The Nokia N95 had a front (and rear) facing camera 2 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95#Multimedia_Features

was Google Voice. I've been using it for a while as my non-mission critical line and starting this morning calls stopped going through. I was also unable to dial out through their service.

When things came back up this afternoon it was an old backup version and several of my settings had been rolled back.

I guess this is one instance where Google's perpetual beta status really applied - those using Voice for mission critical communications were up a creek.

Herzog Zwei actually beat Dune 2 to the market by more than two years. It's the first real time strategy game.

I imagine that the starter edition will come with a big "upgrade to home premium for only $149" button. Microsoft is hoping they'll get the oem purchase (which wouldn't be much higher on any 'edition' of windows) and then force the end user to upgrade when they find the 3 application constraint to be unusable. It'll probably just lead to a rise in piracy and perhaps Linux adoption.

Our CS computers here at Xavier University are named after various xmen characters. Cyclops, iceman, wolverine, ... our printer xmansion and the wireless network hands out mutant0...mutantN.

Google seems to be moving in the opposite direction of the rest of the software industry. "Beta" releases these days (particularly in online games) are rough, buggy, pieces of work that would have been called alpha 15 years ago. Google, on the other hand, loves perpetual betas. I think I like their approach better.

starting your comment in the title field.

It's unfortunate that this law is necessary. I had a theology professor require a book of his and it was by far the best reading in the class (and another required book was by Karen Armstrong).