FindTheBest probaby will spend the money. The good part of this ruling is that there are law firms that will seek out small businesses to defend them from deep pocketed patent trolls. They will develop the methods to aggressively pursue the money, and will even be happier if they find trolls that send out nearly identical letters to multiple companies and can achieve class action status. In my opinion, this may be one of the few good reasons for these law firms to exist.

I see a lot of distracted drivers in my job, from an angle that allows me to typically see what the distraction is. I can honestly say that I have never seen someone distracted by staring at their GPS. I have seen people nearly cause collisions while trying to program a GPS (typically while getting directions from a cell phone), but never just staring at the GPS. I wish they would just focus on enforcing the current laws that exist rather than add more useless regulation.

Even if they are selling non-antique violins they don't deserve them. When I married my wife we ended up with two artist quality violins. We kept the better of the two and sold the other on consignment through a violin shop (one that does extensive business with out of town clients). Even after consignment fees, we received more money than e-bay would have ever resulted, and no dealing with provenance of he violin as the store puts its reputation on that. Interestingly, even though they have violins that are more than $100,000 plus, they also have used beginner models starting at about $75.00 indicating they will take just about any violin on consignment.

What both the original engineers and the restorers accomplished given what hey had to work with.

A good sub-woofer allows for crisp clean bass - not loud and thumpy. I build my own speakers, primarily because I don't like black boxes and can build something out of my woodshop for substantially less money. I can demonstrate good base by using the Titanic soundtrack - My Heart Will Go On - not a favorite, but part of the feeling in the movie was they used a pipe organ in the piece that gets down to the 15 - 16 Hz range to represent the feeling of the ship moving through the water. If you compare the exact same music from the CD, in MP3 (256K), AAC (256K), Apple Lossless, and FLAC, you only hear it in the CD. But as it has been mentioned, people like me are the exception rather than the rule when it comes to audio. Most people will be happy with their downloaded compressed music on an iPod with $2 earbuds. Also, my primary music system is $600 worth of homemade speakers hooked up to a 1974 Pioneer Quadrophonic Receiver with a pair of 1975 McIntosh amps and equally high end turntable, reel to reel, CD player (1986), tape deck, EQ, and for a humorous conversation piece - a component 8-track deck.

Not hard to find. My first Mac OS was 2.1 I think - it was a Mac 512k. Here's a link to get the image. http://www.nd.edu/~jvanderk/sysone/

Tv is dying though. The numbers all show that.
It might not be dead yet, but it's reaching a point where you reach so few people as an advertiser on television, that you're better off buying ads online.

If there indeed aren't credible alternatives, I would question your use of the word "Enterprise."

This whole Novell thing got me thinking that maybe Microsoft is about to throw the last blow in the platform war, decidedly ending it once and for all. Think about it for a second. Microsoft has never made a dime from anyone using Linux. They never will, either. Unless they grow up a little, and accept that Linux isn't going away anytime soon. They've done everything they possibly could to kill it and failed. If I were an executive at Microsoft (it could happen, and I would accept the job if they offered it), then I would be looking at extending my reach, improving Microsoft's reputation, and putting the past behind me. It only makes sense in that context that I (still as an executive here) would absorb mono, keep it open, and make it official.

Of course, this layoff doesn't bode well for my little conspiracy theory. So there's no telling what Microsoft will actually do.

If I'm wrong, Microsoft is being mismanaged, and they're as dumb as ever.
I'm going to hold off and give them the benefit of the doubt, assume they've matured with age, and hope I'm right.

We'll see.

Well ya know, you have to hand it to you.
At least they're honest about the fact that they're capping, and what the constraints are.

Clear on the other hand uses capping, won't tell you what the constraints are, and then they put you through to an indian who tells you that the walls in your house are the problem, or that the modem they just sold you as an "indoor" modem is actually an "outdoor" modem. Either that, or they might have you unplug it, and put the modem on the side of the house nearest to the highway. Everyone knows that cars make internets faster, right?

I suppose if I had to choose one poorly built network infrastructure over the other, I would probably go with at&t.

Dealing with Clear is pure hell.

I like using Ubuntu. Not crazy about the updating issues it has.

But that's a very minor complaint, considering.
Back in the day we would re-install Windows every six months or so.

Ubuntu's the same deal.
Now if would just work, and stay working without constant tinkering with the things the updates break, we would be in business.

Look man, if it's not IE 6, it's not a browser.

I really like the calming blue backgrounds I get on "transparent" png files, and how it's always downloading cool stuff when I don't tell it to.

Right on. I tried opera on my windows phone awhile back. I tried to get them to buy Android phones last year at work, but the windows phones were a better deal at the time. We all got HTC Touch Pro's, and I've regretted signing the check for it ever since.

Mobile IE was adequate, but didn't do everything I wanted it to, and even with the recent makeover it got awhile back, it still doesn't feel like a modern browser to me.

So I thought I would try opera mobile, see what all the hype was about.

It didn't work.
Of course, nothing I install on my windows phone seems to work, so I don't know off hand if it's the application's problem.

Will definitely check it out.
Thanks for reminding me that Opera still exists!

I don't think this will catch on. Especially with Google seemingly threatening At&t's very existence with their pilot program in Kansas City.
Still, it's interesting to watch. I wonder how many customers over the next few months will leave at&t in favor of a different ISP that doesn't cap.

If I were an ISP (thankfully, I'm not) I would be watching how this goes down with great interest toward the result.

I think I'll do that anyway.

I loved Firefox for the longest time.
I did. When it came out, it was so light and fast, that it put it's predecessor the Mozilla browser to shame. It was no contest. I even went so far as to buy the T-shirt, and go out of my way to enlighten every non techie friend I possibly could about it.

Over the years, Firefox got slower as my computer got faster. A lot slower, but I had to keep the update cycle going on my machine because for the most part... I didn't really have a choice. Today, Firefox on Ubuntu is almost totally unusable. It sucks up 99% of my system resources when I have two gmail windows open, it's always processing weird network requests, and it's so incredibly slow that I just don't feel like I want to have anything to do with the browser anymore.

Meanwhile, Google Chrome has added a Bookmark manager, and Firebug is available. Chrome also gets very regular updates from Google, and even with every possible stupid extension I like, it doesn't slow down. Granted, half of my extensions don't work right, and that's annoying, but the browser itself does what I want, at the speed I want it.

I really think Firefox has missed the boat here.
I might change my mind, but I'm in absolutely no hurry to try it out (as a web browser, it's a marvelous sqlite tool) again.