they give you a $10 gift card to use in the store as well - so it is a wash.

No, it sounds to me like you're still out $10.

A real nerd would have a Mac Mini in the car with 100+ DVD's on an actual hard disk, serving up movies from iTunes to all of the iPads in the car over wireless.

Any business thats sole source of income is advertisements is fail. It will never last long. I really wish people were more anti-advertisements. It really is a serious problem.

With every Apple related post, there's always the angry slashdot guy who is mad that Apple killed the:

a) floppy disk
b) serial port
c) CD-ROM
d) DVD
e) USB1
f) CRT monitor
g) all of the above

It's ok though. The world's economy needs as many people to hang on to old-media as long as possible.

Of course, the OMAP is more of a mobile kind of part. I wasn't suggesting that particular board. I've heard good things about Marvell's implementation of the ARM architecture.

What I want to see are "performance" offerings with proper interconnects (especially Gigabit Ethernet and SATA) and multiple Cortex-A9 cores. That'd be great for all kinds of server applications, datacenter or home alike. The thing with Marvell's fast chips is that they seem to implement just the old ARMv5 instruction set, which is no fun. They also have ARMv7 versions, but those are for mobile applications mostly (e.g. single core).

Western Europe, sure, but trains in Eastern Europe are slow and loooong.

And for all your effort you'll get a grand total of... $100. Yay! That'll show 'em!

And if your starting point is Nothern Finland, to get to Iceland you need to go quite a lot to the west, and a bit to the south...

(Unless there's another vulcano on the North Pole ^.^)

People get all sorts of mad over the "corporations as people" thing, because it sounds terrible on the front of it. The most recent addition to this argument, though, deserves a closer look than most people give it.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was, at its core, about Citizens United being unable to promote and advertise its documentary, Hillary: The Movie. Now, you may not know, but Citizens United is a non-profit political organization. Under the McCain-Feingold Act, they were prohibited from showing this movie on TV or promoting it publicly so close to an election, because it was about a particular candidate. Many people, I'm sure, would not deny that Citizens United had the right to do this.

The Supreme Court ruled that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment. Of course, this brings up horrible images of huge faceless corporations running elections in their favor. However, the ruling was made on the case of a small, politically oriented non-profit. Perhaps the Court overstepped here, but where do you draw the line? There are other corporations like CU where they should have the right to financially support political broadcasts. Clearly something is wrong with the current law. What do we change to make this all make sense?

This Supreme Court ruling was not something evil. It was made to correct something seen as wrong with our current laws. The Court overturned a previous law they saw as unconstitutional; this is in their right. It is not in their right to create a new, better law to replace it, and they haven't. That is the role of Congress.

If you don't like the state of things, don't blame the ruling. They acted according to the rights and role they have. Go write Congress and get them to enact a saner law in the void that is now left.

The president-director of the KLM was on-board of one of the first test flights. So he put his money where his mouth is.

Source:http://nos.nl/artikel/151324-klm-voert-testvlucht-uit.html

Proper regulation will. Regulation that truly serves the consumers and not the Service providers and politicians.
The service industries "helped" the politicians write the regulations, they "helped" the politicians re-write the de-regulation policies.
The separation of Business and State is just as important as the separation of Church and State.

We The People means the governed constituency and not governing body.

Yep, if Oracle can't figure out what to do with all these great projects, they'll be letting someone else pick them up who does know how.

I think we need something along the lines of what you do with kids when they have to split something like pie. One of them cuts it in half, but the other one gets to decide which half they get. Therefore the kid making the cut has a great incentive to be fair. I'm not sure how you would do that in politics, though.

I think Government / User should start thinking Internet as "Road" in real life. It should be a government's job to make sure the road is good, and free for everyone (from tax). No private company should dictate how many time you can walk on the "Road" (Internet) and how popular you're (such as Youtube). If that's the case, then New York City should start charging all retail store or company that attract so much tourist into Manhattan for the "Road" that they maintains.

I just tried it and it's pretty clear why Apple approved it. Opera Mini is so vastly inferior to the built in safari that all of the non-slashdotites who try it will instantly lose any desire they had for alternative browsers.

Even the nytimes site that is in the default bookmarks is unreadable, and when you try to two-finger zoom in it moves you to some pre-set zoom level that's too far in.