We have time of use billing for electricity here in a lot of Ontario Canada now. It's a crock. Want to do laundry? Wait until after 7PM so you get the "cheap" rates. I could not stand that for internet too. What happens is the "cheap" off peak rate is the same as what the standard rate used to be. The non off peak rates are then more expensive and you end up paying MORE every month. Time of use no matter what it is for is just a way to get you to pay more than you are now. ISPs will never settle for REDUCING your monthly rates.

You'd think that. But the writers came up with the "Heisenburg compensator" which allowed the transporter to read the atomic state when disassembling and reconstituting it.

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I'd argue they aren't searching for actual risks, but excuses to charge you more. Insurance rates, especially auto insurance here in Ontario Canada are way over priced and the insurance companies look for any and all excuses to both charge you more and not pay out when you make a claim.

Except you are forgetting that that 57% means absolutely nothing because it includes software that can't even run on the Apple devices.

Yeah but if you are going to stay away from all electronics made in China or similarly lax countries then you won't have any electronics. It's completely impossible to buy any "consumer" grade electronics that aren't made in one of those places. Even paying $50 for a dress shirt gets you something made in China, Bangalore, *insert other crap hole*... How much do we have to pay for something made in North America? That $50 dress shirt would be $100+ if made here and who can afford that?

I recently(last few weeks) saw a video of a tablet release(can't remember what unfortunately), and the CEO of Adobe was up there on stage trumpeting that it played flash content and could access "the whole web". And then now only a few weeks later they kill it. I have to assume he knew about this decision all the while going up on stage.

It took 750 people to work on mobile flash and it was still complete crap? WTH do they do all day?

The new BB browser is based on Webkit so it should be pretty much comparable between the two phones. The difference is how they integrate the web view into the UI

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Not saying this should be patentable, but did any other phones have slide to unlock before the iPhone? I certainly don't know of any.