I think that's a BS reason for keeping a 140 character limit on twitter.
Let SMS's character limit limit only the SMS user's messages. Twitter can break up longer tweets into 140 character segments and send them as "part1" "part2" "part3"... to people receiving tweets via SMS.

I think that while that was a legitimate argument when twitter started, it's evolved into a different kind of service these days and most folks using their phone for twitter are probably using something like twitterberry as a client anyway.

People stare at me as if I'm crazy when I say I use firefox as my twitter client, just like I do for other websites.

Living? It could still be called Colbert and named after Stephen's great-grandfather.

Of course, they would not be sued if they bothered to negotiate world wide distribution instead of only negotiating "domestic" distribution Limiting who they can accept money from to a tiny fraction of their possible customers, and instead paying loads of money for technology to make that possible.

See that's the good thing to come out of this. Now wireless router manufacturers will have to provide those features if they want to sell in the US.

"some cops will be pissed that he didn't find any weapon, drug or libertarian literature while reading your house"

Libertarian graffiti? That's something I haven't seen yet.

You are right that in desktop use scenario with over 1GB of RAM you will likely never use the swap.

If you run something very memory intensive like photo/video editing, VMware, etc. you may, but with today's standard RAM allotments most desktop users never touch swap in Linux.

A cat won't help.
Sure it'll probably get rid of your rats, but cats like to chew cables too.

I think that is why GP said the impact of swapping "for an average desktop linux user is almost non-existent" ...because for an average desktop linux user swapping is almost non-existent.

I've run Linux machines (for short periods of time, with no more than normal desktop use loads) without any swap, and they work fine... but when you hit that wall of running out of physical RAM you'll feel it a lot more without swap than you would with a swap file/partition.

Windows on the other hand seems to want to use several hundred megs of swap whether it needs it or not.

Did Cedega disappear since I last stopped caring about PC games when I bought a PS3?

There are plenty of channels to be had over the air (OTA) with an antenna.
That is how I get my channels and then if I want something that is only available on cable (like HBO series) I just buy the season on DVD. I get a whole season on DVD with a bunch of extras for about the cost of one month of cable. Sure I have to wait till the season finishes before I can buy the DVD, but I'm patient.
People don't talk much about what they are currently watching where I work so there is no spoilers for me by accidentally overhearing conversations at lunch.

$20 a year for a subscription to the channel guide is not really all that much, and in my experience the one I'm subscribed to http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ is very accurate.

I used to use the precursor (Zap2it Labs) for my hacked (to work in Canada before Tivo had Canadian support) Tivo. Back then it was free, but they had problems with people abusing the system, so they went to a very cheap subscription model.

I haven't been to the states in many years. I think it's been 17 years or so since the last time I stepped into a Walmart State-side, but back then they used to have signs all over that screamed at you in big bold letters "made in the USA"
What happened?

Dad made it a condition of the sale that they not put the dealer sticker on it.

"but they all have the sticker, we put it on as soon as they get to the lot" said the dealer.

"You do not, you trade cars with other lots and they don't want your sticker on a car they sell" Dad said.

"But I'm not allowed to let a car leave here without it"

"Then you don't get my sale"

He got the car, and there was no sticker on it.

Not sure where you live, but I bought some of these at IKEA. I have a 4 bulb vanity fixture above the bathroom mirror, I have kept one bulb as incandescent just because the CFL versions take a second to come on and I had guests flipping the switch up and down, frustrated that the light wasn't coming on instantly.

Not sure if you were trying to say Nano does more per watt than Atom or vice versa...

(I don't think you meant to say the Nano does more than the Nano.) ...but the rest of your comment, about getting more done in less time therefore not having to have the screen and hard drive running eating battery is only really true if you are doing a task that utilized the CPU at 100% until it completes and then you shut the machine off when it is done. which is probably true for some folks, but for the majority of users it is the user that the machine waits for, not the other way around. most of the time that you spend reading the info on the screen the CPU is sitting mostly idle. Turning off the screen won't help that, but having a more energy efficient CPU will help.