Word. The tech folks I have dealt with at Sprint are very, very good—they don't seem to be only reading off a screen. Their customer service folks are trained under the "enough monkeys with enough typewriters" model.

Some options:

Yes, it starts with "monopoly." And yet, there are two other major carriers (VZ and Sprint). Sure, more competition may be good. But it's not a monopoly.

Eh. Some of us aren't H.S. kids. I don't go to Europe often, but when I do it would be nice if my phone wasn't rendered a brick the moment I left the Greatest Country in the World with the Worst Cell Network.

That was my first thought. This gives me a sad.

Illiteracy bothers be a lot more than polygamy, for some reason.

Let's review

That's only part of the story. Of course, you want to score points against iPad users (surprised you didn't invoke "fanboys"). But another side of this is that the earthquake is going to have huge economic effects on Japan, which will suck for them. The story is really just about supply chain disruption. Meanwhile,…

Another way to circumvent this paywall: a whole bunch of facebook friends to post links on FB. Some will overlap, but you'll probably get the good stuff, without having to read crap about how Lindsay Lohan dresses for court.

I see you're a CNN fan, then? It's not so challenging, after all.

So, you're equating the two? Hmmm. On what grounds?

@heroineworshipper : You know absolutely nothing about the current government and economy of Venezuela, do you? It's completely f*cked up right now. Check into this nut called Hugo Chavez. He's a big part of reason why this building is unfinished to begin with—and is likely a hazard, in many ways, to those living in…

Word. I've gotten used to it. It was a pain initially, but now I get it. I thought that all the tech gods here could handle a bit of change. If this were a change to an Apple product or a popular app, people would be lining up to declare it a miracle and a wonder. It's. Not. That. Bad. Jeez.

Wow, something selected by a committee works better than something not selected by a committee? Maybe this is a first!

Nah, they had to go to a USB stick. Or maybe a DVD.

I am neither being optimistic nor pessimistic. I am, however, arguing—one more time—that you don't have enough information to prove that the parents were bad. I don't have enough to prove that they are the salt of the earth, either. But you made the claim, you've failed to prove it, and you prove, once again, how…

I accept the lack of flash—the You Tube app has about 90% of what I want to see in any case, so I'm good. I am bothered that the browser is almost fatally crippled in one fundamental way: it forces google docs to think it's a mobile browser. I realize that the iPad is not a computer replacement. But it would be a…

Yes. I have seen bad parents. But you have the extra special power of being able to detect poor parenting by reading a human interest story on a local paper that was picked up on a tech blog. I guess if we toss out any need for logic, facts, or evidence, you're today's Big Winner!

Uh, no. Did you see the tech press drool over the iPad? Did Wired magazine (irrelevant since 2005) do a fawning piece on the age of the tablet? So, no, the Apple haters didn't say it. The tech press and fanboys did. Sorry—I can prove it empirically if you'd like. But I have work to do. Which is why I am not posting…

They'd better care. Because people with real work to do will be leaving the iPad in droves if it doesn't get a proper web browser, soon.