cannot currently be sold or shipped to 
  customers living outside of the U.S.

Yeah, a music player that plays music. Novel idea. What's the breakthrough about it?

Those were legitimate criticisms at the time. I certainly would have never got one if they hadn't started using USB.

How can you possibly refute his argument intellectually without working towards a solution in some way? Knowing that it's not true now is an improvement to what was known then. By philosophizing against it, you gain a more concrete understanding of the problem and are, subsequently, closer to providing a solution.

From K&R:

  We also declare 'c' to be an int, not a char, so it can 
  hold the value which getchar returns. As we shall see in 
  Chapter 2, this value is actually an int, since it must be
  capable of representing EOF in addition to all possible 
  'char's.

  Format support is limited to PDF and TXT files, but the
  device ships with Foxit's PC-based PDF Creator software, 
  which is said to convert any printable document with formats
  including TXT, PPT, DOC, XLS, and HTML to PDF document format.

Not really useful. It doesn't support Kindle books and I buy all my books at Amazon.

Also found this:

http://thekindle.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/free-books-for-the...

I find python's clarity lacking in comparison to ruby, at least in terms of making classes and iterators. Why are all those underscores really necessary?

No mention on your other points here because I either agree or don't have an experienced opinion on the matter.

What's funny about that? It's a real issue and the first thing I thought of when I head them say "native x86". Consider that there are also netbooks that have ARM architecture as well (unless I'm mistaken).

Or are you referring to only the last 3 words? Intel's ARM chips?

direct link:

http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/forum/topic/sho...

You'd think that there would be a standard place for minimized windows to go so that it isn't needed or something...

I think you meant to link to here:

http://www.nexenta.org/os

using that logic, wouldn't it be better to have "m"ove be triggered with a 'c' or a 'z'. I mean, they're even further to the right than the 'v' on QWERTY keyboards.

In high school and college you are required to take quizzes and tests. You are not allowed to use a computer, and therefore must handwrite them. Legibly.

True, but while many do not have google ads on them, many do as well. By expanding access to the internet and by expanding the amount of information displayed on the internet, it will improve upon the amount of people who use Goodle Advertising. If Google makes the internet available to 360,000 more people, and 10,000 new web sites start using their adwords, they'll have dramatically increased their profit margin. Not only will the new sites on their advertising bring in money, but all the new people now clicking on their ads will too. Win-win.

So, you are right. Not everyone is bothered about revenue, and not everyone uses their advertisements, but more people online and more websites online means that Google will make more money.

I think that's an Irish writing style and not particular to Joyce. I know I've seen Roddy Doyle books use it, at least. Could have been copying Joyce's style, mind you, but I doubt it.

"A "wiki" which is basically an editable website that allows people to easily collaborate. You can use a wiki from anything to organizing a camping trip to replacing your water cooler discussions at work. See some more uses of a wiki here."

If they don't know what a wiki is, they probably don't want to create one. Secondly, if you must keep it, make the font bigger and easier to read. I had to zoom in it just to make it legible.