You can. I upgraded from a Treo 755p to the Pre, and Palm has a little app on their website to move data over. You just run it on the pc that was the Palm desktop on it (and has your new Pre connected) and (almost) everything moves over. It wasn't able to copy over a few of my calendar events. There was a log to tell me which ones. Basically, its calendar can't handle some of the more advanced repeating options that their old one could (ie repeat every monday, tuesday, thursday from date X to date Y). I hope they fix that. I miss that functionality most...

I can't comment on Apple, but Microsoft and Sony both have only kept partial backwards compatibility in their new consoles. I am, of course, assuming this is what you are speaking of. The new PS3s actually have no PS2 backwards compatibility. The 360 has only limited backwards compatibility - basically only the popular titles from the classic XBOX lineup.

Wait ... what? http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

I believe the existence of this article kind of proves that not all people are socially-inclined either.

I believe the lights they typically use for street lights are already very efficient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_lamp

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html The terms seem to be very region-dependant.

You are hugely mistaken. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html

Personally, I would think that having developers that actually like to play the game they are developing would be a big benefit to the playerbase, albeit indirectly. Speaking personally, I am much more likely to put extra effort into a project I have affinity for. In addition, having the developers playing the game allows them to get firsthand looks at how things are going out there, and get ideas for how things should be improved. Getting this information through analysts, of one kind or another, is rarely as useful - in my experience, that is. YMMV.