I do, but I think that's part of the problem. I hear the dialogue out of the center channel only in most cases, whereas music comes out of all (or at least, more of) the speakers. Content producers should probably be lowering the volume of the music to make up for this, I would think.

I get that. What I don't get is why the music has to be so much louder than the dialogue. I have my receiver's built in compressor turned on, and the music of most TV shows and movies is still ten times louder than the dialogue.

And? I don't see why so many people complain about that. DSL/Cable users pay higher fees for faster data than dialup. Fiber users pay higher fees for faster data than DSL/Cable. Why shouldn't 4G users pay higher fees for faster data than 3G?

I hate people who try to tell me what I can and can't do while driving. I'm typing this post while driving up I-95 as we speak, and let me tell you, it's perfectly sa

Somebody didn't pay attention in telephone etiquette class. It is the responsibility of the party who placed the initial call to return the call in the event of connection interruption. This is how it was with landline phones dating back to the 40s. This way, you never have the problem of both people calling at the same time and getting busy signals (well, voicemail these days). I guess it isn't your fault. Very few parents are passing ANY kind of etiquette, much less technological etiquette, to their children anymore. I was lucky that my parents taught me this when I was young and first started using telephones back in the 80s.

Why would you be calling someone when they're calling you? Just answer their call!

English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!

The NWS no longer issues county-specific warnings. They still announce things like county names and regions, but that's only so people know if they're in the warning zone or not. The warnings themselves are shaped and sized according to specifically where the severe weather event will be. Take a look at the warning map on your local NWS office's website the next time they issue one.

I think it's a problem with your computer. I have the first generation Sprint-branded Centro, and it begins charging immediately when I plug it in to any USB port. I've tried it on my (Windows) desktop, (Mac) laptop, a USB AC adapter for an iPod, and even a powered USB hub that wasn't actually plugged into a computer. It worked every time. Either the specific port(s) you're using have something wrong with them, your phone has something wrong with it, or maybe if you have it from a different provider it's crippled (like how the AT&T Centro is EDGE, whereas the Sprint and Verizon models are 3G).

Are you talking about refunds in general, or refunds from Sprint in particular? I have been a Sprint customer for seven years, and have sent in five rebates in that time. I only received a check back for two of them. Two they claimed to never have received, one they said was postmarked a month after I sent it. All of them were sent in within a week of purchasing the phone, before the deadline, and were filled out perfectly and included all the required paperwork. This doesn't seem to be an isolated thing, either. A lot of people have trouble getting Sprint to honor rebates.

In September 2003 when Hurricane Isabel hit NC/VA, we lost power about six hours in, came back on after three days. Cable TV/Internet went out two hours after that, came back on around the time the electricity did. Cellular service was down within 24 hours, came back up 36 hours later. Still working during those 36 hours of cellular downtime, and in fact through the entire hurricane and aftermath without any interruption whatsoever, was our landline telephone service. Say what you will about landline service being obsolete, but you can't tell me it isn't a rock solid system that's designed to work through situations that would render cell phones useless.

Want to be the most popular guy at the airport? Throw a plug strip in your laptop bag. After turning two plugs into seven, all the tech addicts on the flight were buying me drinks. Good times.

If you really want to piss people off, use a busy ATM, then pull up just two feet so the rear driver side passenger can use it after you. You wouldn't believe how many people flipped me off and honked at me for pulling that one.