It's a much lighter product, at 1.3 pounds (down from 1.58), and although it uses a heavier-duty Atom processor, battery life is said to top out at about 10 hours. (The original lasted eight in our usual test.) Like the OG version, it allows for pen input on select models, but of course, Windows comes ready-made with a larger selection of apps where a pen might actually be useful.

ENGADGET

"The compelling combination of pen and true multi-touch offers users the freedom to select the input method of their choice, whether it be the pen or their fingertips, when interacting directly with their slate, tablet, notebook or other computing device, " said Amichai Ben-David, CEO, N-trig.

ENGADGET: N-trig's Digital Pencil plays pen and fingertip roles, claims mastery of both

Some 66% of Asian-Americans believe parents should have some input into what careers their children select and 61% think that parents have something useful to say about their children's choice of a spouse.

WSJ: America's New Tiger Immigrants: Asians in the U.S.

These transactions were very complex internally, but externally one can see quite simply that these select few constructed a money machine that took mortgages, a large percentage of which were junk, as input and put out mortgage backed securities that were rated AAA. Plus, these money machines insured the transactions as though the mortgages were top rated (a 2% default rate, as I recall).

FORBES: Hang it up, Wall Street. Dodd-Frank is here to stay