Tradeoffs, compromises and the future of tablets

[wombat_socho]

For what it's worth, being in charge of the weekday news roundup at The Other McCain is forcing me to keep abreast of the news (foreign, domestic and technical) to a deeper and wider extent than I had been these last few years when I was just reading Instapundit and a handful of other -mainly political- blogs. Between Google News, WeSmirch and

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[harvey_rrit]

You would do well to have a look at chaosmanor.com, which is Dr. Jerry Pournelle's blog-- and arguably the first blog ever.

Doc seems to know everybody who knows anything.

[wombat_socho]

I need to get back in the habit of dropping by Chaos Manor regularly. Somewhere in the last few desktop changes, it fell out of my bookmarks, and I never remember to add it back. :(

Dr. P definitely has an extensive network of people who know stuff about things, especially in the fields of computers and defense policy; taking a walk through his blog and mail will kill more time than just about anything else on the intertubes except TVTropes, and the useful information content of the latter is much lower.

[harvey_rrit]

I can afford to be dispassionate, as both sites mention me.

:D

[huladavid]

Hmm... I'm trying to remember what kind of e-book reader my sister has. It's sold through the Canadan equlivilent of Barns & Noble.

I doubt that she'd be interested in the hank, though.

[wombat_socho]

Probably the Nook, since that's the B&N e-reader, although IIRC they do sell other brands. If she bought the Color Nook, I don't think she had the choice of avoiding the hack, since B&N downloaded it as an update to all the Color Nooks already out there.

[anonymous]

nice technical commentary! -doug h

[wombat_socho]

Thank you. #^_^#