except when it breaks use cases that just worked for years. The following 'feature' was quite annoying. I'll have to try this out at home. I sort of got it working, but it wasn't what was outlined here (I have NFI how, actually) - too bad it took 3 months to get a real answer. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505676

I like how at first the OP mentions that the Droid has the same hardware as the Pre and later in the post says that users aren't impressed with the Pre's hardware.

I have had no problems with the Pre's hardware other than where they put the USB port. The other people I know that have Pre's like them too and have had a few blackberry users mention that it's a cool phone. The iPhone users say it would fit in pockets better then their phone does and they like the multitasking. The Touchstone has been worth every penny.

Except that it is made out of plastic and it flexes

I haven't noticed that with the one that I've had since June. What are you doing with your phone to make it flex?

That depends on the area. Data roaming is available in some areas and you can check Sprint's coverage maps to find out where they're located. I've used a data connection on my Pre in 'roam mode' several times when on trips. The catch is the contract specifies that Sprint can cancel your account for that phone if you consistently do too much of it.

That's true for a plain Pre. Out of the box, it has the options: Sprint only network and roam when Sprint isn't available. However, the people at webos-internals.org have created a 'roam only' patch that gives the user a 3rd option: roam on non-Sprint networks even if the Sprint network is available. There are lots of other patches that they've created for the device too. Many of which just enable features that Palm has commented out for some reason, others are additions to the javascript files to enable new functionality. IMHO, anyone that's on Slashdot who owns a Pre should check it out.

Why do most of the linux distros install pulse audio if most of the users hate it? I haven't had a problem with linux sound from before the RH6.x days until I installed a version of Fedora with pulse audio. After tweaking the parameters so it doesn't freeze up or skip, now the audio is a slightly higher pitch (not quite as bad as an "Alvin and the Chipmunks" recording, but noticeable). There has got to be a redeeming feature to it, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.

Maybe some people on Slashdot can't wait to get developing for the palm pre.

What's stopping them? The SDK can be downloaded for free and has been available for a while now and is available on Windows, OS X, and Linux. There are several open source apps, patches, tweaks, etc on the various WebOS enthusiast sites. No jail breaking required.

Or do you think London would be the financial and cultural capital of the world but for its ethnic/cultural diversity?

I thought that the ethnic/cultural diversity is due to London being the capital of the former British Empire, not the other way around.

don't forget that mass immigrations started because we rich people weren't interested in doing the dirty jobs anymore.

Eliminate the dole programs and there will be plenty of people wanting to do the dirty jobs just like they did before the government offered them a way to get paid while sitting on their ass at home, doing nothing.

That's just common sense and you know that won't be accepted by the politicians who the chavs keep voting in. Or on /. for that matter.

IIRC, Bjorn Borg was part of an ad campaign in Sweden encouraging residents to "Fuck for the future" and start having more kids, something that all of Europe needs to consider.

Why would you want to fuck up Scotland by importing poverty and a bunch of parasites that won't assimilate into your culture? The UK (& the rest of the EU & Western nations in general) needs to stop letting any asylum seekers in and start deporting the ones that they've taken in for the last 20 years or so. Whether or not one is allowed to immigrate should be determined on whether or not the skills one possesses is valuable to the country, not because of some sob story. IMHO, Japan has the only nation that is close to being sane on this topic.

I have some friends and relatives that aren't all that computer savvy and that's how they share pictures most of the time. Especially if some of them are out at a bar.

I think you're as delusional as the original guy that thought there was glory in IT. Software engineers receive the same sort of wrath as your "IT types" for things such as a design meeting the requirements - but it's not what the user wanted, project timelines slipping because that "elegant technical architecture" is taking more time that originally planned, bugs, etc. Whether a project has the time and money to "get it done right" depends on the business users and IT management. Not to mention that these types of jobs can also be outsourced.

It's an office job with air conditioning - at least most of the time.

It would be nice for there to be standards within IT, but I'm not sold on unions. The idea is good, but the rampant corruption that always seems to occur is not.

Not to mention having when you get to go on vacation, when you're on-call, choice of projects, promotions, etc determined by how long you've happened to stay employed with that company, not necessarily if you've actually good at your job. One of my brothers got in trouble at his union because his equipment inspections followed the manufacturer's safety guidelines but were too thorough compared to the slacker that did it before. Would people in IT want to be subject of "tall poppy syndrome"?