Their DAR.fm thing is also neat.

I hope this means they'll be able to ramp up the service now, as their support sucks.

Umm, they did exactly that. Check out the last four pages of the article. Basically, T-Mobile is really good if you live in the middle of no where (until AT&T buys them that is).

I was more or less in the same boat. Here is what I did:

No home phone (why do you really need that anymore anyway, I guess that could very for some).

Cell Phones, Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V. It is a great android phone and my monthly service is $25 for unlimited texting, unlimited data, and 300 minutes. They have higher minute plans if needed, but going over minutes isn't very expensive and you can restart a plan early. My wife and I were on a family plan with AT&T, but two VM plans is cheaper. After the initial cost of the phones, we are coming out way ahead and get a lot more.

TV: We were spending about $100 per month with Dish. Bought a Roku box for living room, put the Wii in the bedroom and got a $9 Netflix streaming plan. Got a $3 a month (averaged out) pandora paid subscription for music. Put a $45 antenna in the attic. I now get better quality HD locals than with Dish (I also have a computer setup to record if desired, but that admittedly does add extra expense) and we watch everything on Netflix or Hulu. Sure, we don't get to watch everything we did, but there is plenty for us to watch (including our daughter) and we shouldn't be watching so much TV anyway. Plus, the way I put it to my wife was "Is $1000 a year worth it to watch House Hunters on HGTV"? I think when you put it in terms like that and realize that if you give up a few shows to save a lot of money, it is an easy decision. Also, I tend to find that for most people that have "can't miss shows" after a few weeks of not seeing them, they don't really care about that show anymore. All they really want is a few hours of mindless TV entertainment and the exact show doesn't always matter.

What about the Asus Transformer? It is $400 (equivalent iPad 2 is $500) has the internal memory, a dual core tegra chip, same gorilla glass ips screen, etc. It also has Flash, you don't have to use iTunes, and there are a lot more apps/options in general than iOS. I have one and love it.

He used proprietary software to get the GNU project up and running. First thing he wrote was an editor, then a compiler using that editor, then tools using that compiler and editor, then more tools using the existing tools, compiler, editor, etc.

> Another thing that bothers me is that the FSF stuff almost comes across as negative, so 3DS is evil, iPad is evil, Kindle is evil, etc. Great, but what hardware is actually ok to buy? Why is there still no hardware database of the good stuff that doesn't limit my rights?

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw

But Google is distributing proprietary software!

Like all proprietary software distributors, we want them to stop and release free software instead. That's why we take up the argument with them.

You know that Free Software is about freedom and not price, right?

But this is Google's code that its running on MY computer. I should be able to control it.

The code is already in your browser and you can already look at it. That's not the issue.

The issue is that without the essential freedoms to study, modify and distribute copies of the software, users are at a disadvantage to the developer and that's unjust.

Because users aren't able to legally modify, study and distribute it? Plus, it's not in a suitable form for modification.

You think the FSF should prefix all of its opinions on its own website?

Psst, here's a copy of Facebook's secret code -- http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yp/r/Ub2OCc5xWCb.js