It's easier to frame it as a "Glossy vs. Matte" debate, but no one goes out to make a glossy screen. Rather, the high amount of reflections is a side effect of the LCD surface treatment that allows for better color, brighter whites, and darker blacks.

So really it should be "Good-looking-screen-but-with-reflections vs. Not-as-good-looking-without-as-many-reflections"

Who cares about the pressure at the surface? 50km up, Venus has the most Earth-like conditions in the solar system - we can live up there.

In Maryland, a politician has recently been successful in gaining support in charging people who kill others while driving drunk with second degree murder. It's a step down from premeditated, but she said she equates driving drunk with walking up to a crowd of people and shooting into the mob at close range. To her, there's no difference.

47... but 9 of them are chrome.exe (only one tab open, but I'm guessing that's for each extension) and of course TaskManager.exe.

I use Clear (formerly XOhm) as my ISP too and it's been great. No contract and $35/month. It's not bad, and worth checking out, although it's specific to where you are. I got 1Mbps in my old neighborhood and now reach 3Mbps and I'm only a mile down the road. A friend in Dundalk got 5Mbps.

Also, the ETF fee doesn't go up until you sign a new contract (old ETF is grandfathered in if you are still under contract), and by law the fee goes down every month. It's $5/month for AT&T so if it was $175 in December at the start of a 2-year contract in 2008, it should only be $85 or so now.

It's a two-relationship. You provide him money and he provides you with the efforts of his work. He is doing more than feeding you - he's entrusting his reputation in you.

If you go and order a well-done steak from a chef who has never burned a steak in his life, he's running the risk you won't like the taste and will start telling your friends he overcooks his meat. It's the same reason you can't order a Volvo without stability control - they're not going to take it out of any of their cars because they have a reputation of safety that they need to keep. Don't want stability control? Go buy a Kia - you get your unsafe car and Volvo keeps it's (relatively) pristine reputation.

It's not fraudulent in the legal sense, which is what the OP was referring to.

For example, if you went around saying you built the Statue of Liberty, you would not be arrested for fraud. That is because simply lying, or taking credit for other people's work, or being an overall jerkwad, is not illegal.

Oh bullshit. You clearly don't know what's important in consumer devices (hint: it's something Apple products always have).

iPods have always been more locked and proprietary than their competitors, lacked basic features like FM transmitters, and were much more expensive to boot. And yet iPods outsell all of their competition combined 2 to 1.

You can sit there and think everyone else is stupid but you, but that's not the case. Some people, most people, will pay more for a better UI. You think all those soccer moms, grandparents and executives are Apple fanboys? They're not - they're just paying for a product that they see as better than the competition.

What better incentive for a deadline than a day famous for drinking? If they missed the target release, they'd be stuck working 12 hours today to rush it out.

I'm a developer and the Standard Operating Procedure mandates I submit bug reports before fixing them if the code is in production. I hate spending the time filling out the report, hitting Send, followed by an Inbox alert - "Problem Report Submitted by a user...". So I pretty much give myself work to do.

and we've had race questions ever since the first one:

Questions Asked on the 1790 Census
        * Name of the head of each household.
        * How many free white males age 16 and older.
        * How many free white males under age 16.
        * How many free white females.
        * How many of all other free persons.
        * How many slaves.

While I believe it is AT&T's fault, read the article. According to it, AT&T does not prevent tethering on the iPhone and even tells the author how to enable it.

While I agree 100% that Toyota can be mechanically shifted into Neutral, what about the newer transmissions like BMW's 7-speed DCT (the joystick)? AFAIK a computer controls shifts to Neutral (as well as Park - there's no Park button on the M3/M5).