Speak softly, but carry a big stick.

Pros: like others mentioned, my phone is already streaming pandora or playing music and occasionally taking calls/texts- having all of these being done by one device at the same time is a bottleneck -if not of hardware, then certainly of user interface

Cons: my stand alone, dedicated, only has one job to do in it's whole stinking existence, GPS receiver takes *forever* to triangulate. Granted if I sit in one place it works relatively fast, but a large number of times I'm already moving when I need it to come to life. My iphone triangulates on cell towers to get me going "well enough" right away, and still even manages to triangulate GPS faster than my NUVI. This is a frustrating PITA.

Also, the NUVI interface, although highly recommended by my user experience colleagues, is pretty cumbersome. Address entering that requires the STATE and CITY EVERY TIME is frustrating. I would like the menu choices of inputting addresses to a include "near me" option or have it done radially like google maps does.

I believe it's Mt. Sneffels in Iceland. At least that's what Arne Saknussem led me to believe

Sure, I don't want a web SERVER either (in the common parlance)- but maybe a server that just does some quick task for me: I find value in being able to easily share my photos with people with little to know real effort on my part. I currently have to FTP/batch to my webserver and "reindex" the site so thumbnails are generated. I would find value in having an EyeFi memory card dump pictures into a folder and they are immediately available to view- no work done at all on my part.

...that said, I am concerned about security, but I've used Opera since 2002, and they've at least earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to security.

Actually, he's been walking since 7.5 months -but don't envy it, it's a PITA

10.0 has auto updates, but as other commenters have pointed out- 10.0 is in beta and seperate from the "Opera Unite" stuff of the article. You can learn more about auto update and try it out on the beta page

Right, I found Prince of Persia to be very beautiful, but nearly as repetitive as Mass Effect. I certainly raised my eyebrow at the "Elika's AI" as I don't remember it adding much value to the game.

Walking is something my 11 month old boy is very good at, but I still enjoy it from time to time as well.

What about Go and Chess?

A bespoke, custom made, tailored suit is only worn by one person- but I'd rather have that than some Men's Wearhouse off the rack number.

...if you're thinking about FF extensions at this point, you're not getting the metaphor, so I would add:
"A bespoke, custom made, tailored suit is only worn by one person- but I'd rather have that than some Men's Wearhouse off the rack number, ...or have to learn and build a suit myself"

Are you then equally at the mercy of the programmer you hire? And since this means many programmers vs one company to hold accountable (with PR etc), it seems less likely that these programmers I'm going to hire require me to have a knowledge level to figure out if I'm getting scammed by them etc.

"You could pay someone else to fix the software..."

And we're right back to your first paragraph again.

I'll back up that Gunter annex dealt with mostly software/support, but it's compliment of programmers is not anything I'm familiar with. /I was part of team that built AFPC's Virtual MPF as a commissioned officer...actually 33s's coding in the basement of AFPC.

This is my scheme as well. It always seems to me to be blindingly obvious to do something like this, but it's never really mentioned anywhere.

I think that's not really a true statement anymore. Particularly because Opera has never really been slow and unusable. Firefox isn't fast and lean anymore either. There's more and more "out of the box" stuff that goes beyond a lean browser, and the functions, since they are extensions and not optimized for the core of the browser and integrated as tightly aren't really as fast as they could be... either from a raw performance/metrics standpoint, or from a UI perspective