@wjbean: I don't see how that would save any power in the end though — power still has to be taken in to recharge the battery. All you would be doing would be adding a storage stage.

@AreWeThereYeti: As someone with a droid eris — I AM running Froyo on it and it still runs angry birds crappily. The performance increase you get on an older phone by running froyo is awesome, to be sure, but it's just not as big a jump as you get moving a newer phone from 2.1 to 2.2 — there's just not as much to take…

@JacobK: Yeah, but there's a video from like 1994 where Steve Jobs smugly quotes him. That's what I'm making reference to.

I heard a guy say one time: Good artists copy, great artists steal.

@seanpat12: Yeah, what? This definitely isn't targeting the same space in the lineup as the Droid 2. The D2 is a phone for the average consumer, as was the first Droid — this is a world phone targeting business people who won't accept anything that doesn't look like their blackberry. I don't see this as a sign that…

@Shadow-Lurker: I'd say a good guideline for when it would be good to have a business card which you could hand out is "when you start feeling as though it would be good to have a business card which you could hand out". Sounds like you're having that feeling!

@Bat21: That seems like a "parents giving their kids access to a credit card" problem, not a problem with an iPod... It's not as though the two have to go together.

@KamWrex: This IS going to be a gamechanger in that currently, you can't use Google Checkout on android if you have a Google Apps account. I'm using an e-mail address from my personal domain hosted by google, and while it works for every other feature I use on my phone, they refuse to let me — and I imagine a…

This headline is really lazy — did the author read the graph at all? It's number of sexual partners, not the amount of sex they have with said partners. They don't mean the same thing.

@icy_one: The reason they fought the sales of blank tapes was because people would copy vinyl LPs, which in and of themselves were hard to pirate (see this article as evidence...) onto tapes, which they were sure was going to mean the end of vinyl sales. The slogan was "home taping is killing music". What's ironic is…

@Where's Fluffy: They won't. It's just not worth the work for them — hiring someone to pour over everyone who's ever bought it would cost way more than they lose by letting a few people slip through.

I wonder if there's going to be a similar option to upgrade office 2008 for mac to the upcoming office 2011?

It's a matter of making a judgment call as to whether the people around you are going to be annoyed with you, and whether you care or not. I really don't find it that hard to gauge — don't know why anyone else would either.

I see this as google admitting that nobody gives a crap about Wave. It's too similar to our e-mail to be useful to a mainstream audience, and nobody uses it... so the only way they have to get people to even bother checking their accounts is to send it to their email accounts.

Does anyone know — if I use this on media files I've downloaded via bittorrent, will the compression keep my BT client from being able to seed them properly? I feel like it probably would, but I figured I'd ask on the off chance it would actually work.

In my family, I've grown up watching my relatives ask their parents (my grandparents) time and time again for advice on this sort of thing. It seems like it's been a great resource, especially since my grandparents own rental houses they upkeep — finding someone older than you is a great way to get time tested advice,…

I think it's pretty cool but can't quite stomach the idea of a desktop modification app that costs as much as my operating system (Snow Leopard) does. Not to say that $29 is a fortune, but one the great things about OS X is the abundance of really good freeware... I'd definitely think about buying this, but it seems…

My last big complaint about chrome now that there's extension support is the fact that there's no way to use offline gmail, docs or calendar in Chrome in Snow Leopard. Google Gears supports Firefox in Snow Leopard, but to use Gears with Chrome, Google insists you use the standalone installed, which caps off at 10.5.x.…

@infmom: So go to a thrift store and get the scratched out records they have there. Go go garage sales. Look around on trash day. Seriously, there's plenty of options.

@infmom: I work next to a record shop and plenty of times there are records in the dumpster that have been ruled scratched beyond playable, or are just crap nobody wants — old Christmas compilations and whatnot. It's not as though you have to do this with records that have life left in them.