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Yeah. The only thing left to cause a full blown panic is a search to hear Shatner rapping and Nemoy crooning.

no such word as administrate, the word is "administer". An administrator, administers he does not administrate !

A minister administers the marriage vow (as one administers a drug, justice &c.) An administrator administrates a company &c, as a network admin administrates a network.

There are more words in the English language than you are aware of. I suggest you buy this dictionary and brush up on your skills.

It is popular. You can find stuff all over the web.

And there are books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=clojure

Actually, I think that 4chan is useful, and does add value.

I consider it a sort of overpressure relief valve. Go read The Shockwave Rider (feel free to get it from anywhere you like, including libraries), compare 4chan to Hearing Aid.

My personal webpages, on the other hand, exist primarily for me to experiment (badly) with HTML and Apache configurations.

What about toaster bags: http://www.amazon.com/Set-NoStick-Toast-Toaster-Bags/dp/B0012XGM92

Good reviews for the Toilet Seat book as well.

Actually, "Better than Twilight" may not be a compliment.

Isn't it obvious? The NKoreans are all over THIS WEBSITE buying as much Uranium as they can!

You can get started for about $200 in supplies.

Gonna get one of these for my apartment, thanks for the link.

Tambo was talking about Master Chef for DS.

conservatives want you to take individual risk, but tell you exactly what you can and cant do

Incorrect. Conservatives are for individual risk, and ALSO states rights which are inherently letting people do what they want to do.

liberals on the other hand want you to live your live as free as possible

HA HA HA HA HO HE HO HA HA HA HO HE

Oh yeah, that's why they like regulation so much, because it grants you so much "freedom" - freedom from being able to choose anything but a "safe" path the government agrees is best for you.

No, liberals are the party of Control - always have been, always will be.

Until you figure that out you'll keep voting in people you think are making you more free while they turn the screws tighter each year.

Were? They're still selling them. We could ask today's buyer about their experience.

Open source advocate Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Art of Unix Programming has entered the Nature-Nurture debate, stating here:

And the part that, if you are a decent human being and not a racist
bigot, you have been dreading: American blacks average a standard
deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And
it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower
still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental
retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about
85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards
the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather
than nurturance effects.

For anyone who believe that racial equality is an important goal,
this is absolutely horrible news. Which is why a lot of
well-intentioned people refuse to look at these facts, and will
attempt to shout down anyone who speaks them in public. There have
been several occasions on which leading psychometricians have had
their books canceled or withdrawn by publishers who found the actual
scientific evidence about IQ so appalling that they refused to print
it.

Unfortunately, denial of the facts doesn’t make them go away.

Open source advocate Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Art of Unix Programming has entered the Nature-Nurture debate, stating here:

And the part that, if you are a decent human being and not a racist
bigot, you have been dreading: American blacks average a standard
deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And
it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower
still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental
retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about
85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards
the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather
than nurturance effects.

For anyone who believe that racial equality is an important goal,
this is absolutely horrible news. Which is why a lot of
well-intentioned people refuse to look at these facts, and will
attempt to shout down anyone who speaks them in public. There have
been several occasions on which leading psychometricians have had
their books canceled or withdrawn by publishers who found the actual
scientific evidence about IQ so appalling that they refused to print
it.

Unfortunately, denial of the facts doesn’t make them go away.

It's not the most gripping title you've ever read, but you would probably enjoy skimming William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. He mentions an argument by Johann van Thuenen that essentially describes the city as being surrounded by various economic zones, each of which is home to lower-productivity activities the farther one goes from the center - so that activities like vegetable and dairy farming (remember, he's writing in 1826, pre-refrigeration and essentially the very dawn of the railroad, so these are highly perishable products) are close to the center, grains (less perishable) further out than that, wood (for burning, and essentially nonperishable over reasonable time spans) further out than that, and ranching (animals are self-motile and so can travel great distances to markets) farthest of all, with wilderness beyond that is suitable only for hunting and gathering (which, in an early industrial society, meant things like fur trapping).

He advances basically this argument: while it appears that the city subsidizes the hinterland, if one looks only at flows of taxes, the city would not exist without the productivity of the hinterland, and any improvements to transport (e.g.) directly translate into greater trade, of which the city captures the lion's share. New York and Chicago are compared; Chicago became primum inter pares because its location was a great nexus of rail and water transport, and New York was the primary beneficiary because the trade out of Chicago flowed through the Erie Canal and thence to New York City. The same theory essentially explains why Philadelphia was eclipsed by New York in the early history of the US; it had a large, productive hinterland to draw upon, but New York's was even larger.

Reading comprehension:
From TFS:

There will apparently not be a subscription model, so gamers won't have monthly fees to deal with, either.

Where does that say Free to Play?

Also, this:
http://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Xbox-360/dp/B002I096Q4

They're not exactly giving it away. You buy the full-price game & get access to the MMO.

Is it really all that hard to realize the things get all sorts of tasty but nasty without refrigeration stuff in them?

Yes, it is. One of the more common complaints against Cabelbak's Better Bottle is that it grows mold, and one didn't even realize it for two years! Amazon Reviews.

Why are people so surprised that you need to clean something? I have one of these, all it takes to clean it is to pull it apart.

agreed. having no experience with beehives on my resume, I find this comment interesting.

Well, I am not a pro or anything. It is just a hobby. I have never sold any honey, but I do give a lot away. Even one hive produces much more than one family needs.

My mom had a few beehives when I was a kid, and everything I know about beekeeping, I learned from her. She gave the bees supplemental sugar during the winter, so I did the same. I just assumed that everyone did that.

It is a fun hobby. I very rarely get stung. The last time was several years ago. My kids enjoy helping out with the honey harvesting. We put it in jars with a chunk of honeycomb and give it as Christmas presents. You can get started for about $200 in supplies.

I thought that having just this one was somehow, inadequate:
http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL&%23174;-36138-Playmobil-Security-Check/product-reviews/B0002CYTL2

Awesome, they are now unavailable. I should try listing mine for an absurd amount and see if I can find a sucker.

New York is wealthy precisely because it brokers the trade of all those rural areas. Read Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. It talks about this at length - New York grew to preeminence not just because of its great natural harbor, but because it had access to the Great Lakes via the Erie Canal. Chicago replicated the same feat, only using railroads into the Northwest and Plains instead of canals into the Midwest. Without the hinterland, there would be nothing for New York to sell.

It doesn't stop there... ;)

Now Johnnie and Susie have another toy to celebrate their gradual development in our new, post-Orwellian future!

I thought that having just this one was somehow, inadequate:
http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL&%23174;-36138-Playmobil-Security-Check/product-reviews/B0002CYTL2

Now? We need an EasyBake Backscatter nudity scanner, a "pat down" edition of "Operation" and a GI Joe Seal Team Six bin Laden's Lair play set.

Duty Now For The Future!

I agree. GP was spot on. As a follow up to the parent, I suggest the book Leading Geeks. Geeks are a different breed of people and can't be managed "the typical way". This book explains to managers how to get geeks to contribute to an organization. My friend, who is a manager, recommended I read the book. I'm not a manager, but it had me pretty well pegged and if managers understood how to manage me, everyone (me, managers, clients) would be very happy.

Original poster here. Yes I did market research and I know there is a demand for the product. But there is a huge difference between market research and actually going out and marketing the thing.

If that is really the case, and you have quality research, including a complete business plan (market study and analysis, competitors study and analysis etc etc), then you need sales and advertising.

Marketing, real marketing, is the study and strategy part of business.

Lets keep in mind that "market research" is just a tiny part. Having a demand for a product is very different than a product being marketable. It is the difference between "I wish" and "I'm willing to pay for".

That being said, it is entirely possible you have the basics of marketing covered, including the knowledge, and you only want someone else because you want someone that is BETTER and dedicated to it. If that is the case, you should be able to do performance analysis.

I have to tell you, two things you said worry me. First is the "there is a demand for the product". The second is asking how you can measure performance. Those things lead me to believe that you have a flawed understanding of what marketing is, which can lead you to waste money and time while figuring it out.

If I'm correct on this assumption, you should spend some time reading a little bit on what marketing is, how it works, and what I can do to your company/product. That way, you will have better tools to analyse the marketing person/company you will be getting in bed with.

My first marketing book (and still my bedside marketing gospel) is one: http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Warfare-Anniversary-Edition-Annotated/dp/0071460829

PCs have noisy fans -> Yes, significantly

Nope. Gaming laptop, passively cooled desktop/settop or a PC with a quality cooling system.

PCs need to be replaced with a new model every 3-4 years -> Gaming PC's do, but not for the sake of a new model. All that heat fries your mobo and graphics card. You're $400 gaming PC might not have this trouble though.

A Geforce 8800/9800 will still play most games with good quality. For anything less, you can always adjust detail levels to get playable performance and still considerably better visuals than PS3/360. One of the benefits of PC gaming, you have precise control over how it runs. I've seen Crysis 2 and Skyrim run fine on Intel integrated GPUs when adjusted accordingly.

More home-theater-appropriate cases are available. -> You won't build a $400 gaming PC that is a) quite and b) as fast as a current gen game console. Those quite cases alone are $200.

Xi3 is $500 right now. I'm willing to bet that the Valve branded version will cost less. For just a case, try $40-50

PCs support USB gamepads -> PC's support Microsoft XBox gaming pads. It's hell to set up anything else because there's no standard for button numbering. I've pushed button 1 on my controller and had it show up as button 3 in game. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was particularly nightmarish to configure. XBox Controller Emulator helps this though.

I've been using game pads on my PC since the original Gravis and not a single problem. You're doing it wrong.

Why did the Nintendo DS replace the Game Boy Advance after about 3 1/2 years -> The last GBA game was Final Fantasy IV Advanced, released 2006. So about 5 years, give or take.

Yeah and the last Neo Geo (and Dreamcast) game came out in 2012, that doesn't mean the console didn't actually die off a whole lot earlier.

The real threat is not from the occasional asteroid, but from swarms of small cometary rocks. Such swarms do not provide any single, easy target to spot and attempt to take out in advance.

They have struck before on a larger scale - with regularity - as documented e.g. by Clube and Napier. Much of their research focused on the long-past break-up of a very large comet and the periodic intersection of Earth's orbit with its remains - which has led to cometary showers, with their impact on societies in more ways than one, also leading among other things to religious developments - ideas of gods and their actions and judgments.

Historically, peoples have looked to their leaders to protect them from catastrophe - and when their leaders fail to do so, i.e. something happens that they simply cannot control, such as a rain of fireballs and meteorites exploding in the atmosphere, then a people will blame its leaders and get rid of them - often violently. This seems to be a basic feature of human psychology, one repeatedly seen in action throughout history.

Knowing this, the leaders have the need to reassure their people that they have things under control - historically, there have e.g. been systems of ritual and sacrifice. Nowadays, reassurances come in a different form: That the sky is watched, that major events only happen "once in a lifetime" (or, earlier, that such things simply couldn't happen - which was long the consensus), coupled with simplistic ideas of weapons and other solutions to take out the threat - solutions that will never be adequate if/when the time comes for real. People are only too happy to play along with such reassurances, to develop them and then to take them and run with them, since the alternative is not too pleasant - recognizing that there is no way to avert such disasters when they arrive.

A very recent book by a historian, "Comets and the Horns of Moses", discusses this whole subject, and much more connected to it. It goes into the history of cometary interaction with our planet - which has long seemed to follow cycles - and both how it has affected life on Earth and how humanity has responded to it - the social, cultural, and political dynamics involved, both in-between and during times of cometary disasters. Looking at the history and the present, it further goes into what seems likely to be coming up. I'd recommend it for the interested.

http://www.amazon.com/Comets-Horns-Moses-Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/dp/1897244835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360956345&sr=8-1&keywords=comets+and+the+horns+of+moses

In the present time, one of several clues is the reported sightings collected by the American Meteor Society, which have increased roughly exponentially since 2005 - with 463 events on record for 2005, the increase accelerating year by year with 1628 for 2011 and then 2219 for 2012. Thus far this year - i.e. in one and a half month - there's been 322.

According to the American Meteor Society, there were 2219 sighted meteors in 2012; in 2005 there were 463. With a roughly exponential increase in-between. (e.g. 1628 in 2011) Thus far this year - i.e. in one and a half month - there's been 322.

There is historical evidence that impact events - including major ones - are not rare in human history. There's the research of Clube and Napier on the long-past break-up of a giant comet and the periodic intersection of Earth with its remains - and how fireballs and meteorites and their impact on societies seem to have led to religious developments. Recently, a new book by a historian - "Comets and the Horns of Moses" - was published on the subject of the history of cometary interaction with our planet, and both how it has affected life on Earth and how humanity has reacted to it. It goes into the evidence for repeated cometary catastrophes in the past and, looking at the history and the present, it goes into what seems likely to be coming up. I'd recommend it for the interested.

http://www.amazon.com/Comets-Horns-Moses-Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/dp/1897244835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360956345&sr=8-1&keywords=comets+and+the+horns+of+moses

Dehydration is definitely a major contributor to hangover. However, it isn't the entire picture. The next two major contributing factors to hangover (or other deleterious effects) are:

1) Hyponatremia (which can lead to potomania, whether you are drinking beer or liquor), and
2) Vitamin B deficiency, particularly B1 and B12 (I personally use this, because high doses of water-soluble vitamins doesn't cause any issue). Note Wernicke's encephalopathy.

...so, ensure your drinks have a positive sodium balance for what you're losing, and backstop your vitamin B's.

Applying these two approaches have effectively eliminated any hangover I would have expected to experience (aside from being tired, but that may be attributed to staying up until 3 AM—drinking or not). It has worked well for me for almost two years now.

Also, ensuring you consume adequate protein may help to forestall liver damage; I prefer to err on the side of high-protein intake.

My favorite book on impacts. Scarier than any Stephen King novel you'll ever read, because it's real.

http://www.amazon.com/Rain-Iron-And-Ice-Bombardment/dp/0201154943/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360966611&sr=8-1&keywords=rain+of+iron+and+ice

Amazon looks at this and says, if I'm going to be taxes as if I have a physical presence, then I might as well have a physical presence, and they have begun building "micro warehouses" in major cities across the country. Now, you will be able to order online, get the vastly superior inventory storage options that a warehouse provides, and get same-day shipping to the customer, so the customer can have the item in hand by the end of the business day.

Best Buy could have had the best of both worlds by setting up something like "BestBuyOnline.com" as a completely separate company, with no point of presence anywhere but states with no sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon), and then have some sort of deal where the physical Best Buy stores act like Amazon's Locker so that you can still order online and pick up in store. Instead, they have chosen to keep doing business as usual with 20-50% higher prices on many items and hope that they can get back in the game when the less than 15% difference caused by sales tax is removed.

Failing to understand their customer will lead to their quicker downfall, as the one advantage the B&M had (instant gratification) will now be wiped out. So, will I buy from Amazon/Monoprice/Newegg even though I will pay 6% more than I do now? Absolutely, because I will still pay less than at most B&M stores, and will likely have the item in my hands almost as fast.

For any interested in a little background, I highly recommend the book "The War Against Grammar" (Amazon link).

The basic gist of the book is that starting roughly 30 years ago, linguists and educational theorists decided that teaching grammar and prescriptive rules (arbitrary rules, they might say!) is not necessary. After all, people learn to speak without formally being taught grammar. As long as you can be understood by others, what does it matter? Communication is the key, not formal grammar. Thus being able to diagram a sentence or know the difference between a direct and indirect object became an archaism. The emergence of described (and accepted) phenomenon like Ebonics is part of this movement.

Ask college kids today how many of them had to diagram sentences in elementary school? I have asked many current college students and very, very few even knew what diagramming a sentence means. Even ten years ago, many more students would have had this emphasis on grammar in early educational.

The end results--college students who can't write to save their lives. (And no, I don't blame texting and Instant Messaging.)

It's a good book!

Much less and more efficient transportation.
More efficient living situation.

Steward Brand, one of the early environmentalists and Silicon Valley technologists, wrote an interesting book on this.

One can still make more improvements.

the iWatch already exists using iOS on ipod nano

http://www.amazon.com/Wrist-Jockey-Casual-Grid-watch/dp/B004B7FXHI/ref=cm_lmf_tit_4

there's no need for a new device, this works just fine

Banking _de_regulation caused the world crisis.

What's your next guess?

We were regulated right into this crisis. Read and learn.

-jcr

Home wifi does not have QoS. Jitter is going to be terrible. If you are going to do this you want much more sophisticated software helping the whole thing end to end. Which is essentially what commercial SIP solutions do. Why reinvented SIP?

Actually, home wifi works great for voice. Jitter issues not withstanding.

The built in TALK app in Android can open a voice (or video) chat with any other Android user, and the quality is more than acceptable.

True, Sip is better. Using the built in SIP (Internet calling) feature of just about any Android phone (or any of a dozen such apps on the Play store) you can make calls to any other SIP phone. Calls to Land lines usually requires a sip to POTS gateway subscription somewhere. This is slightly harder to set up, because you have to know a thing or three about SIP to get it to work.

Or simply install GrooVe IP and you can use your Free Google Voice account to make and receive calls from your cell phone, as long as you have wifi. Calls are free anywhere in north America. This app emulates the Google Chat client found in Gmail and as a stand alone app on windows, to allow calls in and out over wifi (or 3g). Voice quality is exceptional.

(For 38 bucks you can also use Google Voice with your home phones. For most people this pays for itself in the first month).

Jumping the gun is not necessarily the best way to get things done.

The most oft-discussed and visible triumphs of manned space have been by necessity "get there, plant the flag and get out."

But the ultimate goal should be not just to visit space or establish some dangerous and isolated outposts there (though there is no shortage of volunteers!)...it should be to move into space in a series of self-sustaining stages.

This means we first need to build a space colony here on Earth, and decide on some practical steps to take that will achieve the ultimate goal. And each step should be of immediate practical and commercial value.

I would like to call attention to Marshall Savage's amazing project and book, The Millennial Project. another synopsis and at Amazon. Some have picked fun at Savage's priorities, but frankly until this book/project arrived on the scene there had been nothing like it.

In that plan, terraforming Mars is step 6 of 8. In this scenario we are not just landing on Mars to establish an outpost... at that stage we have already perfected the technology for habitats in space. If our focus is on 'the next logical (small) step' instead of some ultimate goal and devote our complete effort to these steps, by 2033 we could be moving outward in all directions... instead of just one.

to move to another country and change your name ? Or at least just change your name , and manufacture an excuse that lets you get a new social sec number ? http://askville.amazon.com/social-security-number/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=2358575

thanks to the magic of psychology-driven Austrian economics, he can just forget about the economic problems before the Fed existed, because they were just so long ago.

Incorrect.

Problem solved

They really should make Low capacity SD cards for really cheap so that people can us them for passing data around in cases where you might not get the SD card back.

There are still some laying around. And I'm sure it wouldn't take much for any university to get their hands on a big pile of them and hand them out to students.

Not to mention that dozens of these are already on the market, some specific to the Android world, some rather generic.
Sony has bluetooth Smartwatches and LiveView watchs that let you check email, messages, etc without taking the phone out of your pocket.
These are peripherals for your phone.

There are also full phones that actually seems to get good reviews. Some of these are actually fairly inexpensive.

But, hey, if Apple makes it and charges $596, they will sell millions because it will be the best thing ever.

Not to mention that dozens of these are already on the market, some specific to the Android world, some rather generic.
Sony has bluetooth Smartwatches and LiveView watchs that let you check email, messages, etc without taking the phone out of your pocket.
These are peripherals for your phone.

There are also full phones that actually seems to get good reviews. Some of these are actually fairly inexpensive.

But, hey, if Apple makes it and charges $596, they will sell millions because it will be the best thing ever.

Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. . .

Why on earth would you use a tank camera to rip apart and disguise as something else?

If that thought scares you, go to Amazon and type in "spy camera" :P

$30 for a tiny wireless pinhole camera designed for hiding here.

For the DIY-declined, there are pre-disguised cameras already on the market. They cost a bit more, but you don't need any skills other than having a wad of cash to blow.

For $90 you can get an analog wall clock with hidden wireless camera here

Just over $60 for a smoke detector with hidden camera and 8gb of internal video storage, just begging to be installed over a bed here

There are even cameras hidden inside wall power plugs here

These are available publicly to anyone with money, no electronics or building skills required.
I've never used a hidden camera, and these are just the ones known to me. I'm sure there are better and cheaper units out there, disguised as just about anything you can think of.

This little toy tank is not particularly a concern in comparison.

Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. . .

Why on earth would you use a tank camera to rip apart and disguise as something else?

If that thought scares you, go to Amazon and type in "spy camera" :P

$30 for a tiny wireless pinhole camera designed for hiding here.

For the DIY-declined, there are pre-disguised cameras already on the market. They cost a bit more, but you don't need any skills other than having a wad of cash to blow.

For $90 you can get an analog wall clock with hidden wireless camera here

Just over $60 for a smoke detector with hidden camera and 8gb of internal video storage, just begging to be installed over a bed here

There are even cameras hidden inside wall power plugs here

These are available publicly to anyone with money, no electronics or building skills required.
I've never used a hidden camera, and these are just the ones known to me. I'm sure there are better and cheaper units out there, disguised as just about anything you can think of.

This little toy tank is not particularly a concern in comparison.

Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. . .

Why on earth would you use a tank camera to rip apart and disguise as something else?

If that thought scares you, go to Amazon and type in "spy camera" :P

$30 for a tiny wireless pinhole camera designed for hiding here.

For the DIY-declined, there are pre-disguised cameras already on the market. They cost a bit more, but you don't need any skills other than having a wad of cash to blow.

For $90 you can get an analog wall clock with hidden wireless camera here

Just over $60 for a smoke detector with hidden camera and 8gb of internal video storage, just begging to be installed over a bed here

There are even cameras hidden inside wall power plugs here

These are available publicly to anyone with money, no electronics or building skills required.
I've never used a hidden camera, and these are just the ones known to me. I'm sure there are better and cheaper units out there, disguised as just about anything you can think of.

This little toy tank is not particularly a concern in comparison.

Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. . .

Why on earth would you use a tank camera to rip apart and disguise as something else?

If that thought scares you, go to Amazon and type in "spy camera" :P

$30 for a tiny wireless pinhole camera designed for hiding here.

For the DIY-declined, there are pre-disguised cameras already on the market. They cost a bit more, but you don't need any skills other than having a wad of cash to blow.

For $90 you can get an analog wall clock with hidden wireless camera here

Just over $60 for a smoke detector with hidden camera and 8gb of internal video storage, just begging to be installed over a bed here

There are even cameras hidden inside wall power plugs here

These are available publicly to anyone with money, no electronics or building skills required.
I've never used a hidden camera, and these are just the ones known to me. I'm sure there are better and cheaper units out there, disguised as just about anything you can think of.

This little toy tank is not particularly a concern in comparison.

Sorry to disappoint but it's been well established that God is an Englishman ;-)

you generally can get new covers + bigger batteries for phones, which results in exactly what you're looking for.
See http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus-Extended-Battery/dp/B006OBSUUG for example.

there are also much bigger ones with a bigger cover. you can probably find something of around 4000mah for the galaxy nexus.

To address your "concern" about the profitability of this product, this is a very obvious niche market targeted at the wallets of parents in attempts to improve their child's handwriting and spelling between the Christmas/birthday delivery of the newest iPads, iPhones and laptops take over their brains with auto correct.

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware I was supposed to research all viable producers of digital pens for you. My mistake, here you go: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=digital+pen . Many of the options here are pens for tablets, but as you can see, there are many actual digital pens being sold here as well. Please do purchase and write at least 250 words review on the various implementations of the techniques to capture your handwriting. Also, create and build a post production prototype of your laughably inelegant glove contraption to monitor user's writing and compare this to the already established non-restrictive methods in capturing user's writing. Personally, I can attest that the accuracy of these devices to be very high.

Which brings us to the fact that the perpetuation of smart devices throughout society today and a laptop in every student's bag has seen the decline in this market from a lack of interest. This doesn't mean the technology has gotten more expensive or harder to manufacture. Just that it would mean that the profit margin and feature sets for each pen would need to be balanced to make this a viable competitor to capture sales from the market. Before you comment on this, please do enlighten us exactly how much each costs in materials and production before any markups or profits.

Borderlands 2 by 2K Games (Video Game -Sep 18, 2012)

        $59.99 $48.88 Xbox 360
        Order in the next 3 hours and get it by Monday, Feb 11.
        Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
        More Buying Choices - Xbox 360
        $37.42 new (87 offers)
        $35.95 used (31 offers)

Source: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/178-5982378-0920061?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=borderlands+2

This is compared to the $29.99 I paid during a Steam promotion. And without the need to wait for a shipment, I might add.

Julian Assange may be a bit cocky, but keep in mind that a lot of this "Cult of Assange" shit and a lot of the infighting reports came from Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a person of VERY questionable motives and honesty--to say the least. His dubious book is the source of many of these reports.

Now personally, I've always strongly suspected that Domscheit-Berg was an intelligence plant at Wikileaks (working for the CIA, BND, or take your pick). He started to physically sabotage the organization pretty much from day one, acted a lot like an agent provocateur when he was there, destroyed some 3,500 unpublished whistleblower communications as he was leaving, immediately went on a campaign to discredit Wikileaks and Assange after he left, and then unsuccessfully tried to set up a leaks site himself that sounded suspiciously like a honeypot to me (send us your leaked documents and trust us to maybe release them to the press--or maybe just send some FBI agents to kick down your door). And apparently Assange suspected this too.