Meanwhile the modern Constitutional Republic consists of 1 wolf and about 20 sheep voting to have lamb for dinner.

What about libraries far larger than 32GB, or even a TB? How about the fact that you could start watching a video on your iDevice and then pick up where you left off on your Mac automatically? Still fucked up?

That's right. It wasn't until the memory expansion pack came out (4MB!) that games attempted 640x480...like Turok 2 and Perfect Dark of the top of my head. Pretty much destroyed the framerate in PD though, which wasn't that great to begin with. (On a side note the XBLA port rocks!)

Think Mac Minis or Nano-ITX boards. You could make a damn small box which for many (most?) people is more desirable than expansion room. The case could also be dead simple with the most complicated thing being the holes to attach the board.

It's not Google Wave, it's Wuphf!!! (which coincidentally is what this week's Office episode is about) I hope I can link it to my fax machine.

It must be good if Slashdot felt the need to shit on it so quickly just because it's a Microsoft product.

Let's see what a site with quality editorial content says:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/windows-phone-7-already-doomed-dont-let-early-sales-fool-you.ars

The problem is it isn't just manufacturers looking for cheaper labor and then shipping their product right back to us. It's companies exporting to other countries who need a local presence.

And Toyota and Honda assemble cars in the U.S. Sometimes you just gotta do stuff locally.

Sure, if you'd like, leave the tinfoil hat on. I'm happy to provide data to MS (well, I would be if I used IE). I've become very interested in usability so it makes me jealous to read about all of the data they get to make decisions with. Just read this blog entry and look at all of the percentages they know about real world usage and how they used that for the IE9 UI overhaul.

A few examples:

• over 97% of IE sessions have 5 or fewer tabs
• 54% of people have 2 or fewer items on their Favorites bar (we ship with 2 by default)
• The most commonly used item in the Status bar was “Select Preset Zoom” used by 1.6% of people

Yeah it's just begging for a backlit Apple logo on the roof, lighting up the sky like the Luxor.

As a web developer, I'm happy to say that in my limited experience so far with the IE9 beta, MS *finally* got it right. Unfortunately it will still be years before the damage done by its predecessors is undone.

It's amazing how much of the geek community is completely at a loss for why Apple is so successful. Somehow it's impossible that the user experience they provide is what people want so it must be their marketing.

That's not really true any more, it's just different. But I know what you mean, I still use Firefox/Firebug at work but Safari at home.

Step 1: Ditch Firefox. It's become a cow. Unless you absolutely need some extensions you can't get elsewhere, try Chrome or Safari.

So the benefit of WiFi speeds can be used for extremely low bandwidth needs, but not high ones. Great, I'll be much happier that my 50 byte messages go over WiFi after a couple minutes than over 3G immediately.