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It will look like a bunch of DDR freaks on mescalin.

Why do you assume that people from former East Germany (the Deutsche Demokratische Republik) are "freaks" and use hallucinogenic drugs?

Or is a "DDR freak" somebody who runs applications that benefit from the increased memory bandwidth of double data rate SDRAM?

Or do you mean the game whose fifth mix included a song titled "Hot Limit" and subtitled "We Drink Ritalin"?

There's Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and everybody else. Name the #3 cola. Anybody?

(yerricde raises his mouse hand while his other hand holds a can of Diet Number 3)

We Drink RC. Ritalin Cola. Heck even the "Diet Rite" logo would be easy to GIMP into "Diet Ritalin".

use flash for fancy and slow site navigation

Slow? SWF can be much smaller than a PNG image in some cases because while PNG is a raster format (essentially gzipped .bmp), SWF is a vector format. Sure, there's SVG, but more people have SWF viewers than SVG viewers, and silent SWF doesn't seem to have significant patent problems.

use flash for displaying beautiful unreadable anti-aliased text

Actually, it's unreadable not because it's anti-aliased but because 1. it's anti-aliased without moving the control points to pixel boundaries (either automatically or via hints in the font), because 2. it's often displayed on top of a busy background, but most importantly because 3. the text is too dang SMALL. Most web pages that specify a text style specify glyphs somewhere between 12 and 16 pixels tall; designers who care little about usability often size SWF text that's a paragraph or longer at about 9 pixels or so.

other than those downsides flash can be used for good and not evil

WE DRINK RITALIN!

but only in moderation

Interesting.

How beautifully optimistic.... do you drink Ritalin?

If you get rid of your dial-up internet account ($20 per month) and your land-line

Doesn't the emergency call dispatch service (911 in the USA) have a harder time pinning down your location for calls from a mobile phone than for calls from a landline phone?

I think a 16 MHz ARM processor would only be in a "high end" smart phone, or a PDA and not your mass market average cell phone.

What would a "mass market average cell phone" need with fast public-key encryption? Can't it just authenticate with the cell tower, grab a symmetric key, and then just encrypt voice with AES[1] based on that, possibly grabbing new symmetric keys during non-talk time? Wouldn't the more advanced "Burning Cell Phones" that run apps other than voice and simple games be essentially PDAs with a fast processor anyway?

Think 8 or 16 bit, less than 12 MHz on average.

So you're talking half the power of a GBA. (The GBA is 32-bit with a 16-bit data bus, clocked at 16 MHz.) How does RSA computation scale with respect to keylength?

[1] Yes, AES been theoretically attacked down to 96-bit, but 96-bit is still considered quite "strong" for symmetric encryption. It has taken nearly four years, and one of the world's biggest clusters still hasn't broken a 64-bit key.

Perhaps artists would look to sign with a label with more competitive expenses

Such as have somebody like Bad_CRC, Neil Cicierega or Veloso make their video. If it worked for "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by TLMOM featuring Toaplan, "Hyakugojyuuichi" by Nintendo, and "Yatta" by Happatai, it'll work for any song.

Or you could just drink Ritalin like most Dance Dance Revolution players do.