Maybe along with the update, you should fix the headline?

Hope you don't have aspirations of becoming a lawyer because that is the crappiest argument I've ever heard. Stripping DRM is a tool for piracy, plain and simple. Pirates are criminals and should not be allowed to go free simply because they probably wouldn't have paid anyway. There's alot of things I'd like that I'm not willing to or can't afford to pay for. That doesn't mean I should get them anyway.

Stealing music is getting harder to do, and more dangerous. It's like buying drugs in Camden... sure you can find smack pretty easily, but you can also get robbed or shot just as easily. Same goes for piracy and malware. Microsoft conceding to the pirates (which by the way will not happen) just takes a step backwards.

You are not BUYING music from Napster or Yahoo, you are licensing it. And you are licensing it to be played on players that support DRM. It's not your right to remove the protection so you can play it on unsupported devices. If you want to own the rights to music, then start making your own music.

There's a big difference between someone who would pay for content (and you know he would) and someone who won't pay for content. My ex girlfriend used to download movies so that she didn't have to buy them.

On the other hand, while I absolultely hate piracy, I sometimes play emulated Nintendo games on my computer. It's not that I wouldn't pay for them because I would. In fact, many of them are games I used to own. (and some of them I own the re-releases for GBA) But since Nintendo doesn't see the value in selling classic ROMs, I don't have a choice.

Electrovaya rebrands Tatungs as Scribbler. And this unit looks exactly the same as it did when I bought mine 2 years ago. Keyboard and all.

Water spilled on a keyboard can just be dried out with a fan. This doesn't help the more serious problem of spilling our favorite sugary caffeinated beverages in between the keys which ruins the keyboard for good.

These are a pretty cool idea. I had one (actually two cause the first one's charger broke and I couldn't get it replaced). I'm glad to see they're gonna take a second shot at it. Hopefully they can make it two-way though and expose the .NET Compact Framework which I believe is baked into the ROM on these things.

That's ok. If South Park has taught us anything it's that beeps are usually funnier than the actual word anyway.

Slow news day huh?

A couple points:

1) The OQO has an active digitizer, not a touch screen as the article states. Digitizers are alot more precise, useable, and expensive.

2) OQO made alot of mistakes. First, they went with XP Pro initially instead of Tablet OS which means they missed out on handwriting recognition and the ability to use other third party Tablet PC software. Secondly, the 1Ghz Transmeta processor is slow. It was used in one of the first Tablet PC's back in 2002 (HP TC1000).

3) The OQO in terms of performance is comparable to a UMPC. Neither can be used as a desktop replacement like a decent Tablet PC. But when you consider that, it's hard to justify spending so much more money on the OQO. Which is why they're going to re-market it as a premium business oriented machine. Not sure how well this will work unless they lose the Transmeta and actually make it a premium business oriented machine like Motion's LS800.

4) To everyone who keeps comparing the Nokia 770 with UMPC's... please stop. The Nokia 770 is more like a Pocket PC than a UMPC or Tablet PC. No hard drive, 128mb ram, slow processor, non-mainstream OS, extremely limited software availability... it's not even in the same league. Of course it's gonna cost ~$300.

I think the resolution may probably be 800x480 like the OQO. But with IE7 you can zoom a web page to fit.

And to all the people who are saying "what Microsoft was hyping" don't forget, MS didn't hype anything. I don't agree with their marketing strategy, but you guys (Engadget, the readers, other blogs, etc) were the ones setting unrealistic expectations. This is a great evolutionary step in the form factor and cost of Tablet PC's but it's definitely not life-changing. MS shouldn't have used that phrase. But the fact still remains, they are the cheapest and lightest Tablet PC's thus far and that's what all the naysayers were complaining that they wanted when the original tablets shipped.