January is a little optimistic. Samsung said Q1, which could mean anytime between January and March, but there are often delays with releases, so it could be later than March.

Still, Samsung is one of the fastest with their expected releases for ICS on existing phones. The other big problem is that no matter when Samsung has their own version of ICS available for any given phone, the carriers (in the US, at least) will take their own sweet time to add their crapware and test it before they will give it their blessing. Especially with the Galaxy S II, where there's one version available internationally, and each of the 3 carriers in the US has an entirely separate version, and AT&T has not one, but 2 separate (and fairly different, internally) versions of it. There are also other GSII versions in different international markets.

So unfortunately, even the mighty Galaxy S II has its work cut out for it, but the one thing it has going for it is Samsung's announced timeframe. If you have one US version, don't be surprised if you don't get ICS until months after the international version gets it, or after the other US carriers get it. If you're cool with Cyanogenmod (I have CM7.1 running on my AT&T GSII -- not the Skyrocket), you'll probably have CM9 with ICS weeks (at least) ahead of the official Samsung/Carrier release.

For us, it's worth the extra $$ to keep both the DVD and streaming services. When they made that change, we decided to dump Comcast cable, not NetFlix. So much more value for the money, even if it costs twice as much as it used to.

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T-Mobile also uses SIMs. Although they are being bought by AT&T, they haven't been yet, and the buyout has a lot of challengers.

For now, if you're on AT&T, you can switch to T-Mobile. People have been unlocking iPhones to run on T-Mobile for as long as the iPhone has been around.

Also, to further point out Notes' ineptness as an e-mail program, its own built-in spell checker doesn't recognize the word "e-mail" by default.

Although to be fair, I just realized this morning that Google Chrome's own spell checker doesn't recognize the word "Gmail", either.

Actually, scroll bars are already next to useless in Notes, because the contents of the window don't update as you're scrolling. You have to pick a spot to scroll to and hope that you're roughly in the right neighborhood.

I thought the same thing when I read the summary.

I especially find it funny because the Search function in Notes sucks, so I rarely search or use folders. Back in the day, we used Outlook and work and I had the Xobni plugin installed. Now that was useful.

Funny that they would have some big study about it, when Gmail pretty much proved this same point years ago.

Reminds me of when Greenpeace was actively giving Apple grief (maybe they still are), even after Apple made a big deal about how much better they had made their products for the environment, just because Apple is such a well-known company.

I've got a feeling that even if Steve Jobs himself condemned the same things they do, they'd find something to complain about, since he is such a well-known figure.

When I know the full name of the .exe file, I do use Win+R, but other times the Start Menu search works great.

I just tried your example, hitting the Win key, typing "cmd", and immediately hitting Enter... It took a few seconds to find it, but when it did it launched it right away, I didn't have to wait until it found it to press Enter. This could be bad in situations where some programs might have the same (or similar) names, but if you're reasonably certain that what you're typing is unique to that one program (even if you're only typing the first 3 or 4 letters), it's pretty reliable.

I actually use the Start Menu quite a bit, but only for the search function. Browsing the the actual menu is worse on Vista/7 than it ever was in any previous version, but overall I still like it more, precisely because I don't have to browse any more. I just hit the Windows key, start typing the first few letters of what I want and hit Enter.

It somewhat replaces utilities like SlickRun and Launchy (but not completely), making programs very easy to find, because I don't have to look for them.

It would have been cool, but as I recall, you had to have a Pre3 for that, and those were released in the UK only, the day before HP announced it was killing off all WebOS devices. I wonder if anyone actually got a Pre3 and a TouchPad in a room together at the same time.

Well, "shut up" is a bad phrase for parents to use with their kids for a number of reasons, but I wouldn't say any of those promptly snuff the flame of curiosity, especially not when they're used sparingly.

You do have to be sensitive to children's feelings, but there are also some times when you can't always answer every question. Sometimes those moments are during a long car ride when you've already answered a dozen other questions.

I do really admire the questions kids come up with, though. One of my favorite questions from my then 4 or 5 year old daughter was "Why do we have outside?"

It's still a bad deal... Yeah he may have gotten 3 new laptops, but always at the expense of the previous one breaking, plus all the hassle to try to return it and actually get them to give you a replacement. Also, that's 3 new laptops to set up from scratch and get just the way you like it, only to have it break soon afterwards. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'd rather have a reliable computer that lasts a long time and doesn't make me fight with it than always have shiny new toys that are going to fall apart soon.

When they came out with that "Elevation" song, they were talking about their own superiority to bloons?

I find it ironic that people use the word "Lemmings" to talk about others who just follow the crowd, seeing as how the idea that actual lemmings commit mass suicide is not true. So by using the word in this way, you're just following what a bunch of people have told you, without verifying it for yourself.

Of course, for the ultimate irony, I'm just writing all this based on what I've seen other people post on random comment threads, and on what I've read on wikipedia.