Careful what you ask for... Pancake Rabbit

Yeah, I am sure they have someone named Jesus working there.

I think you give Greenpeace far too much credit here. The Greenpeace organization was one of many voices that spoke out against nuclear power plants in the 70s. I would hardly credit them with killing the construction of the plants. If anything, they were one of the least effective voices of the time. A far more significant voice against nuclear proliferation back then was the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Other significant voices include the Clamshell Alliance and the Abalone Alliance. The list of organizations actively protesting against nuclear proliferation back then is quite lengthy. The Three Mile Island incident in 1979 served as a strong rally point for the movement. Now, that said, your assessment of the situation may still be valid. It is quite possible that we would have produced less pollutants had we built more nuclear plants. However, without any real numbers, your argument falls flat in that regard as well.

There is nothing preventing you from doing this on the Android platform. Granted, it is a little more involved than writing a script and scheduling the script to run periodically. You will have to write it in Java. Using Google's SDK and their Eclipse plug-in, this is a fairly trivial task.

According to netindex.com:

Here are some more numbers:

So, apparently, there are significant numbers of people around the world who are familiar with the site.

From what I can tell, the data they gathered is based on users around the world using their web site, Speedtest.net. So, there is no estimation on the part of the users. Also, the user who is testing their download and upload speeds does not have to be very tech savvy. All they have to do is open a browser, navigate to the site and click on a button to start the test.

The issue is much broader than just Texas. The State of Texas buys a significant number of text books -- so much so, that they can influence what the publishers print. Once printed, these same publishers will sell these same text books to other states. Some states -- like California -- will stand up and refuse these tainted text books. Other states will either not have the will or not have the clout to do so. If they want, relatively inexpensive text books for their schools, they will buy the tainted ones foisted on the market by members of the Texas school board.

Wow, someone needs to clue in Google about this.

I have been using a Mac Mini for several years now. As mentioned by another poster, Plex is a great companion for this setup. We do, occasionally buy things off of iTunes. More often than not we access Netflix's live streaming of movies and TV series. We do through the PS3 instead of the web site though because it seems to produce better quality and good buffering. We also have an HD antenna, which allows us to pick up about a dozen local stations. Note, the Mac Mini also doubles as a shared file server and hosts our Time Machine backups.

I work, for the most part, paperlessly. There are very few situations where I feel compelled to transfer something from the digital world to paper. In most cases, it is because I need to interact with another person who requires it. Those cases are coming less and less frequently. Now, to be fair, I am a software developer and I work with people who are -- for the most part -- comfortable sharing information digitally. But, I also have a side business as a property investor. For the most part, the people I deal with in that business are also quite willing to work digitally. There is the occasional person who can't seem to divorce them-self from their FAX machine and when it comes to signing documents, that tends to be the de facto mechanism. Now, once the lawyer gets involved (i.e. at the signing), everything becomes paper and understandably so. I think we will see the embracing of digital signatures. Its just not here yet -- at least not in a commonly accepted way. OK, with that said.... I do still read paper books. I am keeping my eye on the e-reader market though. Its beginning to get interesting and I will probably buy into it very soon.

You could buy a Nexus One directly from Google. There's a good chance they will keep it up-to-date with regards to the OS. Of course, you would have to use T-Mobile service. Not sure if that matters to you.

Well, lets see. You may be right. According to the article, the item will sell for 2 - 3 pennies. Lets assume 3 pennies. Now, lets also assume a potential customer is regular once-a-day. That would mean they would need 365 * 3 pennies = 1095 pennies or $10.95/per year. That may not seem like much but when a person's annual income is measured in hundreds of dollars (some times less), that amount might be significant. To offset this, we should consider that there may be some value added -- especially if the person needs to buy fertilizer to grow crops. The big factor to consider is whether governments and aide organizations see sanitation -- especially in inner city slums -- as a high enough priority to fund this so that there is no cost to the individual. From the article:

This is true. I have been developing a game app for Android. So, I am quite familiar with the environment. The Java implementation for Android is not complete. The one area that was missing for me is the RMI (remote method invocation for you non-java folks). That said, I have found the development experience to be a good one. I have nearly 15 years of Java development experience. I know a good development environment when I see one.

Care to enlighten us as to where you got these (albeit, very broad) statistics? Certainly, a carefully conducted study of this "fact" would be very newsworthy.