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Assuming it's something you pay for owning a smartphone, would it still be there for a smartphone that costs nothing? If so, then the extra cost for the iPhone is still $49.

The comparison ought to be an iPhone v another smartphone and contract with comparable features, not an iPhone v not buying a phone at all.

It would be great to see a post in a couple of months time following up on the decision as well.

It also gives information on people who are overstaying visas, which can be taken into account if they apply again in the future.

I'm not really sure why it helps, but I can certainly say it does. I know that when I panic and go stiff it hurts more as my tense body hits the rock. Even when in a similar mental state, hitting the rock with a relaxed body is less painful.

Scientists have known about insulin sensitivity and why and how weight gain/loss happens for a long time. Bodybuilders and other sportsmen and women listen.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=139058 is an interesting article on what actually happened. In contrast with the "oh those silly scientists, always changing their mind" headline, that article states 'scientists have known what makes us fat for almost half a century'.

There's plenty on HN that I don't understand but I'm yet to come across anything that 30 seconds with Google couldn't explain.

The only knowledge that is a pre-requisite is how to find information on the internet.

Emphasised nouns are capitalised in some of the older 19th century books I own, so I suspect this is just another characteristic that remained in some places.

I'm not saying the problem isn't there, just it might be exacerbated by user behaviour that RIM didn't anticipate.

The news article contains what (the media think) the public would want to know of the results.

The actual study (I'm not sure I can find it, but it appears to be a follow on from: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/497802 ) will use scientific methods to work out why this is true, not just that it is true.

It's more than adding features to a product.

I suspect Facebook is easy to use because people can see the benefit in learning how to use it. They can see how tagging an image is a cool thing, so they'll make the effort. If they can't immediately see how upvoting a question is a cool thing, they won't bother to understand how to use it.

This is superb! Some odd handling of spaces though. See: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

Then I actually thought about recent times I've travelled by plane and I realised that competition does exist in London at least. I have:

Spent £50 more (a 70% fare increase) to fly to and from London City Airport. LCY is smaller and as such seems to be much more efficiently run. There's no long walk/shuttle between security and the gate. Security takes all of 5 minutes at most. The check-in desks have no or very short queues and there's seating nearby if you do have to wait. It's closer to the city centre so there's a 20 minute transfer instead of an hour long transfer between the airport and London. This extra expenditure netted me a nicer airline as well, but the main justification was the airport. About £20 of the cost was mitigated by not having to travel to another airport on the outskirts of London (with the exception of the ~£8 journey to and from Heathrow)

Spent £50 more (a 10% fare increase) to fly to and from London Heathrow Terminal 5. The terminal opened in 2008 and is very modern. Baggage reclaim seems faster than other airports I've visited, the overall layout is more sane and security tends to move quite fast for an international airport. It's certainly worth a little extra in my opinion.

There's room for improvement. I still prefer the 4 hr 30 train journey from London to Edinburgh v. the similar priced 1 hr plane journeys. Air travel might win if it can beat the convenience of just turning up at the train station 20 minutes before the train leaves, only paying a small extra fee if I want the freedom of using any train that day instead of a specific train and compete with the fact that the train stations are in city centres, whereas the airports are on city outskirts. These problems are quite hard or impossible to solve, so it's going to have to try harder in other ways. Oh, and the trains have (somewhat spotty in parts) wifi as well.

For others, this helped me understand the basis of timing attacks.

Personally I've found some sort of link between mental and physical exhaustion, though I'm not sure which causes which.

I think that being struck in the head probably leads to a loss of control and an overall inability to remain cool more than it affects mental capacity. People panic when someone's trying to punch them. That said, the more experienced (and physically fit) a boxer, the longer they can last before becoming overwhelmed. I don't think it's as simple as purely a mechanical reaction to being punched in the head.

This is potentially better then lead in that it's permanent after a while. I wonder how permanent, but it's certainly true that pencil notes on paper don't come close to archival quality.

It's not so much a standing desk as a lump in my room (there's a staircase below it) that comes up to about waist height.

Laptop goes on a couple of boxes and a riser to get to eye height, keyboard and mouse go on a large board on some more boxes.

It's extremely comfortable for hours at a time and I certainly find it easier to concentrate. There's less of a temptation to recline back in a comfy chair and watch YouTube videos all day.

A lot of the complaints are for older versions, you can at least vote now.

To be more precise, this is the last roll of Kodachrome which was produced. Not the last roll of Kodachrome which Dwayne's will develop.

From Dwayne's website:

Kodachrome Film Status: The last day of processing for all types of Kodachrome film will be December 30th, 2010. The last day Kodak will accept prepaid Kodachrome film in Europe is November 30th, 2010. Film that is not in our lab by noon on December 30th will not be processed.

Which is a great relief to me, because I still have 3 rolls of film I'm saving for 3 special occasions over this summer.

1.8GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 1 x 5400rpm IDE disk

For both httpd and mysql.

The server occasionally got a bit loaded during peak times (geographically specific market), I'd say I was operating at roughly 80% of capacity, about the edge of comfort.

This was just a hobby site on the side, you may want to consider the additional costs of redundancy, off site data archiving, perhaps even splitting infrastructure across two datacentres and hosting providers just in case.

Ideally, you'd have access to the application in order to run your own capacity testing, can you arrange that?