I stopped using my iPod Classic when I got an iPhone -- I find the touchscreen interface much easier to navigate. No more having to go into the settings menu to change things like shuffle/repeat options, and the artists/albums/songs options are consistently in the same place (using a Classic, you had to navigate to them using the wheel and then click). The click wheel was pretty good, but personally I think the touch screen is a lot better. I'm curious as to why you find it so difficult to use.

Hold on, you realise compression (as in the loudness war) is different to compression (as in mp3), right? It sounds like you might be conflating the two.

I'll believe it when you can consistently pick the 320kbps mp3 in an ABX test.

You need a large number of users out there using clients which support DHT and PEX first. DHT was available a long time before it was really particularly useful.

In fact, Torrent already has this feature: if you look at the 'Peers' tab, it'll try to work out what country each peer comes from and display an appropriate flag just to the left of the IP. All that's needed is an option to allow the user to prioritize connections to peers from the same country.

Could you source that quote? It sounds interesting.

Because most people haven't heard of FLAC, and even if they had heard of it, they wouldn't know how to use it. Also, very few of the tools that people actually use for ripping CDs and playing back audio (WMP, iTunes, iPods, etc.) support FLAC, and mp3/aac/wma is simply 'good enough'.

Do you have any evidence for that? Linguistic change occurs in every natural language, and it always has. I see no reason to assert that improved literacy would reduce linguistic change. In fact, it seems to me that it is increased literacy that has caused the problems we have with English spelling today -- the written record has remained somewhat constant despite substantial changes in pronunciation, leaving us with words like 'knight' which sound nothing like what you'd expect.

Most linguists these days accept that linguistic change is unavoidable, so I'm not really sure how you've been modded +5 informative. (I'm not a linguist, but I am a linguistics major.)

It's a common slang term for 'arrive' here in Western Australia (and probably the rest of the country).

But it's fairly trivial to remove the limit. Surely anybody tech-savvy enough to run a server could work this out?

I don't have a good grasp on the intricacies of DVDs, but if you're saying that information is recorded on DVDs in three parameters, then yes, it could be called 3-dimensional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension

How is this a misuse of the word 'dimension'? It doesn't necessarily refer to a spatial dimension.

No, because it's not an Apple product (the music player app on the iPhone is actually called 'iPod'). Besides, the original claim was that the iPhone is "no iPod [...] in terms of features". The iPhone has all the features of the iPod -- and if the same is true of your brother's blackberry, then it would also be unreasonable to claim that it's "no iPod in terms of features".

What's wrong with linking to that Wikipedia article? It summarizes, cites and links to the relevant statutes which are authoritative.

Constant downward acceleration, not force. If it were constant force, heavier objects would fall slower than lighter ones. Although I guess we can't really apply the Newtonian definition of 'force' to Aristotlean physics..