So do you have your own orange tree? Do you eat it? If not why don't you, despite land being quite cheap in the USA? (If you not in the USA, sorry)

When was this? Please define 'major levels.'

If the games are too expensive and don't offer enough replayability, rental is a good option. Try Gamefly.

As for a console that could download $10-$15 games: XBox Live Arcade is fantastic.

No, the best security is one where people don't know which procedure you're using AND the procedure itself is well known and still secure. Security through obscurity isn't the best form of security, but it does add an extra layer of strength.

If I'm reading the HM Revenue and Customs website properly, the WiFi-only version will not be subject to import duty because both "Laptop and desktop PCs" and "Palm-held portable" computers are both exempt.

The WiFi+3G model will be subject to import duty, because it could reasonably be described as a "PDA with GPS".

Are you referring to BPBATCH (Free as in beer)? That became Rembo (Not free, but we got a forever unlimited site licence for some few thousand pounds...)? That is now IBM Tivoli Deployment Manager (Massively not free)? We've used it for ten years, and it's excellent.

If protecting inventions is at the heart of high tech competitiveness, plans underfoot at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will critically wound small companies.

Luckily, protecting inventions is not at the heart of competitiveness. Patents are, by nature, a short-term monopoly on a technology. They are anti-competitive. Their intent was to spur risky innovation, and we can argue about whether or not that works in a low-barrier-to-entry market like software, but reducing patents can only increase competition.

I'd like the evolution deniers to come explain this. Yes, it only takes two successive reproductions for the resistance mutation to be successful. And pretty soon it's spreading all over the land mass. Billions and billions of chances for the right mutation to have occurred since the resistant crops and Roundup spraying combination was introduced. Roundup takes care of all the competition in the gene pool pretty efficiently! I just pray that the evolution deniers that couldn't forsee this don't conclude that an engineered virus is the best way to dispatch weeds next. Yeah, those never evolve and cross-over to species. Say corn and wheat? Oh, they'll just "patch that" with new virus-resistant corn and wheat? Sure. Because corporate profits should surely trump biodiversity in crops. Perhaps a little legislation and regulation to make sure we don't make the planet die?

I'd say the design limitation is the 16GB of storage on the iPhone. (as opposed to the Droid which can easily be updated when 32gb micro SD cards come out) If a person can't figure out how to store graphics and level maps on the SD card, I don't think that person has any business designing games.

So, the "turn around and cancel" option is $179 + $350 ... for a net price of $529. Identical to the "just buy it unlocked" price.

Seems like a 100% reasonable ETF to me (far moreso than Verizon's ETF of twice the phone "discount" to cover "phone assistance" and "network upgrades" per their statement to the FTC).