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But both you and me know that the price for OS X is the same for everyone because it's supposed to be bought by mac users only, and all macs ships with OS X so what you are buying are actually an upgrade more than a complete OS. It just doesn't say it's an update and don't do any checks for a previous version (it do however require you to install the OS on a mac which kind of is proof enough...)

Apple's choice of business model is its problem, not ours!

...it do[sic] however require you to install the OS on a mac...

No it doesn't; it requires you only to install on an "Apple-labeled" computer. Conveniently, Apple includes stickers in the Mac OS retail package, so you can stick an Apple label on whatever computer you want! : )

Google StreetView now has all of the major U.S. cities covered. Except the Washington, D.C. area. Of the top forty metropolitan areas in the US, Google has all of them covered except #8, the Washington D.C. area, and #20, the Baltimore area. There's no StreetView data for a 75-mile radius around Washington. They've covered Wilmington, DE and Richmond, VA, both about 100 miles from Washington, but that's as close as they get.

They're working on rural areas of California. They've worked down to Knoxville, TN, Greenville, NC, and Boise, IH. So it can't be accidental that they've avoided Washington.

One wonders why.

Here's a clue: not all laws are just, and not all laws should be obeyed.

People who are busy breaking the law might get in trouble because of Google Streetview.

Here is an interesting idea: Don't break the fucking law.

And you'll be back faster than a Google search result. Weeding out the crap?

Just for a sample, try this one: getfirefox. If the first link on that search goes to a Mozilla mirror you will win one Internet. Try Linux. Hey, this is fun. Spoiler: the first link there is always "www.Microsoft.com/Windows : Special Offers from Windows Vista® w/ the Purchase of Select Laptops." The first time I tried this I was looking for Open Office and wound up misdirected to a members only site where you had to register to download a probably spyware infested Open Office and signing up for unlimited pharma spam. The scary part is that the text of the link misled me to believe I was headed for "OpenOffice.org". Try it and see. Let's find more horrifically inappropriate ad placements and query results, shall we? I'll bet you could come up with a really funny one.

Note: Please don't go to any of the sites linked to those search results through live.com. Bad things might happen to your Windows box and there's nothing there of interest for your powerbook.

Yeah, that's a good search result ad, don't you think? No wonder Google is becoming a verb.

I'm more interested in when Google starts returning relevant results to my queries.

I can't believe that I'm the only one that finds Google's quality of service somewhat below par. I guess they're better than randomly stabbing in the dark, and there certainly isn't any alternative that's obviously better, but Google sure isn't everything they think they are.

I know--stop trying to compete with Wikipedia and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.

Christ wake up, Obama has a history of crap like this.