I'm hoping you just mis-spoke here, or that you're not a suspension engineer. Caster and toe are completely different entities. Toe is whether your tires are pointed inward (toe-in) or outward (toe-out) when viewed from the top. Caster is a measurement of how far the center of the contact patch is behind the steering axis. Caster is what makes the wheel want to straighten out. Both toe and caster are much more important for straight line stability than camber is.

The reason it seemed expensive is because you weren't paying off a loan with the remainder of your wireless contract. Considering that all smartphones are really just small computers, their prices are pretty much where they should be.

The reasons behind the demise were probably a) some people can't do the math to figure out how much they're really paying for the phone, and b) others really like upgrading every 2 years to impress their friends.

I don't believe that since 26% of statistics are made-up on the spot.

They're awesome ways to keep kids entertained when you're on an 8-hour road trip to take them to visit family and stuff. It's not a matter of "not paying attention" to them since they only come out in preparation for a long trip (at least in our case). They're not necessary, but it makes a trip much more enjoyable for everybody and significantly cheaper than flying. Often it's my wife and the kids in the back watching a movie together, talking, and basically hanging out while I'm driving.

Alternatively, they could just write a hypervisor for each hardware platform and run the same OS and apps on everything.

Just plug a headset into your netbook and you're set, if you want to look at it that way. A netbook won't fit in your pocket, but it's not a burden to carry around for the most part.

you're probably right. As much as I wanted to find fault and prove you wrong, I can't and now I'm just bitter.

I don't think he was implying that security professionals are incapable of creativity. In most organizations security is considered an inconvenience, a budget drain, and an afterthought. Very rarely is an IT team staffed appropriately to allow the time and flexibility for anybody to try to think creatively about security. Even if they had the time, convincing people to spend money to prevent attacks that haven't happened yet is more difficult than it should be.

Being pulled away from a firewall deployment because one of the many Finance printers is out of toner is a lot more common than one would think.

You feel divorced from marketing because you want to believe that you're a special and unique snowflake that deserves personal attention and can't simply be lumped into any demographic.

If one could just figure out how to cater to the "Sensitive and Unique Snowflake" market, we'd have you and the 6 billion other people who feel exactly the same.

No, pretty much all of your "points" are incorrect or misleading. You're just an attention whore.

Let this be a lesson to all readers. A low /. ID doesn't confer any special reasoning powers on anybody. It just means that there were morons with internet access from the beginning.

"The make some great stuff, but decent has gotten good enough"

If decent is good enough, that explains why so many people still run Windows.

HaHa... no. HR exists to try to make the shit that comes down from management taste less like shit. HR watches out for themselves and they take direction from the CEO. They're certainly not putting themselves on the line for an employee.