Unfortunately, that still doesn't answer the question of "Why would you want the sound to pass through a wall prior to recording it?"

Where are the +1 Funny upvotes for this?

PowerPoint is like Heroin... Both were marketed as "The Cure for What Ails You" but they just result in lost productivity.

Here's a logical usage taxation for vehicles: Tax the tires. They have a limited lifespan which is already measured in miles. Additionally, the lifespan is reduced if they are not maintained properly (which also leads to increased wear on the roads). Wear out the tires sooner, you'll have to buy new tires sooner, which means that more taxes will be paid for higher roadwear vehicles. The more tires your vehicle has, the more wear you are likely placing on the roads, and thus the more taxes your vehicle will be providing for road maintenance. You can even have varying taxes based on the intended usage of the tires: Farm tractor tires would pay less in road maintenance taxes (since they spend most of their time off the road). Racing tires would also pay less (perhaps almost none) since they would rarely, if ever, be used on public roadways.

I voted based on the concept of "locked software", though I am an American. My phone is CDMA, so it is "locked to a carrier" automatically. CDMA phones do not have a SIM card that can be replaced (though some of the CDMA phones support a SIM card as well for use on GSM networks outside the US)

I have a WebOS phone. Palm (and now HP) had a very developer friendly approach. The tools to develop are free, including the emulator, and the documentation tells you how to unlock any WebOS device (by typing "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" into the phone). On top of that, all of the built-in apps have the full source and can be changed on the phone.

+1 for being truly open source, +1 for using the Konami Code.

Strangely... I almost feel like rooting for the RIAA on this one... a 75 trillion dollar payout would be a helluva lot of tax income. If only 10% of it were taken in taxes, it would pay off half the national debt. 20% and it's fully paid, with a few 100 billion to spare.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Apple stopped being the computer of choice for schools in the early 90s. I attribute their decline to Wozniak's departure. Jobs has the marketing know-how, but Woz was the innovator. The last time Apple was the pioneer in their field was when the Apple II series was in its heyday. Everything they've done since then, someone else did first. Apple just did a better job at marketing.

The choice that was referred to was that the consumer does not have the choice of choosing an ISP that does not cap (*although that's not necessarily true). The consumer "can" choose not to deal with caps by choosing not to have internet access, but that's something else entirely.

* Consumers can opt for business-class ISP service, which is typically not capped (even by Comcast), but you will also pay a significant premium for it.

Although I don't particularly care for Comcast's business practices, they do provide a way to check what your current usage is for the month (along with how far you got through your quota in previous months)

Log into your account on Comcast's website and go to "Users & Settings"

Actually, for that format, you could use all of any repeating number. For the more "advanced" CD Key which had 4 digits in the first group, you just had to change the 4th digit until it worked (i.e. 9990-999999999, 9991-999999999, etc.)

All of the apps (except those built with the PDK) are HTML and Javascript.

While I'm not happy with my current WebOS phone (the Pixi Plus that I had to beg for from Verizon's third-party insurance provider to replace the Palm Plus that had a cracked screen), I love the OS. Even the built-in apps can be modified.

One feature that I eventually had to resort to Help to find was the Autocorrect settings (specifically to add context-specific abbreviations to the list that would automatically be expanded to the full text). This was very easily found via menus and damn near impossible via the ribbon.

Pray you never want to buy a Myst game for your PS3... They'd probably do something really asinine like having to enter the keycode using the D'ni alphabet and numbers.

I, for one, do not consider an "open standard" to mean one you can read the specs for BEFORE you purchase the license, rather than after. "Open" to me, means unencumbered.

Keeping H.264 in the code would also mean that they'd have to maintain separate codebases if they wanted to publish their changes back up (which is how open source is supposed to work): Chrome - Chromium - WebKit - Konqueror