Maybe they should focus on fixing the devices they already have on the market rather than bringing out whole new things?

The Android is an interesting device but Exchange-Calendar sync is broken (even my iPod Touch does it better), the camera is mediocre and a lot of features just feel like they're .9 level rather than ready for prime time.

Whereas before they were probably GAINING a pound or three a month, now they're losing as much as 7 pounds over this period. It's not a great mystery, burn more calories than you consume. Exercise is only one piece of the puzzle.

If you adjust your diet to reduce your caloric intake to a reasonable level (1800-2000 calories a day is reasonable for most people), and increase exercise to increase lean muscle mass (which increases your resting metabolism) as well as burn more calories during the day then you're going to lose weight.

What did they expect? They were going to drop 10 pounds a week like on "Biggest Loser" just by modest exercise alone?

I suspect that the biggest advantage of a hybrid over a conventionally powered engine is that at stops the hybrid shuts off while the conventional engine sits there and burns fuel at zero mph. Further when you accelerate the initial movement of the vehicle, which is the most energy demanding bit, is powered by the electric motor and the gas motor only kicks in when you've already got a certain amount of momentum.

Actually it's probably good that the kids learn English and it's a fair bet that a number of them speak at least a little English already.

Americans are perhaps the most mono-lingual nation in the world. Whenever I travel abroad I'm taken aback at how easily folks in other parts of the world speak multiple languages.

In fact there are more English-speakers in China than there are in the U.S. and Canada combined. Why? Because their kids study Chinese AND English - many of them take extra classes after regular school. How many of our kids are learning to speak Chinese?

Remember that 10 years from now when Chinese is the dominant language of the Internet and the U.S. is struggling to retain our role as the dominant economic and sociopolitical power on the planet.

Well, she's obviously not the brightest bulb on the tree. I would say that yes, it is possible to block all of the zip/executables that a user like that would get. It's not like he changed the extension to .PDF but included instructions that she was to rename it to .EXE after saving it to her drive, right?

There are ways for geeks to get executables past web security. I suspect he just sent her a .EXE or a .COM or something like that and she opened it.

And what kind of web security do they have that allows Yahoo mail anyhow?

http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/n06a/index.html
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/f09a/spec.html


Actually, almost any phone here
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/index.html

Most elegant system I've seen simply uses incremented numbers. They started at 1....currently they're into the several hundreds I guess. They maintain a separate database that indicates what Machine #23 is, who uses it, where it's physically located, what OS/major software revs are on it and ties any service calls to it as well so they can see that users of Machine #23 frequently complain of trouble printing to the network printers, for instance.

Clean, easy, elegant, when the machine moves to a different desk (as they sometimes do) or gets upgraded or gets a new user or a new purpose they don't have to do anything to the machine name. They just update the database and go on about their day.

I put the RC up on a 64-bit machine a week or two ago and I've been generally pretty pleased with it. Seems much faster than Vista, the new taskbar is pretty handy and it stays more or less out of my way. No driver problems either (so far).

I never advised a single client to upgrade to Vista (I didn't hate Vista, but didn't think it was a worthwhile upgrade either), but I think I will be comfortable advising some clients to upgrade to Windows 7.

As one of the comments in the article said, nothing is as much fun as a big hole punch and a mallet. That's what I use after we got tired of burning out drill bits, and all for under $20.

Some places are just totally stupid, too.

All it takes is one of those three inch N-50 magnets used in particle accelerators and nuclear reactors and that drive is 100% FUCKED. Dirt cheap, too, from United Nuclear.

That will change as soon as the Unions get their new "card check" rules through the Congress. You may find yourself in a union as a condition of your employment, whether you like it or not.

Don't forget that the way that bit torrent works, it's more likely that she provided partial copies, rather than full ones. Meaning that the RIAA could presumably nail the say 4 people seeding a song individually for a sum that greatly exceeds the theoretical harm by a substantial amount.

Well, assuming she really did do it, which personally I'm extremely skeptical of given the RIAA's dodgy history of investigation.

Absolutely. In fact, it turns out that 96% of the public really thinks Jennifer Aniston should go out with me. Or at least they will when I finish getting all of my TwitterBots online.

Watching Twitter to gauge public sentiment has a number of flaws, many of which have already been pointed out here. The largest of which is that it's too easy to "stuff the ballot" by simply launching a campaign to flood Twitter with positive comments about your candidate, issue, product or service.

It's really not that hard to get your product "trending" on Twitter if you have the resources.

This is a really good summary of where we are now with this whole mess.

Now if only we could find somebody willing to grow a spine and slap those big ISPs around to remind them how they got to be where they are! (Like you said: They didn't get here with only their own capital)

I'm not really sure what "RockMelt" is going to do that is so much better than what I get now in FireFox 3.5. I can't remember the last time I wanted to do something in FireFox that I couldn't do - or couldn't easily find a quick little (free) add-on to do.