Reminds me of what happened in my university. Some students thought it would be smart for their final 4th year projects to go onto a public forum and offer money for somebody to do the project for them. The university sent a public mail out offering for the students to turn themselves in and redo a different project over the summer (might have been capped at 40%) or else risk getting caught and not get a degree + be banned from all the universities in Ireland.

Microsoft is a very large company and to my surprise there is not nearly as much cross team communication going on as you'd expect from the outside. People behind FAT more than likely had nothing to do with WP7. Theyre practically two different companies operating out of the same coffer. While I only heard this and havent extensively used the phone yet myself, theyre doing their best to hide the entire notion of a file system from the user. How theyre doing this and what theyre doing exactly I'm not sure, maybe FAT32 wasnt suitable for what they were trying to achieve.

or arrested

Afrikaans is my mothertongue so I tend to count in that but for larger numbers I probably revert to English (First 10 years of my life was spent speaking Afrikaans exclusively, second 10 years was mostly English with Afrikaans at home). If you give me a very large number in English I would be able to visualise it a bit quicker than the same number in Afrikaans, but for lower more frequently used numbers they'd both be exactly the same. Just different words for the same concepts. As far as dreams go, it depends who I'm speaking to in my dream. If its my friends I speak in English and if its at home I speak in Afrikaans.

As somebody who is fluently bilingual (speaking one language at home and another while out with friends), my thoughts tend to be neither English or Afrikaans but rather concepts which are then translated. When I think I generally dont think in words unless I think about thinking in words. I'm sure many other bilingual people that speak both languages frequently can probably say something similar.

They don't have to tell you - as far as Windows Update goes your machine is requesting something from them, they have every right to keep track of the number of requests/number of copies of a certain patch being sent out or the number of keys being activated on Microsofts servers.

As far as the interns goes its pretty short sighted not to give them one of these phones. Odds are theyll be going back to university and have a much larger group of people looking at what theyre using than the FTEs inside Microsoft who will all already be converts. What I'd like to see is how many of those employees will actually give up their iPhone.

Where does the series of tubes fit in though?

As far as the keyboard goes - I was pretty dissapointed with the android/htc keyboard. Give Swype a try - you wont ever be looking back.

While I disagree with Monsters high prices on cabling, HDMI's error correction isnt perfect. The cable is still a one way stream so theres no way for your TV to request for your Bluray player (or whatever you might have hooked up) to resend a packet, and the high end cable companies are selling on the basis of a reduced error rate. Generally for anything below 5 metres though it doesnt really matter.