iTunes already has individual episode purchases available for $2 each and you get to keep it. Season passes range from $10 - $40 and a bit more for HD. Compared to a $90+ cable bill a month $2 an episode and being able to keep them forever isn't such a bad deal. After all, for $90+ for cable, you're only "renting" anyway.

It's also worth nothing that many Android users leave there WIFI off b/c Android doesn't power down the Wifi antenna when it isn't being used. The iPhone, on the other hand, is very aggressive about power saving with both 3G and Wifi. The end result is iPhone users take advantage of nearby Wifi networks more often than Android users.

AT&T has faster average download and upload speeds than Verizon - stop spreading misinformation. citation: http://www.pcworld.com/article/189592/atandt_roars_back_in_pcworlds_second_3g_wireless_performance_test.html

"Apple can plainly attest" ?

You mean I didn't buy my Macbook Pro because it had more memory, a faster processor and video card than contemporary notebooks in its price range/size. Also a gorgeous screen, a backlit keyboard, an accelerometer protecting my data by parking my hard drive's heads in the event of a fall, a magnetic breakaway power cord, awesome battery life, and a aluminum unibody holding it all together weighing in at only 5.5Lbs? Don't forget a UNIX-based OS with a largely consistent, beautiful and lean GPU-accelerated UI (read: doesn't require a ridiculous CPU+GPU combo to simply present my interface like some other UIs). Several aspects of the OS are empirically "better" than the competition- which is probably why the competition has spent the better part of the last 10 years duplicating functionality in OSX from the UI down through the frameworks. The OS + beautiful and capable hardware make an Apple computer a killer package.

I'm a software engineer with a computer engineering degree and I could hardly ask for a better development platform. Apple makes, on the whole, the best of the breed when it comes to personal computers and you need to compare the complete package (OS, build quality, tech specs, weight, battery life, etc) if you are to compare apples to Apples. Pun intended.

Blanket statements like that just expose your complete ignorance of IP law and the roles of various players in it from consumers and IP holders to law enforcement. Oh .. this is slashdot- carry on.

That is absolute BS. The iPhone uses 'points' not pixels as a metric, which allows them to be resolution independent. Does it make everything easier to have an even multiplier? Sure- but they could have used any resolution. Look at the iPad, as an example- Much of the same widgets but at different display resolutions.

I should further add that 20 democrats and 21 republicans did not vote at all. 233 of 243 democrats voted "yes" and 124 or 177 republicans voted "yes". That is a majority on both sides of the isle.

The yeas on this bill were 357- A lot of republicans voted for it too. Leave your bias out of the damn summary. This is suppose to be a tech/sci news site, not a soapbox for Libertarian ideology.

I'll go with BSD, thank you.

Did anyone else see "Wikileaks founder Assassinated" before taking a second look?

Weak chip? The intent was good performance and good battery life. The iPad gets ~10 hours on a single charge and nothing about the iPad feels sluggish. A lot of this has to do with a very optimized software stack (xnu + darwin + cocoa touch ui layer) with apps written in Objective-C (managed memory instead of garbage collection, natively compiled). It is quite a bit more efficient than even Android's optimized software stack, which runs apps on a stripped down JVM. There's more to building a responsive system than throwing ever faster CPUs at it.

No, this time it is actually about something we here at slashdot give a damn about- Copyright/IP laws. Oh, and the previous story linking to america's watchtower- yeah, that isn't exactly an objective perspective on... anything.

Floating point math should be properly verified using interval arithmetic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic

I see what you did here...

Wait a sec- The iPhone supports exchange email and several VPN protocols. Why wouldn't the iPad?