Wow. Just... wow. The HTC surround actually has a slide-out speaker (from Yamaha!)? I can't think of anything I want less in a cell phone. Maybe they should come out with an HTC ButteredPopcorn with a slide-out popcorn popper so I have something to snack on while reading all the (apparently deserved) MS-bashing around these phones.
The pricing on the DLC for World at War was/is pretty ridiculous. Numerous friends had it and finally talked me into getting the game; I couldn't believe how much they were charging for basically a couple of maps (things that you could download for free by the hundreds on any decent PC FPS). It was slightly mitigated by the fact that you can use the DLC on something like three or five different systems - one person pays, downloads on their PS3. Then, you can set up a user account for them on your PS3, where they can again download and install the DLC. Once you've installed it, even for a different account, you can use it on any accounts on that PS3. So, we effectively decreased the cost by 1/3 for each of us to get it (of course, if the hardware dies for any of us that person is out of luck).
I also couldn't believe how high the price has remained - a friend just bought a system for another friend (he found it for like $20 online, broken - spent about $50 buying parts to repair it, so came out to $70 for a PS3), when he went to get World at War (we like it better than MW2) it was still $30, $25 for a used copy. Pretty lame considering how old it is now, plus the cost of DLC.
Seriously, the only solution is to vote with your wallet.
I, too, was disturbed when I recently had to buy a replacement for my 1600x1200 Dell monitor (which died after only 5 years). I looked for a similar monitor, but couldn't find a decent one at a reasonable price - everyone seems to have gone gaga for widescreen monitors. I could barely even find any decent 16:10 monitors, and the ones I could find were significantly more expensive than the ubiquitous 1920x1080's.
In the end I gave up, and just went ahead and bought a cheapo 16:9. I cared, but not enough to spend an extra $100+ for those extra 120 vertical pixels. If you do care, the only thing you can do is bite the bullet and buy one of the few monitors that do offer what you want.
On a completely unrelated note; why is it that the insert cursor disappears in the right half of the comment box? It is really fricking annoying - I have to put the cursor in the middle of a line, then use the arrow keys to move it where I want to edit. Only happens on Slashdot. Is this just a Firefox thing (happens to me at work and at home, on various versions of firefox; I can't be bothered to check on IE or Chrome at the moment)?
I think you are a little confused here... the reason it got rejected originally was the loose connection with bittorrent. This had nothing to do with obfuscation (aside from the fact that the developer tried to hide the bittorrent aspect in the second release) - the second one was rejected for the same reason as the first one, namely because it had something to do with bittorrent.
Yes, they knew they were likely to get rejected, but not because they hid a feature - they knew they would be rejected because Apple didn't like the feature they hid. Saying they got rejected for hiding a feature or misrepresenting features is BS - Apple had already shown that they would reject the app if it said exactly what it did. The one and only reason for the rejection is that Apple doesn't want anything to do with bittorrent used on "their" hardware.
Of course, the developers could just make a web-based interface accessible through a browser to do the same thing (by the sound of it this would be pretty straightforward), but then they wouldn't be able to charge for it as easily.
that their years of hard work and billions of research dollars spent on the concept of telling friends where you are in addition to what you are doing has been rewarded. Can you imagine what kind of world it would be to live in where they were not given a patent for such a far-reaching, insightful, life-changing idea? It is brilliant innovations like this getting well-deserved patents that reaffirm my faith in our system of intellectual property protection. Don't listen to the nay-sayers who will undoubtedly claim that the idea is obvious, and undeserving of a patent; this is clearly a game-changing idea that no other company had the right combination of foresight and will to develop, and Facebook clearly deserves the right to charge a licensing fee to all those lazy copycat companies that can't come up with an original idea of their own.
Here (California) it varies widely depending on where you are. In the town where I live, we have one container for metals, plastics, and glass, and one for paper (used to have separate containers for metals, glass, plastic, and paper, but they consolidated). Green waste gets picked up separately (no container, you just pile it on the side of the street and it gets picked up once a week), and e-waste you have to cart out to the landfill (it doesn't go into the landfill, you just take it there to drop it off in bins - same with household haz waste, things like paint and such). You're on your own for recycling/composting food waste, though there has been talk of changing that.
In the town where I work, the only thing you need to separate out is paper. Everything else goes in the trash, and gets sorted at the transfer station (though I don't believe they do any composting of food waste). I'm not sure what they do for yard waste.
We finally got IE 7 about a month or two ago. Fortunately for my sanity I discovered Firefox Portable, which works great for everything except the one or two apps that require IE.
Still on Office 2003 (though I don't really have a problem with that - I like the tabbed interface in the newer versions of Office, but 2003 works just fine).
We can still go grab a beer and fix a sandwich up during commercials. Don't freak out. Just do something else.
Not really - from the summary it sounds like it actually requires some interaction from the user. Can't answer a question about the product it just showed you an ad for? That's okay, I'm sure they'll be happy to show it to you again so you can pass the required quiz before watching your show.
Not sure if it is still true, but for many years California was actually the source of a large portion of Japan's food. I believe we still supply roughly half of their imported rice. So they might go a bit hungry, but it is doubtful they would starve if China cut off their supplies.
relying too heavily on foreign sources of raw materials
And this is where Japan hits the rocks (pun intended). They don't have much in the way of useful goodies in the ground and have no choice but to be dependent on other countries.
Well, they should go out and acquire some more land then, maybe in Manchuria, French Indochina, etc. I hear the Philippines are ripe for the picking. Do I have to think of everything here?
Yeah, Japan is screwed long-term. They've been very successful the last fifty years or so because everyone has been more than willing to sell raw materials to them; as the major developing nations work on developing their own economies and industry, this isn't going to be the case. That, and by their constitution they have no real recourse - they can enter an economic war and thereby cut their own throats, or they need to ditch their constitution which will scare the rest of east Asia into joining up against them. Either way they are in a lot of trouble.
That's because it's constitutionally prevented from having more than a "defensive force" of small scale. Treaties signed with the U.S. post-WWII require the U.S. to assist in the defense of Japan if it is attacked. See Defense policy of Japan
Which brings into question what constitutes an attack. I think most would agree that a strike at Japan's economy constitutes an attack (albeit not a physical one); this is clearly an attack on Japan's economy - does this mean the US is obligated to defend Japan? Or does that clause only come into effect for physical, military conflicts (in which case all China would need to destroy Japan is restrain from actually attacking them militarily, if that is their goal)?
I don't think this will actually come anywhere near that point, probably the Chinese captain will be put through a quick trial, found guilty, slapped with a fine and deported, and the whole thing will blow over, but we'll see. I'm not sure it is really possible for them to equitably divide the area in question, so this is likely to continue to blow up in the future (not least because Taiwan also has some claim, no way in hell China is going to let them have anything).
Took a look, and they look nice - except that they don't appear to make anything that would be a slide-in replacement for my cheapo (quality-wise, not necessarily price-wise; came with the house), dying whirl****-ish stove. I'm happy to pay more for quality, but I'd prefer not to have to re-do my whole kitchen just to replace my stove... So, any suggestions for quality products from a manufacturer that actually takes the US market into account (I realize that is asking a lot, as we generally go for the cheapest thing that has all the right shinies)?
Putting the firewall on the machine its meant to protect is like wearing a bulletproof vest inside your body.
That's really not true. The firewall on the machine is an effective part of an overall strategy. It helps protect your systems from rogue nodes, for example.
So you're saying that if the bulletproof vest is configured correctly it can protect you from rogue nads?
The most important "desktops" are the laptops that get hauled around airports by the powers that be. Relying exclusively on your servers/switches to isolate your "desktops" doesn't work in a Beijing hotel.
This really is too obvious to be worth mentioning. Anyone indulging this non-debate is a liability.
Don't be silly. Haven't you heard of the Great Firewall of China? Clearly, it is completely unnecessary to worry about a laptop getting infected in Beijing, as it has been behind a firewall the whole time.
Who the hell uses Fahrenheit for anything remotely connected to science? I can understand translating 0K to -273.15C, then 1K is -272.15C -- but how meaningful to anyone is -459.67F?
Yes, because -273.15C provides so much more information than -459.67F. It really, really doesn't matter. Why do people even complain about things like this? Is it so hard to plug the number into a calculator to get it in units you are capable of comprehending?
If you are going to complain that Fahrenheit was used, then at least have the decency to request Kelvin (the proper SI unit) rather than Celsius.
Wrong. Laser beams are very cold. The photons are highly ordered and there is very little random motion among them.
Wrong? It's not true that the general Bond-watching audience thinks of lasers as being white hot?
Clearly we think of them as red-hot. Actually I haven't seen Goldfinger in ages, but weren't the lasers red? Wouldn't it then be logical to think that the lasers are red-hot rather than white-hot?
This comment isn't quite pointless enough yet, so I'll throw in a, "wah! they should have used real units like celsius! wah!"
Meh, Civ V isn't that great (in my extensive experience based on about half a game so far). If they've got Civ IV running I'd be happy. Still tablet-less, but happy.
I bought Civ 5 on Steam, mostly because I wasn't going to get a chance to drive out to Fry's or Best Buy to pick it up and it was quicker than shipping it from Amazon (though Amazon was offering a full 54 cents off the Steam price). It is only the third game I've actually purchased on Steam. I suppose I could have picked it up at the nearby GameStop, but I hate Gamestop (oh wait, they only carry two PC games at a time anyway, so I probably couldn't have bought it there).
I have to say, it is far more satisfying to get a physical copy. My normal ritual when I get a new game is to install, play for a while, and read through the manual when I have a chance. I actually really missed this last part w/ getting the game on Steam - there is no connection to the game except when I am sitting right in front of my computer. It was quick and convenient, though, only ~ 1.5 hours to get 4 gigs over DSL.
I wanted to try getting a real game on Steam ('real' meaning more than an FPS-type action game) just to see how I'd like it, so far I find it much less satisfying than having a physical copy. I don't plan to give up on buying Blu Ray movies any time soon, and I still don't buy music on iTunes and that's been around forever (I hardly ever use the physical CDs once I've ripped them, but I do like to have them).
Oh, and for anyone looking at rushing out to buy Civ 5 - so far I'm a little "meh" about it. I think the reviews I've read thus far have been far kinder than it deserves; it isn't bad by any means, and brings some interesting changes, but so far there isn't really anything (including the graphics and hex-based map) that sets it apart as being better than the previous version (and some things, like the voiceover, are significantly worse). Here's hoping that someone will go back and do an actual review of it rather than just the single game as Iroquois that every review site seems to be parroting (it sounds like that may have been all that was available in the pre-release version all the reviews are based on; they even missed out on the horror that is the foreign leaders - horrible, jumpy animation coupled with what sounds like actors reading lines in languages they don't speak - way to kill a great idea!).
Now there's an idea. Since airlines aren't interested in filling their cargo area with baggage anyway (well, so it seems, though I'm sure they'd prefer that they charge extra and fill their cargo area), time to put in a nice transparent bubble on the belly of the aircraft. Now that's something I would pay extra for.
What is this? Was this study commissioned by the "Get Off My Lawn Association" or is the US mobile telecom industry really that far behind the rest of the world? This news really is a decade old; I can recall similar numbers coming out in Ireland and the UK back in 2000.
Despite the absurdity of US telecoms pricing schemes, I still can't believe that texting is still some kind of novel phenomena in the US at this late stage. There are kids in deepest Africa, darkest Peru and the wilds of Connemara who know what a text message is by now. The US baby boomers can't possibly still be ignorant of it can they?
Texting isn't a novel phenomena in the US. This poll pretty much just confirms what most people already knew or suspected. To me the only surprising thing is the sheer number of texts being sent (200 per day average??); it strongly suggests that against all logic people are actually willing to pay the ridiculous fees for text messages that all of the major carriers in the US charge. I think this is really the root of the surprise you are seeing in comments - in the US, texting is expensive. Far more expensive than phone calls or data, at least with the vast majority of carriers (the exceptions tend to have extremely limited network areas).
I'm one of those that sends probably 10-20 texts per month, but would text more if I thought the price reasonable (I have a couple of friends that prefer text messages, hence the few I do send). Seeing the numbers, it is clear that the major cell carriers here have absolutely no reason to reduce text message rates to a reasonable level - even at the exorbitant prices they are charging people are still sending huge numbers of texts.
Duh, the next iteration is BETA (Bigger Experimental Tokamak Application). Obviously DEMO is expected to produce some sort of inverse time-shifting effect, as you wouldn't ordinarily expect DEMO to arrive before BETA. Apparently at some point between DEMO and BETA the French expect to give up on their silly language.
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Wow. Just... wow. The HTC surround actually has a slide-out speaker (from Yamaha!)? I can't think of anything I want less in a cell phone. Maybe they should come out with an HTC ButteredPopcorn with a slide-out popcorn popper so I have something to snack on while reading all the (apparently deserved) MS-bashing around these phones.
This reminds of a cartoon I think I saw in Air Force magazine years ago.
As I recall, one panel shows some grunt putting the finishing touches on a wooden aircraft decoy.
Next panel shows people scrambling out of the way of an incoming enemy aircraft.
Last panel shows the result of the attack - with a wooden decoy bomb sitting in the remains of the decoy aircraft.
So, obviously that all we need is some good, inflatable bombs.
The pricing on the DLC for World at War was/is pretty ridiculous. Numerous friends had it and finally talked me into getting the game; I couldn't believe how much they were charging for basically a couple of maps (things that you could download for free by the hundreds on any decent PC FPS). It was slightly mitigated by the fact that you can use the DLC on something like three or five different systems - one person pays, downloads on their PS3. Then, you can set up a user account for them on your PS3, where they can again download and install the DLC. Once you've installed it, even for a different account, you can use it on any accounts on that PS3. So, we effectively decreased the cost by 1/3 for each of us to get it (of course, if the hardware dies for any of us that person is out of luck).
I also couldn't believe how high the price has remained - a friend just bought a system for another friend (he found it for like $20 online, broken - spent about $50 buying parts to repair it, so came out to $70 for a PS3), when he went to get World at War (we like it better than MW2) it was still $30, $25 for a used copy. Pretty lame considering how old it is now, plus the cost of DLC.
Seriously, the only solution is to vote with your wallet.
I, too, was disturbed when I recently had to buy a replacement for my 1600x1200 Dell monitor (which died after only 5 years). I looked for a similar monitor, but couldn't find a decent one at a reasonable price - everyone seems to have gone gaga for widescreen monitors. I could barely even find any decent 16:10 monitors, and the ones I could find were significantly more expensive than the ubiquitous 1920x1080's.
In the end I gave up, and just went ahead and bought a cheapo 16:9. I cared, but not enough to spend an extra $100+ for those extra 120 vertical pixels. If you do care, the only thing you can do is bite the bullet and buy one of the few monitors that do offer what you want.
On a completely unrelated note; why is it that the insert cursor disappears in the right half of the comment box? It is really fricking annoying - I have to put the cursor in the middle of a line, then use the arrow keys to move it where I want to edit. Only happens on Slashdot. Is this just a Firefox thing (happens to me at work and at home, on various versions of firefox; I can't be bothered to check on IE or Chrome at the moment)?
I think you are a little confused here... the reason it got rejected originally was the loose connection with bittorrent. This had nothing to do with obfuscation (aside from the fact that the developer tried to hide the bittorrent aspect in the second release) - the second one was rejected for the same reason as the first one, namely because it had something to do with bittorrent.
Yes, they knew they were likely to get rejected, but not because they hid a feature - they knew they would be rejected because Apple didn't like the feature they hid. Saying they got rejected for hiding a feature or misrepresenting features is BS - Apple had already shown that they would reject the app if it said exactly what it did.
The one and only reason for the rejection is that Apple doesn't want anything to do with bittorrent used on "their" hardware.
Of course, the developers could just make a web-based interface accessible through a browser to do the same thing (by the sound of it this would be pretty straightforward), but then they wouldn't be able to charge for it as easily.
that their years of hard work and billions of research dollars spent on the concept of telling friends where you are in addition to what you are doing has been rewarded. Can you imagine what kind of world it would be to live in where they were not given a patent for such a far-reaching, insightful, life-changing idea? It is brilliant innovations like this getting well-deserved patents that reaffirm my faith in our system of intellectual property protection. Don't listen to the nay-sayers who will undoubtedly claim that the idea is obvious, and undeserving of a patent; this is clearly a game-changing idea that no other company had the right combination of foresight and will to develop, and Facebook clearly deserves the right to charge a licensing fee to all those lazy copycat companies that can't come up with an original idea of their own.
Here (California) it varies widely depending on where you are. In the town where I live, we have one container for metals, plastics, and glass, and one for paper (used to have separate containers for metals, glass, plastic, and paper, but they consolidated). Green waste gets picked up separately (no container, you just pile it on the side of the street and it gets picked up once a week), and e-waste you have to cart out to the landfill (it doesn't go into the landfill, you just take it there to drop it off in bins - same with household haz waste, things like paint and such). You're on your own for recycling/composting food waste, though there has been talk of changing that.
In the town where I work, the only thing you need to separate out is paper. Everything else goes in the trash, and gets sorted at the transfer station (though I don't believe they do any composting of food waste). I'm not sure what they do for yard waste.
We finally got IE 7 about a month or two ago. Fortunately for my sanity I discovered Firefox Portable, which works great for everything except the one or two apps that require IE.
Still on Office 2003 (though I don't really have a problem with that - I like the tabbed interface in the newer versions of Office, but 2003 works just fine).
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We can still go grab a beer and fix a sandwich up during commercials. Don't freak out. Just do something else.
Not really - from the summary it sounds like it actually requires some interaction from the user. Can't answer a question about the product it just showed you an ad for? That's okay, I'm sure they'll be happy to show it to you again so you can pass the required quiz before watching your show.
The Hobbit was the most boring of the Tolkien books, but hey, I'm all for a movie!
Isn't that like saying the Pacific Ocean is the most wet of the oceans?
Sure... if you're illiterate ;p
Not sure if it is still true, but for many years California was actually the source of a large portion of Japan's food. I believe we still supply roughly half of their imported rice. So they might go a bit hungry, but it is doubtful they would starve if China cut off their supplies.
And this is where Japan hits the rocks (pun intended). They don't have much in the way of useful goodies in the ground and have no choice but to be dependent on other countries.
Well, they should go out and acquire some more land then, maybe in Manchuria, French Indochina, etc. I hear the Philippines are ripe for the picking. Do I have to think of everything here?
Yeah, Japan is screwed long-term. They've been very successful the last fifty years or so because everyone has been more than willing to sell raw materials to them; as the major developing nations work on developing their own economies and industry, this isn't going to be the case. That, and by their constitution they have no real recourse - they can enter an economic war and thereby cut their own throats, or they need to ditch their constitution which will scare the rest of east Asia into joining up against them. Either way they are in a lot of trouble.
"Japan doesn't have much of a military,"
That's because it's constitutionally prevented from having more than a "defensive force" of small scale. Treaties signed with the U.S. post-WWII require the U.S. to assist in the defense of Japan if it is attacked. See Defense policy of Japan
Which brings into question what constitutes an attack. I think most would agree that a strike at Japan's economy constitutes an attack (albeit not a physical one); this is clearly an attack on Japan's economy - does this mean the US is obligated to defend Japan? Or does that clause only come into effect for physical, military conflicts (in which case all China would need to destroy Japan is restrain from actually attacking them militarily, if that is their goal)?
I don't think this will actually come anywhere near that point, probably the Chinese captain will be put through a quick trial, found guilty, slapped with a fine and deported, and the whole thing will blow over, but we'll see. I'm not sure it is really possible for them to equitably divide the area in question, so this is likely to continue to blow up in the future (not least because Taiwan also has some claim, no way in hell China is going to let them have anything).
Took a look, and they look nice - except that they don't appear to make anything that would be a slide-in replacement for my cheapo (quality-wise, not necessarily price-wise; came with the house), dying whirl****-ish stove. I'm happy to pay more for quality, but I'd prefer not to have to re-do my whole kitchen just to replace my stove...
So, any suggestions for quality products from a manufacturer that actually takes the US market into account (I realize that is asking a lot, as we generally go for the cheapest thing that has all the right shinies)?
Putting the firewall on the machine its meant to protect is like wearing a bulletproof vest inside your body.
That's really not true. The firewall on the machine is an effective part of an overall strategy. It helps protect your systems from rogue nodes, for example.
So you're saying that if the bulletproof vest is configured correctly it can protect you from rogue nads?
The most important "desktops" are the laptops that get hauled around airports by the powers that be. Relying exclusively on your servers/switches to isolate your "desktops" doesn't work in a Beijing hotel.
This really is too obvious to be worth mentioning. Anyone indulging this non-debate is a liability.
Don't be silly. Haven't you heard of the Great Firewall of China? Clearly, it is completely unnecessary to worry about a laptop getting infected in Beijing, as it has been behind a firewall the whole time.
Who the hell uses Fahrenheit for anything remotely connected to science? I can understand translating 0K to -273.15C, then 1K is -272.15C -- but how meaningful to anyone is -459.67F?
Yes, because -273.15C provides so much more information than -459.67F.
It really, really doesn't matter. Why do people even complain about things like this? Is it so hard to plug the number into a calculator to get it in units you are capable of comprehending?
If you are going to complain that Fahrenheit was used, then at least have the decency to request Kelvin (the proper SI unit) rather than Celsius.
Wrong. Laser beams are very cold. The photons are highly ordered and there is very little random motion among them.
Wrong? It's not true that the general Bond-watching audience thinks of lasers as being white hot?
Clearly we think of them as red-hot.
Actually I haven't seen Goldfinger in ages, but weren't the lasers red? Wouldn't it then be logical to think that the lasers are red-hot rather than white-hot?
This comment isn't quite pointless enough yet, so I'll throw in a, "wah! they should have used real units like celsius! wah!"
Meh, Civ V isn't that great (in my extensive experience based on about half a game so far). If they've got Civ IV running I'd be happy. Still tablet-less, but happy.
I bought Civ 5 on Steam, mostly because I wasn't going to get a chance to drive out to Fry's or Best Buy to pick it up and it was quicker than shipping it from Amazon (though Amazon was offering a full 54 cents off the Steam price). It is only the third game I've actually purchased on Steam. I suppose I could have picked it up at the nearby GameStop, but I hate Gamestop (oh wait, they only carry two PC games at a time anyway, so I probably couldn't have bought it there).
I have to say, it is far more satisfying to get a physical copy. My normal ritual when I get a new game is to install, play for a while, and read through the manual when I have a chance. I actually really missed this last part w/ getting the game on Steam - there is no connection to the game except when I am sitting right in front of my computer. It was quick and convenient, though, only ~ 1.5 hours to get 4 gigs over DSL.
I wanted to try getting a real game on Steam ('real' meaning more than an FPS-type action game) just to see how I'd like it, so far I find it much less satisfying than having a physical copy. I don't plan to give up on buying Blu Ray movies any time soon, and I still don't buy music on iTunes and that's been around forever (I hardly ever use the physical CDs once I've ripped them, but I do like to have them).
Oh, and for anyone looking at rushing out to buy Civ 5 - so far I'm a little "meh" about it. I think the reviews I've read thus far have been far kinder than it deserves; it isn't bad by any means, and brings some interesting changes, but so far there isn't really anything (including the graphics and hex-based map) that sets it apart as being better than the previous version (and some things, like the voiceover, are significantly worse). Here's hoping that someone will go back and do an actual review of it rather than just the single game as Iroquois that every review site seems to be parroting (it sounds like that may have been all that was available in the pre-release version all the reviews are based on; they even missed out on the horror that is the foreign leaders - horrible, jumpy animation coupled with what sounds like actors reading lines in languages they don't speak - way to kill a great idea!).
One step away from Wormboy Hell?
(I guess the one step would be the development of espers)
Now there's an idea. Since airlines aren't interested in filling their cargo area with baggage anyway (well, so it seems, though I'm sure they'd prefer that they charge extra and fill their cargo area), time to put in a nice transparent bubble on the belly of the aircraft. Now that's something I would pay extra for.
What is this? Was this study commissioned by the "Get Off My Lawn Association" or is the US mobile telecom industry really that far behind the rest of the world? This news really is a decade old; I can recall similar numbers coming out in Ireland and the UK back in 2000.
Despite the absurdity of US telecoms pricing schemes, I still can't believe that texting is still some kind of novel phenomena in the US at this late stage. There are kids in deepest Africa, darkest Peru and the wilds of Connemara who know what a text message is by now. The US baby boomers can't possibly still be ignorant of it can they?
Texting isn't a novel phenomena in the US. This poll pretty much just confirms what most people already knew or suspected.
To me the only surprising thing is the sheer number of texts being sent (200 per day average??); it strongly suggests that against all logic people are actually willing to pay the ridiculous fees for text messages that all of the major carriers in the US charge. I think this is really the root of the surprise you are seeing in comments - in the US, texting is expensive. Far more expensive than phone calls or data, at least with the vast majority of carriers (the exceptions tend to have extremely limited network areas).
I'm one of those that sends probably 10-20 texts per month, but would text more if I thought the price reasonable (I have a couple of friends that prefer text messages, hence the few I do send). Seeing the numbers, it is clear that the major cell carriers here have absolutely no reason to reduce text message rates to a reasonable level - even at the exorbitant prices they are charging people are still sending huge numbers of texts.
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Earthquake!!!!!!
Stupid Slashdot telling me not to use caps. Doesn't it understand that my humor would make even less sense if it was lower case?
Duh, the next iteration is BETA (Bigger Experimental Tokamak Application). Obviously DEMO is expected to produce some sort of inverse time-shifting effect, as you wouldn't ordinarily expect DEMO to arrive before BETA.
Apparently at some point between DEMO and BETA the French expect to give up on their silly language.