They're only state of the art if you ignore the fact that Star Wars came out FIVE YEARS before it.

I don't think that term means what you think it means.

While your point is valid, I'm not sure T-Mobile really counts as a competitor? They're a Google partner, last I checked?

It is legal to reverse engineer things for compatibility promises - unless you explicitly sign a contract saying you won't do that. If Palm didn't sign on to use USB, they'd be allowed to reverse engineer until their hearts were content. But they've signed a contract waiving the ability to, among other things, use a forged vendor ID.

This is not reverse engineering.

Well like I said, I wasn't passing judgment as to whether that argument is right or wrong. Just commenting upon it.

That being said, I challenge you to find a major ISP that currently says their service is unlimited.

No, /. (and most net-savvy user websites) gets pissy when they go after the 1% because after all, they agreed to X Mbps, they should get to use that 100% of the time.

Whether that argument is right or wrong, the two situations combined (the one in this article and the one I'm laying out in this post) equate to a catch 22 for the ISP. The ISP's only remaining choice is to drastically lower promised speeds, but that's a marketing disaster, and really a technical one as well, since most people do sometimes use the top speeds, but don't do so regularly - makes them happy to have it available when needed though.

Sure, but /. gets all upset when Comcast/etc does that as well. Many ISP's either do that or have done that - and everyone gets pissed every time.

No, because VOIP, while a concern, according to these documents, was not the reason for the rejection (or postponement). Rather, mimicking of core iPhone functionality was.

Never? MS is not knowingly selling a defective product, their product just has a high failure rate. That's something for the consumer to look into. MS warrantee's it for a certain amount of time, which the consumer is informed of. So the consumer is agreeing to purchase a product that will only certainly work for whatever that time is. After that, they're on their own.

To be fair, Blackberry's don't have wifi either, do they?

A "C" is theoretically average, but whether or not that's true in practice varies widely. Most schools don't fail a high percentage of people, so a C ends up being towards the bottom.

That being said, unless I'm missing something here, a 2.7 is a B-, not a C. Some schools don't have a +/- system, but in that case it's still well above a base-line C.

A: 4.0
A-: 3.7
B+: 3.3
B: 3.0
B-: 2.7
C+: 2.3
C: 2.0
C-: 1.7
D: 1.0
F: 0


If there's no +/- system, it's just 4/3/2/1/0.
As for Monroe College... I live in the area, and I've never heard of it (or at least, know nothing about it). Some local school, I guess. Certainly not a regionally, nationally or internationally known one.

Only yesterday I read an article (found through Reddit) called (paraphrasing) "You are not a macroeconomist - you are a geek" - about all the Reddit/Digg/whatever people that think they understand the economy and how to fix it.

I had Wendy Seltzer for two classes (and an independent study I never really got around to finishing) in law school. Smart woman. Her blog is here, if anyone is interested. http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

I'm not sure what you're referring to. iTunes auto-adds cover art and the like, both with purchased and non-purchased music (assuming the ID3 tags are accurate).