@Tracer:

@wickedcupofjoe: I suppose it's different if people actually request a gift card, but I wouldn't rule out cash. It's just a matter of budgeting.

Cash is the universal Gift Card. It's more accessible to gift givers, since they don't need to buy it. It's worth face value, with no additional taxes, activation fees, inactivity fees, or an expiration. It's universally accepted, not limited to one store. In most cases buying a gift card is pure lunacy.

Readers paying for content is last century's business model. It's dead.

@freakshowtime: Thanks for that, I laughed my ass off... #twitter

@brmitch1: I'd say the most likely reason is that LH readers tend to fall into the "Geek" stereotype. I know I do.

@Posco Grubb: Those are fair observations. I'll try to respond to them as best I can.

@Falaris: It has it's uses, but for me hasn't been embraced widely enough to replace RSS. It depends on what you follow I guess. The search functionality is much more useful to me. I use a GreaseMonkey Script for Google that puts the twitter results on your Google search results page.

Twitter alone is kind of useless, but integrated with other services it can become an indispensable tool.

@jupiterthunder: How does a 1¢ sale work? You'd think the overhead of in-store sinage would negate most of their profits. Unless they rely on uninformed consumers who don't know what the standard price is, buying just because it says "Sale". I don't much care for companies who think their customers are all idiots.…

@penguiniator: I'm not applauding Microsoft for their practices, but the APIs in question belonged to MS. At the time, Operating systems didn't stand between the application and hardware layers, so it would have been quite possible to make those applications run just as well (functionality wise) with their own APIs.…

This "step in the right direction" is too little, too late. I have my iPod Touch for music only. My iPhone just got scrapped and I won't be buying anything from apple in the foreseeable future, specifically because of their restrictions on developers. I tired of having to hack my way through every firmware update…

@Rastlin80: I understand what you're saying, but I disagree. The structure of most of the larger projects are broken down into many independent scripts, functions etc. I find it easier to see how things work together within the scope of a full program. How are functions called from other areas, how often is the…

Don't forget the most important aspect of programming: Make sure you enjoy it.

In my case, I would have to shell out another $10/month ($120/year) for unlimited texting to get the updates regularly.

The Address in the screen cap is "[www.google.com]", but the image is allegedly of "[mail.google.com]{userinbox}" This may have been done to protect the tipster's identity, but that and the blur mean we know the photo's been edited prior to posting.

Features I'd like to see come out of this:

This has real potential. The GV/Gizmo combo now is at best akward. I like the Gizmo5 web app on my igoogle page, but it's a poorly constructed flash app that keeps logging me out. Having to log in to make phone calls (or answer them) from my PC sucks. I don't want to run another full application, or constantly…

@bougatsa: I was about to post the same thing. Great idea. I know people may surf this site from a work computer or use false OS and browser posting for security reasons, but people also lie in surveys. How many said Linux to sound L33T, but run XP home instead? How many plan to move to Windows 7, voted for it, but…

@mohan37: