I'd rather that my 12-year-old daughter doesn't have to ask me how Rick ImpoliteWord became President.

I already have enough awkward US history to explain as it is.

Or perhaps a faculty member who doesn't long for the extra respect and pay that working at a coffee shop would offer compared to teaching at a University.

It would be nice to live in a world where teachers did have the time and resources to actually teach their students but the real world seldom works that way.

I don't know. Is there a question which cannot be answered by visiting www.gmail.com and having a helpful friend or highly paid accomplice on the outside write up the solution for you?

If your answer to that question is 'No', then you're starting to see the problem. If your answer is 'Yes', then I have an amazing investment opportunity for you. It's a combination of a perpetual motion machine, time cube, and weight loss device that is made entirely from recycled ophidian extracts...

But they're right. The problem is not with the audiophiles, but with the testing.

A _proper_ double-blind test would involve you, the tester, telling the test subject the names of two competing brands of audio equipment, but not their price. The subject would then hold lengthy conversations with his peers about how much better the equipment makes everything sound without ever plugging it in. Whichever brand leaves him feeling more superior at the end of the test is clearly better.

If you're just going to bring stupid crap like listening to music into it then you're completely missing the point and your testing methodology is doomed to failure.

Only if you read them. Most iPads count for about six birds, a slingshot and a handful of green pigs.

Spending the next three days travelling in circles at 17,285 mph may be a bit more challenging, but you probably have a nicer bike than mine.

The original idea was not to have any "plan" at all, but simply charge customers for what they had used in the previous month. So if you used only enough to qualify for the $10 plan, you pay $10 at the end of the month.. If you used enough for the $25 plan, you would pay $25.

The focus groups hated it, because they weren't able to choose a plan like they were accustomed to. So they changed it to the current system where you pick a plan and if you go over it you pay for the next tier. It works exactly the same, but the same focus groups loved it.

People are funny that way.

I wonder if they have an option for downloading Trumpet Winsock onto your phone.

Yeah, I think there's definitely a scaling problem there.

Or perhaps a reading comprehension problem, since /proc/partitions reports in blocks, not bytes, but either way it doesn't inspire any kind of confidence in the rest of their testing methodology.