Not at all. I'm saying my brain doesn't work so well, so I need the phone to manage its resources for me. I have an android phone and the solution for me was an application to help do that. I'm not trying to argue iPhone vs Android, to me it's all the same. I'm just sayin'. I have an android, and this is what worked well for me.

You're looking for a fight where there isn't any and I have no idea why. My recommendation is decaff. While you're looking for the coffeepot, you might re-read my message and try to figure out where I had misunderstood anything I read.

I don't need it on all the time. I also know that realistically there's no way I'm going to remember to turn things on and off on my phone when I need them. My brain doesn't work that way at this stage of the game. That's why I'm glad there's an app for that.

The device has to be usable. If the battery consumption is such that I have to be within reach of a power supply every few hours, then no - I don't want the features. I'd rather have the battery life.

My reasoning has always been, if you have to turn off all the features to make the phone usable, why have the features at all? And turning them on only when I want to use them is too much hassle if I have to do it manually. I'm an American, I want it now and I want someone else to do it for me, damnit. Fortunately I found a workable solution (battery saving application).

That's been a huge issue for me too. I went and got the extended battery for the Evo 4G which worked wonderfully, although it made the phone heavy as a brick. I've found a surprising solution though. Recently upgraded to the Galaxy S2 (Or whatever the hell you call the thing) and there wasn't an extended battery available yet that I could find. So, against my better judgement I tried JuiceDefender. It works. It works *well*. Basically it shuts down the sensors when they aren't in use, and turns them on when you unlock your phone to use it. Worried about email? No problem, it turns on the data every so often to allow apps to synch that need to synch. I'm actually not sure why a similar strategy isn't just a default part of the operating system.

Unfair competition laws apply to a monopoly? No, really?

Meh. These multiplayer shoot-em-ups don't do it for me anymore. They don't offer anything different. We might as well all still be playing Half Life - and frankly that'd probably be more fun anyway (Mods, Maps, etc). I'm hugely disappointed with what's available in the game market, especially on the console. Give me something different. Give me a story that grabs my attention. Give me something that makes me think. I mean, actually THINK. I think some developers think that's the same thing as having the patience to simply put up with the game....

The music industry has forgotten how music is purchased. You go to a friend's house. "Hey," he says, "Check out this new band!" You listen to it. It's good. You buy their next album. You check out similar bands. Instead of suing everybody for doing what's natural, they would do well to use what comes naturally to sell their product.

I've never heard of this movie before now. Maybe they need to consider doing some marketing rather than suing people.

At this age of my life, I tend to make it a point to take the path of Less Drama. Less Drama doesn't include ignoring legal paperwork and getting an 11 Million Dollar judgment dropped on my head when a simple phone call would have fixed it.

I understand what you're saying, but the point is - I doubt very much that TheDirt.Com had to hire a lawyer in the first place. What they should have done was not ignore the legal paperwork. They should have simply called the attorney, advised him/her of the error, and moved along with life. By not doing that, they made someone else's mistake their problem.

They didn't have to show. One phone call to the attorney would have cleared it all up. "Hey, you made a mistake. You're suing the wrong person." ...Doing nothing was probably stupid.

One of my college FORTRAN programming assignments was to write a program that given wind speed and direction would plot the spread of a poisonous gas cloud set off by a group of terrorists on campus. Now, this was 20+ years ago - but I doubt anyone in the class actually went on to use this knowledge to become an actual terrorist.