Exactly. I have a smart phone. Guess what? It's not hooked up to corporate email. Why? Because I don't want to deal with corporate email outside of the office. I leave the office for a reason. I don't have it for a time saver. Instead, I have it for a lot of other benefits I get:
* wifi tethering
* streaming music/pandora/etc.
* browsing the web (very handy when I want to look something up)
* GPS navigation
* Music identification (Shazam)
* Netflix when I'm waiting for my car to be serviced or some other similar situation
* Books for a similar situation

Then add on the fact that both the transportation processes and the farm equipment can all run on biodiesel. I love how people try to distract us from the benefits of biofuels by pointing out dirty processes that are easily changed into clean ones.

They may have broken the record for biodiesel, but they are a far cry from the record for biofuels in general. One example is the Bentley Continental, which is a production car and has a top speed of 198MPH. It's a flex fuel vehicle.

I couldn't agree with you more. I tried to play a relatively simple HTML5 game on my Android phone and I found it completely unusable (hyperfantasy.com so you know I'm not BS'ing). Flash on my Droid is a bit slow to load, but once it loads it's responsive. Add on that Flash and Flex provide the only real write once run anywhere experience and that HTML5 can't support persistent connections (sockets) and you will find me firmly in the Flash camp for the time being. When every browser vendor decides to read the HTML5 and EMCAScript specs the same way and when persistent connections are supported in Javascript, I'll take another look the technology.

As somebody who used to work in the email industry, I can assure you that rejecting based on the presence of RDNS is useless against entities that run their own infrastructure. Everybody working legitimately ('opt-in', though I refer to it as 'suckered in' because the person didn't read the privacy policy that said people who filled out the form were going to get emailed and their info sold/traded) in the email industry creates RDNS as a part of their SOP. When I worked in it, we never sent out email without first verifying that reverse DNS was set up and set up properly. Granted, you'll still likely catch spam from botnets.

> No, it's the sort of thing that makes changing out the stock OS a poor choice on the desktop.

I can easily install Windows XP/Vista/7 on my mac, and it isn't the stock OS.

> I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments.
I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out I switched because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments.

This is the kind of thing that makes linux a poor choice on the desktop. While the fix is correct from a technical perspective, it fails the "Grandma Test". If you're incredibly technical, no problem. Grandma, however, isn't going to know and understand how to enable ASPM via grub.conf. Her response is probably going to be, "Why are there worms in my computer?" A better route would be to develop a test to detect the error condition on the install of the OS, then save the configuration accordingly.

Grandma is also not going to be knowledge about the other ins and outs of kernel tuning her system that are discussed in the linked to article. A mechanism needs to be in place to adjust these settings when the user changes what power source their computer is using. This is a standard feature on both Mac and Windows. As most linux development is primarily focused on servers, fixing this type of thing unfortunately isn't likely to happen. I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments. When I started my current job, I tried out Ubuntu because it was supposed to have resolved this kind of thing. Better (until Unity, WTF were they thinking?), but "it just works" remains illusive. I've now left linux on the desktop twice, and I'm technically proficient. Why do you think Grandma wants to use Windows?

Oh no!

I get pissed off when I call and get an IVR system. Do you think I'm even going to give you the time of day if you replace a sales person with this? I can't think of a better way to chase away your customers than to show that you are genuinely not interested in talking to them.

And you'll only have to charge the thing for 16 hours between 200 mile drives. Fine for day to day, but forget about the road trip. IMO, the Chevy Volt solves this problem in a much better fashion. Hell, even Top Gear was smart enough to put an electric generator in their electric car to solve this problem.
As for their business model, it was destined to fail. The companies that make super cars that also make road cars for the rest of us all sell their super cars at a loss. The Ford GT, the Bugatti Vayron (VW), the Lexus LFA, etc. are all sold at a loss. These cars are built for prestige and R&D, not for profit. Companies like Aston Martin and Ferrari sell their cars for profit, but there isn't that huge of a profit margin. They're not exactly known as fortune 500 companies. Aston Martin has started offering a compact, but only because of a change in EU regulations regarding fleet-wide fuel economy.

IMO, Tesla would have been far better off taking the Ferrari model and focusing on building electric HYBRID super cars. By doing this, they could have greatly reduced the battery weight and had an even faster car.

Which makes your hands base 11, not base 10.

Speaking of character issues: So you're capturing the other team's babe. What do you do with her once you have successfully captured her? You've already slapped her silly. It seems to insinuate a forced sexual act of some sort. Or does she become submissive and just go down on you?

Also keep in mind that 1850 was at the end of a period known as the "Little Ice Age". During this period, global temperatures were well below normal (snowfal occurred in North America in June) and were quite a bit cooler than the Medival Warming Period which saw global temperatures that were warmer than they are today. The fact is we have so little climate data that we really can't draw accurate conclusions on why we're warming. Our best guess is a mix between natural and artificial phenominon.