That's a pretty messed up story.

Shouldn't the last option just be "0"?

I don't know if you sat through the whole seven of them, but he mentions the lightsaber duels. Yes, the lightsaber duels in #1 are very choreographed, but they're not any good. If you want choreography, go see the ballet. Or a flag routine, if you want choreography with sticks.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with pretty much everything this guy says. : \

I realize that. But then why bother with the text pronunciations?

Yeah, so, after looking it up, I still don't know how to say "ginormous". (Not that I plan on using it any time soon anyway.) Their pronunciation guide could stand to also include the guide I've seen in dictionaries for decades, rather than an unnecessary international guide when I'm looking up an English word.

You mean aside from the actual, official Scrabble dictionary?

Re: #1...

Syfylys?

Okay... and since we're comparing that to a landline phone, exactly how much of that do you get with a landline?

My phone has both an alarm clock and a calculator. It's a Nokia 6015i. Five years ago, when I bought it, I think I paid maybe $50 for it. Your other reasons for having a landline make sense, to be sure, but the way you're comparing the prices is a little skewed, is all.

Where the hell do you live that a cell phone costs $600?

Isn't bringing up the windows you had before kind of stupid if you don't want to go there? I know it's really popular with Firefox or whatever, but still it seems faster just to either use a bookmark or type the first few letters of a URL.

Let's face it, you're on Slashdot. You're either an asshole, a moron, or a zealot.

The irony abounds.

Why on earth are you still using a landline? A mobile phone will probably be cheaper, you can take it with you anywhere (even in your home), and most of them can sync with your computer contacts (or even your contacts in the cloud).

My landline is free (included with DSL, they're desperate to keep subscribers), whereas my mobile costs me $15/month.

The cordless phone works perfectly everywhere in the house, whereas the mobile only works in certain magic spots (they tell me this is a normal consequence of living way up in a high-rise).

The landline has crystal clear quality at all times, whereas the mobile is compressed and ugly even under the best of circumstances.

The landline lets me use any number of nice, easy-to-hold phones with great speakerphones, whereas the mobile only lets me use tiny little things that are impossible to rest on my shoulder while using my hands for anything.

The landline integrates perfectly with my Asterisk VoIP setup at no cost, whereas the mobile requires me to pay $0.04/minute when I route calls to it.

The landline + VoIP arrangement lets me call almost any country I need to at piddling charges ($0.00-$0.02/minute); the mobile is $0.05/minute at best for international calls and skyrockets upward from there for certain destinations.

A good landline phone costs $40 and a good VoIP phone costs $200. A good mobile costs $600.

If there's a reason to the music I like, I would like the computers to tell me. I like all sorts of music, from acoustic folk to pop to alternative rock to christian rock to screamo. I'll even listen to some country now and again. If a music recommender can understand that by my admission to enjoying 38th Parallel and Blindside, that I'd also enjoy something by Jack Johnson, I'd be amazed.

I guess I've never actually asked ("Excuse me, but do you have a fire blanket on board?" "Why?), but I'd hope planes carry a fire blanket on them. Maybe it's not so dangerous if you have a quick response?

I want to know what horny bastard decided that everything shaped like a stick had to be phallic. Have you seen how many penises are on a tree?

I forget what comic first said it, but "you can make missles shaped like vaginas; they just won't fly very well."