Really? You walk through one of the two most affluent suburbs of DC and act shocked that you were safe? A place where 150 year old row houses sell for 800000? You're being deliberately obtuse, go walk around south east at midnight and you'll be thinking differently. Also, realize that Arlington and Alexandria are both cities in Virginia, Alexandria being a part of Fairfax county, a county with one of the largest median incomes in the country. The key point being that they're in Virginia though, not in DC.

The end result is that it that harder for web apps.

Doh, thats what I get for not RTFA. So this ruling really only applies to a fairly specific set of conditions? Is the headline of 'First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply to Licensed Software' accurate?

I don't understand how this is any different. Surely AutoDesk doesn't sell directly to consumers. Which would mean, instead of publishers dealing with retailers with a wholesaler middle man, we have publishers dealing with consumers with the retailers as middle men. Right?

When did half life two come out? I remember my machine at the time didn't have internet (no modem, and I was living at my parents without broadband) and I was irate that my brand new single player game needed to get on the internet before I could even install it!

So anyway, Wikipedia says Nov 2004 is when HL2 was released, and while it might not have been the first, thats still 5.5 years ago they were implementing what blizzard seems to be implementing here.

It really has been a while since we had un-restrictive drm in games. Funny how we just get used to it after a while...

An echo of the Great Lisbon Earthquake.  Once again the question arises if  God is good and omnipotent.  Pat Robertson is convinced God is (good and omnipotent) and therefore there must be a sin preceding the event.

Ah, the religion of technology. So amazingly worthless.

Your right all sports are fixed.

Perhaps it is mainly in the web forms where it really slows down, but I tend not to use it for that - in the SMS interface and the facebook app it is very responsive.

It would be nice to be able to go back and correct the autocorrect if it picks the wrong word if you are going too fast - a double tap or something that could pop up a list of options, or the ability to just type the word you meant and replace it without having to delete.

As far as I know, you can't "officially" add words to the database - it just seems to learn based on the times you correct it and is more likely in future to offer words that you use when you overrule it. It also learns words and terms that you frequently capitalise, and looks up people's names from your address book as a spelling source so I guess you could use an ugly hack of adding a list of words as a contact to your address book that it would then use as a source.

I don't type in web forms very much with it at all, so I am not seeing the super slowdown - I do notice that the phone generally struggles with performance in the web browser, so I guess it is not surprising and would make the keyboard a pain to use.