...that if the current administration's relationship with Google is like the relationship the previous administration had with Haliburton, then it's OK.

Ooops, did I type that instead of just thinking it?

... does that mean we'd eventually see versions of vCenter Server and vCenter Client that run on something other than Windows? That would be nice.

I'm in the strange position of having reached the realization that essentially, unless I'm willing to devote about 20 years of my life studying the matter on my own I'm going to have to decide to accept it by faith and not by reason. Oh irony, you are so delicious.

The movie will star Samuel L. Jackson as gravity who will quote a passage from the Old Testament before he makes my brain go splat.

This is why I never did well in the higher math classes in college.

So... I thought gravity required there be something with mass in order to create gravity. Doesn't that mean in order for there to be a law of gravity you need stuff with mass attracting each other? Which requires something, not nothing, so --

Damn. There it goes again, brain matter all over the wall. Excuse me while I get a spatula.

What in my post ever compared AT&T to Google and called Google the good guy? It was specific to AT&T's comments on net neutrality and made no comparisons whatsoever.

1. We do things on the internet that you pay us for.

2. You do things on the internet that you pay us for.

3. When you do things on the internet that other people pay you for, you pay us for the privilege of doing them.

4. If we find out you are doing things on the internet that we are also doing, you will pay us for the privilege of doing them slower than us.

God Almighty, I thought that damn thing was gone forever.

The people who were investigating these anomalies were able to do so because The Daily Kos made sure that the crosstabs of all the poll data were made available when each poll was published.

So I *do* give them credit, because they made sure that the information behind the information being presented was available for people review in order to determine its accuracy. It sort of sounds like... I don't know... providing the source code along with the application and letting the users submit bug reports and patches.

Sure it's a bad thing. But that's a separate matter: someone who understands the "bad thing" enough to help people who DON'T understand it is still doing something of value...

I like KDE 4.4 (which is what I'm using now) -- I like it a lot -- but I'm right there with you about the bad taste in my mouth. The way they handled 4.0 was stupid and they deserved all the crap they got for it and more.

4.4 is a completely different beast and I mostly love the featureset. However, based on my experience with 4.0 I'm a little afraid of 5.0.

Well I should clarify -- Palm doesn't directly support the apps as in provide technical support for or fixes as a result of the homebrew community, but it *does* acknowledge them and has stated that homebrew apps are permitted on the platform. Hopefully HP keeps that going.

There are a lot of homebrew applications that modify the UI and various aspects of apps. I have an addon that does exactly what you say, though only for text messages.

While Palm doesn't directly support those apps it doesn't try to brick your phone when it finds them either.

WebOS is a fantastic OS from a user perspective -- the card metaphor for multitasking is very intuitive and the whole design of the interface is easy and elegant and *fun*. It would be a perfect fit for that tablet thing HP is working on.

I have a Pre and despite a few issues with battery life and a wish for a larger screen I think it's a great phone. Most information about the phone is provided by members of the computer press who are too lazy and entranced by their iphones to bother giving the matter any serious thought.