One could argue children do not need data plans. Also, you can afford to "travel on weekends" but not pay for at least one $30/month data plan?

Exactly, this is a perfectly reasonable anti-phishing measure that can be easily disabled, as is clearly explained in the linked article. But hey, we can't have any such pesky facts sneak into a /. summary, it might stymie some good old-fashioned MS bashing.

The problem is that if you spend $700 on a video card today, you will get the same Vsync-capped performance you would have gotten out of a $350 card, and six years from now, as you suggest it should last, you would have a brick that can't handle anything remotely modern while the hypothetical other guy would only have a three-year-old $300 card that beats your $700 six-year-old card into the ground.

Six years ago, the Core 2 Duo X6800 and GeForce 7950GX2 were the top-of-the-line parts, costing a grand and $700, respectively. Within two years, both were getting clobbered by parts that cost half as much. Today that $1700 combination wouldn't even be competitive with a $75 A6-3650.

Yes, without that 17% of the mobile market, Adobe is DOOMED! It doesn't matter that over 60% of the mobile market and 100% of the desktop market supports it, that 17% of smartphones that don't will spell their end!

Is this what Apple fanboys actually believe?

What? HTC locks their bootloaders and forces you to void your warranty (for real, by permanently modifying part of your EFS) to unlock them. Meanwhile Samsung's bootloaders are completely unlocked from the start, and they really don't seem to care at all what you do with the phone - I sent back a rooted Galaxy S running a custom ROM for warranty repairs and they sent back a new one, no questions asked. I think LG leaves their bootloaders wide open, too.

Motorola could be a wild card in this regard now that they're owned by Google. We'll see.

To be blunt: You are wrong. Only the "Extreme Edition" and later, K-series chips in the Conroe and Nehalem lines had unlocked multipliers. Similarly, AMD only provides unlocked multipliers on Black Edition and FX-series chips. This has been true at least since the Pentium II/K6-2 line.

The BCLCK is unlocked on Conroe/Nehalem allowing overclocking that way, but it's locked on Sandy Bridge because the processor now provides the clock generator for the whole system. As sort of an "olive branch" to enthusiasts, Intel actually has "limited unlocked" multipliers on their non-K-series SB chips, allowing overclocking by up to 4 bins above the standard Turbo frequencies.

Okay, the vinyl records, CRTs, incandescent light bulbs, and even the typewriter I can understand. But what could you possibly still be using that has vacuum tubes in it?

Not to mention this egregious editorial. Wherein, among other things, they claim they can't be "biased journalists" because they aren't really journalists. That's odd, I could have sworn they were whistling a different tune when the cops were breaking down their doors...

So how's that working out for you on up-to-date versions of iOS? Or any other untethered jailbreak, for that matter?

The EEE Transformer is a capacitive touchscreen; the stylus you linked wouldn't work.

How does that not fit in this case? Did you even read the next line in the summary?

You forgot "two-thirds of the world's smartphones." Android and BlackBerry OS are both heavily dependent on Java.

I'll admit, I don't know how long it took the writer of the article to do whatever he did. I'm not particularly inclined to read the article since it keeps referring to "jailbreaking" an Android device which indicates the writer has no clue what he's talking about (Android doesn't run in a chroot jail to begin with so "jailbreaking" it is meaningless). However, the entire process of taking my Galaxy S from stock to a custom ROM took about 10 minutes, and the process of changing from one custom ROM to another even less (admittedly the Titanium Backup restore takes about 45 minutes, but it's also a "fire and forget" process that runs in the background). If you could share with me where you're getting these billable contracts that pay in excess of $3000 an hour, I'd much appreciate it.