Most of the windows users I support or know use Yahoo for search. Even the more technically minded ones. I suspect it's because at one point they had a ISP dictated homepage in partnership with yahoo they never changed and now think of yahoo as search. I use "google" as a verb and search with it in front of them all the time and it does nothing to get them to switch.

I've used Bing and it is a perfectly good search engine. I could picture switching from google if they continue to add more crap to their search page. As it is now I will hit the link to google and start typing and the first few characters don't show up because of all the other services loading at the top of the page. Used to not be like that...

I get it with the mobile version but the desktop OSX? Really? The same desktop OSX that recently gained UNIX certification with all that entails?

Me thinks you are being just a bit melodramatic...

First off: Duh! I get how LCI's work. I'm asking if other phones will suffer the same effect or are they somehow better sealed or insulated against environmental extremes. And if not then why is this specifically leveled against Apple and not the cell phone industry as a whole?

O' dense AC...

Is this unique to the iphone or will some/most/all cell phones have their LCI tripped if treated in this way?

They have to have time to set up the porta-potty banks and food vendors.

And a beer hall. Got to have a beer hall.

After all, what is a revolution without proper support?

Bring on the Epsilons...

How is Google making money on this and is this going to annoy me enough to stick with what I have?

On both counts.

I think it's more jailbroken ipod touches than phones. My nephews indicate that jailbroken (correct word?) ipod touches are very common among the grade school set, and their ipods were chock full of games they downloaded for free...

Back in 1982 or 1983, the reading list was:

Dune
Stand on Zanzibar
Stranger in a strange land
Siren's of Titan
Left hand of Darkness

Today I would swap out Stand on Zanzibar for something cyberpunk and probably Siren's of Titan for something more modern. Dune and Stranger in a strange land have aged better and are more classic IMO. I was never that great of a fan of Left hand of Darkness...

Considering the energy savings, a slightly dimmed future is more like it.

And go beyond the web. The problems with good CMYK implementation has been talked about quite a bit but what I rarely have seen mentioned is Pantoneï. Corporate art departments live on pantone colors and swatch books for anything printed, painted or applied. If the program doesn't have Pantone it's too limited to be a professional app in the print arena. Pantone charges for it's technology, therefore is unlikely to be in Open Source apps.

Now if someone would come up with an open source alternative with printed swatch books...

To add to that:

If you took a completely alien language, encrypted it. Compressed the hell out of it, then applied 10,000 to a million years of technological advancement to the sending of it, would we even be able to notice it from background noise? Even if radio was still used to send it?

Good luck running your computer with Windows on it...

Rockstar is part of take-two. If any development house could handle this project, not destroy the theme and put out a polished, good game it would be rockstar...