Considering that the link you provided has plenty of responses saying the same thing, I'm pretty sure you know what he meant. Just in case, here it is in plain english. The article you linked to showed what Android devices looked like before the iPhone and iPad came out. History tells us that the iPhone came out before the first Android phone. Therefore there was no Android device that looked different prior to the first iPhone like the article claimed. In fact, the picture showed a series of Windows-based devices in the "before iPhone" pictures. It is therefore a bad article and shouldn't be used as a reference whether you're wrong or right.

Personally, I abandoned the whole smart-phone thing as a bad addiction, but I won't buy an iOS-based device for my house. My computer is too valuable to install iTunes on. That and they're over-priced.

As a Red Sox fan who doesn't live or die by how the team is doing, I probably watch more Sox-Yankees match-ups than the rest of the baseball season combined. I don't think those games are too slow-paced. Yeah - they take forever, but it's the Sox and the Yankees! I can watch that game for 6 hours with a good group of guys and be very happy about it!

Of course, it's still better to watch how the Patriots or the Bruins are doing on any given game day.

There are people working and claiming to not be able to keep themselves housed or fed. Ask them to bum a cigarette or borrow their smart phone to look something up on the internet though... Most of them have money to spend on those things.

Made much less remarkable by the fact that "The Thing That Should Not Be" by Metallica is, in fact, based on Lovecraft.

Yeah - I enjoyed yours too. Great stuff! Thanks for listening.

Just wrote down the URL so I could check out your music after work. I've also gone it alone and recently put my first album up at bandcamp also. Haven't checked the style of your music yet, so it could be a completely different style and of no interest to you, but I figured I'd put it out there in case you (or anyone else reading) might want to check it out anyway.

The benefit of living in a rural area with a 45 minute commute is worth more than switching jobs or living in a city to me. You want to talk quality of life? I can enjoy acres of the outdoors without excess noise and light pollution without leaving my yard. My kids can go out and play without having to go to a park and be closely supervised. Etc. etc...

Yeah, it'd be nice to work closer and bike, but there aren't a lot of decent jobs in a rural area for a software developer like myself. I telecommute a couple days a week and that makes up for the commute. Like I said before, I would bike on occasion, but the lack of a shower here prevents that.

And yeah - not all cyclists act like I described, but certainly enough do that I wouldn't say they're any better than drivers. Back to the original point, remember that not all drivers are impolite either.

Actually, that contract has expired and you're living month to month. They can raise your rates at any time now even if the contract lacked the BS about being able to amend terms at any time.

I agree on most of that. Just one issue. Do you really think that cyclists are "more polite" than drivers? Really? I don't see it around here*.

I see cyclists thinking that they own the road, not paying attention at intersections, yelling at pedestrians as they bike down the sidewalk (illegal), and having the attitude that they can ignore the cars because it's the car driver's responsibility to look out for them. Yes - it's my responsibility to look out for you, but when you skip out into the middle of the intersection 5 feet in front of my car I can't stop or swerve quick enough to miss you.

That said, I've often wished I could bike to work in the summer. It's 32.5 miles each way on not-so-great-roads, so if I left myself enough time (say 2+ hours each way) I COULD overcome the pain in the rear to do it. However, I've got no shower at the office. My coworkers would not appreciate it. Oh yeah, and my wife works about 15 miles in the other direction, so moving would gain us nothing.

*here being New England.

I love it. Someone claiming the superiority of his home schooling over public schooling, but then an AC points out the flaws in his discussion. Both of those flaws, by the way, were taught to me in my public school education.

I'm not saying that home schooling won't work, but if you're going to pick on public schools for poor teaching methods, at least make sure that your teaching methods and facts are correct.

Yeah - that'll work.

In so many areas there are few enough people going in a given direction at a given time that's it's far too expensive to contemplate putting in public transportation. I would say that in a given day there are no more than 5 people traveling from the town I live in to the town I work in during the AM hours and back in the PM hours. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was more than 1 or 2. Most people in my town travel a different direction to a different city for work.

I work in a craphole city that I don't want to live in. I play in the country - miles and miles away. I would either have to live in a dirty crowded area and give up my hobbies, or give up my job that I've been at for 10 years and love. Just for the sake of giving up my vehicle.

Heh - like HR goons know the syntax for grep.

Quick point - getting a hunting license in the US (or at least in any state I've looked into hunting in) isn't "just a matter of signing your name on a piece of paper, waiting a couple of weeks and then getting your brand new rifle." You have to take and pass a hunter safety course where you learn how to properly handle a gun, identify your target, identify what is a safe shot and a kill shot (and not to take the shot if it isn't both), how to navigate based on topo map and compass, etc... And yes, people do fail the course.

That's not to say that people who lack courtesy and will shoot and scare off the animals for other hunters are the ones who fail.

You're not missing much with Android 2.2 being late. I've got it on my droid and I'd almost consider going back to 2.1. The icons routinely disappear off the screen (I just have to swipe to another screen to get them back, but it's an annoyance), and Pandora (or any other streaming music service) is affected by having every other song come through in low quality. All for what? Flash? They claim speed increases, but I haven't noticed any.