Blame that on the store policy not the payment mechanism.

not if it is placed in a sandbox like blackberry is proposing with their new apps for iphone and android.

Not everyone has the talent or desire for college...

Not every college grad has the talent to be a plumber, carpenter, or electrician, either. Doesn't anyone ever stop to think that 4 years of apprenticeship is pretty much the same as 4 years of college? In fact most trades require some college courses as part of the apprenticeship these days. That is why a journeyman plumber, carpenter, millwright, electrician, etc can do their job competently, if not well from the beginning of most any job they show up to. Intelligence and how it is used is manifest differently in different people.

Sure an IT worker (or other college grad) might do 'OK' with carpentry or electrical if shown what to do; and after a few years of constant work or practice can approach what a journeyman can do. But attitudes that college grads are superior intellects compared to a tradesman help explain the scads of 'Home Improvement Gone Wrong' 'reality' shows (not to be confused with the shows where guys fix contractor's mistakes... mostly the bad contractors aren't journeymen either). Don't mistake people not being interested in science or accounting as a lack of intelligence. While not across the board, I would warrant that many journeymen tradespeople could learn how to do IT work if given a few years instruction too. Maybe like if they had taken 4 years of college in IT if they had been interested in the first place.

No I'm not a tradesman. But I have worked with many when I used to work in chemical/process engineering. Most I worked with were very smart and talented. As much as we think of different sciences as being specialized, requiring years of college training, tradesmen specialize as much. The only difference is how and where those learned skills and knowledge is applied. And yes, there are people who may not have the intelligence or critical thinking skills required to go to college... but often people who lack that level of intelligence wouldn't make a good tradesman either.

Pure and simple.

e.g. email me your phone number and I'll call you. oops need to write it down before opening the phone app. just an example. same for bbm or text.

Naive. It's like gas stations. The all have the same price. In practice they all strive for the highest price they can get, not the lowest.

The price producers charge for things does not hinge completely on how much it costs to make. This is especially true for things that are cheap to make. Just because something costs pennies to make doesn't mean it will be sold for pennies. Ever heard the phrase, "charge what the market will bear?" And if in 30 years people in North America can't afford to buy stuff (due to automation and globalization), guaranteed somewhere in the world someone will be able to.

Personally I grow the raw material for my plastic. Then I bury it in the earth and let the weight of the overburden compress it a while... say a few million years... then I dig it back up and reprocess it into a form of carbon which I can synthesize into plastic. It is time consuming but I don't need petroleum for it. Once I can find a way to make it economical I'll commercialize it.

Hey retard, honey bees raised by bee keepers aren't the only things that pollinate our food crops. In fact they're not even the best at it. Commercial honey bees can't do it alone Any excuse to suck the corporate cock, eh? Jeezuz, give it a rest!

Does the music sound better?

Sure, and I have only one device that I ever use, so that keychain program works great. And hell, a keychain program is better than writing them all down since it writes them down for you! I would be willing to bet that if sites forced you to have a unique password for each place, people would use less sites. If you make things hard to use, people won't use them.

How about using some of Regan's star wars technology? Not to blow stuff up, but to give it a hard push with powerful lasers or xray beams. Push the small stuff into a degrading orbit to burn up in the atmosphere. It would be easier to target the small stuff like since you don't have to be close to it to give it a nudge. Once the little pieces are cleaned up, they can go after the less prevalent bigger pieces.

So what you are saying is that this is you:

Being a specialist in a product / technology is a wonderful achievement

And this is not you:

When you get work at an enterprise level - when building an application costs (development costs only - not deployment, hosting, or operational costs) million+ dollars, you need an architect

Even in application developers, I prefer someone who can think like an architect. They will produce more robust code that lasts/is relevant longer, that is more extensible and capable of integrating with other systems if needed. Even in smaller applications this is important. If you can't think like an architect, you won't be able to write this kind of code.

Nice tin foil hat.

I wonder how DD-WRT stacks up.