The Vista handwriting recognition is really good as long as you have good input, and it appears that it has very good input so it would likely work very well.

My HP tx1000's touch screen doesn't work well beyond tapping, so recognition is not very good because it is hard to get it to draw correctly.

My Gateway M285e on the other hand is digitizer based and writing is very smooth and as a result recognition works very well.

This is exactly why I don't use anything GPL in any of my projects commercial or for fun.

As for your GPLv3 comment I seem to remember Linus Torvalds saying he had no plans in taking Linux to GPL v3 (I could be wrong). The folks wouldn't be able to re-release GPL v2 as GPLv3, only code they "own"

Yeah, right... You got banned and didn't do anything to cause it.

Not really impressed, I've seen countless tests of flash drives involving water and almost all of them survive water if dried out. The only difference is this one has a water seal on it. Whoop-de-doo

Generally there is more that comes with the dev hardware than just the hardware itself.

But the bigger reason is that if they sold consoles that played unsigned code for next to nothing more of them would find their way into the hands of non-developers.

@TegHArdinAlvin

I didn't notice any problems with my firefox install, but I only use it for testing my web dev stuff. I did, however get some errors when one of the automatic updates came through recently (2.0.0.9 I think).

I have the original Zune 30 and I experienced some interference this morning, but its only happened once, has since stopped, and my earbuds are well used (read very likely the actual culprit). I don't buy any music, just listen to podcasts, but my wife does and she hasn't mentioned any problems buying anything.

As for the firewall having to be on to install, I didn't run into that. I don't run the firewall on my Vista Ultimate x64 desktop (because I have ~$1000 in hardware acting as a fireall for me). The only reason that I could see it being an issue is with the wireless sync and now it's viewed as a network device (even when plugged in), but thats just a guess.

I think people commenting so far have missed the point... People who couldn't otherwise talk could potentially talk, thats pretty big.

I don't know about sexy, I can't see buying one of these for myself.

Even if it wasn't racist/prejudice it was still really stupid.