What does this even mean? Are we measuring mobile phones against each based on "vibes" now? And how is doing the same thing on a different device somehow more creative?

Woah, I think I'm going to need a car analogy...

Huh? What does moving to another cellular carrier have to do with jailbreaking? I think you're confusing two separate issues here. Yes, you need to jailbreak before doing a carrier unlock, but that's really irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Making the iPhone available on multiple networks, in and of itself, will have little effect on jailbreaking and no effect whatsoever on the use of the Cydia store.

Wait for what now? Jailbreak and install Backgrounder.

Why does everything have to be a holy war to some people? Okay, Apple, AT&T, & the iPhone are not perfect. But a jailbroken iPhone does everything that I need it to do in a way that no other device can. So I'm supposed to sacrifice that functionality to teach Apple & AT&T a lesson? There's a time for standing up for principle, but this is just silly. If you think the iPhone (including it's jailbreakability) is the best device out there for your money, not buying it because you think Apple is evil is just stupid because you're hurting yourself more than you'll ever hurt Apple. If you'd actually prefer another device in the first place, then your proclamation about being unwilling to give such companies your money is just a meaningless rant.

I'm not sure where you're measuring color saturation from, but it seems irrelevant in any case. Color saturation is not a measure are how light or dark a color is, but rather how saturated with color vs how "gray" it is. For example, a color with a color saturation of 0 could range anywhere from pure white to pure black, including all shades of gray in between, but no one would suggest that every shade of grey is equally intense.

Look at the 1.48 square for John Roberts 3rd from the right. It has an RGB value of (213,149,149). Conversely, the -1.48 square for David Souter on the far right has an RGB value of (228,233,244). Clearly the latter is far, far closer to white than the former, which should come as no surprise considering that it's quite obvious to the naked eye as well. Hell, look at the 2nd square for Earl Warren (top row). It's -0.45, which should place it slightly on the liberal side, yet it's colored a light pink. It almost appears as if the color scale is centered around something like -0.80 rather than 0. Either there are some fancy calculations going on that are not well explained and thus quite deceptive, or the colors are blantantly biased to make the reds darker and the blues lighter.

I don't think anyone's predicting the fall of Apple, but rather just stating the obvious. The competition is catching up. Unless Apple unveils some big surprises next week, there's no denying that the competition is positioned much better than they were a year ago. Apple's in no imminent danger here, but they are losing ground, and rumors about the next-gen iPhone suggest that there won't me any major innovations coming from them any time soon (and no, OS updates to include features the competition already has don't count).

As for the Palm Pre, it hasn't achieved anything yet, much less established itself as an iPhone-killer, but it's a little premature to write it off due to lack of apps or lack of actual customers. It hasn't even been released yet! Most reviews have been very favorable and put it at least in the same class as the iPhone, which is a big step from where we've been for the last couple of years.

It's a shame that 'Watson' works by breaking down questions into their structural components and then searching its database for relevant answers. After all, on Jeopardy all the answers are given freely.

The service being offered depends on them taking a 60% cut of any sales. By providing your contact information, it would enable artists to direct buyers to an alternative location (such as their own website), which could offer the CD at a lower price while still giving the artist a larger cut (100% minus production/shipping costs). They're understandably not interested in offering an unlimited advertising service for a flat rate of $31.

If you consider yourself a "normal" user and you use 150MB a month, why on earth would you expect the reduced-price, limited-bandwidth plan to have a cap anywhere near 500MB or 1GB? AT&T is in the business of making money and they're not going to offer a new plan that will cut the typical user's bill in half, sorry.

Sometimes he can be...

Well THERE'S your problem.

Why is this so hard to understand? The reason for wanting enough space for your entire music collection is so that you can play anything you want on demand. Who cares if 80% of it never gets listened to? That one day when I'm in the mood to listen to a particular album, I don't want to be cursing the fact that it's not on my iPod at the moment. Why need to re-sync once a week? Why try to predict which subset of your music you'll feel like listening to? God forbid someone would ask for a feature that would make their usage more convenient. And yeah, I'm sure the inevitable doubling of memory will set back gps and other feature development for years... Who mods this shit insightful?

Umm yeah, it's called being a more skillful player. The variance in skill level of poker players is easily large enough for a significant percentage of them to win enough to overcome the house's cut. Of course the house is always the biggest winner, and the average player will be a loser, but it's naive to say that only the house wins.