"Just as the old AT&T stifled landline innovation in the 20th century, the new AT&T is stifling wireless innovation in the 21st."

The iPhone, with itâ(TM)s global reach and marketing may be the first phone that makes it obvious just how far the US is behind other parts of the world in wireless technology. I hope this opens the eyes of many people. Most people have no idea how we compare to the rest of the world, due to the AT&T and Verizon stranglehold. Those two companies buying up all the regional carriers, as well as having incompatible technologies, has lowered functionality and disrupted normal market forces.

Not so fast. Same source indicates the bing has already fallen back down to (less than) live.com levels.

TechCrunch: Bing was #2 for a day then Yahoo regained its place as Bing fell.

"As Matt Cutts (who yes, works for Google) points out in the comments, StatCounter updates every few hours, so there is also data for today already. And itâ(TM)s more bad news for Bing. Itâ(TM)s now down to 5.65% in the U.S. â" yes, thatâ(TM)s less than what Live.com was at last month."

Fail.

They missed the chapter on how to encrypt DVD.

Artificial limitations like this seem to me to be an invitation for problems and end user frustration.

What is an application?

Are tool tray apps possible, or allowed?

What about apps that launch other apps as part of their functionality?

Would Chrome be limited to two tabs? (One for the host window, two and three for the first two tabs.)

I would say this is an invitation for piracy, but if it really is intended for netbooks, most consumers would find it very hard to install a new OS on a computer with no cd drive. It will make users angry, although potentially limit things on machines with small amounts of RAM.

If it's intended for developing countries, I suspect piracy (or Linux) will win out.

See Page Three of the PDF:
"And by holding a price umbrella over the entire market, even with arguably better products, Apple allowed the entire Windows ecosystem to establish itself underneath."

Imaging that. Charging more for a better product!

Too big for a standard sidewalk.

Too small to be safe on the road.

Has a roll-cage...because it needs one. /me thinks this idea won't save GM.

This is very interesting technology. These solar races really produce odd looking vehicles. Three wheels makes sense in terms of rolling resistance, but I can help but think what might happen if it needed to take a turn fast.

Programs like this are great, and help push the technology envelope. Although it's neat that it can hit 60Mph...the article really does not have much real information in it.

I hope to see some of this technology filter down into production cars. I've always wondered how much power could result from the sunlight hitting the roof of my car all day long when I'm at work. Seems like there is potential missed opportunity there.

-Pete

With the founder leaving, the name MySQL no longer fits.

Next slashdot poll...

MySQL's new name should be:
1. TheirSQL
2. SunSQL
3. JavaSQL
4. CowboynealSQL

I vote for #4.

while it is true that jar^2 is the tool that sets palpy up for his takeover, i've always wondered if that happened because of the fans' reaction to jar^2 in episode 1. maybe lucas had other plans, then changed his mind because of the outcry over how terrible a character jar^2 was, so he made him into the scapegoat.
i suppose it's possible it was planned that way all along, and lucas expected that reaction knowing we'd be mollified when it turned out he was responsible for the empire. if that's true, then jar^2 was really the best developed character of episodes 1 and 2.