Well, technically, Apple launched exclusively with Cingular, then they merged with AT&T.

Relax, I was going for funny. I guess that didn't work.

And exclusively with AT&T?! Let me rush right out of here... and start shorting AMZN.

But now you have, so it must be true! :)

I believed it until the IPO. Once a company goes public, all bets are off.

Also, Nixon was never impeached. He resigned before it got that far.

unless I drop cable entirely, which means giving up Game of Thrones, so screw that.

Oh, the horror! I guess not supporting Fox News isn't really that important after all.

You can get away with it if you consistently have one character that gets 1st person (generally your protagonist), with other sections/chapters in 3rd person, especially if the protagonist isn't present. The one that bothers me though is a wandering POV. I'm in character A's head, oh now I'm in character B's head two paragraphs (and no section/chapter break) either. Frank Herbert pulled that off occasionally, but most people trying to emulate that style fall on their faces.

The GP should say "publicly traded corporations" not just corporations in general. Being a private corporation, it can be run pretty much by whatever mandate the owner(s) want to, as long as what is done is not otherwise illegal. Newegg is privately held.

What sort of thinking would lead to the idea of banning sunscreen in the first place? With some people having a genetic propensity to things like skin cancer (my wife's family, and therefore MY son included in that), I'd tell them to fuck right off with their sunscreen ban.

I thought it was 59.5. Did they change that?

I have a friend who has the Moto X and frankly won't shut up about how much he loves it. :-)

I've been underwhelmed by the new Samsung offerings, and I still love my Note 2 so I will be carrying this for quite a while.

Oh? I have a SIM card in my Verizon phone. It's required for LTE.

The actual D2 reveal? The fold back control panel for the pilot was sexy as hell. I wished they'd shown a bit more of it. Earth landings with retro rockets! Now THAT'S a spaceship!

I'm a software engineer, but I don't care for Java. I like python, perl is meh, I despise PHP, and JS isn't as bad as people seem to think (working with the DOM is a mess, but that's not JS's fault). Frankly, I've not found a web development technology I really like yet. Fortunately, I don't have to do much of that being a systems software guy. When I do, I hold my nose and get it done.

I've been using Go lately, which has a couple warts but also some cool things (defer is simply brilliant). Also plinking with Scala a little, which I'm liking.

Java, PHP, mod_perl, Django, node.js, Flask. I'm sure there's more. I'm not much of a web developer, thankfully. None of the above constitutes endorsement. 3 of them I actively hate working with. Which three are an exercise left to the reader. :-)