'To most people, it's a latte or two,'

I don't drink latte, and that's two per month, not just once. This could have been done gradually. Sixty percent is too much on one step.

I cut back from three disks to one to make up for the last price hike. Now they leave me no alternative but to cut off streaming or DVDs. I think I'll just cancel the whole thing, since I've found that I have a hard time being interested in their content, lately."New Releases" is full of yawn most of the time.

No audio, so it can't double as an MP3 player like Kindle. You can't use it to read audio books, which is a great thing to do while driving the car. Amazon downloads Audible.com books directly via Wifi into Kindle.

I like the better display, and the Wifi download, and the SD card slot.

I'd like it more if I could be sure it's running Android, like the Nook, so I can maintain the OS after they stop doing so. I see some GPL, but can it be built and installed on the device?

Sorry, but it's missing some of the key things that Kindle has, so it doesn't compete well, at least not for me.

If I'm wrong about any of these facts, blame the website, where they don't seem to like going into much detail. Oh, and buy an 's' once in a while will you? A plural word like "Products" is what we expect when referring to more than one Product, Feature or Specification. Bad English isn't stylish, it's annoying.

So, what they invented here is an extremely expensive way to cheat at Rock, Paper, Scissors?

Perhaps the new guy would be fine if he were writing code on a subject he has some experience with. It is possible to have loads of experience, to be able to pass the technical interview for legitimate reasons, and them be placed in a position that requires a lot of specific subject knowledge that they don't have. For example, you can hire a good embedded engineer into a place like Ford motors, and watch them fail to write anything useful because they don't know the engine control subject matter. Put them on networking issues, developing network routers (where they came from), and they are OK. Same embedded experience you asked for, completely different subject matter.

Try to look at the bright side: At least there is one classroom full of students who are now less likely to wind up on the welfare roles after they graduate.

Breakeven possibly as low as 350,000 subscribers? Spending $100M, that means they expect each user to spend an average of $285.71 on the game. Wha? Even at 500,000, it's $200 per player.

Did they subtract the amount of CO2 that doesn't get emitted because people are sending emails, planning better driving routes, shopping online and telecommuting?

In the continuing worldwide game of rock-paper-scissors, backhoe beats cable every time. Thanks go to Georgia for reminding us how wide the definition of "backhoe" is.

OK now we know why Al Qaeda set off their nuclear bomb under the Pacific Ocean to start the earthquakes to begin with: They wanted to take the nuclear power plant offline so they can skew the system clocks to perform a COMPUTER HACK ATTACK on all the computers in Japan! See how it all lines up? I HAS to be a plan!

Next the people in Japan will be rioting in the streets, calling for the ouster of the Emperor, just like Mubarak! See how this all works?

I knew this technology stuff was a bad idea. :)

Let me google that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+a+microsecond+is%3F&l=1

I'm with ya bro. I used to work on a product called the "Lunar Flare", so I was thinkin hardware too.

Real men do not stop and ask directions, we trust our maps and our navigational equipment. Our task is to muddle through, no matter how bad it gets. Turning back after having invested so much time and energy to get to the end of this road we are on is to admit defeat. This road we travel may start out looking good. It may give every indication that it will lead to where we want to go. Its features may dwindle as we go along, like our relationship to our spouse tends to, but we cling to our plan, our course, our commitment, because it is our duty. Our vehicle is our trusted war horse, and will take us through any terrain. The fact that we eventually wind up in a situation we cannot cope with is of secondary concern. Too bad if we drive over the cliff. We will make camp at the bottom, and sally forth again in the morning, refreshed anew. Cowboy up!

This isn't even a challenge. Microsoft Windows is constantly producing damaged files that are only minutes old. I should use it as a source of entropy.