can I assume you meant $0.50/gig... if not where are the $0.40 HD's, I'd like to pick up a few.

Not quite right. GMail is free to us because we do not pay for it even indirectly. Google pays for it, Google makes their money on advertising, which I don't buy and therefore I don't pay for it. I pay taxes, therefore schools and roads and school lunches are paid for indirectly by me and not free to me. But, I don't think it's wrong to say they are free since we are not paying a direct fee for it. Oh and my library books are not free because I can't seem to return them on time and I need to pay late fees. But even that isn't a direct payment for the book or is it? Now I'm confusing myself.

I don't really see it that way. Unless he died shortly after college he eventually paid for it himself, he just paid less for other services like roads and public safety. I also like to think that I didn't pay for any of these bank bailouts, all you other suckers did and all my taxes went to the police, transportation and education. I pay a lot in taxes, but it's nowhere near the value I receive in services. If I were rich and made tons of money I might feel otherwise, but my advice to those that make a lot of money and feel they are unfairly taxed is make less money.

The only way he would not have been endangering anyone is if he were prescient, he was maybe 10 feet behind me at 75mph.

I'm not suggesting that I was braking, or that I was trying to enforce the law. I was passing cars that were going slower than I. The left lane was fairly congested with the slower traffic and it took me some time to get ahead of them all to safely move back over. The still faster car came up behind me, not driving for the conditions of the road, which would be why the trooper followed him. I don't think it's my duty to accommodate them. If they can't problem solve in a way that doesn't infringe on others rights then they are the ones that should not be on the road. They had plenty of time to slow down, and following as closely as they did endangered more than just their own lives. Now I know that nobody has even brought this up in this forum, but I am so sick of all this libertarian bullshit. There is no such thing as privacy, our actions affect others, and not everyone is a god damn nihilist so come back to reality and join society.

I don't think the judge would buy it, I was already 20mph over the limit, which in MN is considered reckless driving. Related, the guy that I moved over for was pursued by a state trooper into a residential neighborhood. I don't know if he caught him or not. My point being, the slower traffic was on the right, I was the faster traffic but then this guy was still faster than I. It's a fine line. I followed the law, I was passing and moved over when it was clear. just because I was slower than him does not give him the right to be a jackass and endanger my life. In fact in MN, where I am, and thanks for the link, He should not have come within 500 feet of my rear bumper (I may be mis-interpreting, but nevertheless he was too close and breaking yet another law).

But wouldn't that be aiding them in breaking the law? I was only passing a long line of slow pokes myself. But I have to disagree with your logic. Unless that guy going 200 to pass me is an emergency vehicle then I am under no obligation to break recklessly endanger myself and others to accommodate their recklessness. Our actions have consequences.

fuck that. people need to slow down. I was driving the other day and had a guy tailgating me. So I was nice and moved over. The thing is I was going 75mph already, I was driving too fast, and this guy thought I was going too slow. This world is messed up is a reckless jackass like myself is driving too slow. Oh and where the hell are you that frontage roads are 50mph!?? They are 30mph here in Minnesota, 45 in some places.

This is very informative, I am going to grow out my goatee into a Van Dyke. Does anybody know where I can get mustache wax?

that iPhone malware was only on Jailbroken phones, so I'd say their policy both kept it from mainstream and indirectly caused the problem.

Other than the iPod touch the iPods never had and never will have the iPhone OS let alone a newer version of it. To date I believe every iPhoneOS device can run the latest version of the OS. The difference between the 3GS and those that came before is the 3GS is considerably faster. There are other issues with missing hardware features on the older models as well, GPS, compass, video camera, iPhone is not immune to those little things. I think that the problem with Android's apparent fragmentation is that there are so many different hardware options it feels fragmented. Throw in the actual differences, which on their own are minor, and the problem seems a lot worse than it is. This is going to sound weird, but the main reason I haven't jumped into Android development is because there is no barrier for entry. Any loser can develop apps for android. That does two things in my mind. 1) floods the market with garbage 2) opens the door for malware, which we have already seen. Sure you can call me scared, but really I just want everyone to be held to the same standard as I am, and the standard I hold myself to is fairly high.... not as high as Apples standards, but much higher than the Android App store standards, which are none.

I had been under the impression that most web devs still assume 72 dpi for screen resolution. I was also under the impression that browsers did as well.

I believe the Snapdragon is ARM based.

Who even clicks on those controls anyway, aren't there shortcuts for all those? Really though, is it any surprise that someone suggested that OSS isn't a democracy? Of course it's not, it's barely organized. It's more like a theocracy. You've got some doofus who thinks he/she is god and makes all kinds of crazy decisions for the software that make no sense. Much of the time there are actual moments that we feel blessed that "god" has provided for us. But then there are the days that are the day of rest, which often go on for weeks or months. I don't blame them, they are for the most part doing this for free. And in many cases it is there creation and they have a lot invested in it. You can try petitioning the commiter with prayer but good luck with that.

Actually quite a few, not quite a majority, of flash developers are quite willing to actually learn to program. Additionally the flash community is very open source friendly. While it used to be the case the obfuscators were regularly used, it's not very common anymore.