A Used Book Store is a great place to kill an afternoon, and most of my shelves are filled with both hardcover and paperback items I may never have discovered without that browsing opportunity.

That being said, I have owned a Nook Colour since the end of February and haven't cracked a paper book since I got it. I suspect my vote will be different when this poll comes around again. I already have significantly more ebooks than paper books but I'm only counting the ones I've read for my voting purposes. TPB and other sources will satisfy my "haven't heard of this, might as well read it" urge that I usually get from the book shops but I must admit that I still browse the used (and new) book shops but usually just go back home to find the ebook instead of actually bringing home the paper copy.

I suppose that would make me part of the problem, if we were discussing a problem.

Still not funny.

Including the costs of the receiver, and of getting it up there.

As a Canadian, I really ought to take the time to learn more about the ins and outs of the US Civil War. Very neat trivia, thanks.

This might be the first /. poll I've seen that I can't vote for.

Our servers are named after rivers in Ontario. Welland, Niagara, Feeder, Don, Grand, etc.

I thought so too. Here's a blog post by a "semi-regular" cbc reporter who was there and says they were broadcasting it over loudspeakers in both English and French.

They did read the riot act!

Maybe you shouldn't have had children if you weren't prepared for a "harder life".

Did you really think it was going to be EASY to have children?

What's the point of posting if you're going to post a deliberately misleading link? Here's the full paragraph from Wikipedia without your omission:

Here in Ontario the Superintendents are almost always former principals, or at least educators. One can only assume this is because they have school administration experience. Are they appointed where you are or are they elected? Either way it still sounds like a bad idea.

Really? Check out the XDA Developer's Forum for the Milestone - this is only one Moto phone and there are over 28.5K posts in this forum. Even if that IS only 0.5% of their installed base outside of the USA (because the original Droid has an unlocked bootloader in the US, but was called the Milestone and locked tight everywhere else) that's still not a small amount of interest in non-standard ROMs.

If Motorola wants to keep everything locked down like an iphone they're of course welcome to do so. I really think that they'd do well to just offer an option to unlock the bootloader to whatever percentage of their userbase asks for it, along with voiding their warranty of course. It's not going to hurt anything if they do and they'll only reap goodwill and more fans because of it. We may be a minority but we're a vocal minority, and currently we'll all buy a non-moto phone when it comes time for our next purchase.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to push customers away, but then again I'm not a huge hardware company so there are probably many more factors involved in the decision. I'm only speaking as a disgruntled customer who will do my best to prevent anyone I know from getting a Motorola product from here on in. It's a safe bet that I'm not alone.

Motorola? Are you watching?

This is where your users will go when their current contracts expire or when they just get fed up with all of the great options on everyone else's phones other than yours.

Make sure you head over here once you get it home.

Buying a Nook was the best $250 I've spent in a long time.

Looks like that conditional of yours might not be as sturdy as it used to be.
You might not want to lean on that too hard these days, at least that's how it looks from us nosy neighbours up North.