What an incredible waste of time and effort.

Not sure what their motivation was, but AT&T turned off the annoying and insulting 30 seconds of instructions for people who call their iPhone customers. All it does is play the message, then beep.

The term "avatar" as a representation of a person in virtual space was coined in Snow Crash.

If he bought a 486-66 in 1994, he probably spent $2500+ on it. Now he can buy a system that is 20 times faster for a tenth the cost. Spending a bunch of time and energy and cash to bullet-proof a machine to last through 2024 would we a retarded waste of time.

You people who shit all over every single new product need hobbies or something. Just because it doesn't work for you or isn't exactly what you need or can't play Ogg Vorbis files and doesn't run Ubuntu 8.08.12-a build 2108-c doesn't mean that it lacks value. If it isn't your perfect product ... don't buy it. New features are steps toward better features. Every idea has to start with a single product, usually one with an imperfect implementation. I applaud Samsung for doing something interesting and different and giving their customers more options.