I have the LG Optimus. It runs 2.2, which if you look at a lot of current phones on the market, they are still running 2.2. A friend of mine just got an HTC Desire - which I'd say is mid-range - and it's running 2.2. Sure, my Optimus may be "low end" but am I willing to pay 3 times as much per month for a high-end contract phone? No way. I'm happy with my low end phone and it's low end price.

VM recently raised the price to $35/mo for 300 mins and unlimited data/texts. Current customers can retain the old price as long as they keep their account active.

s/telepathic/psychic/

And this is why we have sellers such as

• ZaReason—request just about any Linux distro you want, even if it's not in the drop-down field (my fave—the only OEM I've found selling systems with KDE and Xfce based distros in addition to GNOME ones)
• System76—all Ubuntu
• Dell—they finally have a desktop with Ubuntu 10.04, and there's some 9.04 & 9.10 laptops

BS. If a man wants to be a stay at home dad, he absolutely can. Now, some of his friends might give him crap for it, because it's not "manly" to have your wife being the breadwinner, but your comment just reiterates that sexist assumption and perpetuates the problem.

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit last November, one of the Ubuntu ARM guys did a plenary presentation where the machine hooked to the projector was an ARM machine running Ubuntu. I also saw Jonathan Riddell looking for a USB mouse so he could install Kubuntu on an ARM machine he'd been handed.

I haven't tried with 128MB, but Etch + E17 runs dandy on a Pentium 2 with 192MB of RAM.

You might be surprised how many emails get printed. Non-computer savvy people love to print emails. It's such a costly issue that a new signature has been catching on in my office that reads "Please think of the environment before you print this email."

I don't think GameSpot is at fault completely. I can see where someone who doesn't purchase used games very often may be misled in thinking that DLC would be available if it was advertised on the cover. However, most used game buyers and used product buyers in general are aware that items that might be included in a new condition item may not be in a used condition item. I don't expect digital codes to work for me if I buy a used game or any other item.

If I were GameStop, I would add a disclaimer somewhere explaining that digital codes in used games may not work. I think this lawsuit has some merit but it ultimately frivolous. GameStop has a pretty lenient return policy. You have 7 days to return your used game. If you buy a game for the DLC and it doesn't work, just return it.

If the teacher doesn't make it any *more* fun to learn, what good's it going to do? Fine, instead of zoning out staring at my laptop, I'll zone out staring at that funny bit of plaster in the corner or looking out the window.

No, we pay to be told which pages of a textbook are relevant and take exams on the material. Classes are a waste of time. Skip them all, and read the textbook, and you'll learn it better than you will just listening to your professor gab. Twice now, I've discovered when reading the textbook just before an exam that hey, this stuff *can* be interesting, it's just the professors that make it boring! Stupid attendance points.

One exception: Gabe Parmer, GWU's new Operating Systems professor, can make confusing things like concurrency (spinlocks, semaphores, etc.) and page caches easy. After spending only one day on concurrency in his class, I got it. I overheard one student tell him that in a computer architecture class they'd spent 2 weeks on page caches without it making sense, but he'd just taught it in one day, and it made perfect sense. Such teachers are rare.

I'm a CS major, so I didn't even notice that those were CS analogies and just considered them normal ways of describing such things.

The answer is never "no" only "not yet" and pretty much always includes an explanation of what's missing. Often what's missing is documentation of what they've done, particularly testimonials that say you're helpful either on your wiki page or in the IRC meeting where the interview and vote happen. "Get a few more referrals and come back in a month or two" is a very common response.

So, what you're saying is, all us Ubuntu Developers are incompetent with the command line, simply by virtue of being *Ubuntu* Developers and not Debian Developers? What about the ones that were Debian Developers before becoming Ubuntu Developers, like Colin Watson and Matt Zimmerman? Did they forget how to use a shell when they started working for Canonical?

I think there's a bug open about that.

And he's not stepping down from Ubuntu or from the Technical Board or from the Community Council. He's just not going to be the CEO of Canonical anymore. He's still up at the top for Ubuntu. It just highlights the distinction between Canonical and Ubuntu.