What about the ipod touch? if you put the two devices together then they do have a substantial market share. Competition law could come into play here. You are right that it wouldn't be exactly like Microsoft's case but it might be for a judge to decide whether or not Apple is playing fair.

In context he was right... search engines retain information and he cant guarantee that google can keep the information that it gathers private. His inner politician must have been off that day because he should have used more PC words. But i actually applaud him for being honest, and saying something that we all know to be true... with the patriot act in play, no information is private or safe if the feds want it.

You're underlying issues arnt with google but with all search engines because they are required to keep this information.

Or an awful lot that are currently going to college and serving in the military at the same time, and are becoming more educated.

Dude... they just released it. Tom Tom sucked when it was first released, and you have to pay for upgrades. Google collects massive amounts of data (it's what they specialize in). They've only just started to put it all together. Imagine a couple of releases later. This service will rock, give it time.

To play games online you do have to update.

Agreed, but

People who "live off of" soda and bags of chips tend to be poorer and less educated http://dailyuw.com/2009/1/23/paying-price-obesity/. These people also are the sickest and use up a substantial portion of health care resources - and general welfare resources. Have you seen the US's balance sheet lately? We can't afford to simple "not judge" obesity. Turning a blind eye, as you seem to imply is not even an attempt at a solution.

This company makes a fantastic on street meter: http://ipsgroupinc.com/

Is it not time to require recycling of plastic, glass, and metal for everybody? It really doesn't take that much effort, and it has cut down on my trash output so much that I no longer have trash service. Between recycling and composting I throw away 1 bag of trash every 2 weeks, which I drive to the dump myself for free.

If that is too cumbersome for most people then how about the federal government impose packaging standards that helped reduce waste? For example, how about we promote "refills" for things like detergent, and soaps instead of buying the whole plastic container again? It seems like something simple like that would have immediate impact in help solving pollution problems like this as well as using less plastic (or foreign oil to take it to another level).

But surely there comes a point where the almighty powerful unions realize that the US government cannot keep them afloat any longer. Eventually somebody will have to pay the pied piper and they will be stuck with either nothing or some compromise. The longer GM waits for bankruptcy the less that will be available for UAW to negotiate.

That's exactly the thing. People considered a gas/electric hybrid when gas was $4.00 a gallon. You had to get on a waiting list to get a prius. There was high demand. There was a huge green push. It was even a national security campaign issue, "rid ourselves of foreign oil" push. This was like 6 months ago.

Now gas has gone back down to the $1.75-$2.00 range and all is forgotten.

Yes we need electric cars, yes we need better battery technology. Yes we need energy independence.

If putting it on a netbook would add to its development then i'm all for it. You are right that it has some crazy limitations but perhaps some increased exposure would lead to better / more stable releases.

I'm pretty sure the address space is > 64BM though.

I have an HTC shadow that runs 6.0 with the neo interface, and although some things are a little annoying... for the most part it's a pretty solid UI, probably the best i've every had. YMMV