I get irritated when people are holding up traffic in the left lane but so long as you're not taking 5 minutes to pass one car maintaining your speed is fine.

I get annoyed when you have the "yo-yo" drivers in the left lane who get almost past the car beside them then get really interested in their cellphone conversation they shouldn't be having and let off the gas enough that the car on the right pulls ahead again. If a driver fails to pass the same car twice in a row then it's time to pull in behind them and get out of the way.

Every phone should be as easy as "fastboot oem unlock". Honestly I think the way that was handled with the warning on the phone you have to accept makes the most sense by far.

Hope you don't have a Droid X then, Motorola's update on that phone screwed up SMS messaging. I believe they fixed it now but still goes to show that having your OS update come from the manufacturer doesn't guarantee it works right.

With Android you don't need permission to install software and unlike iOS there are other routes to install it without rooting or jailbreaking the phone to get it installed without using the app store. So it can be argued that you need Apple's permission to install software on your iPhone (as unless you jailbreak it you're stuck with what Apple permits on the App Store). The Android Market is far less restrictive and you can additionally install apps from outside the market without rooting the phone.

Now for firmware this might be a bit more difficult but one look at the glut of custom ROMs available for Android handsets shows what is possible for those who want it. How many actual customized firmwares are there for the iPhone?

The one year release cycle is a well known pattern with Apple. What would make you expect them to break convention with the iPad?

The encryption was poorly implemented which is probably leading people to use the "poorly defended" terminology.

Sony can still easily PSN ban anyone using the hacks and aimbots you're so worried about. Just like Microsoft can on LIVE. Now please stop whining and ranting against the hardware being opened up for people who bought it to actually use it as they wish.

They already did.

Diet makes a big difference in how meat tastes too. My family hunts and depending on the available food sources in an area the deer will taste different. People who often find deer taste very "gamey" should try changing the area they hunt in, this is often a result of the diet. Taking deer in an area with abundant sources of alfalfa and beech nuts will usually result in very good meat.

So you would have us believe a society which is not free would be better? If someone else is going to tell you how to live your life why bother living at all?

Had you spent a second trying to figure things out before lambasting the writer you would have realized that TFS links into a post which is a continuation of an issue he introduced in a previous post. He is writing this post expecting that you've read the previous one, notice that the first sentence he writes mentions that he introduced the subject in a prior post and provides a link to it.

In the articles he is discussing buffering on a packet level.

Well if you root you can enable the wireless tethering that most carriers disable. I'm fairly surprised they didn't mention that.

Here's the story on the Lookout Blog.

Nook Color should do the trick if the price isn't a problem. As a bonus you can flash it to a fully functioning Android tablet.