We should make it 555 and make all the TV shows and movies into a joke when the give out numbers.

That would hardly be considered a conversion.

It seems to me that you want to believe and you are not quite being honest with yourself. You might ask yourself what truly prevents you from believing (pride, reputation, etc.).

I bought the software version of Britannica about 10 years back and the interface was terrible (relied on IE3 plugins IIRC).

If they would have produced a really good software package I think they would have had more adoption of it.

From reviews of the current version, they are still facing software problems (including registering the software so you can access updates, etc.).

If I end up with *severe head trauma* please DO NOT resuscitate.

iPad 1 "crashes" a lot compared to iPad 2.

All testing by Apple is now done on iPad 2, which has more memory. So some of the "crashing" is iOS telling the app to free up memory, and shutting it down too quickly.

This has made the iPad 1 experience much poorer than it used to be.

He told me that the education system was not about education--it was about socialization.

That mentality is not something that is going away any time soon.

I keep my passwords in Lastpass (any similar program will do) and then keep the master password in my safe deposit box at the bank.

I also keep a list of all important accounts and sites (banking, etc.) so that whoever it may concern will be able to know where to find what is important.

My wife knows this, and she would then be able to access all relevant accounts, as well as know which accounts are important.

You can use Ghostery to block this and many other tracking scripts. http://www.ghostery.com/download

But when you buy a computer with your credit card, or send in electronic registration you give them the personal information.

They already have the serial number and MAC address of the computer on file.

Print on demand is so cheap and allows printing of single copies. You will still be able to get paper versions of books for a long time. (I have several books in paper, epub, and kindle.)

It didn't take seeing all this happening with the N900. I had a N800 and developed for it and saw that stuff then. That's when I bailed to iOS. At least with that you had some OS maturity and a platform that knew where it was going. I liked the N800--an open linux *computer* for my pocket. But the disarray of Nokia...

> You write apps for the iPhone

Not sure about that anymore

I think you confused my comment with the front page :)

No, but the point is the banning is completely arbitrary. They *claim* it is based on one thing, but the reality is something else. Just annoyed at the whole thing right now.