He probably expected that you would be smart enough to extrapolate as follows:
Cost of handset = cost of hardware + cost of bundled software
Cost of iPhone = expensive + expensive
Cost of Android phone = expensive + free

Therefore, cost of Android handset< cost of iPhone.

You can also code in C or C++ on Android. But I wouldn't have expected you to check on that before spreading this misinfomration.

If you think it's impossible to get a few private minutes with one of these voting machines you are crazy. I am not sure how you have been an election worker and still managed to come to that conclusion. In fact, you can easily get a few private HOURS with them. Ed Felten (one of the writers of this paper) annually takes photos of himself with unattended voting machines the night before Election Day.

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/unattended-voting-machines-usual

The difference being that on Android phones you are allowed to install apps that don't come from the App Market (including tethering apps), while on iPhone you aren't.

Oblig.

I was replying to Higaran, not Twinbee.

I think you underestimate the difference between "free" and "not free." Making it cost even $0.01 would probably reduce the submissions significantly.

Lowercase "m" means "milli," as in "milli-gigahertz." Which is the same as one megahertz. So actually, he is inadvertently correct. :)

It's better because if someone gives away your public email address to spammers, one of two things will be true:
(a) you know who did it and have the ability to block it, because spam comes to the address with the offender's unique tag, or
(b) the spam is automatically sent to the trash and you never see it, because it goes to the base email address.

Personally I only use one email account, but none of these setups is very hard to effect. It really depends how much of a problem spam is for you. With Gmail's excellent spam filtering, it isn't much of one for me, but the +tags can act as a second line of defense.

Sure I guess that would work, but I prefer not to annoy my friends and family with extra tags and funky punctuation. So its simpler to just have a separate gmail account, or a hotmail account... or whatever.

It's not like it's particularly complicated to work around that. You could blacklist email sent to you@gmail.com, except for those emails sent from whitelisted family members. Or you could combine the two: have my-private-email@gmail.com unfiltered to use for your friends and family, and only use the tag-filtering method for my-public-email@gmail.com. Mainly I just wanted to point out that Gmail +tags are not useless and "trivial to get around."

If by beautiful you mean trivial for spammers or anyone else who knows the first thing about google to get around, then yes.

It's not trivial to get around if you use it properly. Set Gmail to filter anything sent to you@gmail.com to your trash. Then, every time you give out your email address, add a tag (as in you+tag@gmail.com) and allow whitelisted tags through the filter. Voila -- spam-blocking email address tags that are not trivial to get around.

Really? You wish it didn't have to be voluntary? You would prefer that they be forced to do it unwillingly?

Uh, V8 was not "done by others." That was all Google.

Just taking the opportunity to give a little economics lesson as it arose, as the concept of opportunity cost is not very widely understood. I wasn't being sarcastic or suggesting that we should farm more food and lay less fiber.