I am an interface designer, and I just got an X41 Tablet as my primary machine. It has a lot going for it - it's battery life is tremendous, the drawing experience is fabulous (almost better than drawing with a real pen - it's smooth, draws in real-time, and supports undo!), the handwriting recognition is quite good, and the keyboard is comfortable for typing. A trial for Alias's sketchbook application is included with the tablet - it is really ground-breaking to use this application with the stylus (I suggest everyone go to a best-buy and try it out, and anyone who does any degree of drawing for their job get a tablet exclusively for this application).
The thing that has me worried is performance. 1.5 ghz is pretty slow, and the 512 mb of ram is just-plain not good enough (I've got an additional gig of ram on the way - we'll see how that goes). The screen resolution is also only 1024x768 - fine for sketching, but when using photoshop or flash it's unacceptable.
Despite all this, I think the tablet has huge promise - my primary job is designing, which includes LOTS of paper-and-pencil sketching (most of which is never used since I am too lazy to scan). I think rapid low-fi prototyping will speed up immensely - I'm surprised that this niche (designers) has not been targeted more by Lenovo's marketing folks.
Even though the phrase "separation of church and state" doesn't appear in those exact terms, the concept is embodied in the constitution. A basic google search turned up this surprisingly useful summary of the issue (linked below)
...courts have found that the principle of a "religious liberty" exists behind in the First Amendment, even if those words are not actually there:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
The point of such an amendment is twofold. First, it ensures that religious beliefs - private or organized - are removed from attempted government control. This is the reason why the government cannot tell either you or your church what to believe or to teach. Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines. This is what happens when the government "establishes" a church - and because doing so created so many problems in Europe, the authors of the Constitution wanted to try and prevent the same from happening here.
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I am an interface designer, and I just got an X41 Tablet as my primary machine. It has a lot going for it - it's battery life is tremendous, the drawing experience is fabulous (almost better than drawing with a real pen - it's smooth, draws in real-time, and supports undo!), the handwriting recognition is quite good, and the keyboard is comfortable for typing. A trial for Alias's sketchbook application is included with the tablet - it is really ground-breaking to use this application with the stylus (I suggest everyone go to a best-buy and try it out, and anyone who does any degree of drawing for their job get a tablet exclusively for this application).
The thing that has me worried is performance. 1.5 ghz is pretty slow, and the 512 mb of ram is just-plain not good enough (I've got an additional gig of ram on the way - we'll see how that goes). The screen resolution is also only 1024x768 - fine for sketching, but when using photoshop or flash it's unacceptable.
Despite all this, I think the tablet has huge promise - my primary job is designing, which includes LOTS of paper-and-pencil sketching (most of which is never used since I am too lazy to scan). I think rapid low-fi prototyping will speed up immensely - I'm surprised that this niche (designers) has not been targeted more by Lenovo's marketing folks.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
The point of such an amendment is twofold. First, it ensures that religious beliefs - private or organized - are removed from attempted government control. This is the reason why the government cannot tell either you or your church what to believe or to teach. Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines. This is what happens when the government "establishes" a church - and because doing so created so many problems in Europe, the authors of the Constitution wanted to try and prevent the same from happening here.
Original source article:Separation of church and state