This brings into discussion the definition of mature. Giving responsibilities to kids early seems to bring about more mature behavior for instance.

Never mind casting 20-somethings in the role of high school students to get around work time limitations.

Hell, the requirements for ass and rack are not even universal.

And this is how the pedo bear meme got started. Someone had a fridge horror moment about a perfectly innocent cartoon/anime bear character, mentioned it on 4chan, and the rest is history...

Sadly it may well be hiding out in a boingboing comment for all i recall.

Norway also had a fair share of money already sunk into the development of the F-35. I would love to see the Norwegian politician that would proverbially burn that money by opting for an alternative (tho he or she may get my vote).

Ah yes, the 100 song Rokr.

Ye deities, is my time memory that corrupted?!

I said hard, not impossible. For instance, i wonder how many iTunes users know exactly where the program stores the audio files on the local computer (if they even use iTunes these days and do not just get it directly via wlan or mobile data).

And there is a continual complaint that Android users are less spendy on apps.

On more recent Android versions, simply long pressing the home button will bring up a list of in ram apps. From there they can be closed easily. Note that Android will tell apps to clear out once the ram gets tight (starting with the least used ones), but the process of doing so will be less than instant.

Apple handle it a bit more draconically more like it.

Only a very specific set of app types can request to be backgrounded, and the conditions are strictly checked during the app approval process. the rest can be dumped from ram at any time after the user have hit the home button, and so are expected to dump state on said button press.

Android only tells apps to dump state once ram fills up, starting with the app that has spent the most time idle.

Also, once your into the ITMS ecosystem it is hard to get back out...

I wonder how much this will change with the introduction of media content into the Android Market tho.

i think you forgot a (barely) there.

Funny thing is that i think Nokia got on the bad side of US carriers because they included a SIP client around 2k, and refused to let said carriers disable the feature via carrier custom firmwares.

I find myself wondering how many of the Razr owners also carried a iPod. and that when the iPhone launched, they replaced two devices with one. I suspect iTunes would make such a transition mostly painless, sync the iPod one last time, then sync the iPhone and be on your way.