My brother in law's Cadavalier went over 225,000 miles before he sold it - it was still running fine.

>>>I see $1200 for a transmission against $25,000 for a new car

You are going to spend alot more than $1200 for a transmission. I would guess $3K - $5K.

I find salespeople are lazy. The second you show any interest in any model, they want to sell it to you - so they can go and chat with their buddies. Show an interest in WP7, and they will be on you like sharks.

When I go into a store, they push the WP7 phones - they often are $0.01. The salespeople just want to make a quick sale, and a "free" phone is one of the fastest ways.

I got my plan through AT&T wireless. AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular. So my plan was even older than yours, but I still have it, although AT&T is trying hard to make me switch.

Boost uses the Sprint network.

Upgraded my machine from a dual core to a faster quad core processor, quadrupled the memory, and went from CentOS 4 to Mint 12 w/ KDE 4.x. KDE 3.5 felt faster.

An article from The Wall Street Journal. Now, who owns the wsj? Good old Rupert.

It's a Vette, not an Audi

Just be glad it couldn't reach 88 miles per hour.

Popularity doesn't matter to me so much - as long as enough people use it so that there is software developed for it. I use Linux because it does what I want better than the alternatives.

I stopped buying Sony products years ago when I realized that they were breaking more often than my other equipment.

I joined the Linux kernel mailing list in January 1992 - well before something as advanced as 0.12!

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Android had to start out at ground level. Microsoft had been making smartphone OS's for years. (Windows Mobile 2003; Windows Mobile 5; Windows Mobile 6; Windows Mobile 6.5)