A *lot* less.

My plan is $83.97 usd/mo with all fees and taxes.

It includes 3000 daytime minutes, unlimited Internet on handset, unlimited hotspot access, and unlimited SMS. It does not include long distance and unlimited nights and weekends airtime as I don't need them (I get 3000 minutes for the price of a 1000-minute "national" plan).

Nowadays, $99/mo is effectively unlimited everything, but fees and taxes add up to more.

I do use thousands of minutes, hence this plan is appropriate for me. Without Internet/SMS it would be $30 less. If I were to use every minute in my plan, it would effectively cost me $0.016/minute.

  At-A-Glance :
Get More 3000 plan $49.99
Unlimited Domestic Text and/or Instant Messaging $9.99
T-Mobile Total Internet Add-on $19.99
Total Due Monthly*
        $79.97

If I used less airtime, I'd use an even less expensive plan. Carriers have relatively unadvertised "regional" plans that, in my case, cover calls within California and Nevada.

In my experience, most people to whom I talk are on a wrong plan and are paying more than they could be. It can be complicated to accurately estimate the use. I routinely review my customers' bills and reconfigure their plans to save money.

In fact, I could probably drop the TXT portion of my plan and save some money, but I like to have a set not-to-exceed budget item referring to my cell phone bill.

How about not outputting Dolby 5.1 through the HDMI?

Those silly Motorola DVRs...

I can't begin to count how many hours people waste trying to get that to work before they have to call someone like me and I tell them "Oh, you'd expect them to send proper audio signal, but they don't. We need to send audio through Toslink and reconfigure your receiver to take that as the preferred audio signal".

And then there's the universally valid business model of being a trademark holder and licensing the use of mark... for...

???
P R O F I T!

Psion is doing everything right in defending their trademark and shouldn't be called a troll. I call these things subnotebooks. Sony calls them PictureBook (tm) by the way. I haven't even heard the term Netbook until a month or so ago.

Smart companies increase marketing spend during recession. It's a cheap way to grab marketshare.

It's one way for geeks to get cozier with girls...

1. Burn a livecd with Firefox and OpenOffice
2. Laugh at administration attempts at censorship
3. Offer to do it for her...
4. ...over dinner

Any attempts to censor hardware that is capable of booting alternatives will fail. You are on Slashdot, so I expect you to know this.

That being said, Macbooks are expensive. The end goal is probably a computer capable of being an Internet gateway and of running an office suite. This can be done for much less. LTSP could be used to provide students with a consistent desktop for school work.

Minor thing... Please avoid the Seagate 1TB drives for the time being. You'll thank me for this.

There's a firefox add-on that lets you jump to a key in regedit :)

I have a big smile on my face when people ask me where I got my advanced degree in CS.

Don't have any degrees. I just have genuine passion for my field. 14 years later, I am still doing my work in it. At this point, no one even remotely cares whether I have such papers.

And yes, this has been answered many times over the years on Slashdot. :)

That was quite enjoyable.

I particularly like that they are willing to push the envelope of freedom of speech whenever they can.

You finally explained why I never "beat" most of my games!

I read dialog.

I also read game manuals before playing them. Dialog makes games fun for me. :)

Air travel costs by 2030 will be a distant memory of today due to rising costs of jet fuel.

It will cost a lot to build our high speed rail, but it is essential to our state. Previously sparsely populated communities will be within commute range of Silicon Valley.

I can't wait for this project to start getting built.

You can probably thank Scratch Live http://scratchlive.net/ for this.

They are rapidly replacing actual vinyl records and CDs as DJs' tools of choice.

Feels right?

No.

Feels coercive to me.

Take the code made in academic software, recompile in production software. What's the big liability? You'll be buying that software anyway.