Very true. Maybe I wasn't making it clear just how bad the image quality on these usb adapters are.. :) Nasty stuff. But I could see it working well enough for a spreadsheet or word doc. I'm not sure if these monitors have the same trouble, but all the reviews seem to skip image quality so I'm hesitant.

Thanks for that. I liked this line (the only mention of video quality): "While videophiles will find a number of easily picked nits .... " Sounds like it's good enough for office work, not much else. That's about what we found when we tried out USB video adapters at work. Still, its a lot more screen for $200 than the…

First workspace in awhile I looked at as inspiration, not BHG caliber photo spreads. Not to say the workspaces aren't usually pretty hot - but they often have a bit of a museum touch to them. This looks like something I could put together in a weekend and get a lot of use out of. Excellent work.

Yeah, as a small accessory display they seem great. I don't exactly need a lot of extra real-estate, given my 3-monitor setup at home. But it would be handy for the geek stats. Which means it isn't worth $200 to me, especially if the quality is low.

I suspect you are biased. I'm with you - I don't have much use for a netbook myself either, no matter how cool the ideal of a tiny PC sounds in theory. I've used a few, and always wind up selling them off. But anymore these days, when I'm working on someone's PC, it's either a very low powered slimline desktop, or a…

Have you used one personally? I've used a few different USB 2.0 VGA adapters, and video quality was painfully bad in every one of them. Often wondered if one of those USB monitors would be any better. Otherwise I love the idea.

Every person in there paid $12 to see that damn movie, and if you're going to disturb that with your phone (bright light, sound probably still on), the theater damn well better kick your ass out. If you make a choice to violate the rules of the establishment, you don't have a leg to stand on when they give you the…

This looks nifty, but here's an alternative I just discovered — in CM7 (might only be in 7.1) go to Settings, Cyanogenmod Settings, Application Settings, Permission management. Check that box, then you can go to the Manage Applications section and view any app you'd like to restrict permissions for. Tap the permission…

That would go perfectly with the crocheted vagina pillow a friend made.

Am I missing some sarcasm you buried deep under all those caps? The only place that is supposed to be missing legacy support is in Windows 8 ARM. Unless you plan on ditching your Intel architecture machine for an ARM, you've got all of the above still.

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I haven't used it a lot, but the latest Ubuntu has a new interface that seems like it would adapt well to a 10' UI. You can do a lot, too, with XBMC and plugins to interface with various outside programs - so you never need to see the OS.

Fortunately, my sole trip through Denver was just before the new airport opened.

Makes me miss the grilled garlic-butter-cheese-tomato-onion-honey-mustard concoctions I used to cook up for myself when I worked the local cafe in college.

I've never used it, but Google tells me Win7 and Ubuntu 11/10.x both support iSCSI. So long as you've got an OS installed that handles it, I imagine XBMC/Boxee/MC7 would all support it just fine.

Another rebuttal - my girlfriend and 4 year old both love our XBMC rig. I even installed XBMC on my son's PC to make it simpler for him to play his shows there.

Yeah. I hope the paying users get more impressive tones than the samples, because all I heard were pretty run of the mill tones that I've already got (similar versions of) on my phone.

This. Match light and lighter fluid are abominations. I could never stand charcoal, always used gas, until my girlfriend insisted that it was what she preferred. So, went out and got a bag of lump and a chimney starter and fell in love. As a first time charcoal user, using lump was fine - no issues. And taste was…

I actually use Buzz, a little bit. Google chat is my main messenger and I and a few of my friends use Latitude & Google checkins some, so it's a useful feed of those things with a smaller audience than Facebook (where I don't use any chat or location services because that's a larger audience that I don't want to…

Agreed (of course, just look at the username!). I just got my Xobni beta invite a week or two ago, and only used it for a day or two. Interface was full of wasted space, it slowed my load times, and didn't present any helpful information beyond Rapportive. I'll cut the google widget a little more slack since it's an…