Market pressure is impacting them, they are moving there slowly. Sooner or later they will offer it I think. They could, just to avoid a few folks wrecking their network, say everyone can use up to some amount for free then after that you get 3g or pay per gig.

Businesses deciding to favor those who can give them the best return for their dollars, how incredibly shocking. Capitalism lesson here? Of course if you think the internet is a necessity and fsvor free all you can eat access, this will be shocking to you.

yep I was at the Newton release event so his 1992 claim of being first is completely absurd.

These are taxes; pretty much any time we pay the government money, that is a tax.

I loathe web forums, very much preferring email lists. Based on sites I have seen though, it really seems like mailing lists are going the way of the dodo bird, being replaced by web forums.

Thinking of the food and weapons query, are we more concerned about zombies or the Occupy Wall Street people?

It was late 1992 or early 1993 at SJSU. I got a UNIX acct and tried gopher, veronica, and lynx for hours that first evening, a total quarter to three evening.

People are interested in this it seems. There was an event at UCLA yesterday outlined at http://www.veritas.org/ucla, a debate between John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford and Daniel Lowenstein, Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA and people including myself got turned away from both the actual event location and an overflow location elsewhere on the UCLA campus.

Punishing success by increasing the rate as people earn more seems crazy. If the % is the same via flat tax, those who earn more will already pay more. A national sales tax seems a good way to encourage saving as well.

Pricing should be based on usage, until you've worked for an ISP you won't realize that 5% of your users use a majority of the resources. People who download all day should pay more than a couple hour rec user after work who reads email and surfs.

So are all the parents of freshmen buying laptops now? Noone has desktops only in their dorm room? At schools where tuition costs and there fore family incomes are lower, I wouldn't expect over 90% to show up with them. This is also likely related to a lot of high schools now doing what is called one to one computing, where our tax dollars buy every student a laptop that is theirs for the duration of their school attendance, and they use it at school and at home.

You either need to know the language of your target user, or trust a translator for assistance in gui/input issues

In agreement here, there is a cost of extinguishing one life to potentially save another. What about the rights of the unborn child, he/she is alive right?

The government shouldn't spend money on this. Most of the civilized world has cable. For those that don't, either buy the converter or get news from the net.