Natural diamonds are for hipsters, apparently.

Thanks to everyone who has posted about this here... I just got this set up on my own Ubuntu/ssh machine in the last couple of minutes, and it's pretty slick!

I think everyone should have a serious, open discussion about 'Mater before they let their kids watch Cars.

Seriously? Do you know any 13 year olds? Remember being one? How many times as a kid/teenager did you do something horrible and later think "I was just a dumb kid, I didn't know any better"?

My mother-in-law has a fridge magnet that says something along the lines of: "Before I had kids, I had 6 theories about how to raise them. Now I have 6 kids and no theories".

It's very easy to look forward and say "When I have kids, this is what I'll do. I won't be like those stupid shitty parents who do this or that or the other, because I know better. I'll be a good one." Then you have kids, and you realize what it's like to live with them, to be responsible for them, to know how their little minds work.

I'm not saying you'll definitely change your mind, but having kids changes you, and not just in perspective. Suddenly you really have to be responsible. Suddenly you have a little buddy who pretty much worships the ground you walk on. You have an insatiable urge to impress them, to teach them, to make them laugh, and to keep them safe. Also, the more kids you have, the more you bend your life around them. Not everything's about doing what you want to do, or doing it how you want to.

Also, if you're still leaving "toys" out when your kids are teenagers, they'll start to hate you when they want to have their friends over. Even when they're younger, if they want to have friends over for play dates, you'd best be cleaning up and getting dressed before their friends' moms come over to drop them off.

Well, RIM is doing something, but they've been way too slow about it. The PlayBook was the first step, but it should have been followed much more quickly with BBOS10 phones. And this may have changed, but the last thing I heard was that for the first little while at least, the BBOS10 phones won't be compatible with BES (the server software that ties your BB to your corporate email/calendar). When it is compatible, it will be thanks to a newer version of BES, which means that corporate IT will have to upgrade their stuff, and you know how eager they'll be to do that.

The only feature RIM has to offer over anyone else is their email/calendar support. Everything else is just RIM trying to catch up. They will never beat iOS or Android in terms of apps, features, or interface. It's been 5 years now since the announcement of the first iPhone, and RIM still won't sell a phone that fits the general public's idea of a 2007-era "smartphone" for at least another 6 months. At this point, they've lost so much momentum that the only possible way to keep a real foothold is BES, but as I described above, that's a slippery foothold at best. In the meantime, even the corporate types have mostly moved on, even if their new phones aren't as tightly integrated to the company network as a BB would be.

My college library had these audio tape tours back in the day, and you were required to take them as part of the entry-level English class. One of the first stops was the newly-built Periodicals section. The tape instructed you to walk into the section, but didn't warn you to take off the headphones before walking through the magnetic gates.

Ouch.

Also, note that the appointment was made by the President, who had hated Hitler (the feeling was mutual) and resisted appointing him as chancellor for years. He was old and getting senile, and had a lot of pressure from close advisors, including his own son, to make the appointment.

January is a little optimistic. Samsung said Q1, which could mean anytime between January and March, but there are often delays with releases, so it could be later than March.

Still, Samsung is one of the fastest with their expected releases for ICS on existing phones. The other big problem is that no matter when Samsung has their own version of ICS available for any given phone, the carriers (in the US, at least) will take their own sweet time to add their crapware and test it before they will give it their blessing. Especially with the Galaxy S II, where there's one version available internationally, and each of the 3 carriers in the US has an entirely separate version, and AT&T has not one, but 2 separate (and fairly different, internally) versions of it. There are also other GSII versions in different international markets.

So unfortunately, even the mighty Galaxy S II has its work cut out for it, but the one thing it has going for it is Samsung's announced timeframe. If you have one US version, don't be surprised if you don't get ICS until months after the international version gets it, or after the other US carriers get it. If you're cool with Cyanogenmod (I have CM7.1 running on my AT&T GSII -- not the Skyrocket), you'll probably have CM9 with ICS weeks (at least) ahead of the official Samsung/Carrier release.

For us, it's worth the extra $$ to keep both the DVD and streaming services. When they made that change, we decided to dump Comcast cable, not NetFlix. So much more value for the money, even if it costs twice as much as it used to.

Who translated this article?

T-Mobile also uses SIMs. Although they are being bought by AT&T, they haven't been yet, and the buyout has a lot of challengers.

For now, if you're on AT&T, you can switch to T-Mobile. People have been unlocking iPhones to run on T-Mobile for as long as the iPhone has been around.

Also, to further point out Notes' ineptness as an e-mail program, its own built-in spell checker doesn't recognize the word "e-mail" by default.

Although to be fair, I just realized this morning that Google Chrome's own spell checker doesn't recognize the word "Gmail", either.

Actually, scroll bars are already next to useless in Notes, because the contents of the window don't update as you're scrolling. You have to pick a spot to scroll to and hope that you're roughly in the right neighborhood.

I thought the same thing when I read the summary.

I especially find it funny because the Search function in Notes sucks, so I rarely search or use folders. Back in the day, we used Outlook and work and I had the Xobni plugin installed. Now that was useful.

Funny that they would have some big study about it, when Gmail pretty much proved this same point years ago.