The Samsung Moment (what my wife uses) is also stock Android. Surprisingly, that didn't seem to improve the rate at which a new version of Android for her phone became available through official channels. My HTC Hero has SenseUI, and the updates for both phones came out at the same time.

Sprint has something called "premiere" status. It gives you the traditional 2-year phone discount for a contract renewal at an accelerated 1-year rate. Getting premiere status is just a matter of having a qualifying mobile plan, which is pretty easy to meet when you have a smartphone. (I.E. most, if not all, of their unlimited data plans qualify you).

Still, I bought the HTC Hero (Android) when it first came out (October '09), and now I'm drooling over the EVO. This is even after I upgraded my Hero to Eclair (Android 2.1). I'm wondering what I can do to convince Sprint to give me the discount now.

My wife is almost in the exact same boat as me. We bought the newly released Samsung Moment for her at the same time, and she'd really like to upgrade to the EVO. (/me weighs the kids' college tuitions on one hand and the phone upgrades in the other).

I'm pretty sure you're running into a problem with Chrome's DNS pre-fetching interacting badly with your OS/network. You can disable it by clearing "Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance" under Options->Under the Hood.

It's bad that this feature is enabled out of this box when it results in a failure mode for some people, particularly since Chrome is still by far the fastest browser I've used even when DNS pre-fetching is disabled.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google employee, but I am not speaking for Google)

My anecdote is that I have a 4870 and a 3200 running in crossfire on a quad-core amd box running windows. It drives three monitors plus the occasional tv output and is wonderfully stable.

The kernel is huge and bloated and our iCache footprint is scary.

I always knew there was something scary about Apple's instruction caches.

Ah, home sweet some, South Dakota. Most of the roads out by my grandparents' are still all gravel (ask me about gravel skiing some day), but it's hard to get more rural than they are.

Do they all cost too damned much and break down constantly like every other American vehicle I've ever owned?

You're kidding right? I have personally purchased three new Saturns during my lifetime, starting with a '97. Two of the vehicles now have well over 100K miles on them. I have had to do very little for repairs on any of the vehicles. It almost makes me feel bad for Saturn, because I continue to drive my old reliable car instead of coming in to purchase a new one from them. I've had to do very little in terms of repairs on these vehicles and two of them have over 100K miles on them. My mother, however, owns a piece of crap Kia, which has been nothing but trouble for here.

"Amazon women in the Mood" - "You win again gravity" - "I never thought it would end this way, but I'd always kind of hoped" (Fry on learning he would die by "SnuSnu")

Those are some good quotes from that episode, but my personal favorite was: "She's built like a steakhouse but she handles like a bistro." Makes me laugh just thinking about it.