What part of "HTC has indicated that they do not plan any Android 1.6 upgrades for either the Rogers Dream or Magic but will instead remain on the 1.5 platform" did you fail to understand? This has nothing to do with a testing period. HTC and Rogers have confirmed they do NOT plan to upgrade beyond 1.5 bug fixes.

The idea can be taken to extremes, but how many of todays Perl and PHP website scripting security issues would evaporate if the authors were forced to write in a less flexible language that took a few moments to actually compile before being enabled?

.. and you actually think C is the answer to that?

It was always going to take a disruptive force to get them to recognize data as data and price it as such

Unfortunately not for some of us in Canada. That's right, "tethering" plans will be released by Rogers (on top of 'data' and 'voice' plans!). I've run out of adjectives to describe this.

The problems with osCommerce go further (much much further) than just style sheet issues.

Many. These are the countries that currently accept paid apps: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143779

I must have the swine flu

Yes, with pigs flying and all .. that shot isn't looking *that* bad now.

The way you get the pics _is_ a big deal - it makes the second part (making the 3d model) much harder if you don't have the right information. That is one of the biggest obstacles this project attempts to address according to the paper. As the paper says, this has somewhat been done before in a controlled environment (eg. google earth) with mostly commissioned areal photographs where the camera is calibrated, shots are taken at predefined intervals, time is known, GPS aids location, etc ,etc. When you remove all that information by fetching the images from a "uncontrolled" source like flickr, it is a whole other game (although you also gain other valuable aspects like views from inside the building, etc).

Oh it is.

I knew it. Many others have been discussing the potentials for this type of eavesdropping for many years. Ha! and they laughed at me when I started protecting my stuff...

I finished my first degree back in 2001. The economy was in the shitter. I managed to get a job and rode the problems until I decided to go back to school. The economy went back to the good times while at school. Now I'm graduating again and the economy is in an even deeper shitter.

Let me guess, I should stay in school?

DRM has gotta be at the top of that list of reasons..

Designers? Developers? What are these? I thought websites were made out of magical pixie dust! There couldn't possible be people who really care about factors that affect their day to day job (such as browsers) .. they must all be "Internet addicts"!

Over 100 comments and we still don't have a concise list of substantial features Windows 7 offers over Vista? As someone else pointed out, a name and theme change does not really qualify as substantial change. Ok, so WinFS was never promised for this version. What exactly are they offering this time besides a fix to the taskbar? I have yet to see an article that outlines changes outside the UI. Is this an elaborate prank?