I work in downtown NYC, and I can attest that the iphone does get horrible service. Data transfer rates are very spotty, and cell phone calls will disconnect at a rather frequent rate. Outside the city, on Long Island, service is much better. So i can well believe that they are oversubscibed.

Thats 30 million, not 300 million.

My BS alarm was going off at 300 mil, so I had to go RTFA.

They advertise the Iphone and the other media phones as being able to get streaming music, check football scores, write email, do all this neat stuff with AT&T! .....and then they get pissed when people actually DO it?

thank you for your ,02 cents.

Perhaps it should say "Ending government paid for manned spaceflight for a decade".

It would be really interesting to see the conservative reaction to this. Will they oppose simply for the sake of opposition, or will they applaud it and call out for the free market to provide for manned space flight.

Personally, I think stopping goverment funded spaceflight is a bad idea, there is not enough economic benefit yet for corporations to go into space, beyond quick space tourism flights.

For the top 1000, a million bucks is not a lot of money. Why risk alienating the population for what is to them a drop in the bucket?

I'm sure that apple will stop putting this annoyware into their products if enough people get angry about it. I'm sure as hell not going to buy any product that contains this junk.

Yes, there are zero emissions from the tailpipe, but the electricity has to come from somewhere. Hydro, solar, wind are all very small percentages of the total electricity generating solutions. The majority of electricity comes from 'dirty' sources, such as coal, oil and nuclear. All thats happening is the carbon output of transportation is being shifted from the consumer to the manufacturer.

And even if we DO get a much larger percentage of clean energy sources, we still have to consider the massive costs that will be needed to upgrade the aging energy grid to be able to support the huge draw that electric cars will demand. Even a few million electric cars in the US will put a huge strain on the grid.

Finally, how good are the batteries for the enviornment? Can they be recycled cleanly? And how often do they need to be replaced? After a few months of steady use?

What exactly has he done to deserve the prize? Would it not have been better to wait until he got done with his presidency first?

As someone said on TPM, this sounds more like a 'Congratulations for not picking McCain' award.

I guess that means I'm still going to need to worry about the Y2k38 problem.

" and for New Line to make other films based on Tolkien's work"

Oh dear God, NO!

1: Download the excellent sim Orbiter:
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

2: Download the Apollo addon NASSP:
http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

3: Download the virtual AGC/AGC software:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

4: ?????
(Literally, spend hours trying to figure out how to fly, how to get into orbit, reading the detailed manuals, etc etc etc)

5: Profit!

I actually know these two, used to play Call of Cthulhu with them.

Anyways, I was joking with another one of their friends about this sort of thing, and he was worried that someone may puke on Richard Garriot. I replied back if that if someone did, they should say that was for Ultima IX.

Please? OK? One or two stories is acceptable, even if they are not funny. Multiple stories each year is just annoying.

So funny. Really? Ok, not really. :)