A GREAT handheld computer, and a LOUSY cell phone. I've been on ATT since pre-cingular days... haven't had dropped calls or speed issues through my LG, Samsung, or other phone(s) and definitly not with my current Galaxy.

I'd stand side-by-side with IPhones since day one and have no issues when they have all had trouble finding a simple connection.

IPhone on Verizon will be interesting... I expect it'll show one of two things... either the IPhone is as I think it is ad it'll do the same as it rolls out across Verizon... or that ATT has been shuffling the IPhone off to bad data lines after it's hit the cell tower.

If I recall correctly from my Marine Corps days, the high/low beam switch is mounted on the floor in a HMMWV. Not sure about the consumer models (Arnold Schwarzenegger type, not the refrigerator-on-wheels).

Which makes it that much worse. It's one thing if an officer was taking a break and playing the guy's Wii Bowling. That would be wrong, but maybe not bad enough to seriously jeopardize the evidence (though there would still be questions about it in court). But to stop mid-evidence collection to bowl a round or two? Any half-way decent defense attorney is going to make this video Exhibit A.

As a side note, there are a bunch of posts like this about the TX series in this thread alone, yet they've all been modded down. I wonder why.

>>by holding the Alt key.

Crap. That's gonna suck. I hope somebody comes up with a type of "Alt-CapsLock" key to free up our fingers.

That depends, what does G-d need with a starship?

Yes and if history is any indicator, now you will have a choice to use the ribbon style, before you didn't.

Legislator liability is an idea whose time has come. The tripartite government acts within the Judicial branch to establish the guilt or innocence of us mere mortals, why not the Legislative Branch (actually, they already are - I just want much higher penalties)? The average murderer kills for the most tawdry of reasons and thinks not about the consequences. People who have massive power and personally control millions of dollars, like our Senators (save, one - Bernie Sanders is not a Millionaire) and the bureaucrats like John Yoo (executive branch liability, too!) have so much more to lose... that the ultimate penalty would actually deter them.

I've always been in favor of setting black letter law for white collar thieves - steal $1meg or more and we execute you. That would cut WAY BACK on their schemes because, once again - they have so much to lose and would actually be deterred.

Finally, there is historical precedent - the Roman Senate had a rule, a Senator could propose any law - only if the law did not pass his fellow Senators would kill him.

Millions of innocent jews and others were tortured and killed by members of the Nazi party. It was evil, and it should be condemned.

But it happened. It's part of reality, and it's something we should learn from. Denying its existence (or acknowledging it in a way) by censoring it seems counterproductive to me. Let's no stick our heads in the sand. There are lots of "symbols of evil" that the Germans do not ban. People see them and are told they represent evil, and they can be taught a lesson about evil.

And let's not forget that the swastika was an ancient Hindu religious symbol that had very positive connotations. People should be taught its original meaning and how the Nazis desecrated it.

WWII happened in the 1940's. The Germans are good people. As a culture, they have always been inventive and industrious. And, like every other nation on earth, they have a sense of superiority. And a long time ago, some people took that sense of superiority too far. In a very Microsoft-like way, they dealt with their "competitors" by crushing them, rather than trying to a better job. (Note that I don't think Microsoft are nearly as evil as the Nazis. Bill Gates is excessively competitive, but he's also a philanthropist and deserves recognition for it.) The Germans and everyone else in the world have to grow up and get past this fear of the past.

If you're a white American, and your ancestors owned slaves, should you be ashamed of yourself? No. You can be ashamed of your ancestors, and you can be ashamed of all of the cruelty and torture that went along with it. But you yourself know that slavery was wrong. You're not responsible for it. You can get past it without pretending it didn't happen.

But that's just my opinion.

You forgot to capitalize "Damen" and "Herren". Yeah I know I'm being nitpicky. ;-)

I find it interesting the EU States can ban images within a videogame, and the publisher MUST comply with that restriction. I wonder if the same could happen with a US State? Could California declare "no more swastikas" and force Activision to edit California editions of Wolfenstein, or would the U.S. overrule that decision? If yes, could the EU eventually overrule Germany's law?

It's like this: just because you say your home PC is a "supercomputer" because it has all the performance of a "supercomputer" doesn't make it one. You need to have a little plastic bar glued to the front wherein is written, in dazzlingly Arial font, "SuperComputer". Otherwise, no one will believe you. Oh, just buy it already.

Regards,

SGI Marketing and Management.

But its your WORK experience that gets you THROUGH that door. I've been in this industry for almost 25 years... no, I'm not that old... I started as a Software Engineer at Intel when I was a Senior in HIGH SCHOOL. I already had almost 4 years of part time experience in Software when I got that job. Did my BSCS-EE get me any jobs? Nope. By the time my fellow high school alums got into the workforce, I was making at least twice what they could get coming out of college. When I've hired (and I was in a hiring role when my compatriots got into the job market) A degree would get you past my HR or Recruiter, but it took experience to get past me.

On the other hand... you SHOULD get a masters... and do it part time while you're working in the industry. But get an MBA. THAT will help your career enormously one day. but it'll be a dozen or so years before that'll pay for itself.

Solid point... there is a difference between the conspiracy theorists and factualists. Funny though that the factualists always promote their ideas as theory (Could it be... ...?) vs. the theorists who always promote their ideas as fact.

Nope... I don't know who did it... it just made me think. I didn't say it was terrorism, just mentioned that I'd considered it.

As for the rest of your comment, I'll let it lay where it will.

And I bet not random vandalism either. Come on... think. (all of the following was from local news sources)

Union or disgruntled ATT person? No... ALL fibers were cut in the manholes, and they were clearly labeled for each carrier affected: ATT, Verizon, Sprint, AboveNet, Nextel,

Random Vandalism? Done in two places: South San Jose and Redwood City, and Redwood City's lines were cut multiple times in several different manholes.

They also knew enough to cut Fiber rather than the Copper lines... no copper was cut, even though all of the manholes carried labeled copper as well. This tells me that it was not random vandalism either or a mistake by copper stealing persons.

This tells me that it was intentional... by someone. I'm also NOT a tin-hat believer in conspiracy theories, but this could easily be a quick test by a terrorism group to see how effective it would be, test emergency resources, and see how long it would take to fix it.

As others here have said... it's not all that difficult to get into the underground lockers and conduits. Hell... most are marked pretty clearly on the manholes what's down there (sewer, steam, storm-drain, communications)

Again, I'm not an alarmist or a conspiracy-theorist, but if you add this to the hacking of the national electrical grid a few days ago. Think of what could be done with a dozen or so people in each of a few key urban areas (say... 10 or so around the country) all at once, coordinate that with hacking the grid and/or other things. Oh... then add in Conficker or something worse that we don't yet know is there on a bunch of kiosks and/or infrastructure. Heh... there are what... 6 en-route ATC centers across the US, and they all use phone for coordinating between themselves and local ATC centers. Even with fallback procedures it could cause a short-term mess.

Well.. it makes me think. Not enough to stock up on survival supplies... but it makes me think.