some updates on the incident, if you guys care to know. sources are in chinese.

a train rider confirmed that operator of the second train apparently did his best to brake the train manually. (source: http://roll.sohu.com/20110724/n314348071.shtml). according to a microblog, the operator was found in the badly deformed cockpit, impaled by the brake lever. (source: http://weibo.com/michaelwangsg)

from official xinhua news: another train, D3212 was struck by lightning a mere 5km away from the derail site under discussion here (the two trains involved are d3115/d301). d3212 lost power and stopped, too.

source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/society/2011-07/24/c_121711520.htm

this update problem seems to be as much samsung's as msft's.

past claims of chinese indigenous cpus have been nothing short of blatant scams. it's seriously a national shame. so count me a skeptic on this mips processor.

well let's see it from my point of perspective. i bought a WP7 phone, fully knowing the lack of certain key features, and erred on the promise that said features will be added in a prompt and timely manner. i also counted on the promise that carriers will not be able to mess with the OS thru version fragmentation, bloatware and update blocks.

so far the only solid return i got was the bloatware exclusion (they uninstall without leaving discernible traces). everything else is, for all practical purposes, down the crapper. aside from that, can you imagine having an app store that you seriously DREAD to use but have no choice? yeah, the WP7 marketplace is really that bad.

i don't give a cow's rear end about how great it is for developers to write WP7 apps. i didn't pay for a phone to appreciate that. and i'm pretty sure i'm not alone in my rant above.

that 75kg was calculated from the 225kg total mfr'd since 1955. the way you calculate he3 price, you assumed the decayed tritium lost. it's not. it exists as he3 in nuke heads. this decayed he3 cannot be "harvested" until the nuke is decommissioned.

no, we don't need to. there already is enough of this stuff floating around in the form of nukes. all that needs to be done is to take the nukes apart and repurpose it. iirc this is exactly where most he3 came from in the last few decades, i.e. since the end of cold war.

and you end up with more than enough he3 and a better probability that earth survives the next world war.

maybe they tested some features thoroughly, but completely forgot the app marketplace. or the landscape display. disclaimer: i have a WP7 phone.

i'm a chinese mainlander, and i endorse this message.

i believe the antenna has been revised. from a 3 piece to a 4 piece. i thought the extra break along the perimeter would allow at least part of the antenna to work normally while the rest gets grounded by the finger.

front page looks scrambled on native wp7 browser.

if the chinese adjusted RMB rate so that they pay the same price for the products you mentioned, walmart and target would be closing their doors and americans who used to shop there would have to pay double or triple for everyday items. guess who's gonna be complaining then? you can't expect factory countries like china to pay the same price on high tech products when you source cheap stuff from them.

if you want s**t done right, do it yourself.

...actually buy a game and run a cracked version just to get around the DRM? i confess to be one of them. not ashamed to be one.