Yeah, for the most part TMO has really great customer service and plans. But coverage depends heavily on your area. I live in Gainesville, FL and I get "3G" coverage that caps out at around 750Kb at full bars, and much of the city doesn't have coverage at all. When I was in Austin recently, tho, I was getting upward of 4Mb rates. I think they're much better on the west coast. I really wish it were not the case, but I will probably have to give up my N1 and switch to another carrier with decent data rates and coverage here.

If NASA times it just right, we could put people on the moon, launch the moon at Mars and have people walking on Mars just months later.

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Next, we use the tide from the sun to travel to Alpha Centauri.

Wait, are you suggesting that we ride the sun to Alpha Centauri, or put kites in the tides on the sun caused by Earth and launch Earth toward Alpha Centauri?

Yes, but that doesn't mean all dogs are capable of getting a degree.

The recent joke, however, will never be novel or funny again.

This fails to explain running gags. Even regular jokes are, in fact, often funny again (even if no longer novel).

It occurs to me that this points to most IT systems (particularly interfaces) being poorly designed.

The demo video in TFA showed that you can do exactly that.

Over the past 10 months, five feet have been found on shorelines along the Strait of Georgia, southwest of Vancouver. ... Four of the feet are right feet. The fifth is a left foot. ... There are more than 2,000 people missing in British Columbia alone, says Ebbesmeyer, so there's a good likelihood that they come from one of them.

One of the missing people had 4 right feet and a left foot? And I thought I was bad at dancing...

Yeah, it does.

I find this a better analogy:

Picture a rubber sheet with a grid of parallel lines drawn on it. These lines represent the trajectory of objects moving along straight paths. An object with mass causes the sheet to shrink in toward the object in all directions, causing those parallel lines to curve in toward the object as well, and consequently the paths of traveling objects to curve in toward the object as well. (The stretch [pun intended], of course, is that the traveling objects are constrained to follow the lines, but you have to realize that the objects are not rolling along on top of the sheet, but are in fact moving within it.)

Extend this to three dimensions, and you have gravity. Now the only thing to determine is why objects warp space, and that is beyond my ken.

I, for one, welcome our new polite pedantic overlords. ;)

An essay.

The G1 was released in October of 2008, yet they still had 70% of the number of project releases that the iPhone had in 2008. 70% as many OSS projects in a quarter the number of months.

(Granted, the SDK was available for longer, but still very few people, developers included, actually had a phone; they were excited enough about it to develop apps solely on the emulator, without being able to actually use them until October.)

Negative energy has some bizarre properties.

Yeah, for one thing, it heals undead. Obviously, this means that string theory is just a conspiracy perpetrated by vampires.