For the people who prefer Guinness, I think the investment for homebrewed draft stout is a wee heavy.

Seconded. Guinness is the Budweiser of stouts. The US craft brewing and homebrewing scene can, and regularly does, do stout beer a lot better service.

Mod parent up. I like to describe the phenomenon as "inertia" against that impulse buy, but "friction" is an equally apt metaphor. The easier it is to make a purchase, the more likely said purchases will occur.

$1 is too high for a separate purchase. I want to buy a hardcover or paperback and get an ebook free (or "free") with the same purchase. Kind of like how bluray/DVDs are now beginning to include digital copies of the movies in addition to the on-disc version; its a way (albeit, so far imperfect) to provide additional value to someone who actually wants to purchase your product.

Sometimes I like the paper copy, like when I want to take my reading outside, especially when poolside.

I've been suspicious of actual competitive price matching, lately. For example, I can't find identical model number laptops at local B&M stores... really, how hard would it be for mfr/retailers to set up unique model numbers for each retailer so that each retailer never actually price match certain items with each other? Even if the internal components are 100% identical, if the model numbers don't match, the clowns at customer service will not price match.

This kind of activity already occurs with videogames. Retailers don't deviate from the MSRP whatsoever. When you see a difference in what you pay, it's always via a quirky mechanism (e.g. free gift card, mail-in rebate) that cannot/will not be price-matched.

Excellent straw man, good sir! It completely ignores any discussion on possible behavioral profiling and goes straight for the race card!

As I replied to another post, citation please? References I have cite diesel at 137,000 Btu/gal, while gasoline is close behind at 130,000 Btu/gal. More certainly, but not significantly more, and arguably not enough more to warrant comparisons on a per-gallon basis irrelevant.

Actually, if you wanted to argue on a per-pound basis, the same US EPA sources I cited previously list gasoline at slightly more Btu/lb (20,300) than diesel (19,300).

Interesting stuff.

Citation please? The US EPA cites that diesel is 137,000 btu/gal, all of 7,000 Btu/gal more than gasoline, at 130,000 Btu/gal. A 5% difference, but not a 30% difference.

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/appendix/appa.pdf

Diesel is also arguably dirtier than gasoline. It's a bit of tradeoff.

You can't "abuse" the allotment you have purchased, can you? If you have paid for X Mbps 24/7, should you not be entitled to X Mbps 24/7? If my purchased use infringes on others' purchased use, it seems like a clear-cut case for the company who oversold capacity to increase said capacity.

Net-neutrality is also about the money associated with increasing--or avoiding increasing--capacity.

Extensions only matter if we're talking about porting over NoScript.

I recently made an honest effort to try out the latest stable release of Opera. I was pleased to note that it had a lot of the features baked-in that I was adding to Chrome and Firefox. It was fast and seemed to do a good job as a web browser. However, the first time I visited some forums looking for solutions to a random problem, I was sorely disappointed with the lack of Noscript. Sure, the message boards usually say "Sure you can disable Javascript, do 'this' from the menu", but that isn't the kind of granularity that NoScript offers. Then, there's a substitute called "Blockit", which is apparently supposed to act like Noscript. However, the configuration screen is painful and the addon appeared to be broken; it didn't appear to give me a NoScript-like button to control each page. The plethora of annoying bits on the sites I visited researching how to get a working Noscript substitute in Opera encouraged me to drop Opera. What irony.

I've been spoiled by NoScript. I'm not particularly a Firefox fanboy--it has its own share of problems and issues--but it does run NoScript and I can't stand browsing the web without it.

Let's be clear here--it's not the religion that's perpetrating the evils, it's the people in it. It would be more proper to say that "many evils have been perpetrated in the name of religion...". If you have a perfect religion, it could/would still be corrupted and distorted by the imperfect people who administer and follow it.

If religion didn't exist, people would blame their bad behavior on something else. Video games, or rock and roll music perhaps...

I've heard there's an app that will disable the power saving feature of the wifi; apparently there may be some DHCP issues between router & phone when the phone's wifi goes to sleep.

Those gadgets are trash, and it's so sad that they're the "best" there is for Vista/7. How I wish it had simple, clean, and elegant built-in resource monitoring line Ubuntu/gnome.

Works fine on Moto Droid (Froyo 2.2), perhaps a tiny bit less smooth than a desktop with more processing power, but still completely usable. But I agree with parent: this site didn't need flash for anything.

Wait, a -1 Troll and not a +1 Funny for this obvious sarcasm and reference to net neutrality? Let this be a lesson for safe forum activity: always wear your /sarcasm tag.