damned ISP's choke the shit out of our connections so what is the purpose for exactly... killer LAN parties?!?

the issue seems not to be affecting SoCal.... np connecting at all here.

and I'd use it and recommend it so long as it doesn't get abused and/or have the uncontrolled saturation like the regular store. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. (No pun intended!)

How is it that it's not OK for one medium but good to go for another?! :-/ http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/1332218/verizon-patents-eavesdropping-using-your-tv-for-ad-targeting

he probably got lost walking home, never to be seen of again!

how about actually shoring up what you already have in play instead of creating new crapware! WinXP has been the most stable thus far and the biggest reason is due to the length of time it has been in use. We won't even discuss WinME/WinVista since those were complete junk straight out of the chute. Win7 has been doing alright mostly but hasn't been out very long and could use some more improvements. Now, MS is trying to push not only a new version of Windows but a completely revamped desktop version of Windows as well. It didn't get a very good response from people during beta and yet MS went through with releasing it. To not expect sales to be dismal is a bit silly to say the least. Should have kept working Win7 instead of running off to a new project.

I have to upgrade my DirectX 9?!?

sueing the living shit out of your business partners doesn't seem to be a very fruitful negotiation tool for continued contracts!

Micro$oft has an operating system that is running fairly stable and well and they want to axe it... puzzling!!

I have made several Samsung-specific purchases over the past month, partly due to all the crap from the Apple lawsuits. Several of their products have received and continue to receive high reviews from several different users and, likewise, I've been quite happy with my purchases as well. I have just added 3 of their mobile phones (yes, the SIII is one of them!) and 2 of their TV's (a 40" model and a 60" model). The Samsung SIII is replacing my HTC Incredible (another excellent phone) but not due to a problem with my HTC Incredible but simply because I desired an upgrade of both hardware and software. And, the TV's are really nice as well. I am so tired of the continued tech lawsuits, it's gotten so out of hand anymore. It is going to get to the point that we won't being able to write reviews or comment on blog sites because some asshole patented all of the letters of every known alphabet, followed by another asshole that allowed it to be processed for approval. It has gotten absolutely ridiculous!

"How come you don't have an iPhone?" and "Why do you use Linux?".....

I walked away from OOo as soon as LibreOffice began and never looked back.

All of the U.S. carriers have been doing this from the start. They are all about the double-dipping. Unlike the wired home phone, they've always charged for both the incoming calls as well as the outgoing calls. Now some of the carriers are also the wired internet service providers to many homes as well as our mobile phones. This is now simply just another means for them to continue double-dipping our wallets for the sake of their own.

The "shareware" belongs with "free/lite" above and should read "malware/adware free shareware/lite version"... my eyes are playing tricks on me!

that's the real solution. It was only a matter of time... this type of exploit (and others to come no doubt) are the strongest argument for blocking ads.

If you want people to buy your app, create a good app and provide a malware/adware/shareware free/lite version of it. If it is a good app then people will buy it. You piss people off before they have a real chance to test your app then you stand to lose that customer. Those that do not buy your app after trying it would not buy it under any circumstance. I will continue to block apps as long as I have a means to do so. And, I will continue to buy apps from those DEV's that actually create good apps and provide them without the hassle of dealing with the garbage on the side.