People over processes......works every time.

I can see the commercials with Luke Wilson now.... iPhone Luke is eating lunch while using his iPhone to tweet. "nexus" Luke tries to steal a french fry from iPhone Luke. And iPhone Luke bats his hand away saying, "Hey, why don't you buy some for yourself !". Then "nexus" Luke (sad-faced) says, "But I spent all my money on this....android....phone".

That would be true, if the service we adjusted downward when bringing an UN-subsidized phone to the party. Since we all know that to NOT be true, then there is NO win here. C'mon, use some common sense logic, that the purpose of subsidized phones is to ensure that there is a revenue stream that no only covers the initial cost of the phone ( and there's NO way you're going to tell me that any carrier pays anywhere NEAR the supposed retail price of a phone, and then can charge you an early termination fee of the sort that they charge....PUH-LEEZE. No one's THAT dumb to believe it. ) plus actual service costs, with some room for scaled profit throughout the lifetime of the person's contract with the carrier. So please stop squawking as though Google's doing someone some public service here. They aren't. PERIOD. Or as the commercial goes......The man said, "Ta-da !"

blend. Will it blend !?! Sheesh.....you forgot to ask the REAL IMPORTANT question.

Brotha's and Sistah's can I get an Amen in the congregation ! But seriously, it only took 5 sentences what several building-full's of MBA's can't seem to understand. And as for the squeaky investors.....hello !...this is insuring the long-term sustainability of your investment, if you were looking for "Get rich quick", infrastructure large-player data communications isn't it ! Go look at some small company like HTC and invest in them so they get better phones on the market...or better yet, Huawei (?!?) who're now starting to come out with some real competition for HTC and others.

I love statisticians ( always trying to convince people that 1 = 2 for most values of 1, that lot )... Dude...if bicycles are a visible component of the total mass of flowing traffic...guess what..you should have to abide by the same regulations other vehicles do, if not more so. Specifically because you're operating a vehicle that doesn't have the inherent "operator safeguards" that other vehicles do. YOU are your vehicle's safeguard. Coming from a city where 90%+ of humanity get around via their own vehicles for work, I would think if we had more folks riding their bikes to work we might encounter some of the same issues you've described.

Funny...I found references to where a cyclist bashed in the window to a metro bus....though....this http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/07/war_between_bikes_and_cars_not.html#more seems to indicate there isn't any war going on between cyclists and drivers. Just the same....

Which makes me wonder even more where the $399 is going for the personal developer edition....unless they're offering updates and support en perpetuetum.... I could understand $99.......but $399.......what in the heck is De Icaza puffing ?

Which means what ? That the ridiculous algorithms used by the three credit reporting companies can now be considered invalid, and I can come up with my own "Credit Score" algorithm and make my own service ? Yeah, right.

Then you're unclear as to the reasons for having scope in the first place. It's why books are divided chapters, and chapters into pages, pages into paragraphs, and so on. It's to give it some semblance of context. Geez, why even have '{' or '}' then ? There's no reason to have key characters if there's no logical demarkation of scope after all. And if we're going that far, let's get rid of the ';'s then. We're all adults, we should KNOW where a statement ends, right ?

Obviously I'm being facetious, but only half so. It's because for as many nice things there are in JS, I keep coming up with more rationales for why JS must wither. Lua is a great example of scripting done right ( or at least more coherently than JS will ever be ), but it has it's limits of utility as well.

JS was a hack when it was incepted, continues to be a hack, and will plague us into the future unless people get a grip already.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the road to RIA is not paved in JS (even if embedded away from eyesight).