I know I shouldn't, but:

The condo stuff you mention is because you didn't read the contract you were signing. I own my home and the ground its on so I can do what I damn well please. Pet regulations aren't just for rabies, they are humanitarian so we don't have streets teeming with unvaccinated starving wild dogs and feral cats like Calcutta. Car insurance is so you don't get hit by a deadbeat who won't pay to fix your car, and is a common protection. Emissions tests are really only in California so you give yourself away as being against liberalism simply to be contrary since you have the choice to live where you will, but then you wouldn't have anything to bitch about, no? Your tax info is just wrong. You have to file one return for State (that includes your whole family), one for Federal, and possibly a local/COUNTY (not country you stupid non-english speaking copypasta) return. Airline security is theater to make sure people don't stop (as I have) using the air transit system since there is little to no REAL security involved in the system. Helmet/seatbelt laws are mainly there to stem the tide of braindead (literally) idiots who we pay to keep housed and fed since they turned themselves into drooling idiots and the government is left with their care when their broke white-trash families can't afford to pay after paying for all the chrome and noise. Mind you I ride, I ride safely, and I wouldn't think about getting onto a road with a bunch of cagers without a lid on.

No, he'd never be done compiling before the convention folds (ducks)

Oh just go buy your own island you fuckwit, you're too antisocial to have most of us even want your redneck mountain man ass around.

And you don't get ANYTHING in return for it, right? Oh, what, you want your trash picked up? You want sewers built to your property? You want roads to drive on? You want fire protection? You want the police to arrest those naughty black people who keep making you scared and nervous? You want an army to protect your property claims against foreign and domestic threats? You want clean water running out of the tap?

Tell you what, you keep your extra $35 one year, but stop using ALL of the above services and see how you feel at the end of the year? Or pay someone to perform all of those services out of your own pocket and see how much you have left.

Let me repeat this since conservative douchebags never seem to grasp it:

Unemployment INSURANCE is in NO WAY welfare. You pay every penny of that insurance out of your paycheck and it is administered through the state. Its as much welfare as your comprehensive auto insurance. Grow a clue.

Except in Indiana. Seriously. Its. Stupid.

Fail: "All your base are belong to us"

Please hand in your geek card at the next turnstile.

Yeah, that's because its meant to be your photo workflow manager not just an edit one image program. When you use it to import your photos from the beginning it actually fills the role quite nicely.

+1, I'm to used to dealing with integrators as my customers that I forget the end user view of it sometimes.

And to add to my previous reply, this stymies adoption rates. I know when choosing between vendors, if I can trust their release numbers and labelling, it makes MY life a lot easier and goes in the MAJOR plus column in the cost/benefit ratio. If I can trust you, I don't have to test as thoroughly when you hand me something stable. If I can't, I have to scrutinize every little point release and go to fine grained detail to avoid breakage.

Which is exactly why there should be ALPHA_XX, BETA_XX and PROD labels. We use them for our releases, and they tell my customers what to expect. Alpha means I'm developing functionality and you should only use it to test what I'm giving you, not to support your testing. Beta means that I want you to exercise this and it should be looked at as feature complete but there will be bugs, Prod means that we've tested all spec'd functionality to the level of confidence required by our customers.

Open source apps (and I'm a F/LOSS advocate) tend to have devs that treat their users like crap when it comes to this type of simple to implement, easy communication. I shouldn't have to dig into your dev or user mailing list to determine if I should pick up a version. That's what labels are FOR.

Except that you can't really label major API and design changes as a point release. It SHOULD have been 4.0_ALPHA_01, 4.0_BETA_01, and 4.0_PROD coming soon.

1. I have a Blackberry. I get emails constantly, I listen to Pandora streaming radio fairly constantly, browse the web on content rich sites (youtube, etc) during downtime and compiling time.

2. When you "officially" tether through Verizon's service, it runs the meter on the 5 GB cap. On Android when you tether using a hack it looks just like data going across the network. It is verizon's tether app itself that runs the meter. So yes, tethered data is capped, surfing web and using data connection from phone and apps (ie 3rd party tethering app) isn't.

3. Not sure, I don't tether, I just know that its capped since the plan clearly states its capped. I also know that data usage from the phone itself isn't because I use more than 5 GB a month and don't get charged/throttled/cutoff.

4. Exactly my point, its VERIZON's tethering app that runs the meter, so if you use a different one (and don't get caught) you have no meter.

Modem != phone

Smart phone plans are different to their wireless modem plans. Smart phone plans are unlimited usage from the phone.

Alright eldavo, here you go: DRM does nothing to combat piracy and only inconveniences legitimate consumers who have duly paid to use said content. Look at Blu-Ray, look at DVD's, look at SecuROM, look at DirecTV, look at TiVo, every single one of these schemes have been broken open by "pirates" who produce more convenient to use products than the locked down "legitimate" versions.

DRM is simply a waste of money, resources, time, and it insults legitimate consumers who are willing to pay and does absolutely nothing to deter copying and piracy, in fact, for some, it only encourages it as its seen as a challenge.