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Right now, most of the 3G chipsets are still relatively bulky and draw fairly high-power

Sorry, but that's uninformed drivel.

3G and 3.5G handsets come in slivers that are a few millimeters thick and have excellent battery life:

http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-6500-classic-07x05x31.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?Sony-Ericsson-W-880i-Black---Experience-the-Walkman-Phone&id=534534

Some of them even throw in WiFi. Those phones aren't even particularly expensive (about $15 for the Nokia with activation).

The US phone market is several years behind Europe technologically. In part, that's because it's so fragmented and because the US chose frequencies different from the standard ones used mostly everywhere else.

Oh, and you can get a 3.5G iPhone-like phone: the Samsung F700; it looks superb, and squeezes a full keyboard into something with roughly the same form factor and look as the iPhone:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/apple-iphone-vs-samsung-f700-which-is-touchscreenier-235112.php

Envisioning the internet as it is today back in 89 would most likely have predicted today's internet in about another 10 years. It's only the speed, not the internet itself, that would have been hard to predict. Most of the things done on the internet today already existed in some form back in 89, some far before then. Email (and IM,SMS), the Web (a combination of FTP repositories, WAIS, Archie, Gopher, and USENET with a better interface), streaming media/video conferencing. And as for P2P, the internet started with people sharing things off of their systems available to all, became somewhat centralized due to the explosion of end users, and now is moving back to a decentralized format again.

The major surprise was the speed of cabling and price drops in hardware, making internet access ubiquitous.

Let's get your facts straight, 1.) It IS UNNATURAL. 2.) It IS HARMFUL. 3.) genetic pollution HAPPENS OFTEN.

Genetically Modified High Frutcose Corn Syrup is harmful to people's health and GM crops don't grow by themselves.

Organic farms are increasingly finding that via cross-pollination their pure food has been contaminated with GM DNA thus ruining their businesses.

It is illegal to grow GM maize in Mexico..

"Genetic pollution" and collateral damage from GE field crops already have begun to wreak environmental havoc. Wind, rain, birds, bees, and insect pollinators have begun carrying genetically-altered pollen into adjoining fields, polluting the DNA of crops of organic and non-GE farmers. An organic farm in Texas has been contaminated with genetic drift from GE crops on a nearby farm and EU regulators are considering setting an "allowable limit" for genetic contamination of non-GE foods, because they don't believe genetic pollution can be controlled. Because they are alive, gene-altered crops are inherently more unpredictable than chemical pollutants--they can reproduce, migrate, and mutate. Once released, it is virtually impossible to recall genetically engineered organisms back to the laboratory or the field.

Large-scale genetic contamination of imported cottonseed in Greece

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/gepollution.cfm
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/pollution.cfm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsant o_and_Genetic_Pollution
http://www.globalchefs.com/column/archive/col011po l.htm
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/environmentalscienc e/casestudies/case15.mhtml

And on and on and on and on and on and fucking on...

(the following snipet was stolen at random from: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Dangers-of-High-Fruc tose-Corn-Syrup&id=28535 )

High Fructose Corn Syrup

High fructose corn syrup is made by treating corn (which is usually genetically modified corn) with a variety of enzymes, some of which are also genetically modified, to first extract the sugar glucose and then convert some of it into fructose, since fructose tastes sweeter than glucose. The end result is a mixture of 55% fructose and 45% glucose, that is called "high fructose corn syrup." Improvements in production occurred in the 1980's making it cheaper than most other sweeteners. I remember in the 1980's when the price of Pepsi dropped from about $3 for a sixpack to about $1.50. In 1966 refined sugar such as sucrose was the was the leading sweetener / additive. In 2001 corn sweeteners accounted for 55% of the sweetener market. Consumption of high fructose corn syrup went from zero in 1966 to 62.6 pounds per person in 2001. A 12 ounce soda can contain as much as 13 teaspoons of sugar in the form of high fructose corn syrup.

Once again, the dangerous combination: fructose and glucose.

When high fructose corn syrup breaks down in the intestine, we once again find near equal amounts of glucose and fructose entering the bloodstream. As covered in recent newsletters, the fructose short-circuits the glycolytic pathway for glucose. This leads to all the problems associated with sucrose. In addition, HFCS seems to be generating a few of its own problems, epidemic obesity being one of them. Fructose does not stimulate insulin production and also fails to increase "leptin" production, a hormone produced by the body's fat cells. Both of these act to turn off the appetite and control body weight. Als

• The Tyranny of Experts (Part I) - The Limits of Expertise
  
• The Tyranny of Experts (Part II) - Experts and Civil Society
  

• The Tyranny of Experts (Part I) - The Limits of Expertise
  
• The Tyranny of Experts (Part II) - Experts and Civil Society
  

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Science-Mak ing/dp/1565653475/ http://ezinearticles.com/?7-Tips-for-Teaching-Chil dren-Science&id=196885/ here are a few resources for teaching science to kids mutagenic

Conventional wisdom is that there is a yearly quota for returns to audit, and once it's reached they stop asking the computer for more. You can read about it any number of places; here are three sources:

http://schmidtwestergard.com/articles/filinglate.h tm
http://ezinearticles.com/?Practical-Tips-For-Avoid ing-an-IRS-Audit&id=456566
http://www.totaltaxsolutions.com/avoid-audit.htm

Generally, the later you file, the better off you are--as long as you pay the right amount on April 15th.

Well, technically you could dump a tennant's stuff on the curb in any state - but you would be in violation of the law, even in Texas, if you didn't store it for at least 60 days. Here is the Texas law regarding a landlord removing a tennants possesions -

IX. Landlord's Removal of Property After Abandonment by the Tenant

A landlord may remove and store any property of a tenant that remains after the premises has been abandoned. The landlord may also dispose of the stored property if the tenant does not claim the property within 60 days after the date the property is stored. The landlord must deliver by certified mail to the tenant at the tenant's last known address a notice stating that the landlord may dispose of the tenant's property if the tenant does not claim the property within 60 days after the date the property is stored.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Texas-Real-Property-Law- for-Commercial-Landlords&id=118527
http://legalcatch.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/texas-r eal-property-law-for-commercial-landlords/

I've been with Vonage for about 3 years now and I'm in the same boat - looking for alternatives in case this ends up badly and I need to change providers. The two I found immediately are Packet8 and SunRocket. I'm just now reading a comparison article on them.

Skype is no good for me either, I want an adapter to plug into my broadband connection and light up my regular house phones like Vonage does, without the aid of an always-running Windows computer in the background. All the Skype phones and adapters I've seen to date need a USB connection to a computer.

The whole thing [proliferating licenses] is so crazy and short-sighted.

I agree.

We only need three licenses, and they are completely compatible in one direction: 1. a public domain license, saying that you can do whatever you want with it;

Agree. I like this version, as it's short and sweet.

2. the BSD (a.k.a. MIT) license, which requires attribution to the original authors, but is otherwise free;

I disagree. BSD can go away. Use a public domain license. If you want credit, just make sure you can prove that you wrote it first; you'd need this proof anyways if you wanted to enforce BSD.

For a #2 license, I'd say LGPL is more meaningful than BSD. It lets you use code in commercial projects without becoming GPL, but you have to release your changes to any LGPL code (what's yours is yours, but if you change *my* work, share alike). It's a nice middle ground between public domain and GPL.

3. and the GPL

I am glad to see the have included public domain as a prominent choice.

I like the public domain choice too, but I find their version way too wordy. Forget the lawyer-ese, I want a license that I can glance and nod my head to. I like this version (originating from Wikipedia?).

---Well, I agree with you on the guns thing. I'm fully licenced to own weapons, but I hate the restrictions placed on us.

At least to me, guns have been in my life. I know how to use pistols, rifles and shotguns, along with cleaning them. To not acknowledge that as a sovereign right of the people would lead back down to where we (the US) was before the revolutionary war: unrepresented taxation, evil and sadistic punishments, no penal rights, national power over the states'.

I see guns as the final reset switch on a bad government.

---On the other hand, I absolutely disagree with you about the US government being corrupt. You have THE most honest government on the earth today.

Im sure you dont keep up on our sports stuff, but recently, many counties (US - State - County - Township is the relationship of 'parts' here) are being forced to pay for a stadium here in Indianapolis, IN. This tax is going to be added upon most sales as 1% extra. Where is representation?

Here in Indiana last year, our Governor ( Governor is to State as President is to Nation) sold off a 200+ mile stretch of road to a business in Spain/Australia. I have no quarrels in selling property, but public land should stay public. This governor is selling our own road rights from under us. BTW, this "deal" lasts for 75 years. This is our land, yet we have no representation.

Across our nation, we have the highest incarceration rates in the world. Our percent felon rate even exceeds what Russia has. In our country, when you are/have been a felon, you do not qualify to vote for the rest of your life. Add this to the ever-creeping list of felonies and we have untold millions of people who are disenfranchised.

From living here, we see many evils and corrupt behaviors. Did you know that here, a corporation can take your land if 1: they like it a lot 2: get approval from the local planning board 3: declare your house "uninhabitable" ? And it was Merck who did this despicable behavior... and they won too.

And remember, who is it who unbalances governments? Yes, our leader. (spit) Afghanistan was at least legitimated, but Iraq was not by any means. A puppet dictator who kills his own is not a US national security risk. But now, we are the world's targets.

---I'm sure that this sounds pretty sad to you, but it's the unfortunate truth. I wish our government was as reasonable as yours.

That'd be mighty interesting.. Wanna trade countries when Hillary Clinton gets in?

Edison's patent on the incandescent light bulb was ruled invalid.

Did you know perpendicular recording for hard disks was developed in 1976 but is only now being implemented? It's because patent law has caused hard drive makers to sit on the technology and wait for the patent to expire before researching its implementation - which, just so you know, is long before the production phase.

But how come then, that Giant Magnetoresistance which was discovered in '88/'89 was in harddrives from a variety of manufacturers within the decade? Just because someone patented the idea of perpendicular recording (PR) doesn't mean it's ready for implementation yet. I'd rather guess that PR hasn't really been competitive until recently because there was plenty of room for improvement using in-plane magnetization (which is in general easier to achieve and stabilize than out-of-plane magnetization). Also, the wikipedia PR article says (unreferenced) that the system was considered for floppy drives in the 80ies, and this article says manufacturers started research in the "late 1980's and early 1990's"

I'm no big fan of patents, but forgive me for being skeptical until you document this specific claim.

"The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space (approximately 30% the amount of the original files)."
http://ezinearticles.com/?Configure-Windows-Indexi ng-Service-for-Performance&id=15827

Hmm, naw I'll pass.

What I want is something that will create a giant index of filenames/foldernames and search that index when I tell it too. And it shouldn't need to take uber multi gigs of space for just a big file tree listing.

Actually, the story is funnier than that, because they don't know if the watch stopped or not, because they never found it again!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Three-All-Time-Greatest- All-Star-Television-Advertising-Gaffes&id=102921