You forgot to declare your variables.

Why did you spend all that time writing when the last word summed it all up perfectly and concisely?

Or the "Wife" model, which will hide the cash from you in the exact amounts of either what she wants from you or to just below the amount you need for yourself, whichever irritates you more! An optional feature on the Wife model is an integrated credit card that grows in debt without any discernible benefit.

To many people outside the US, we are nothing but one big suburb of New York City, and they had the outages. Sad, really.

It appears you all really suck at parenting. My son has had several computers, including pcs. They are loaded with educational games, restricted access, and teaching tools. My son has been able to demonstrate the ability to navigate the computer better than his peers, who *are learning to do so under the sponsorship of public schools in kindergarten*. I'd rather teach him myself before someone who is computer illiterate pollutes his knowledge of the things.

What is RIAA again? In this day and age if you are paying any attention to them whatsoever you are doing it wrong.

What about the Bluetooth devices sticking out of everyone I know's ear? They sure are not comfy, but they free up hands. Beforehand it was stereo headphones, and yes, people used them (in fact, I wish the idiots with giant boom boxes on their shoulder would get some). I'd happily wear such a device if it were wireless.

Well, they already have laptops nicknamed road Apples, so why don't they embrace it?

No worries, as by the time the law gets that far we can have quantum encryption, where the encryption may or may not be present at exactly the same time.

My desire is a car radio that streams from my playlist of my media streaming server. Oh wait, I have that. I plug my phone into the stereo and listen to it via Orb! I don't need a PC in the car, I need an amplifier for my smartphone.

I would like to have a neural network map in a Sim "game" that displays on my laptop. When the brain jams occur I can then build highways and bypasses for the more important traffic. Either that, or a firmware upgrade. Oh wait, the firmware is down in a sub neural net!

I kind of see Droid as a viral takedown of Microsoft and Apple. Sure, Google loses on the front end of it, but then they have a shot on the backside, after the disease becomes mainstream (as it has virtually become). A few years back, the rave was this new Blackberry! It let you get *e-mail* from work on your cell phone...ooh. Now if you want a phone that does not have work email following you to the toilet in your own house you have to pay extra to remove the feature!

Who *didn't* get that from the start? Oh, that's right, you didn't. Sorry. Yeah, remember BBSs? How about CompuServe, Prodigy, Geocites, MySpace, Facebook, and the next social experience (probably when 3DTV merges with online multiversing games or something along that line, so you can actually appear different, and as they want you to, to each individual "friend"). Yeah, AOL is evil, just like everyone else who allows you to communicate with your buddies.

I had to call 911 *this morning* and could not get through. My kid was choking on vomit (sorry for the graphical detail there). I had just told a caller that I was not able to stay on the phone because my son was sick and I wanted to be more attentive (before he was choking, btw). I was behind the wheel on a Bluetooth headset, so really I was just politely trying to get off the phone so I could drive him to the doctor. Then he started choking. I hit 911 while running to his side (had to get out of car and run around it due to large bench seat in way). I HAD NO SERVICE! The call didn't go through. I was trying to tend to my son, but I couldn't get him to breathe. He would stop choking briefly and as soon as I got in the car's driver seat and took off it would happen again. THANK GOODNESS we were close (right next to) to a country shop and the hours in the day were right that they were JUST OPENING. I asked them to call and we got him to the hospital, but out in this part of the country that could have been his life had things been just five minutes prior. When we were in the ambulance (before it moved) I looked at my phone to try and call the wife. I had no call bars, but full SMS, email, web browsing, etc! All that communication and none where I needed it. I ended up getting right through via text...and then she freaked because I didn't answer the return phone call, go figure.

Just like the Windows phone I used to read your comment was made by Microsoft, even though HTC Snap is written on it. Motorola made most of Apple's chips. Just cause they "improved" it by putting a little multicolored apple with a chunk taken out of it over the label doesn't mean they created it. Apple is just a better integrated version of what everyone else is doing, and therefore it's quite often priced higher. Same thing as cars. Better integrated = higher value. The "prototypes" usually end up with more bugs and worth less down the road.