Nor does it predict when I'm typing an expletive. Seriously, that annoys me (I swear a lot because I have no imagination).

Amen.

For years I have been making the analogy to driving cars. It's something most people need to do every day, and so they take the time and effort to learn about cars, at least from an interface standpoint, how to use them, how to interact with the roadways and laws, etc. When they get a new one, they may spend days going over all the new features and learning how to use them.

And now, for many people, a computer is also something they have to use day in and day out to do their jobs. Yet they feel that it's somehow acceptable to simply refuse to learn anything about them or how to use them. Then when a little minor thing goes wrong they throw their hands up in the air and exclaim "I can't work like this!"

Whoever was the HP sales rep that was selling the printers to this intermediary company in Dubai, likely had a VERY good knowledge of where all those printers were going.

Whether that sales rep (or their boss) communicated this up the chain to senior execs, however, is anybody's guess.

I would just like to add to parent poster's informative post, since he/she touched on the local affiliates. Some are great, and some as stated, are maybe too narrowly focused or play too little NPR broadcast content to have wide listenership.

So I just wanted to throw in a plug for a superb local affiliate in the L.A. area based out of Santa Monica (from Santa Monica College), KCRW. They have a great selection of shows of all genres of music, excellent DJ's, and play a LOT of NPR syndicated shows.

They have a full online radio station, with streaming at: http://www.kcrw.com/

So you don't have to live in the L.A. area to listen to a great NPR station.

Personally, NPR is the ONLY thing I can stand to listen to in the car, literally. I just cannot stand having people yelling and screaming at me about sales on furniture and playing all kinds of horrible sound effects and bad pop music, with endless commercials and bad radio DJ's talking about garbage. Clear Channel needs to crawl in a hole and die.

Anyone know if there's a way to change the onscreen keyboard (for typing messages to friends) to QWERTY?

The current layout is absolute shite.

Wow, I would NOT want to be the guy who cleans out the bin of stuff left over after they distill all the water out of it...

Just use disk encryption.

Even if you factor in Gore running a business from his house (I suppose a check of zoning laws might be in order :-D) he still was consuming vast amounts of power. A large portion of that being the bill for his swimming pool and pool house.

He also has a habit of zooming around the world on private jets while shouting "the sky is falling!".

So, Gore is paying a premium for his wastrel life style. Goody for him. You realize of course that since he's buying that "green power" then someone else has to use the non-green power for their consumption.

Whatever happened to "conservation begins at home"? If things are really so darn bad then why isn't Al acting like it by changing his life style?