It's going to be OK and they aren't all morons. Why don't you hog your share of the bandwidth and use Siri yourself. It's a really good thing when you need to get a message out faster than you have time to type it. The accuracy is very good. You can use an unlocked iPhone with T-Mobile today.

You buy a sim card, stick it in, pick a generic pay as you go plan with data service and off you go. I have an all you can eat plan for $50/month. I'm guessing that this announcement has something to do with the elimination of that low cost option. so that all we'll have are the same options offered by AT&T and Verizon, i.e. a locked iPhone for initially less money with a contract. If that's the case then this is just bad news. Hopefully they'll keep the pay as you go with an unlocked phone option.

Ya dats rite I'm not 1uh dose peeple cuz I'm gunna win the lotry.

Makes ya haid spin jus tinkin aboutit. Ony morons go to collig so dey can get jobs sweepin da office flor for da slashdot postin hypamines dat rule da unavers.

We have string theory.

Seriously. Why should I give a crap about these statistics ?

You are not being rude. This person isn't asking the right question. I think that they are just farting around.

Walmart employs more people than Apple. What is your point ? Is your point that Walmart employs Americans and treats them well by your reckoning ? If that's your point then please say more because this has to be deep. If you read the article then you know that the 500,000 jobs referred to are not Apple direct employment. Did you read the article and if so why are you deliberately misrepresenting its content. Regarding morality, your direct and indirect tax dollars embedded in the price of everything you buy have payed for the murder of many innocent people. By your means of reckoning you are a very bad person, maybe even worse than Apple, Microsoft, and Exxon who subcontract people who also do bad things. You should be ready and willing to go to jail instead of paying taxes and you should be ready to boycott all American products to avoid supporting unjust wars so why aren't you living in a hole in the ground or in jail. Finally, if US corporations are obeying the law and they don't behave the way you want them to then why aren't you blaming your favorite lawmakers instead the corporations obeying the law. The truth is that your favorite politicians won't regulate these corporations to your liking because they are taking campaign contributions(legal bribes) from these corporations. Bear in mind that raising corporate taxes only raises the cost of goods and services that you buy. If you are already paying taxes directly then this is simply double taxation.

Corporations are not people so that when they pay taxes they have to get it from their customers, employees, and if they are publicly owned company, shareholders (among other things your 401K). The bottom line is that corporate taxation is just a form of double taxation. We should either have income tax or corporate tax but not both. If you want Microsoft, Apple, Exxon, ..., to pay more taxes while you continue to pay taxes then it means that you want the price of all their products and services to go up and their employee salaries to go down while you continue paying taxes to a wasteful and corrupt government. The average working person pays 25% in federal income tax, 7.5% in state and local tax, 15% directly and indirectly for social security payments, and all of the corporate federal state and local tax embedded in reduced salaries and the price of everything. The total probably comes to something well in excess of 60% in direct and indirect taxes for a working person. The notion promoted by some politicians that most working people don't pay taxes is an evil lie. All this ranting about corporate taxes makes politicians really happy because it diverts attention away from the real bottom line i.e. the fact that if you work for a living you are getting screwed and the price of everything you buy is higher than it needs to be so that our government can fund moronic wars and socialist agendas that have no significant consensus support. Politicians who demonize corporations to the public while failing to regulate them and while taking campaign contributions from them are the lowest form of scum on the face of the earth. It is our government's job to determine the rules by which corporations operate so that when a legal corporation is doing something that you don't like the real culprit is our government and not the corporations.

their customers via higher prices, their employees via reduced salaries, and their stock holders via reduced equity and/or dividends. Since a corporation is not a person and since corporations must get the money to pay taxes from people then corporate taxation, for people who pay income tax, is double taxation. The bottom line is that taxing both personal income or corporate profit is double taxation. The politicians who try to tell a different story are simply trying to buy votes by demonizing corporations so that the real blame for our national debt crisis isn't properly assigned and to increase the tax burden on working people by getting them to vote for increased corporate taxation. Working Americans are brutalized by taxes. The average federal income tax paid by a working person is 25%. The average state and local tax paid by a working person is 7.5%. Added to this a working person pays 7.5% directly in social security tax. Then there is the not so hidden additional 7.5% of social security tax that corporations pay on behalf their employees. This second 7.5% of the social security is actually paid by the employee in the form of reduced income (the corporation includes this in their evaluate not the cost of an employee) and also by working people as consumers in increased cost of the products and services that the company pays. Again, since the company is not a person and since it must in the final analysis get the money from the production of working people, it is working people who pay that last 7.5% of the social security tax. If you are self employed then this last 7.5% of the social security tax comes directly out of your pocket and there is no way to rationalize away the fact the you, like everyone else, pays a full 15% of their real income in social security. This puts the average direct total tax payment of the average working person at 47.5% (25% income tax + 7.5% state and local tax + 15% social security) of the fruits of their labor. The notion that you will get back a significant percentage of your social security payments is just more sucker bait from politicians buying votes. But that isn't the whole story. Because corporations must get the money for their entire corporate tax payments from reduced salaries, increased prices, and reduced dividends then you have to add the indirect cost of corporate tax to whatever tax burden you pay in direct taxes. The total direct and indirect tax burden on the average working American is probably well in excess of 60% of the fruits of their labor. It's ok with me if our government wants to tax wealthy people more but only on the condition that the total taxation on working people is proportionately reduced and our government makes a bonafide commitment to reduce spending by a significant amount. The assertion that most Americans don't pay any tax is a blatant lie. It's an even bigger lie if the assertion is intended to refer to working Americans. If you are an American citizen who works for a living then you are getting screwed into the dirt by taxes and it's not because corporations don't pay a "fair share", a very complex and convenient lie. The real reason is that the government wastes a huge chunk of the money it collects in taxes through simple gross inefficiency and because it spends money on things that there is no significant consensus support for like stupid wars promoted by the right and moronic and failed socialist agendas promoted by the left.

then it's not surprising that the search for the gene responsible for it would also fail. But then, it's obviously a waste of time to point that out, LOL.

This is a consequence of having a stupid implementation of democracy wherein the main qualification for voting is age without regard for accountability, fundamental values are being imposed on the entire population via a simple majority rather than a strong consensus, and the first amendment rights of corporations are protected so as to allow them to decide who wins elections via massive campaign contributions. Over time, in the guise of progress, our system has become idiotic to the point that significant decisions about our future cannot be effectively considered.

When you add a lot of graphic images to a Word doc Word will sporadically tell you that you don't have enough disk space to save the file even if you have 100 gigabytes of space left on the drive. This happens more consistently if I have a lot of equations in a doc. It won't always fail but as you add more graphics the likelihood of failure increases. It refuses to save the document because there is a bug in the way that it computes the size of the file to be saved. Once it starts failing on a particular document then it is persistent. Your can force it to save but then it converts the equations to graphics which are no longer editable by MathType or Equation editor. Your remark is scored as 5, Insightful. How old are you and the friends that scored your comment ?

I think that M$ is still very appropriate. I have to spend a small pile of cash on their trash every year and it's pretty clear from the quality of their products that, for the most part, all they care about is the money. There are bugs in Office that have been there probably more than a decade. They know about them and even put useless suggestions on their website about how to work around them but the last thing they will do is care enough to fix them. Scoring your response as a (5, Insightful) is the real outrage. slashdot has gone into the toilet with its current rating system. I don't have suggestions for anything better though. The rating system that they had before was garbage too.

Linux is a great tool and the FOSS approach can sometimes generate good products but that's the beginning and end of it for me. Most people do not give a hoot about FOSS ideology. They want a computer that does what they want without a bunch of ideological crap or crap of any kind for that matter. It is a losing proposition to install second rate software in a default Linux install when better commercial alternatives are available. FOSS is a good idea that will succeed on its own merit to the extent that it has merit and no more. The ideological component of the Linux community needs to back off and let FOSS succeed because people like what it delivers and not because they are argued and bullied into it. My use of Linux has declined in inverse proportion to the influence of ideological kaa kaa on the distributions.