Unless it's an SSD drive, in which case you will end up with about 1% of data still left on the drive. For a terabyte drive, that's 10 gigs of your favorite home movies, on eBay: http://static.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf

Let them charge me. I will pay for Google Reader service.

Way to stand for your opinion AC.

[quote]Really I don't know why reader is being lamented so much. It had a stupid, wasteful interface and wasn't very customizable. I've tried a couple times to make something useful of it but it's always been inferior.[/quote]

Cross platform support. I can sync the same read/unread items between 6 different devices I use, many using third-party client applications developed using their API. No other RSS reader platform offers this.

Shh. Let the big guys keep fighting each other. BlackBerry needs some time to ramp up.

Reminds me of those omnipresent motorcycle-helmet guys from the Equilibrium.

Like the world needed yet another reason not to buy Sony products. I personally, in just the recent year, consciously did not buy the following superior-quality Sony products, opting instead for their competitors: headphones, camera, LED TV. Just because they were Sony.

You spelled "Hobos" wrong.

Are those them things they used to cover engines in Fast and the Furious?

So... if we combine pure hydrogen and pure oxygen to create water in the lab... that ice is 10 times cleaner than that, eh? Right on, right on.

Well then, I guess I've figured out why the world will end on December 21st...

In other news - AdBlock Plus announces support for other platforms.

I stopped using Google services long time ago for that same reason. Used to be a huge fanboy... and I mean I used everything - email, docs, blogger, maps, adwords, adsense, freaking shopping site, everything. Now the only one I have left is Gmail, to make sure nobody steals whatever accounts I haven't moved off of it yet.

Yeap, I've been using a VoIP "soft phone" for years, both at home and in the office.

It's not illegal to manufacture your own firearms in US.