Then you might like satellite radio, though it is a pay service. I have discovered more new stuff that I love (Shiny Toy Guns, Clear Static, Daughter Darling/Natalie Walker, Jesus H Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse, etc etc) via Sirius over the past few years than I ever did listening to either regular radio or net radio. That being said, it is a pay service and while it's not prohibitively expensive it isn't cheap either. The only real advantage it has over net radio -- until net radio goes away thanks to the new fees -- is the sheer variety of stuff to listen to. There's even top-40 on there for the brainless teenagers. Everything is in a themed channel too; if you want Jimmy Buffet and other island-folk-rock stuff, go to Margaritaville. If you want classic rock, well there's four different channels for four different styles of classic rock. It's very compartmentalized, which makes it easy to find the music to fit the mood you're in.
This happened to me as well, until my third grade teacher realized that I really was reading and thinking on a high-school level at eight years old. She sponsored me for the gifted classes, I passed all the tests and away I went to the classrooms where free thinking was encouraged. Unfortunately, we moved a few years later and I wasn't allowed to enter the sixth-grade gifted classes or even test for them, since none of the teachers there knew me. After a couple of years in the new town I was eligible, but by then I was going into high school and I had noticed how the gifted kids were being treated by the other kids. I probably avoided a lot of fights and bullies just by limiting myself to the advanced placement and college preparatory classes.
Interesting. I'm one of those rare people who neither love SW to the point of orgasm or hate it to the point of vomiting. I'm right there in the middle; I enjoyed IV, V and VI as a child; they were great action/sci-fi flicks but honestly I didn't care one bit about the "story behind the story". When I heard about I, II and III coming out I was interested but not creaming my pants, so to speak. So, when I finally got a chance to see episode I, I was sorely disappointed. Not because the story might have been altered (and I wouldn't have known if it had), but because it appeared to have been made for the Disney crowd more than anyone else. I mean come on, 50% of the movie is based around some CGI Jamaican alien, and the other half around some snot-nosed, annoying kid ("maybe Vader some day later/now he's just a small fry")? It was damn near unwatchable.
Not that Star Trek, of which I am more of a fan than of SW by far, has been any better in recent years. Voltaire's song "The USS Make-Shit-Up" sums up this downward progression nicely. That being said, I am looking forward to seeing Nimoy in another Trek adventure, even without the other three (Shatner, Kelley and Doohan) to balance his straight-man performance. The thought of Zach Quinto playing young Spock is intriguing to say the least; he has the look, and if his performance in "Heroes" is any indication, he has the acting chops too.
The first cop was old (gray-haired) and employed by the county police. The second was young and with the sheriff's department. Were either age or agency a factor in their demeanor? Nah, I think the first guy was just an asshole.
The first guy does indeed sound like an asshole. However, I'd bet money that the sheriff's deputy was motivated at least in part by local politics. What, you say? Let me explain.
The sheriff is elected by the local citizens. The county or city police chief is appointed by the county commissioners or the city council or whatever the equivalent is in your community. The sheriff, if he plans to be re-elected, will instill in his employees the necessity of being a public servant who is polite and helpful when dealing with an obviously non-hostile situation like yours. Granted, the deputy was probably just a nice guy too; it's getting rare these days among male cops but there are still a few good ones out there.
Why do I feel this way? Because I have worked for two different sheriff's offices over the past eight years. The county I live in has a county police department for patrol and incident response, run by the county board of commissioners, and a sheriff's office strictly for court, civil and jail duties. The county I work in has no county police, just a sheriff's office which is a full-service law enforcement entity. The deputies I work with tend to be much, much nicer to their citizens than the county police where I live.
Excellent point. I'm pretty sure that Blizzard Inc. copyrights their game patches and updates, yet they are perfectly legal to download using the p2p software that Blizzard provides for exactly this. Another good example would be a legal music service like eMusic deciding to use p2p to better serve their customers.
Actually I'm using my Treo (smartphone) which has a stopwatch program that is easy to start and stop by tapping the screen, without taking my eyes off the road.
And good guess on my type of vehicle; it is a Jeep, though I have the stock wheels and tires so there shouldn't be any discrepancy there.
As I said, it's probably a hundred factors like wind speed, the fact that it's an overall downhill trip -- it's in the hills of northwest Georgia but going from hilly country to flatter country -- and so many other little things that I would never be able to quantify.
You are both right, in a sense. Doing nothing more than voting once every four years doesn't do a damn thing to help matters, but then, protesting by not voting at all accomplishes even less. I think you both need to get out there and try to actively make changes yourselves, just as many others have tried to do in the past. You may have no effect at all; then again, you could become the catalyst this nation needs to wake up and see the evil leadership we are under. If you think we need a revolution, then revolt! If you feel that by not voting you are making a difference, then do more than just refuse to vote. Talk to people about why, and not just on geeky internet forums like this. Get out there and speak to groups, rally the folks to see the truth behind the corruption and misdeeds of our woefully inadequate government.
Wow. You know, I tend to be one of those people who are wary of our government and their privacy track record, but on all my machines, windows and *nix, my username is my first name, and my (shadowed) password is very complex. My first name is quite common, so if they are looking to glean any info from that, well more power to them. If they really want to watch my online activity I'm sure AT&T would bend over backwards to assist them without any help from my boxen.
Since we're already talking about your sig and we'll all get modded into Off-Topic Hell...
The longest leg of my commute to work is 16 miles. The speed limit for this entire leg is 65mph. The vehicle I drive has cruise control so, barring accidents or those annoying people who team up to go 45mph in both lanes side by side for six miles, I have ample opportunity to test these kinds of theories.
In short, given no obstacles, I have noticed a difference of nearly five minutes between 80mph and 65mph for the duration of that leg. My high-school level math tells me that this should be impossible; at 65mph the trip should take about 14 mins 45 secs. At 80mph it should take exactly 12 mins, for a difference of just under three minutes. Where did the other two minutes go?
My speedometer gear is in the transfer case of my vehicle, so it is measuring the rotation speed of the rear drive shaft and not the rotation speed of the wheels, so perhaps that has something to do with it; i.e. maybe I'm going faster than I think I am.
Needless to say, this has kept me up nights (not really, but it IS annoying).
Apples and oranges. A floating-point bug or a long-division bug or any other processor bug affects any and all software run on that machine. It's not a loss of storage space over time but a random, "your computer just barfed at the worst possible time" error. As others have pointed out, it will be at least two or more years before your 300GB flash drive degrades to 280GB. By then you will have probably replaced it with a 500GB or larger flash drive.
And rule-hounds like you are why I and my core group of friends migrated from D&D to the Storyteller system (White Wolf games like Vampire: The Masquerade and such). We actually wanted to (gasp!) have fun instead of drowning in the mountains of rules. In Storyteller, the GM develops a basic story outline, often with much input from the players, and then starts the improv act. It's liberating, being that much in control of your character while still having a skeleton of a backstory to keep you within sensible bounds. The only dice rolls we ever did were for situations that couldn't be properly acted out, such as fights. When you wanted to mesmerize a victim, you acted it out instead of rolling (though the rules allowed for either), and if you did it well it worked; if you didn't, well that's "life" and you learned to be a better actor.
I guess it's all about whatever makes you happy, but not everyone who is into non-computerized roleplaying can have fun with a mind full of numbers and dice rolls.
Yahoo has "fanbois"? The only people I know who prefer Yahoo to anything else are either middle-aged women or cops (sometimes both). Strangely enough, most cops I know -- and I work with lots of them every day -- are suspicious of Google. Ask them to Google something and they invariably pull up Yahoo or MSN. Do they perhaps know something we don't?
I've noticed this for a very long time, especially with the lighter music styles I enjoy. Two CDs I own immediately spring to mind. On Norah Jones' first CD "Come Away With Me", the first song ("Don't Know Why") clips in the percussion and in her voice. This is country-style jazz, not heavy metal; there should be no distortion at all in the drums and vocals but there it is. Another good example is the song "Clarity" by John Mayer. In the pre-chorus when he does the wordless vocalizations, his voice is distorted. Then when the chorus starts up, it sounds like they turned the dial to 11 on all the instruments including the acoustic guitar, rendering an otherwise eloquent jazz movement into distorted hell. You can really hear a difference between the over-compressed CD, and a live performance where all the nuances of the song come out.
I have a lot of respect for these two musicians, especially Mayer, but I just don't understand how they could allow such desecration of their art.
Speaking of hacked-up hacked-together Japanese anime, I'd love to see Macross or even US-version Robotech on the big screen in live-action, if it were done right anyway. Sadly, I doubt it would be given the proper treatment, and since it's giant transforming mechs it would be called a Transformers ripoff by the clueless masses.
You watch too many movies and/or cheesy cop shows. They can't bust in your door because the gun comes back to you and they just feel like you're the guy. First thing they will do is run your criminal history if they have enough info (and if you've obtained a firearms permit then they have enough). If they see "no record on file", they will usually try to contact you first and ask you to come in for questioning. If, however, you have a violent criminal record or if they have more than just a gun registered to you (someone saw you at or near the scene, etc.) then they will get a warrant for your arrest and ask questions after the arrest.
Then again, what do I know? I only work in law enforcement.
I understand the whole "slashdot geeks have no girlfriends" joke but really, why wouldn't a geek have a geeky girlfriend? I'm a geek, and I have a cute geeky girlfriend. We met online, she got me into World of Warcraft, and she is better at repairing laptops (soldering included) than I am. Each of us tried dating (and eventually marrying) non-geeks in the past and it never worked out; when we found each other it was a perfect fit.
As for this being front-page/. material, I'm not so sure it deserved to be. Digg is probably more appropriate in this particular case.
But thankfully, that's not how traffic laws work. The operator is the responsible party when it comes to criminal charges. The gun analogy used above is correct in that sense. For example, I let my high-school buddy Billy Bob borrow my rifle to go hunting. He uses it to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend and leaves the gun at the scene. It's traced back to me, cops come to see me but find that I've been on vacation for the two weeks surrounding the murder (plane tickets, hotel receipts and cellphone records confirm this). When I get back they question me, I tell them about Billy Bob and they find that he's skipped town. They question me but do not arrest or charge because it's clearly obvious I had nothing to do with the offense.* Sure, you can argue that perhaps I let him borrow the gun knowing what he intended, but that's a hell of a hard thing to prove without evidence like recorded phone calls and witness corroborations.
Going back to the car thing, yes as the car owner and primary insurer I am responsible for any damage caused by someone else driving my car, but the law is clear (at least in my state) that the vehicle operator is the sole responsible party for any traffic offenses.
*This actually happened several years back in my community, the gun owner was questioned but never charged or arrested.
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Hey give the judge some credit, he's just following the example that our wonderful president put out there, that even if ~90% of the congress and ~90% of the American public wants something, it's still okay to veto it.
Seriously, have we ever had a president who cared less about what the people who elected him think? It's no wonder the attitude is spilling over into the judicial system.
Prison sex is just like other forms of rape: It's reprehensible, it's disgusting, it's downright wrong...but you can joke about it! Just ask George Carlin. Paraphrased from his "Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics" album:
Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk...Tell you what you can't talk about. Well, sometimes they'll say, well you can talk about something but you can't joke about it. Say you can't joke about something because it's not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time. Like rape. They'll say, "You can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny." I say, "Fuck you, I think it's hilarious. How do you like that?" I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See! Hey, why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say. "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard-on, he got horny, he lost control, he went out of his mind!"
Indeed. The only cellphone I've ever bought without first playing with it is the Treo 650 I own now. The only reason I bought it without physically checking it out first is because I've owned several Palms, including a Tungsten W, and I pretty much knew what I was going to get.
When the iPhone was first announced (which was before I got the Treo) I was stoked. I had been waiting for SO long for Apple to put out some sort of PDA/phone and I had already started saving up the cash. Then I started reading all the previews and known facts, and pretty soon I decided to go with a true smartphone/PDA instead. Why? Because with the Treo I could use all of the apps I was already familiar with; I could read ebooks, watch movies, play music, take pictures and organize photos. I could transfer all the data from my old phone as well as my old Palm and carry only one device. The only advantages the iPhone would give me were a better browser, a larger screen and more storage space. The disadvantages of the iPhone more than outweighed those few advantages and my decision was made.
Now that the iPhone is out and all the gory details have bubbled to the surface, I find myself very satisfied with my decision. The iPhone is just too hip for me, I guess.
So, I should sue Apple because my Motorola bluetooth headset has a non-user-replaceable battery? No? Okay then, I'll sue Apple because my Palm V has a non-user-replaceable battery. Oh wait, it's not Apple's fault there either. Hmm, I guess Apple isn't the only evil megacorp conspiring to steal my hard-earned cash via battery schemes after all...
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Then you might like satellite radio, though it is a pay service. I have discovered more new stuff that I love (Shiny Toy Guns, Clear Static, Daughter Darling/Natalie Walker, Jesus H Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse, etc etc) via Sirius over the past few years than I ever did listening to either regular radio or net radio. That being said, it is a pay service and while it's not prohibitively expensive it isn't cheap either. The only real advantage it has over net radio -- until net radio goes away thanks to the new fees -- is the sheer variety of stuff to listen to. There's even top-40 on there for the brainless teenagers. Everything is in a themed channel too; if you want Jimmy Buffet and other island-folk-rock stuff, go to Margaritaville. If you want classic rock, well there's four different channels for four different styles of classic rock. It's very compartmentalized, which makes it easy to find the music to fit the mood you're in.
This happened to me as well, until my third grade teacher realized that I really was reading and thinking on a high-school level at eight years old. She sponsored me for the gifted classes, I passed all the tests and away I went to the classrooms where free thinking was encouraged. Unfortunately, we moved a few years later and I wasn't allowed to enter the sixth-grade gifted classes or even test for them, since none of the teachers there knew me. After a couple of years in the new town I was eligible, but by then I was going into high school and I had noticed how the gifted kids were being treated by the other kids. I probably avoided a lot of fights and bullies just by limiting myself to the advanced placement and college preparatory classes.
Interesting. I'm one of those rare people who neither love SW to the point of orgasm or hate it to the point of vomiting. I'm right there in the middle; I enjoyed IV, V and VI as a child; they were great action/sci-fi flicks but honestly I didn't care one bit about the "story behind the story". When I heard about I, II and III coming out I was interested but not creaming my pants, so to speak. So, when I finally got a chance to see episode I, I was sorely disappointed. Not because the story might have been altered (and I wouldn't have known if it had), but because it appeared to have been made for the Disney crowd more than anyone else. I mean come on, 50% of the movie is based around some CGI Jamaican alien, and the other half around some snot-nosed, annoying kid ("maybe Vader some day later/now he's just a small fry")? It was damn near unwatchable.
Not that Star Trek, of which I am more of a fan than of SW by far, has been any better in recent years. Voltaire's song "The USS Make-Shit-Up" sums up this downward progression nicely. That being said, I am looking forward to seeing Nimoy in another Trek adventure, even without the other three (Shatner, Kelley and Doohan) to balance his straight-man performance. The thought of Zach Quinto playing young Spock is intriguing to say the least; he has the look, and if his performance in "Heroes" is any indication, he has the acting chops too.
The first guy does indeed sound like an asshole. However, I'd bet money that the sheriff's deputy was motivated at least in part by local politics. What, you say? Let me explain.
The sheriff is elected by the local citizens. The county or city police chief is appointed by the county commissioners or the city council or whatever the equivalent is in your community. The sheriff, if he plans to be re-elected, will instill in his employees the necessity of being a public servant who is polite and helpful when dealing with an obviously non-hostile situation like yours. Granted, the deputy was probably just a nice guy too; it's getting rare these days among male cops but there are still a few good ones out there.
Why do I feel this way? Because I have worked for two different sheriff's offices over the past eight years. The county I live in has a county police department for patrol and incident response, run by the county board of commissioners, and a sheriff's office strictly for court, civil and jail duties. The county I work in has no county police, just a sheriff's office which is a full-service law enforcement entity. The deputies I work with tend to be much, much nicer to their citizens than the county police where I live.
Excellent point. I'm pretty sure that Blizzard Inc. copyrights their game patches and updates, yet they are perfectly legal to download using the p2p software that Blizzard provides for exactly this. Another good example would be a legal music service like eMusic deciding to use p2p to better serve their customers.
Actually I'm using my Treo (smartphone) which has a stopwatch program that is easy to start and stop by tapping the screen, without taking my eyes off the road.
And good guess on my type of vehicle; it is a Jeep, though I have the stock wheels and tires so there shouldn't be any discrepancy there.
As I said, it's probably a hundred factors like wind speed, the fact that it's an overall downhill trip -- it's in the hills of northwest Georgia but going from hilly country to flatter country -- and so many other little things that I would never be able to quantify.
He must have meant to say "downloading copyrighted files". It's the only way that sentence would make sense to me.
You are both right, in a sense. Doing nothing more than voting once every four years doesn't do a damn thing to help matters, but then, protesting by not voting at all accomplishes even less. I think you both need to get out there and try to actively make changes yourselves, just as many others have tried to do in the past. You may have no effect at all; then again, you could become the catalyst this nation needs to wake up and see the evil leadership we are under. If you think we need a revolution, then revolt! If you feel that by not voting you are making a difference, then do more than just refuse to vote. Talk to people about why, and not just on geeky internet forums like this. Get out there and speak to groups, rally the folks to see the truth behind the corruption and misdeeds of our woefully inadequate government.
Wow. You know, I tend to be one of those people who are wary of our government and their privacy track record, but on all my machines, windows and *nix, my username is my first name, and my (shadowed) password is very complex. My first name is quite common, so if they are looking to glean any info from that, well more power to them. If they really want to watch my online activity I'm sure AT&T would bend over backwards to assist them without any help from my boxen.
Since we're already talking about your sig and we'll all get modded into Off-Topic Hell...
The longest leg of my commute to work is 16 miles. The speed limit for this entire leg is 65mph. The vehicle I drive has cruise control so, barring accidents or those annoying people who team up to go 45mph in both lanes side by side for six miles, I have ample opportunity to test these kinds of theories.
In short, given no obstacles, I have noticed a difference of nearly five minutes between 80mph and 65mph for the duration of that leg. My high-school level math tells me that this should be impossible; at 65mph the trip should take about 14 mins 45 secs. At 80mph it should take exactly 12 mins, for a difference of just under three minutes. Where did the other two minutes go?
My speedometer gear is in the transfer case of my vehicle, so it is measuring the rotation speed of the rear drive shaft and not the rotation speed of the wheels, so perhaps that has something to do with it; i.e. maybe I'm going faster than I think I am.
Needless to say, this has kept me up nights (not really, but it IS annoying).
Nah, Peter Gabriel had a better idea. Anyone got a battery and some wire clips?
Apples and oranges. A floating-point bug or a long-division bug or any other processor bug affects any and all software run on that machine. It's not a loss of storage space over time but a random, "your computer just barfed at the worst possible time" error. As others have pointed out, it will be at least two or more years before your 300GB flash drive degrades to 280GB. By then you will have probably replaced it with a 500GB or larger flash drive.
Where, oddly enough, the other prisoners will have unrestricted access to his inputs and outputs.
And rule-hounds like you are why I and my core group of friends migrated from D&D to the Storyteller system (White Wolf games like Vampire: The Masquerade and such). We actually wanted to (gasp!) have fun instead of drowning in the mountains of rules. In Storyteller, the GM develops a basic story outline, often with much input from the players, and then starts the improv act. It's liberating, being that much in control of your character while still having a skeleton of a backstory to keep you within sensible bounds. The only dice rolls we ever did were for situations that couldn't be properly acted out, such as fights. When you wanted to mesmerize a victim, you acted it out instead of rolling (though the rules allowed for either), and if you did it well it worked; if you didn't, well that's "life" and you learned to be a better actor.
I guess it's all about whatever makes you happy, but not everyone who is into non-computerized roleplaying can have fun with a mind full of numbers and dice rolls.
Yahoo has "fanbois"? The only people I know who prefer Yahoo to anything else are either middle-aged women or cops (sometimes both). Strangely enough, most cops I know -- and I work with lots of them every day -- are suspicious of Google. Ask them to Google something and they invariably pull up Yahoo or MSN. Do they perhaps know something we don't?
I've noticed this for a very long time, especially with the lighter music styles I enjoy. Two CDs I own immediately spring to mind. On Norah Jones' first CD "Come Away With Me", the first song ("Don't Know Why") clips in the percussion and in her voice. This is country-style jazz, not heavy metal; there should be no distortion at all in the drums and vocals but there it is. Another good example is the song "Clarity" by John Mayer. In the pre-chorus when he does the wordless vocalizations, his voice is distorted. Then when the chorus starts up, it sounds like they turned the dial to 11 on all the instruments including the acoustic guitar, rendering an otherwise eloquent jazz movement into distorted hell. You can really hear a difference between the over-compressed CD, and a live performance where all the nuances of the song come out.
I have a lot of respect for these two musicians, especially Mayer, but I just don't understand how they could allow such desecration of their art.
Speaking of hacked-up hacked-together Japanese anime, I'd love to see Macross or even US-version Robotech on the big screen in live-action, if it were done right anyway. Sadly, I doubt it would be given the proper treatment, and since it's giant transforming mechs it would be called a Transformers ripoff by the clueless masses.
You watch too many movies and/or cheesy cop shows. They can't bust in your door because the gun comes back to you and they just feel like you're the guy. First thing they will do is run your criminal history if they have enough info (and if you've obtained a firearms permit then they have enough). If they see "no record on file", they will usually try to contact you first and ask you to come in for questioning. If, however, you have a violent criminal record or if they have more than just a gun registered to you (someone saw you at or near the scene, etc.) then they will get a warrant for your arrest and ask questions after the arrest.
Then again, what do I know? I only work in law enforcement.
I understand the whole "slashdot geeks have no girlfriends" joke but really, why wouldn't a geek have a geeky girlfriend? I'm a geek, and I have a cute geeky girlfriend. We met online, she got me into World of Warcraft, and she is better at repairing laptops (soldering included) than I am. Each of us tried dating (and eventually marrying) non-geeks in the past and it never worked out; when we found each other it was a perfect fit.
/. material, I'm not so sure it deserved to be. Digg is probably more appropriate in this particular case.
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Dude, get out of the 20th century already! Marriage is so last millennium.
But thankfully, that's not how traffic laws work. The operator is the responsible party when it comes to criminal charges. The gun analogy used above is correct in that sense. For example, I let my high-school buddy Billy Bob borrow my rifle to go hunting. He uses it to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend and leaves the gun at the scene. It's traced back to me, cops come to see me but find that I've been on vacation for the two weeks surrounding the murder (plane tickets, hotel receipts and cellphone records confirm this). When I get back they question me, I tell them about Billy Bob and they find that he's skipped town. They question me but do not arrest or charge because it's clearly obvious I had nothing to do with the offense.* Sure, you can argue that perhaps I let him borrow the gun knowing what he intended, but that's a hell of a hard thing to prove without evidence like recorded phone calls and witness corroborations.
Going back to the car thing, yes as the car owner and primary insurer I am responsible for any damage caused by someone else driving my car, but the law is clear (at least in my state) that the vehicle operator is the sole responsible party for any traffic offenses.
*This actually happened several years back in my community, the gun owner was questioned but never charged or arrested.
Hey give the judge some credit, he's just following the example that our wonderful president put out there, that even if ~90% of the congress and ~90% of the American public wants something, it's still okay to veto it.
Seriously, have we ever had a president who cared less about what the people who elected him think? It's no wonder the attitude is spilling over into the judicial system.
Indeed. The only cellphone I've ever bought without first playing with it is the Treo 650 I own now. The only reason I bought it without physically checking it out first is because I've owned several Palms, including a Tungsten W, and I pretty much knew what I was going to get.
When the iPhone was first announced (which was before I got the Treo) I was stoked. I had been waiting for SO long for Apple to put out some sort of PDA/phone and I had already started saving up the cash. Then I started reading all the previews and known facts, and pretty soon I decided to go with a true smartphone/PDA instead. Why? Because with the Treo I could use all of the apps I was already familiar with; I could read ebooks, watch movies, play music, take pictures and organize photos. I could transfer all the data from my old phone as well as my old Palm and carry only one device. The only advantages the iPhone would give me were a better browser, a larger screen and more storage space. The disadvantages of the iPhone more than outweighed those few advantages and my decision was made.
Now that the iPhone is out and all the gory details have bubbled to the surface, I find myself very satisfied with my decision. The iPhone is just too hip for me, I guess.
So, I should sue Apple because my Motorola bluetooth headset has a non-user-replaceable battery? No? Okay then, I'll sue Apple because my Palm V has a non-user-replaceable battery. Oh wait, it's not Apple's fault there either. Hmm, I guess Apple isn't the only evil megacorp conspiring to steal my hard-earned cash via battery schemes after all...