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From what I understand, iPhones aren't really bought to be used as everyday phones and an iPhone owner will probably have a second, Japanese phone as well. If someone has one it's because it is a cool, western thing to have (basically just a gadget) plus they can be used on trips to the US and elsewhere.

>Rule #9: Require all programmers to compile on all platforms

... and have a build server do this automatically & email the results. Manually building for each platform if there are more than two seems like quite a hassle and you know programmers will skip over it for minor changes.

"An attorney who represents four drivers who sued Toyota in state courts over sudden acceleration said the NHTSA finding doesn't mean much for his litigation."

Gotta love how a scientific study by an impartial 3rd party never gets in the way of the legal balance of probabilities and a jury of average Americans.

Subjectively agree with 1. I find that each result doesn't seem separate enough, as if it was just a bunch of text and not individual results.

Subjectively and strongly disagree with 2. I love being able to just scroll down to the second page of results, it saves a few clicks and lets me scroll quickly through a bunch of results so I can quickly gauge the quality of the search terms.

Forget about taking notes in class with a laptop.

For some EE classes there is absolutely no way you are going to be able to take notes with all of the integrals, subscripts, superscripts, greek letters and strange symbols (but don't let that all scare you). The best way to get this all down is to write it down on paper, but I have seen some students do decently with a tablet computer (the kind that have a rotating/folding screen).

The other problem with a laptop (as another poster has mentioned, but I just wanted to emphasize) is that you will end up distracted. All it takes is for the lecture to slow down or someone to ask a silly question and the next thing you know is that the lecture is over and you're in the middle of some article about the next Apple product.

Base your decision on what you will be using your computer for outside of class: programming, maths simulation, circuit simulation, and lab reports. All of those can be done from within a Windows VM.

Google Voice's 4/1 16 years ago

This kinda made me feel sad; numeric keypad access, automatic deletion, annoying menus: that's what I have right now. Damn CRTC & Canadian carriers for not letting this into Canada.