+1. I've got a Moto Triumph on VMobile at $25 a month and I love it. Coverage is relatively good in my area, although that's not the case elsewhere (e.g. there's literally nothing in Montana). If you can live with worse coverage, it's a great contract-free option.

Plus, data is still 100% unlimited, at least until some time next year. Even then the soft cap will be 2.5gb.

This summary implies that cutting back on nuclear power is a good thing...which it most definitely is not.

As long as the companies building them don't build them near potential disaster areas and don't cut corners on safety measures the benefits outweigh the costs.

Did you know that 72% of statistics are made up on the spot?

But even if that is accurate, I think the answer is clear: the 2% that is different must be significant in some way when it comes to what they're doing with IE10. We don't even know what they plan to change in IE10. It could very well be a "Gazelle"-like project, totally different than IE9, in which case the need for the new development features of Windows 7 would be obvious.

Very few people, I would imagine, would upgrade their whole OS just to get a newer version of a browser (something many consumers don't even understand anyway). So there must be some good reason for MS to not support Vista.

There's no difference between Chrome and Chrome OS, from a developer's perspective. And since all it runs are webapps, anything you write for Chrome or Chrome OS would also work fine on any other platform.

There's really no need to consolidate the different projects (except Gingerbread/Honeycomb), although different Google people have said that Android and CrOS will be merged at some point.

Hmm, speaking of having no evidence.... Hypocrisy FTW!

I feel like taking the time to argue with you would be a waste, because you're clearly just spewing garbage without any rational basis for what you're saying.

Problem being that, in doing so, they would cut off oxygen to every site on the internet that uses ads for revenue (probably some massive percentage).

That's what bother me about ad blocking. As the owner of a small site that will be paid for by ad revenue (because I'm broke), I see this as an extremely bad thing. Maybe good from a consumer perspective, but bad from any other.

And as someone else said, it's possible many website owners would just tell anyone using IE w/ ad blocking to either jump off a cliff or switch to, say, Chrome.

I definitely agree. I don't like DRM any more than the next guy from a consumer perspective, but it's a necessary evil.

Look at YouTube, for example. YouTube has said that until there's an acceptable way for what is essentially DRM in videos, HTML5 won't become the default on YouTube.

HTML5 video simply won't replace flash until there's some way for publishers to secure their content.

This is for security. There's a command line flag for disabling this, I'm pretty sure.

Try --allow-file-access-from-files

If that doesn't work, you could go to http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch/p?vert=chromium#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc and look for one that does what you want.