How far back do you need to go? Do we need to see his 1st day of school? Pop out of the womb, perhaps?

The answer to your question is Yes. But you're probably too lazy to look and want to paint the protesters as disorganized lazy slobs (much like yourself).

You're ridiculous. So he just walks around for 2 minutes in front of the cops, and you're somehow implying that he did something to provoke them that did not require an immediate response, but a sniper-like-bean-bag shot?

It's also wonderful for your skin. Not you personally.

a) Yes, he's being unreasonable. So are you. It costs a lot of money to run services like this, and you're getting them for free. 100% uptime is VERY difficult to achieve. I happen to work in IT, and I know what goes into delivering uptime.

Yes, when I'm driving, it IS a real chore. And sometimes it's quicker to say the phrase instead of typing.

The conversation with a drunk is different. You leave out the "how was your day" part.

If you expect 100% uptime from what is essentially a free service (once you own the phone and pay a cell provider for service), then you are just being unreasonable. Not only free, but not even something people rely on. Siri is amazing; it's just not what I consider a critical app.

Noticed this about an hour ago. I was asking Siri to call someone on my phone list. Kind of disappointed that the voice dialing needs to use Apple's services. Then again, the accuracy is very good, and I don't think you can reach that level of accuracy on just a phone's processing power; you need the cloud to do the…

Services go down sometimes; that's life in the IT business. Siri going down is pretty minor compared to something like Blackberry's recent email outage, or Amazon's cloud going down. Siri is a convenient way to access things you can access without Siri.

Except it isn't a big deal if people can't ask Siri for stuff; you can still set your own reminders and meetings without Siri. Being without email can affect people's work.

No, what sucks is that they did NOT stop testing in the 70's.

Grow a backbone. This is how your next conversation should go:

Don't knock XP. First "good enough" consumer operating system Microsoft ever made. There's a reason it has stuck around so long. I still use it on my home theater PC; it runs all the codecs, it connects to netflix and hulu, and there is still software being made that works with it. No reason to spend the money on an…

Exactly. I think this is more a story of "There are cheap chinese knock-off phones that have poor reliability". You can still get a quality phone for cheap.

nested != recursive, but recursive is a form of "being nested"

Except you can buy an iPhone 4 for $99 or an iPhone 3GS for free. And you'll probably spend over 2 grand over a 2 year contract for any smartphone. So anyone who can't afford a free quality phone, or $100 for something better should probably re-think their need for a smartphone.

I had that exact same problem on iOS 3 and 4 on my iPhone 3G. Can you confirm this STILL exists in iOS5?

"Looks to us like it's more than "a small number of customers,""

This is starting to look more and more like someone's weird art exhibit.