But the thing is a Feadship, Feadship is a bunch of shipbuilders Royal de Vries is a member of Feadship

The latest Sybian Anna phone's pretty decent and finally caught up in features and usability with Android or iOS, I was looking for a new phone a couple of weeks ago and I was really tempted to try one... but looking at Nokia's appstore, it's pretty empty... coupled with less than enthusiastic salespeople that say the return rate for these Nokia models are quite high, I got myself a low-end Samsung with Android for half the price instead, This being my first touch phone, my previous one was the qwerty Nokia N72, a phone built so good back then I predicted it'd be the last Nokia I'll ever own, and it was. Nokia still differentiate between their middle or high-end phones on OS, with lower end being S40, while the Koreans like Samsung and LG, and even Sony are starting to have cheap Android phones now, for a price of a 'feature phone' you could have the latest and greatest apps like the flagship phone too... People are saying that Nokia still dominates the low-end market, I see it as not for long as smartphones become cheaper and move downmarket.

So, if I have a contraband that I wanted to smuggle onboard, I'd only have to make it appear to be naughty bits of the human anatomy and the machine will auto-replace it with generic crotch images? hooray to gun-shaped penis, or is it penis-shaped gun?

Remember when you have to code your own apps or type one out? or even punch cards or switches The dumbing down of user interface's natural progression is the lockeddown user-centric apps of iOS Just as loading programs from floppy or cd-roms seems quaint now, finding, downloading and running apps from outsidethe walled garden will soon be too. Sure you might be ableto do more by writng/loading your own apps,the convenience will win out Hopefully there'll still be linux for tinkerers

even if Apple never locks down the mac, the mere presence of the App store will force developers to get on the store, after all how can you compete with that much exposure and convenience? Joining the app store is survival, then it's more power to Apple, which is not a good thing.

Poor choice of words, usually the CPU or the case are the last things to fail in a computer, but I think the question is what's the most recent thing that gave up on you...

This is any different from book cover how?

Most of the songs in my iPods are ripped from CDs I bought, it took significant time to rip my whole collection of CDs, but it is doable, the same can't be said for scanning my books collection already purchased, some I could easily find a torrent, but many aren't available on any store. With right now, there's just not that many source for e-books, legal and otherwise.

I can write cursive, but when I need to take notes or jot something down, I print, and that's barely readable

I think the key word here is prejudice, even I too get a lot of prejudiced treatment for just being not white although I live in my own country White tourists would say "Oh you spoke good English!" and I have to hold back not to retort with something condescending. Most of it is in good -intention, but yeah, it gets tiring I don't know what would be worse, people getting PC'ed up and can't speak their mind or people being ignorant

In asia they use US plugs with 220volt and the british actually uses 240 Volt

What's stopping EFF or other entities like this 'country lawyer' to find somebody infringing on someone who's willing to participate and try taking this case to court and see how much damages the court awards. or even better, set up the exact circumstance as per the case, but use different music, ie performed by artists who support the cause. Are there any law stopping people defendant/plaintiff conspiring to go to court to make precedents?

That would cost too much in processor time just to encode/DRM the file that's going to the iPod, but it's possible in the future since you're not supposed to be able to copy things of iPod anyway. But still, there's nothing stopping people from dragging the non-DRMed files to something that's connected as USB masss storage