We have one here in Las Vegas called "The Pinball Hall of Fame" that is a beloved destination by all: http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

Definitely check it out sometime :)

They're especially annoying when you're on a tablet or lower resolution device and the close button is off the side where you can't scroll to it because of the stupid absolute / fixed positioning.

Maybe a startup test would work, but dunno how consistent that would be... if you tested more often, you'd impact performance badly.

Current iPhones don't have 4G yet either. In June when Apple announces the next "magical" phone with 4G, it can have hardware WebM decoding if they want... most of the fanbois will upgrade right away.

Sounds like a decent method, but even a 25% success rate in automated spam postings would be a success for the spammers.
Doesn't even hurt them if you go to 9 or 10 images.

Unfortunately for limited resources like radio frequencies or wires underground or hung above a road, there's not any alternatives to "regulated monopolies" except for government constructed and maintained shared infrastructure which brings about its own set of problems (worse or better?)....

There's not a perfect solution yet... maybe someday something like subspace communications, UWB or the (impossible) quantum entanglement communication will allow a true competitive environment for communication.

Electricity, gas lines, sewer, and water all have the same limitations. (Unless you can construct an off-the-grid building).

It does sound like an inside job... but I suppose they do need to implement a solution now.

Since the SIM cards themselves are pretty cheap, they're not making money off the raw materials or anything.... just do the following:

1. Work with the cell phone company to lock the SIMs to only dial a list of phone numbers, everything else fails and notifies someone.
2. Super glue the SIM cards in the slot or encase the local area around them in some kind of epoxy or acrylic... SIM cards shouldn't need to be replaced or fail before the electronics.

This is what I did... The hardware is great, but I wish the screen was a good IPS instead of an average TN...

I fully recommend using the XDA "fixed" versions of the interface, the one from Viewsonic is slow as molasses and basically tries to make your Tegra based tablet into a glorified picture frame....

This solution is not for someone who wants a perfect working tablet now... For that, the Samsung Tab is probably the best available (assuming you didn't get an order in for the first production run of the Notion Ink Adam).

I bought it because I consider it a "preview" of the hardware of all the "to be launched" tablets... I really wish Viewsonic had just gave us stock Android 2.2 instead of crapping all over it with a custom awful GUI though.

I completely expect to be able to run Honeycomb on it once it's released through a XDA version of the ROM from another Tegra tablet... I doubt Viewsonic will ever make the GUI as good as it should be.

An error? You click "play MP3" and it says "hey, your retarded country's laws have prevented this file from playing out of the box with free software; if you want to play MP3s, you just have to click this button for us to work around the stupid patenting ideas concept legally" and then wow, it works. Seems like the only possible legal solution to me, not an error.

Scotty was already an older man when he got stuck in the transporter, he would've been much too old to survive if he'd aged any while in suspension. Oh boy, my geek is showing.

Time for me to break out the ancient VBScript skills and write a util for all those Admins out there looking for a way!

Really guys? Change the picturepush urls from www2 and www4 to just www and avoid killing two of their servers.

They're up there because they're trying to be a patent troll themselves. The patents they're suing Google over could be applied to any modern language, not just Java; Oracle is just that kind of company too.
Plus, they're probably the worst offender of vertical lock-in out there outside of SAP (who should probably be in my list at number 5).
Oracle is also beating up on OpenOffice, Java, MySQL, and if you've ever worked with any of their products (ADF and JDeveloper I hate you) and the consultant army required to use their stuff, you'd hate them too :P

I actually think Apple is on the verge of bumping MS out for my #2 spot as they continue to grow and Jobs becomes more self-absorbed. Though just when I think that, I have to deal with .docx or Exchange and they re-solidify their list placement.

maybe just "F'AIL"