Awesome. As much as I hate flying, I'm tempted. Granted, for the price of the flight, I could probably just go buy the tablet itself.

And the worst part? Many of these sites, particularly the ones intended for internal use, are designed specifically for some version of IE. Many of them as far back as IE 6.

Although risking that you and I will never end this thread I'll go ahead and ask anyway. What is your basis for the repeated statement that a gun isn't an effective means of defending one's home? Personally, I know of several cases in my local burg where firearms have been used successfully against a home invasion.

Hey, it's been shown over and over again in county, city, and country. Gun ownership goes up, violent crime goes down. Gun restrictions go up, violent crime goes up. Sure, same thing can be said for ice cream sales and rape, so if i was building a thesis here i'm going to need a lot more structure and evidence to…

Unfortunately design requirements are sometimes driven by politics instead of operational needs.

Why buy one when you can get two for twice the price! That being said, your return on investment from these things is huge, financially, emotionally, and strategically.

"even though the patents may be found invalid, other developers who have been sued by Lodsys would still be liable for licensing fees and other fees if the courts rule against them in their cases"

Right. So we should base our self defense on the assumption that the only time we'll be confronted with a hostile home invasion is when a large scale man hunt is in progress in the area. And your correct, the crime rate is low. You know why? Because everybody keeps a shotgun next to the door.

Maybe, I know little about the skills of Burgert and nothing of the individual who was interviewed. But call the cops? Are you serious? This isn't the suburbs we're talking about. Maybe you can get the county sheriff to your place in 30-40 minutes, but it could easily be hours in this kind of community. I'm not…

So having no gun or dogs would be better?????

Don't get me wrong, Lodsys is trash. But there is an important distinction between competing, making a competitive product, and anti-competitive strategies/activities, preventing anyone else from making a product that can compete with yours. One is healthy for consumers and the market, the other is not. In the end…

I think the more interesting question is where did they go. Did they give up on the whole social networking thing? Or is facebook beginning to get some competition?

DaVinci, the father of DoD contracting!

Actually, I'd argue that this makes Apple even worse. Lodsys utilizes these vague patents in an attempt to get a cut of everyones pie. Sure, that makes them blood sucking leaches, but Apple utilizes these kind of patents to try and drive competition with their products out of the market place. So from a consumers…

You know those apps that ask challenging questions before getting on facebook or twitter to keep you from posting something stupid while your hammered? Ya, maybe we should just make that standard to get on at all.

Clearly, the Russians are tired of the Japanese getting all the credit for being batshit crazy.

I was thinking the same thing right up until this announcement. It doesn't seem like Jobs to give in on something like this so quickly, but that's just my impression. And I also noticed the weight thing. His typical jeans and turtle neck looked like they should have been tight as hell, but instead they where baggy…

I can't help but wonder if this still would have happened, or at least happened as soon, if Jobs was still at the helm. Say what you want about him showing up at keynotes, but I take this as a sign that he really has stepped back from a lot of the decision making.

There may be hope for mankind yet!

Sry about the pic, it was just an image of android music app icon on a screen, for whatever reason giz doesn't like the url. And I wasn't trying to say the iPhone didn't influence it all, simply that calling it a blatant copy is a stretch when half of the development occurred before the thing it supposedly copied was…