I am a Russian citizen and do not believe western democracy is the best form of government. I also think you believe it not because of some deep comparison and analysis you performed but because it has been beaten into you head since you were a kid. Democracy is just a way to elect a strong capable leader. We already have a strong leader and a system that passes authority to another strong leader. Why do we need crazy election eccentrics? On the other hand I have been following Western election and USA elections in particualr and I do not for a second beleive the system worked to provide you with a good leader. If the system worked than why was Bush Jr, the president, not once but TWICE?? Was he really the most capable man for the job in America for whole eight years? If the system misfires so badly why keep it.

"Unlimited" is just a holdover from 56k modem times. They offered a number of minutes per month for the basic subscription fee, and over time as AOL and MSN and the occasional third leg battled it out for customers that number increased fairly consistently. Pretty soon it was $20 for unlimited internet. 5k transfer per second, 2592000 seconds, that's 12960000k or 12656m or 12GB. It would be impossible for you to download more data than that (we'll ignore compression since the limit ignores compression, and today's compression is better if not eactly the same).

If you consider your bandwidth as above, there is an upper limit on your current transfer per month, which is the unit by which you're paying. So it's imposible to offer "unlimited" access is there is a bandwidth limit. $20 for 12GB then would be maybe $30 now - for a 12GB limit? 24GB would probably be worth $40, unlimited would be pretty expensive.

So even limited, we're a lot better off. If we understand there's always a limit, that is, and if the ads quit saying "unlimited". The dial-up days are over, we're buying in bulk now.

Holy shit -- I actually agree with westlake. This Sam Imperial White must be some good beer...

Seriously, I don't have a problem with how Canonical is approaching this. They are making this license easily available to OEM hardware vendors, if the vendors wish to purchase it. That's important for vendors who want to sell consumer-ready devices with Ubuntu pre-installed, in countries like the US that lumber beneath the yoke of intellectual monopoly laws.

Intellectual monopoly laws are unjust, and we should all work to have them repealed or struck down. One could plausibly argue that, until they are overturned, conscientious citizens have a moral obligation to violate them. It is however much tougher to argue that a company such as a hardware vendor has a right, much less a duty, to civil disobedience.

I'm lucky in that I live near a MicroCenter store, and they are currently selling the i5-750 for $180 and the i7-860 for $200.

Since they both use the same socket, the extra $20 for a lot more performance (133-266MHz, depending on turbo-boost, plus twice the threads and better virtualization) is a no-brainer. Even with the $40 bundle discount on AMD CPU/motherboard from MicroCenter, Intel is still far and away the price/performance leader.

Yeah, they also had to pay off retailers to keep them loyal.

Things could have been considerably different today, with athlon beating PIII's (in performance and price), as well as netburst being a major fail on release (and arguably during it's entire lifetime). Crooks.

Same. $2/GB if you go over, too. You get a warning page at 75% and 100% (and the one time I went over without realizing it, I really wish they'd given another at 110%, if only so I wouldn't be so surprised by the bill)

And I'm sorry for my rude reply; I was out of line.

You know, a 15 second Google search would have turned up the results: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24630623195&sid=5000

Good idea. Don't forget to tell them why you didn't buy it.

Here's a link to the developer's (Proper Games) contact page: http://www.proper-games.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=55

And here's one to the publisher's (Capcom) contact page: https://shop.capcom.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayContactFormPage&SiteID=capcomus&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&resid=S9FRGwoBAiMAAFFzqmEAAAAD&rests=1272009021063

If you'd actually read the article, you'd know why they consider it to be a next gen Apple phone (many parts inside branded APPLE, in a case designed to make it look like a 3G iPhone, behaves just like an iPhone when you connect it to a Mac, uses the Mac proprietary dock connector, etc, etc). Are you saying that everyone at Engadget had been fooled, or are you saying they are playing a late April Fools joke on us? Frankly I don't think either is very likely.

I'm pretty sure they meant remote as in "Look, good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living? That's something else."
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Remote

They make pretty good coworkers, I guess. They never seem to get tired but sometimes they float over and start zapping me. Usually when that happens I just put the blast shield down on my helmet and curl up into a ball.

Presidential records and emails were lost on other systems

That was by design. Then the sysadmin died under suspicious circumstances right before testifying about it.

The Iraq-Iran war was over 20 years ago. They could have rebuilt their refining capabilities by now had they chosen to do so.

Not that easy when the worlds industrialised nations have an embargo against you. Iran has to buy almost all its computer technology off the black market seeing as Intel and AMD aren't permitted to sell to Iran. Add to this the difficulty of getting in skilled Oil and Gas engineers, given the O&G engineering field is centred around Houston (US), Glasgow (Scotland) and Perth (Australia) all of these nations flatly refuse to do business with Iran.

It's not just a matter of choosing to do so, Iran would have chosen to do so by now to comply with their doctrine of no critical imports but it's not easy to build a refinery under ideal circumstances, it's nigh impossible to do it when you cant get the parts or the brains you need for the job.

In their patent they say that DC motors don't provide enough torque at higher speeds.

Guantanamo Bay hasn't been closed yet because the previous administration didn't care enough about many of the prisoners there to keep proper files on why they were there in the first place, and they don't want to release everyone on the grounds that they don't quite remember what they did. Granted, a lot of them shouldn't have been there in the first place, but they don't want to accidentally release some criminals along with however many presumably innocent people are there...the point is that they don't know whether releasing them or not would be really, really dangerous, and they're trying to find places to move them while they figure it out.

Similarly, with the health care reform...well, I don't know if you've heard, but there's been somewhat of a debate on the issue holding it up a bit? Nothing huge, it'll probably blow over soon.