Well 4gs was announced more than 2 weeks ago were's the competition?

The only true finite resource in the world is time. Just because you can afford to pay 2 million programmers doesn't mean that a project that would normally take 5 years can be done in like a week. While voice narration/navigation has been available for years I'd describe the results as lukewarm. SIRI appears to be a leap forward in terms of both recognition and the tasks it can actually perform. It is really pretty cool.

I got my popcorn ready to read the comments in this thread. Let the Apple bashing commence!

Temporary workers always make more money per hour than those doing it full time, its the trade off for the convience of having an on demand workforce. It's also very misleading to go strictly off per hour wage when your not including the total compansation package into the mix. Full-time employees will get PTO, insurance, 401k/pensions, etc. That isn't a small chunk of change.

Glue some alluminum foil on a piece of heavy paper (construction, card stock, etc) in the same shape. Been doing this since about 2004.

We can't have nice things. Someone always has to go and abuse the system and get it stuff banned for everyone. $5 this is banned within the month.

reading that google uses mainly consumer hardware for their servers, lots and lots of them. Not even bothering to remove/turn off/ fix servers when hard drives go bad. Power usage is actually a pretty major concideration in enterprise gear.. I wonder if the majority of their power usage is being wasted because of this choice.

This is actually the way its been in Corporate IT for quite a while. It's much easier to make a web app that gets update once on the server than to manage thousands of client updates, worry about security issues, etc. The current place I work about 80% of the applications are web apps with a few ones yet to make the move (MS Office being the primary one, but even that might be changing with Microsoft's cloud pushes).

That Facebook is rapidly becoming unrelevant? Also fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Is that the lottery officials know full well that it's broke but they don't care.