Just as good in many ways as "Space:1999" (which I also loved) was his 1969 series "UFO", which combined live action with some of the sci-fi puppetry from the Thunderbirds. It was dark and foreboding, centered on a secret government agency in an active war against recurring alien incursions, and you had the feeling that "we" were just at the edge of losing. It included an AI satellite which spoke with an English accent and a moonbase "manned" by women in purple hair and short skirts, one of the very few silly parts of an otherwise very serious drama. It seems to have influenced MIB in more ways than one; one of the secret organizations' special tools was a spray that took away ones recent memories, used on witnesses after debriefing, a tool re-incarnated as the "flashy-thing".
Gerry was quite the visionary, and certainly influenced this old slashdotter.

Submarines are largely blind. Sure, they can hear the ship over there, but they dont have a cool 3d augmented reality app that the captain/helmsman use to drive. Even if they were doing an underhull survey, where you raise the periscope and carefully view/photograph a ship from below, you're not that likely to be able to avoid hitting the other ship, as wave motion makes that kind of fine control impossible. Subs are military ships, and are expected to put themselves into harms way, and just like the army has live-fire exercises and really practice jumping out of helicopters, the subs have to practice crazy stuff so they can do it in theater. And yes, sometimes, and more often they you hear about, they run into things. They may not even know in Control, it may take someone in Engine Room Upper Level Aft to call and say "hey, you know we just hit something, right?" And no, no captain in charge of a modern sub is going to play grab-ass with anyone or anything, they dont have utter disdain for the surface fleet, they have an intense focus on the safety of their and the other crew, as well as a dedication to mission capability that sometimes leads to these events. Try surfacing in a hurricane - no, really, it's a blast, but if you cant try to do it then, how do you know you wont freak out when depth charges start going off?
Someone will be relieved of duty over this one, training will be promulgated throughout the fleet, and it was almost certainly the subs fault.
And yes, I've seen all of this personally, It's a lot of fun to come back into port as the sub that ran into the surface pukes...

Exactly. Compare to Win6/6.5 and you'd get lots of mediocre phones. I've had about equally poor results with 2 Win6 phones and my G1, oddly enough all made by HTC. So who funded this study?

As soon as I read this I went to my account, and saw a lot of mobile activity from California. I freaked! Then I had a thought - so I went to my WM6 cell phone and had it synchronize with gmail. Aha! I knew it - my cell phone is really in California. (And some mobile activity may be legit, and the state may be wrong, as I'm in Texas, T-Mobile must route it out there.)

An Update from the OP - all $23 million are called for. The Houston Chronicle reports that it was all gone by 2:35P.M. CDT. Other interesting comments in the report include the rebate program hitting the top search in Google, and for a time 75% of all hits were from one IP address.

I had an error with installing an Exchange Certificate on a winmo smartphone. I was surprised to find a google search returned no hits from M$ itself, but when I switched to bing, it worked. It seems that M$ is blocking google from searching it's site. Then after installing XP on another computer, and updating everything (since she wouldnt) I found that in the newest IE I couldnt use google as my search, the "easy" way of adding it was gone. So sure, M$ still knows how to play the game. I didn't see anything that made bing better though, and with the Search Cloudlet firefox extension I see no reason to change, although apparently there will be times when I will have no choice.