I worked at a very large computer chain (MC) in the tech shop and we used to get FedEx delivering laptops to us that were supposed to be shipped to our competitors' shops; a couple miles away, on a different street, with a completely different business name. We had to call the competing tech shop up and let them know, "Yeah, it's Matt from MC, we got another one of your packages. You can come and pick it up"

...if Apple's injunction against Samsung has anything to do with there supposedly only being 20,000 out of a million units sold?

No. The article said

and then went on to say

So, this version has no e-ink, but if we wait long enough, maybe we will see a multi-touch e-ink device, like the Sony reader.

Shittiest motherboard I ever had the misfortune of dealing with was an Asrock. It was my first computer and nothing worked right. I replaced the POS with an ASUS motherboard and overnight everything worked great. Moral of the story: Only a total noob would recommend Asrock to anyone they didn't hate.

The problem is that even if I do manage to get off Facebook, there is nothing to stop someone from tagging me in inappropriate photos. They can tag me in any photo they wish, set it to public and if I do not have an account then I can't do anything about it. If I have a Facebook account, at least I can delete the tagged photos one at a time as they crop up. Still annoying, but more do-able.

I used to work at Circuit City and they would do exactly that. I had customers that wanted a specific model laptop and the only one available was "pre-optimized". They charged an extra $75.00 for the tech to open the box, go through the initial setup prompts and uninstall maybe one or two things. The customers came in looking for a laptop advertised at a specific price and it was my job to tell them that they would have to pay an additional $75.00 on top of that price because all we had left was the "optimized" version.

This is correct. Mod parent up!!

...if only it wouldn't mean voting for a company behind helping China persecute the Falun Gong.

I keep evangelizing to my friends and family about how happy I am with my Kindle and how I can carry entire libraries with me at any given time. However, most of the non-techie people I speak with seem to be attached to the idea of physical books. While, the trend is clearly going towards digital, I see a very real market continuing for dead-tree books and that may shrink, but it is clearly in no real danger of evaporating completely. POD is a novel idea and while I do not see it making any huge waves, I think there is clearly a niche for it. i wonder how they would go about enforcing copyright. Would the POD stations treat it like a copier, where there is a big warning not to print off a physical copy of a book you do not have the rights to or would they be influenced to actively police it? Would I be able to walk in there with torrented ebooks on my flash drive and walk out with unlicensed realistic-looking copies? That seems like a potential legal issue for sure.

Edison did not come up with that idea. He stole most of his "inventions" from other people and claimed them for himself. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/edison/lightbulb.shtml

Like a kangaroo?

The Mac-compatible Velcro is better because It Just Works!(TM)

Check this out: It goes into detail about the predatory contracts the record companies stick desperate musicians with. http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

I know, but every time a new game came out I had to 'hide all' for it. I ended up just turning off all platform apps entirely.