The Nook Tablet is far better than the Color in that respect. The hardware is much faster. There's probably no reason not to consider other 7" tablets, though. I might look at the Acer or Samsung, if I were looking to get one. I have the Nook Tablet myself, among others, because I develop for it and need it for testing. I do find that it's the one I keep using the most, though.
I disagree a little. The CM7 build is nearly ready, as I read it, while work on the 3.0 kernel has just begun. As much as I like CM7, there's not that much need for it if you root the thing, IMO.
Android 3.0? As far as I know, only in the past week or two has anyone even started on porting the 3.0 kernel to the Nook Tablet, and it's still a long way from being complete.
It is a nice device, though. Mine is just rooted with a new launcher added (and of course the Android Market, Amazon Appstore, etc.). I figured out how to get Google Calendar sync working and posted it on XDA. With 5-, 7-, and 10-inch tablets sitting here, as well as my phone (I'm a developer), I find that the Nook Tablet is the one I keep picking up to use.
We got one like that last year after our old one died, and we've been happy with it. We realized that we hardly ever actually use ice, and that it costs $300 more for one with ice in the door (for the ones we were looking at). Plus having ice in the door takes away space in the door where you can put other stuff.
These "French door" designs are great for pizza boxes. just open both doors, and put the box on top of whatever it will fit on top of. :)
Many good observations from you and all of the above. I watched all four movies with my son fairly recently. He was seeing them for the first time. I have to say that, seeing them all fresh and back-to-back like that, I didn't think the fourth movie was bad at all. It fit fairly well, actually. My favorite is still the third, though.
Anyone who watched the Iran-Contra hearings probably remembers President Reagan saying, "I don't recall," a number of times in answer to questions under oath.
You know that that warning by Symantec was bogus, right? It turned out that those apps were not malware after all, but most outlets never ran a correction. Gizmodo just added that little note at the bottom of the original saying Lookout disputed Symantec's assertion. I also couldn't help but notice that Gizmodo didn't report on this interesting article a few days ago. Besides what that article is about, the data also shows that iOS is in real-world use pretty much just as fragmented version-wise as Android.
I think so, so far. I may have missed an episode. I've seen three, and I think the promo said next week is episode five.
The Fades is my new guilty pleasure.
Did you miss it? The DoJ site was one of the first ones they targeted.
I have to admit, it took me a few seconds to see what you did there.
Is it still? I don't know. I'd be interested to see some current data. I'm an American, have lived in mid-America all my life, and I've worked for an American biochem company in my career (about 20 years ago now), but even then a big part of our pharma division was acquired from a Swiss company, and a large number of our scientists were not American.
I found a few numbers. According to this, both Belgium and Germany export more pharma products than the U.S. If you were to take population into account, most of the countries on the list produce and export more per capita. Reading some more on that site, it looks like about half the worldwide pharma industry is U.S.-based, but it's decreasing.
Go America and all that, but it looks like the two main scientists behind the development of it are from Sweden and Denmark. Just FYI.
It's easy to root the Nook Simple Touch and install the Kindle software. Problem solved. I did it to mine. Lot's of apps run perfectly well on a rooted NST.
Plus, as a B&N member (cheap), even ordering online I get free shipping and a discount on a lot of books, so they end up cheaper than through Amazon.
I'm also a developer, and I have apps for sale in the Amazon and B&N stores. So far, I'm selling far, far more through B&N than through Amazon or through the Android Market. A big part of that is discoverability, since there are so many fewer apps in the B&N store at this point. But I'm not complaining!
Reminds me a little of Stephen Wolfram's book, A New Kind of Science.
Interesting! I noticed this once while stirring creamer into my coffee. I searched online and found some sites where physicists were discussing it. They didn't mention the AJP paper, but the general consensus was that it was due to the density of the liquid changing, which is more or less right.
Reading that entire thread, it seems like there may still be some issues with that method in some cases.
It's a nice little tablet. I rooted mine soon after I got it, and I've published on XDA my method for getting Google Calendar sync working. The hardware seems better to me than the Kindle Fire that a family member has. There are some irritating limitations, but for the price, I'm satisfied.
Actually, I think it's possible there's room there for a motor with enough torque to be useful. Today's cordless drills, the good ones, produce an amazing amount of torque in a small package. My cordless drill was almost $300 10 years ago, but I consider it one of the best tool purchases I've ever made. I'm not too sure about the blade design of that mixer, though. And I consider silicone hard to clean. It practically attracts dust and dirt.
Interesting. Yep, I'm no expert at this, either. I'm a software guy. But my dad's degree and career were in biology, so I've always been interested in things like this, and this particular question has always bugged me.
