I think month would be valid...for instance, I have a January birthday so my culture experience is going to be different than somebody with a birthday later in the year simply because I would be a year ahead of them in school and presumably the things that shaped my likes and dislikes are going to be different than somebody who was born in, say, September as I would consistently have been a year ahead of them in school...as this trend continues through the primary and secondary school years, I could see how this data point could be quite relevant.

Braaaaaaaiiiiins brains braaaaiiins brains brrrrrrraaaains.

The Beta quit in June, I believe, however, the RC is good until March, I think...I should check since I have the RC on one of my partitions but I think that's becoming FreeBSD anyway...so what do I care...honestly, played with 7, decided it was a worthwhile upgrade over XP, and then went back to XP since all my stuff's there.

mostly Google's complete lack of support for Exchange...I would have considered a G1 if it would have played nice with Exchange like the iPhone or Blackberry or Windows Mobile. I have T-Mobile (for the past 6 years) and deemed the G1 unacceptable from an enterprise standpoint, not for its apps or openness. It just wouldn't work like I needed it to with Exchange. Doing IT for a small business, it came down to what can I support as a standard across pretty much every carrier...and guess what, it's a Blackberry or Win Mobile phone.

This is particularly salient since the original Insight was a "mild" hybrid that used the electric motor for assist, regenerative braking, and to start/stop the engine...it couldn't move under electric power alone, unlike the Prius at the time...it wasn't until the 2006 Civic Hybrid a Honda hybrid could move under electric power (with the motor freewheeling and the valves open).

All of our workstations get named EXT000.domain.local (obviously 000 changes to the extension)...it makes easy to setup remote log-in via the VPN and it makes it easy to identify who has what installed on their computer uniquely. We're a small company (10 employees), so it may not scale well, but if you're really hung up on keeping track of individual computers, it seems like a no brainer to treat it like the telephone (just another tool) and tie it to that...

At one point, Dell offered FreeDOS as their Opensource option and an associated credit over windows on quite a few of their machines...making it relatively easy to buy an "empty" box with warranty and support, if that was your bag...now I think they've switch to Ubuntu...but still, the point is support vendors who don't offer windows and more vendors won't offer windows (and don't bitch about not getting all of the Microsoft surcharge back, they still have to test their hardware and perhaps write drivers).

Sooooo, they can take all three games and make three movies...then reboot the series with new characters from the World of Warcraft campaigns...sooooo...Blizzards trying to launch a big ol' movie cash cow that will last for a decade. I think the Lord of the Rings set a pretty high bar for fantasy films with the sticking point being characters.

My media consumption is split probably 70-30 online legit content vs. watching it off the TV. I haven't setup my DVR since we moved into a new house but before that, everything went on the media computer. I don't want to mess with downloading and finding content. With a hulu, I know it's there for three weeks...I found with the DVR if it didn't get watched in a week, it was never going to get watched (in a house with six people). I have it setup so I can plug my laptop into the TV and stereo now, if I miss something I'll just put it up on my TV and watch it. Frankly, I think it's fair to watch 2-3 minutes of ads targeted at me vs. 10 minutes typically found on TV. If it means I can watch my shows on my schedule, it's worth it. And, while I think copyright is totally messed up now, I don't think I should be ripping off content producers. At some point, if they can't make money producing content, they will stop making content...right now, the torrenters and copiers are subsidized by the people who consume content paid for by advertising. Once advertising is no longer profitable, everyone loses. I don't know how the landscape will change so producers can make money but it will change...and I'll go along with it. But until then, I think it's perfectly reasonable to watch a couple of ads in exchange for entertainment.

Well, it does add copy/paste (finally), landscape keyboard in Notes & Mail, global search, and nifty controls to Podcasts (30 sec skip, 2x/.5x/1x playback, e-mail button)...plus Push for apps to run in the background. I'm satisfied with the upgrade on my 1G...but still annoyed I had to pay all 10 bucks when I don't get bluetooth headphone support (that's 2G only).

I would probably be considered a windows power user and I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 x64 on my new 300 gig hard drive...the worst part of the upgrade? Getting my windows image to boot properly. Ubuntu 9.04 x64 worked after I had to reboot for my wireless card. Now, this is a Dell D620, so maybe it was standardized or Dell offers linux on it or whatever, but it was just as seemless (if not more so since I didn't have to download and install drivers for any hardware, just reboot) as installing XP from scratch. People seriously interested in Open Source software don't need an article like this, they'll already be there...I am going to install FreeBSD on my empty 100 gig partition but I haven't gotten around to it yet...

and buy coke in bottles...my brother swears it tastes better because it's in glass...I think it's the fact that Mexican coke is bottled with real sugar instead of corn syrup...you can get your fix all year then.

The war in this case is the Civil War...the one that basically created the idea of Federal Government as we know it...and even then, it only refers to the period immediately before the Civil War, generally.

SkyTran still requires tracks like trains, it may make a better individual riding experience but it doesn't solve the track problem and the station problem (if not exacerbate due to the energy requirements for mag-lev).

You say that yet FreeBSD boots and reports 639K/xxxxxxMB free and I think to myself, damn, I'd kill to have 639K on the old Tandy XT...