Outside traffic is usually more expensive, but it's not the only expense. Local network traffic can cost a pretty penny, too, when we're talking about areas bigger than your home LAN.

That works great for people that have already bought two different machines.

The issue is not that it can't be worked out later (with effort and knowledge), but that the situation exists in the first place.

Can it really be called "fat cats getting fatter" when they are stacking cash up and not paying it to individuals? If it is a business saving cash, that value is actually being used (giving the company liquidity and leverage to do business or STAY in business) or will be used. Both of which are typically good for the economy.

Of course, when taxing corporations is the method to raise funds for the states, people have no idea how much tax they're really paying since it's hidden in the cost of what they buy.

The cost of replacement boards is high due to small supply, not due to cost of manufacturing (because manufacturing is what they're no longer doing).

Australia's game pricing is ridiculously high, but so are your salaries and thusly the cost of everything else in the store.

If you're talking about the narrow case of wanting to see just what's in those last few pixels on a page that extends past the viewable window, sure. I'm talking about the far more common case of a page that justifies information at the bottom of the window or when it is justified at the bottom of a page which is scrolled all the way to the bottom.

I love it when I can reclaim some screen space (stuff the menus away where ever!). I don't love it when it comes at the expense of functionality.

Like status popups covering up part of a web page I'm trying to read. Which happens ALL THE %^@^% TIME.

Yeah, that's just wonderful until it displays while there is a viewable page, covering up elements at the bottom.

I would love Chrome if it had a status bar instead of a status popup that covers page elements and a URL bar that either shows the http or doesn't include it when you copy and paste the URL (what kind of moronic...).

So, basically a browser that doesn't go out of its way to annoy me. Is there a version of Chrome like THAT?

There is a saying, "You have to know the rules to break them."

It was always clear to me that Tolkein did both.

The community at large had little reason to care about Symbian. webOS has many things that are quite attractive about it for people that are not already committed to Symbian.

Today's giant scree designs make clamshell a bit difficult. You could have the hinge on the other side, but that makes vertical operation awkward. You could keep the traditional clamshell orientation, but then it becomes a very long, weird device... unless you make the screen smaller, which just isn't what makes a desirable smartphone for the vast majority of people.

They do make cases for people such as yourself, though: http://www.oriongadgets.com/Apple-iPhone-3GS-Leather-Flip-Type-Case-Crocodile-Pattern-Red-pid-5305.html

Not only are they powerful enough, they're getting even more powerful (well, as I'm sure you guessed...).

The iPhone 4 and higher end Android phones are capable of 3D graphics performance that can look like a current-generation console (concessions are made, but clever design can make that non-obvious), and they do it at nigh-HD resolutions. In just a short couple of years, we're going to have phones that meet or beat the consoles currently attached to TVs. Certainly, more powerful consoles will be out by that time, but we're getting to the point where not as important--and it'll probably be even less important when a person can have a game on their phone and TV. There are a lot of other issues there (controls, conveniently attaching a phone to a TV, what to do with calls), but there are the beginnings for answers to those right now, and it'll be answered fairly well when it becomes a more practical possibility.

We can argue about how much Apple needed saving from Jobs, but pushing to replace the crap OS was just the kind of thing that got Steve Jobs ousted from Apple.

Of course, it was the same OS he'd been pushing for that they eventually bought back along with Jobs himself when they acquired NeXT.

There difference is that there are still numerous professionals who will stand by the old definition of the word "hacker" because it is a common term for them.

The general public calls plasma "blood". Should we tell the doctors to give up correcting people on this because hey, words change meaning?