Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.

I have three side by side _all_ of them are vertical and I love it. At 1280x1024 (or 1024x1280) I'm at at the standard "max" web width and I have very little need for scrolling. Essentially the same for documents. What I don't like is my one monolithic monitor on my mac. The aspect ratio is "right" but it's not terribly useful.

Plain vanilla iMac 10 months out of the box with the nVidia card. It crashes all the time with the recommended settings. It occasionally ( once every day or two ) crashes with all the video settings to Low or Off. No overclocking, apple ventilation and power. The real bummer is that the game runs great and looks phenomenal with the video settings cranked way up. It doesn't drop a bunch of frames like I would expect if I was over taxing the system, it just up and dies. That is the screen shows strange artifacts (snowy), and is frozen. Sometimes the mouse/cursor will jump wildly when I move it while the screen/system is otherwise frozen, but usually it is nowhere to be seen. The only solution is to hold the power button for 10 seconds (and crank the settings down). Did I over-mod or poorly configure my iMac?

Hmm, previous gen iMac (with nVidia card :( purchased 10 months ago), it crashes all the time if I don't crank everything down to low (and even then it occasionally locks up the whole system). I thought the cut scenes would be a safe place to increase the resolution, so I enabled HD... big mistake, it crashes all the time with that setting.

...Yeah, if shotgun shooting and Rifle shooting are currently badges that you can earn, I'm not thinking they would have a problem with shooting games.

What they should have a problem with is (as merit badges for Boy Scouts) is video games in general. This new badge will go straight to the top of the list of badges I DON'T want my son to "earn" as a Boy Scout (along side Sculpture, Theater, Cinematography, Computers).

Didn't anybody else do this with the response cookies sent to javascript generated [tiny/hidden] image src tags?

Or as low as $1 per 24+ hours (sometime today till 9pm tomorrow) at redbox.

As long as that content isn't flash...

"Real Programmers" good read - thanks

V-day? Why not just shorten it all the way to VD?

Which is particularly funny because currently "the classic books" can be had for free in electronic format whereas "cheap paperback novels" cost $10.

So I guess you wouldn't consider John Sullivan an Apple fanboy then?

This is the best idea for a movie I've heard in a long time!

Just to be clear

frequency hopping != encryption

especially if you are the only transmitter in that spectrum nearby.

How about

• folders to organize apps
• the ability to see what apps I've previously paid for (and deleted from my phone because I ran out of room) before I have to click to buy them again (and risk having picked the wrong app for which I will then be charged).
• The ability to put files (pdf, doc, etc) in one place that other apps can also access instead of each app having to download it from the internet itself
• The ability to turn off ALL sound before the app/video starts to play.
• The ability to record a call (they don't have to build it, just allow that app on the store).
• how about NOT putting the main speaker under the left side of the phone where I'm likely to block it when I'm holding the phone in my right hand
• how about filtering in the app store (I'll say it again - indicating previously purchased apps would be huge... before you purchase them)
• How about actually downloading that visual voicemail message so I don't have to be "connected" to listen to it

Nothing terribly difficult there. And there are a bunch of things that Apple could make better that they wouldn't even have to do themselves

• A better music/podcast interface (pocket tunes anyone? - apple only allows the radio only version)
• How about Google Voice
• How about moving contacts from one list to another on the phone
• How about moving photos from one list to another on the phone

It's not that the phone can't do the things people want (it can - just jailbreak it), it's that apple doesn't want the phone to do things people want. All that said the iPhone is awesome. It is a platform for greatness and therefor it is great. It is only diminished in so much as Apple restricts the apps that can run on it. What's wrong with google voice? Do you really think ANYONE will mistake it for the built in phone app after begging and pleading simply to get an invite? Really? Even when their phone rings every time they make an outbound call? Really?

I loved my treo and the apps on my treo (and I had hundreds), but the iphone blows it away with the sheer number and quality of apps (with a few notable exceptions - no astronomy program approaches the quality of astromist (at any price), and I still keep my treo around just so I can play ackwire)