... we must not have a moon base gap."

I recall one wag claiming Lipitor should be given away with every fast food meal. Sad to see it is still being held hostage by the ultimate drug dealer: Big Pharma.

It's available in a generic variety now, although according to the wikipedia article, the price won't be dropped to "normal generic" price until May 31st of this year.

This isn't true, in my experience. Both my wife and I have the "Unlimited Plan" on 3G phones, and haven't had to worry about any caps, even with very heavy tethering use.

I'm running CM 6.1 on mine (was running nightly builds before that) and it's running better than the original stock firmware. The first step was getting rid of that "Sense" crap that HTC bundles. I also wish that the carriers and/or phone vendors would be more open with their software, but it still beats a closed platform, in that the community can still hack newer versions of the OS onto older phones and keep them viable, much as CyanogenMod has done for the Hero.

Seriously? *This* is what did it for you?

The last time I looked at the market on 2.2, it showed everything in ~ USD amounts.

I have found that stock Android is pretty nice. HTC Sense is a good *looking* UI, but it suffers in some places. The stock mail client for stock 2.1 is much nicer than the sense variant, for example, and there are a number of other places where it looks like HTC tried to "reinvent the wheel" (with shiny chrome) for what appears to be little or no reason. Perhaps they're trying a little too hard to offer a differentiator on the software side...

I've been much happier with the stock android versions of 2.1 and 2.2 (thanks to CyanogenMod) on my HTC CDMA Hero, since switching from the stock firmware. (Doesn't exactly help that HTC orphaned OS support for that model before 2.2...)

No... that would be the very poor and the very wealthy.

Not quite, at least according to the NY Times polling: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/02/us/politics/1102-nat-webPOLL.gif . It may not be the most scientific poll, but it does look like higher income brackets tend to lean more towards Republican candidates.

Pretty much every political party and candidate they run promises change and transformation -- otherwise they would tell you to keep the person you've got in office now. Both parties seem to favor policies which tend to benefit the richest and best connected, which doesn't seem as though it's going to change any time soon. Sadly, it seems as though the only "ideology" we're seeing now is "tax cuts and fuck you" from both sides of the two party system, in the name of budgetary balancing.

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/ -- there's some sort of tribute page about that game.

"Tie on the bed, throw the rope out the window." Classic.

Macromedia tools are free?

Also, I haven't had any trouble running the chrome plugin on my Linux machine ...

You can also use a Hackintosh, if you don't want to buy a new Mac (you can always buy a second hand one of course).

If you are seriously thinking about Mac development, then buying a second hand Mac might be the way to go, or you could just drop OS X on a hackintosh and be done with it.

Who'd have thought actually having the target platform would be necessary for decent development on that platform!

A "hackintosh" isn't really a way of doing this, since Apple has been trying (and is continuing to try) to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple-branded product. They don't use standard toolkits, for the most part, and aren't really meant to be developed on anything other than themselves. It's more of that "walled garden" garbage at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler

They've been around for a while. Apple just doesn't like to play nice. It's similarly pain-in-the-ass to develop for Blackberry on Linux, if I recall correctly.

And I'm sure that their overpriced drugs and the people who are being gouged for them are paying for all of that crapola. I'd rather they turn around and subsidize the cost for some of their lower income customers, but we all know *that* isn't about to happen.

I grew up with industry schwag as well, but that industry was far better off when it couldn't direct market to patients. Turns doctors into mere "prescribers".

Pharma is out of control in the US -- and they're more bloated and less "innovative" than ever.