Information should be free.

Anyone who posts as anon coward should be ashamed.

I wish things had worked out differently, i.e. before C= went bust. We know who to blame for that (and not Jack Tramiel.) :-p Some of the Amiga community is still here reading /. I may not own a Miggy any more, may not post all over FidoNet and AmigaNet via dial up or uucp either, and I don't give a damn about Hyperion or Amiga Inc any more... I quit doing those quite a while back.. but I still consider myself a member of the Amiga community. There are a number of people I met via Fido's Amiga echo that I am happy to say are still my friends, 15+ years later. Married one of them, and not just because he programmed in C on the Amiga either. :) I like to think that he's the best thing I ever downloaded. ;)

Still? That's too funny for words. XD

Say what? Texting is not age limited. I'm 46 and I bought my Sidekick for the sole reason that it has a full QWERTY keyboard. My husband and (grown) daughter and I use text messages literally all.the.time. They work in jobs where they can't answer their cell if it rings, but texts aren't a problem. We almost never make voice calls.. everything is text. I like my Sidekick, despite its software limitations. TMobile didn't have the Android/Google phone 3 years ago or I'd have one of those. And for those of you who have never seen one, it's called the Google phone because it has a Google logo on the faceplate.

I stay with Tmobile because in 4 years I've never had a problem with them. Not once. I had AT&T for nearly 3 years, both before and after Cingular bought them and never again. Gah. Horrible, horrible customer service. :p

*nods* The bigger the net gets, the bigger the (exponential) increase in signal to noise. :-p

If C= hadn't had their heads up their collective asses.. sigh. I miss my Miggy.

Personally, I think Anonymous Cowards suck, but that's just my opinion.

:) I'm pretty sure dial up Internet access is staying dead. I miss FidoNet sometimes though.

Cnet's gotten suckier over the years, that's for sure.

Wish I had the money to rent a nice bigbillboard or twelve as close to Microsoft HQ as I could get. The message would read: Dear Steve, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Good riddance. Kthxbai. No love, me.

Purdham really is a freaking idiot, isn't he? :-p From where I am sitting, it's about control, not property rights. How about because I want it on my (insert name of favorite listening device here) to listen to whenever *I* want, not when whoever is controlling the stream decides I can hear it (or not.)

Not a stupid thing at all. Some of us like debit cards that work as credit cards, ie a debit card with a Mastercard logo, for example. I flat out refuse to have a "real" credit card.. I'm trying to get out of debt, not back into it. Its way, way too easy to fall into that "Use the credit card for everything" trap and the next thing you know, it's maxed out, has been, and five years from now you're still paying off the compounded interest on a $5 Subway sub you had for lunch one day. No thanks.

Kids these day have no appreciation of the classics.