when the some time passes and the knowledge becomes more commonplace, will bioengineering prove to be, intellectually, roughly as hard to implement as, say, c++ coding? is it just that it's new, and producing amazing results right now, like 'on demand' petrochemicals from 'libraries' of engineered organisms? will we hit the day when genome hacking is farmed out to India, for $12 an hour, becoming as mundane as, um, i am?

If you're going to fight in the jungle, clash!

ATT in Manhattan (iPhone 3g):
~40% dropped calls in first 5 minutes. That's right -- 40%
Acceptable data rates: Pandora on high-bw with no buffering stutters.
Customer service: lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.

Conclusion: ATT is UNUSABLE in NYC Metro Area, and I hate, hate, hate them for wasting my time.

Sprint in Manhattan (HTC Hero and HTC Evo)
0% dropped calls. Some loss of signal resulting in dropped calls in some backwoods areas of rural/suburban areas.
Acceptable data rates on 3g: Pandora on high-bw with no buffering stutters.
4g: Available in Brooklyn in the Park Slope area. Insane up and down rates, but 4g connection often flakes, requiring restart of networking services (switch on-off airplane mode).
Customer service: Downright classy. At least right now, intelligent people who don't seem burned out.

Comment on HW: HTC Hero is frustratingly slow.

Conclusion: Sprint on the Evo is the best Phone/Carrier Combination I've ever had. I finally have a device I am truly happy about!

Just beware -- Don't make the mistake of putting this in production. The "Express" version of Oracle is not taken seriously by Oracle support - There are no Oracle support bulletins for Express versions of the RDBMS - it's just off their radar. If you have an issue, and you will, you are on your own...

Agreed. I get squid proxy 500 error pages in Union Square, Manhattan, all the time, from the ATT network (not a local wi-fi).

NYC -- Practically unusable. All, I repeat, all voice calls get dropped about 2-3 mins into the call. Some zones of Manhattan you can't even make a call. Downloads of anything off the web are impossible in lower Manhattan, or over the East River.

http://thankyoustephencolbert.org

For serving as an example, telling it like it is, I've thrown together a site to collect thank yous for Mr. Colbert.

Hopefully this site will help boost awareness of this story, which is already being distorted in the mainstream press.

Go over and say thanks.