not really, most of the time you can download a backup or copy (whats the difference?) before your service goes down. unless they are total sociopaths...

from experience, ms has tended to ditch technologies. usually no upgrade or migration path and usually without warning or option to transfer to open source support, since its all propitiatory. i know most tech is forgotten and thrown out after 2 years, but Microsoft brings their own salted earth philosophy to their discarded tech.

my point is having a backbone can be seen as a good thing by prospective employer, not everyone is trying to hire a jellyfish

this and you have no backbone, standing up to a prospective employer can be seen as a good thing.

same, should go w the cheap stuff, but it tastes like hell and give nasty hangovers... :(

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Hermann Göring

boa charged me $1 per 10c app, to bad google doesnt have a basket of some sort instead of charging individually

crap companies like this is why mother nature is bankrupt...

could be they are afraid you will use a sim from a different carrier?

Back in those days, child labor and beating your children was acceptable, this allowed them to be more creative and have more drive to change their situation.

Now we mostly hand kids anything they want, and they have no drive to do anything, we protect them from everything, they have no ability to be more creative to protect themselves.

While I am not advocating selling your children to slavery and beating them, I would certainly push to find ways to enhance their ambition and creativity, and not protecting them from EVERYTHING, this is not helping them.

yo dog, i heard you liked android.....

don't piss off the japanese!

no innovation for USA, everything is blanket copyrighted here, if we tried something like this, we would be sued into oblivion.

anything we put into new technology just ends up in the patent portfolio's pocket with their blanket 'innovations'

yes, if there are enough of these complaints, then UPS may start to take notice.