Actually the US AT&T base iPhone data plan doesn't include SMS nor MMS. For $5 you can add 200 SMS/MMS. (I'm on the family plan)

I really don't see myself using MMS all that much -- after all, I've got a full-featured mobile email client. I have some younger relatives with cheapie feature phones that occasionally send us cameraphone snaps, though, and this will beat the crap out that horrible viewmymessage.com torture we had to go through before.

My memory may be a bit fuzzy, but Wipeout 64 corresponded to Wipeout 1 on the PS1. Wipeout XL/2097 was the second game in the series. I don't think it had splitscreen multiplayer, but it did look fantastic for the day.

> Ditto Star Wars Racer and Fzero X the best-looking racers - running circles around PS1 racing games.

I'm not so sure. Was there really a better looking racing game than Wipeout XL/2097 on that generation of consoles?

Exactly. I'd considered buying a little Flip or low-end Kodak "Youtube-quality" camera for hobby purposes, but the little camera in the Nano is in the same ballpark as those, is much smaller, and gives me one less small gadget to keep track of in the airport or wherever.

Ubuntu has been ported to ARM, i'd rather use that. For the average non geek, a netbook aimed pretty GUI is probably needed if Linux netbooks are ever to take off. And thats despite the price of the Windows CE license.

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oh really? so you're the guy who can develop mines, factories and can hire and train all the people that would create all of the required industries that could support huge USA import needs in a year? well, you should run for a president! (courage and big mouth is sometimes all you need! :) china was building this for years. and they have the cheap and abundant labour USA doesn't. Good luck finding people who would work 12 hours a day for couple of dollars.

It's a bad thing. At one point Garmin ran a "You'll be lost without it" ad campaign. One of the rare occasions when a marketing tagline wasn't total nonsense.

I think that Man is not stuck on earth forever. There are still huge reserves of metals and other rare elements which we will need to have when moving to other planets but maybe its better to wait until technology gets better and more efficient. Next decades will be focused on resources more than ever. This will of course cause drop in standard of living as you have written. Stuff won't be as cheap. There won't be today's cheap (and abused) labour from china because china is done with focusing on exports and will start to develop itself with all the dollars it accumulated (and is now buying loads of commodities with them).

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