but its not even close to having a meaningful catalog here in Austria, Europe.

most likely the next Meego

(Or if its more lucky the next Firefox OS or Ubuntu Phone)

No Apps => Noone buys it

My ISP for

- Home
- Mobile Phone
- Tablet
- Work

?
Everyone has different rules.

please show me the passage. I have read it (really) and havent seen it.

I get you point, but what if the device just does the things that i want it to do?
My TV has (at least I've read it in a forum) a Linux-based OS in there to do the menus.

But i can't install any arbitrary app that I want.

Is it crippled? maybe. But it does the thing that i want from it (watching TV) so its ok for me.

Same with my iPhone/Xbox/PS/... They do the things that i want them to do.

Would they be able to do even more? Yes! They could run any arbitrary application.
Do I need them to to so? No, they do the things they are supposed to do.
Would it be better if they were unlocked? Yes.

What about Safari 4 with its fast JavaScript engine?

could be. i bought my HDMI cables from amazon.de without shipping costs for 2-3EUR/cable (i just linked to the first cable Iâ(TM)ve found)

As long as a cheap standard HDMI cable works and i dont have to buy a special-sony/MS/... cable its ok.

In german there are different words for university students (Student) and students in schools (Schueler).

Pretty much every university here in Austria would strongly object to being called a school. (the whole system how you learn is structured completely different)

That was actually the default setting in my iPhone 3GS. you have to turn data roaming explicitly on, if you want it

Are you really saying that 3 hours is a "good" thing?

I would consider it poor. (except for some really low-end stuff)

So what does /. thinks?
-) Block all unsigned Firmware, locking out the hacker community for the sake of "security"?
-) Allow hacks and custom firmware? (with the possibillity of security issues)
-) think: my Firmware will never have any bugs, i'll put in a ROM (with the risk of recalling the HW when a serious issue is found)

See http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/aluminumkeyboardfirmwareupdate10.html
(from http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1322813&cid=28910311 )

Our virus scanner at work once decided that *all* .vbs and .xml files are bad and deleted them as soon as the were accessed.

What about the fonts from Office?

Someone has to have the copyright on Arial, Times new Roman,...

So in some way, i *am* distributing copyrighted material with a printed .doc(x) File

(the Word license most likely says that this is ok...)