Had a sudden thought when you mentioned 'augmented reality'
Maybe it would bring awareness if someone created an 'app' that showed the following:
A person is standing on a street with their iPhone (or gPhone).
Looking through the iPhone you see a duplication of the houses you see through the person's eyes.
Zoom in to the iPhone and see 2 things on each house:
1) A number with a dollar sign and the word 'goods' after it.
2) A line of text like 'vacation', 'at work', 'at home', or 'nosy neighbor'

Right, because it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that maybe there is a cultural connection, and they felt he would represent them more.
If what you say is true, then no African-American candidate anywhere would lose where the majority of the voting population was African-American, and I don't see any evidence to back that up.

Only if MySQL was the only other DB left. Its not even the only large DB left.
There's still Microsoft SQL, and I don't think Oracle will kill that beast that quickly.
There are also plenty of other DB's available.
MySQL can already fork its current state, so I would ask, why does the EU need the trademark of MySQL to remain outside the influence of Oracle?

I think the reverse also holds as I've had to correct a number of European friends about various items over the years. One was even afraid to come over here because she thought she'd get sued as soon as she stepped off the plane.

Don't forget to add in the total lifetime of netbooks.
For most new types of products it takes a while to determine exactly how they are used and what needs to be done to improve reliability.
Laptops now have some features in them to help reliability that weren't there in the earlier years.

Heck their are whole new products built to be 'tough' to handle rougher treatment.
same thing for cellphones

Wrong: http://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/faq.php

No, you don't. You can do development in any text editor and compile with mono.
also, there are free (as in beer) licences of VS express.

Think teacher's are so bad? Try doing it yourself, and then come back here and tell us how easy it is that you shouldn't get paid that much for it?
Put up or shut-up.

1) You are assuming someone could get a comparable job for just 3 months (more likely, they'd be lucky to even get a minimum wage job for that length).
2) You assume that during those 3 months, teachers are on vacation just like the kids, and not doing any training, lesson plan improvements, etc.
3) You miss the GP's point that you are only taking days into account, if you count the hours teachers work, their hourly rate would be much lower as plenty of teachers (my wife is one) work 10+ hours each day, and exceed that numerous times throughout the year (extra grading to do, parent teacher conferences, etc...)

I do agree to some extent with you that there are many problems with the education system that are not salary related, but they do contribute to the problem.

I know one other person who's hours, and stress level are the same as my wife's, and he makes quite a lot more then her.

Actually it does seem silly that cordless phones couldn't be 'synced' with a local computer.
My Logitech remote can do it, and has cool features, why couldn't the cordless phone.
it wouldn't even have to be all that complicated (I've seen some people mentioning asterisk).

Meaning if there is demand for a service with higher caps that people are willing to pay extra for, there will likely be a supplier. If Comcast doesn't provide it, they'll lose customers to those that do.

But the point is, now you know the limit. To use their system means you will follow their usage terms.
That's somewhat better then before which was that they consider you an excessive user without knowing why.
This enables you to decide if another service (if available) offers a higher cap, or to negotiate with Comcast for a new service that allows a higher cap.
Before, you didn't know so there was no way to compare.
For me 250GB is well beyond my current access, and I play online games, watch netflix on demand, and TV shows online.
If their numbers are believable their info page says 125 standard definition movies (at ~2GB each) which is ~ 4 full movies per day every day for a month.

The linked PDF says what is required, though in reading the FCC filing, the summary is a bit incorrect.
Basically Comcast has 2 levels in the tier (called PBE and BE)
Everyone starts out as PBE level.
To get moved from PBE to BE, all of the following have to occur
- That particular network segment needs to be 'nearing congestion' defined as 70% upstream limits or 80% downstream limits for 15 minutes.
- A particular user has to be 'significantly contributing' defined as 70% upstream or downstream limits for 15 minutes.
Being placed in BE means that if there is congestion (meaning priorities have to be determined) any delays will affect BE traffic before PBE traffic.

To be removed from BE status you have to drop below 50% for 15 minutes

I think it is good that these are coming out in the open and being shared, and I think it is a step in the right direction since they state they will no longer use a protocol based management method. If there is congestion on a network, someone has to suffer, and it seems reasonable that those placing the highest load should be the ones to feel the effects first.

I do think, however, they need to mention more explicitly that the speeds they market are theoretical maximum allotments, and to give a average attainable bandwidth if everyone in their (block, building, etc) were to maximize usage.

what kind of cats does your neighborhood have? In my neighborhood, the trash cans are robust enough not to be knocked over by anything smaller then a teenager.

This prevents all of the following from cause the same problem you mention:
cats
dogs
raccoons
coyotes
deer
squirrels
any other animal that desires people food (pretty much all of them).

ads and marketing not comparing apples to apples in order to make their own product/service look better

I'm shocked....