Too early. Both AMD and Intel are at the end of their cycles this Christmas. Which is sad, of course, as people would be buying soon-to-be-obsolete computers without realizing that.

> our computers

As an AMD fanboy - say for yourself.

He said "iPod touch".

You wanted good reliable OCR on 960x720 images? Uhm.

Low piracy -> Cheap prices.

Cheap prices + Easy -> Low piracy.

The amazing thing Apple did is putting their market into this sweet spot.

Not the actual Android developers, for example, no.

a) It's less unpopular than you think.

b) And being "unpopular" is actually a nice feature.

c) Historical documentation problems. Less of an issue now, but it used to be "lore-based".

Also, the stricter RDBMS is the more unpopular it will be. You *can't* be as sloppy with it as you can with MySQL (or even Postgres). For starters - because transactions everywhere and case-sensitivity.

A4ne.

I thought sensationalist FUD posts about the horrors of AppStore admissions were in the past. Clearly not.

The word is that they are seriously considering it at least. (And "the word" is the best you get when discussing Apple)

Don't connect any important computers/networks to the Internet. Problem 80% solved, duh.

> off-world

ISS is great and everything, but don't over-dramatize it. Its orbit is, like, just over half an inch away from a 2ft/60cm diameter globe model. And what's probably more important it's well withing earth magnetic field.

Bluetooth 3.0 uses WiFi as the underlying carrier technology.

Done properly - with proper encryption etc, it's not a concern at all.

Well, there is a concern, namely legalization of it, but it's the same with the data on your HD. They - the law enforcement - (theoretically) can make you turn it on and check every file just about any time soon. TrueCrypt? You are forced to enter the password or face problems.

> Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist nut.

Uhm... appropriate.

a) Symbian foundation "shutting down"? Well, sure a [citation] would help.

b) Even if so - it was of only so-so use for Nokia. They are basically the only Symbian developer worth anything. FLOSS Foundation spin-off shutting down does not mean that Nokia won't continue it.

As for Symbian itself - it's not that bad. It lacks some polish. Well, seriously lacks, including the infra-structure. But it has some nice feature - like ability to run native code which Android badly misses (some poorly-informed guy should post here about NDK, but it's not it at all). And I, for example, won't ever be programming in Java anymore, thank you. Symbians should just drop the certificate bullshit to get developers interested again.