Just for grins, I measured where I hold my phone (by playing a game and then having my wife measure).
13 inches, give or take a bit since I seem to move my head around a bit.

I suspect it has a lot to do with your vision and comfortable arm angles.

I find the completely different format on the screens a bit distracting, but it's still better than this Kno thing.

I will just keep carrying a little torch for the Courier that could have been, and stick to my moleskine.

Yeah, sorry - at that size, weight, and price, it's not worth it.

Wanted a courier bad. This? This doesn't hit the same buttons, and you're still stuck finger painting.

Option 1 mostly works, providing you're going from external to external. Usually the consolidate causes more trouble initially since you have to be very careful to set everything up just right. It's almost better to copy the files, delete the library, and start over.

Option 2 - sometimes. It depends, of course. A lot of people go from using the 'My Music' type directory to 'Music' or something (without thinking about it).

On removable, I found that Songbird Portable handles this well by substituting the drive letter on the fly, so if my external is D, or E, or F, it doesn't matter as long as it's the same path (/portableapps/documents/music, for example).

Wow, what a fanboi.

People move their music libraries all the time. Buy a newer hard drive, move the library to it. Use an external, move it to that. Even worse (and this one completely sucks, btw) - if your music is on an external, it could come it with different letters on occasion. I have a drive that floats between E and F. When I still tolerated iTunes, I had to keep going in and re-assigning the drive letters (and hoping that iTunes didn't auto-launch in the interim).

Oh, then there is the massive facepalm when it decides to go flag every dang song invalid and you have to pretty much start over.

I use songbird portable now, and I'm a lot happier. It still can be a pain if you change paths, but it handles the drive letter changes really well and I can use the same library+player on pretty much any machine.

Regarding Music - you're right on the money. When I dumped Apple, it was a pain to move the DRM'd music across, so I either nuked it and re-bought or just didn't worry about it (lots of 'one hit wonder' crap, really - didn't care if I lost it).

Regarding Apps - I think they are a LOT less sticky than people want to believe. Most people in my office have dropped iPhones for various other devices, and didn't give the sunk costs a second thought. You'd have to be poorly off to think that $30 or $50 worth of iPhone apps is a large expense. You will probably spend more on a memory stick for your new phone. I know I did :)

Regarding app devs? I doubt it matters. I have yet to see anyone find a single 'Killer App' for the iPad or iPhone (or really even Android). The stores are largely filled with toys and stupid time wasters.

My 'stickiest' app was CS2. I had the premium version, and there is no upgrade path for Apple -> Windows (or other). Thank goodness CS2 performs so badly on Apple Intel boxes :)

Heh - I used to do something similar with my old Porsche Sportamatic.

Stick shift. No clutch pedal. Operated by 'magic' (ie you touch the shifter and it activates the clutch).
Cool thing was that it was so sensitive that if I moved the shift boot, it would no longer engage the clutch again - and you could start the car, but not actually shift into gear.

Even the valets hated that thing, but realistically car thieves just toss them onto a tow truck and pretend they're doing their job.

Now my old Corvair with the bad wiring that gave you a nasty shock if you didn't touch the handle just right - that was theft deterrent :D

I disagree - a decent carabiner with a screwgate and a good weight rating is easily worth $18 ;)

Exactly - I have my keyrings split out.

Daily use: Car and house (nothing else). Anything more would ruin the line of a suit.
Key ring on fridge: Mailbox, gym, random stuff like that.
Spare key for wife's car in my glove box, spare for mine in hers (just in case).

Can't carry too many keys, need room for important stuff :D

Wow, I'm envious. My NEWEST (working) laptop is older than that :/

My daily use laptop is a Titanium Powerbook G4. I had an Acer Aspire 5100 and an Acer Aspire One, but both died.

I have a SPARCstation 10 too, it's fun. It's my netboot server. Great little box :)

But the oldest machine I use regularly anymore is a Titanium 15" PowerBook G4 which is 9 years old. That one sees regular daily use. I have a Macintosh Plus (with 4MB of RAM woooo) that I used to do most of my finances on, but I finally got around to porting that finance app off :)

At work I support IBMs that stretch back about 15 years, and until recently I supported MicroVAX boxes from the late 80s (which finally got retired, thank goodness)

They do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation

I have no idea what he's talking about, but my guess is it's definitely not a SPARC Station. I have one. It most certainly does not run King's Quest (though it does run BSD and SunOS :) )

Yes, when the humidity rises above 50% or 60%, it really starts to feel unpleasant.

My favorite example of this are the Monsoons - here it will rain heavily for about 15 minutes, drop the temp by 10 degrees, and leave a horribly humid and nasty condition. Sort of like summer in Miami, but it only lasts an hour :)

Watching rain fall but not hit the ground is good too - it evaporates about 5 feet up due to the low overall humidity and high temp.

Now that would suck! :D

I think after the first week I'd go buy a new off-grid water heater :)