Just FYI to others, but the cartoon is NSFW..

I just recently had an iPhone that was on AT&T unlocked. I went to the AT&T support chat site and asked them if I could unlock the phone since it was off contract and the support person on the chat said one moment, came back and said the phone was unlocked and emailed me instructions on what to do next. I tried doing this over the phone and kept getting passed around and no one knew what unlocking was or wanted to know why, etc. Maybe I got lucky on the chat, but it was still super easy and saved a ton of time.

I read this in the New York Times yesterday, and apparently they look just like the existing leopard frogs and the experts can't necessarily distinguish the new species by eye.

From the NYT:
Local amphibian fans can be forgiven for not noticing the new frog's unique nature. "I wouldn't know which one I was holding because they all look so similar," said Ms. Newman, who is now pursuing her Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. "But all of our results showed this one's lineage is very clearly genetically distinct."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/new-leopard-frog-species-is-discovered-in-nyc.htm

I was a BlackBerry user for 7 years and switched to the iPhone a little over a year ago at work. My biggest concern was the lack of phsyical keyboard and the lack of a message indicator light (my BlackBerry would flash a red light on top when a new message arrived.) I adapated to the virtual keyboard in just a few days and I'm just as fast, if not faster because of the autocorrect, on the iPhone's keyboard. It took me about a week or so to get over not having the indicator light, but now I don't miss it. I wouldn't want to go back to the BlackBerry, the RDP/SSH client is much easier to use on the iPhone, the other apps seem more polished, and I don't have to reset the device near as often as I've had to do with my BlackBerries.

And if I had finished reading the summary, I would have caught your joke... Oops..

When I read the article the other day in the New York Times, it mentioned the founder was "Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who led iPod and iPhone."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/technology/at-nest-labs-ex-apple-leaders-remake-the-thermostat.html

I have a rhapsody account a girl friend and I share and use on our iPhones. Occasionally I will be streaming music and it will pop up and say my account is in use on another device do I want to kick the other person off or stop listening. Rhapsody will let you have 5 devices registered I think it is, but only 1 concurrent stream.

On AT&T you can just txt *MIN# to get your voice minutes and *DATA# to get your data usage, I have them saved as contacts on my phone for easy access.

No nullable primitive types.

They have them for primitive types, actually, and had for ages - java.lang.Integer for int etc.

No, that's not the same thing. Integer (and Long, etc) are objects, not primitives. The GP's point was that in Java you can't say e.g.

int i = null;

I've not tried that (and don't have a JDK installed on this machine) but I would expect a compile-time error. (I've not tried it in C# either for that matter)

It’s really quite funny that you want to publicize this spat.

Any sane person could see from this thread that you are clearly batshit insane. And you apparently want people to read it? Why... are you so delusional that you think they’ll agree with you?

>> Won't this just make people buy new cars less often?
> and this is a bad thing... how?

Considering that cars are one of the few products that are still manufactured in the US, I'd say it could be a bad thing. A country that thinks that it can survive on imports without making anything itself is going to get exactly what it deserves: bankrupcy.

Works for the DS

Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose.

True, old idea, new implementation, but its definitely an improvement over the last one.

I don't know why some knee-jerks tagged this article as "Java". It's not running on Java. It uses JavaScript. It doesn't use Flash either. It's pure browser code.

Also read this part of the developers' blog post:

What this means for the Web

For years, people have assumed the browser was a poor platform for this kind of thing, and that you'd need something like Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX, or native code. While it is true that you should not expect the browser to rival triple-A titles like Far Cry or Call of Duty in the browser, there is no reason why lots of casual games that used to be implemented in Flash, or are now implemented in Objective-C on the iPhone/iPad can't be done using similar techniques we've used.

In other words, goodbye Flash and Java applets. And die already.

Stealing?... Careful...