tdoggette

Always tricky to prove intention, especially when so many related details would be secret.

To kill junk mail would be to kill the US Postal Service, I think. I'm not sure if it's worth the price.

More likely is that it'll do both-- there'll be cheap Chinese smartphones that compete feature-for-feature with much higher-quality products, some of which might be heirloom quality.

One perk of competing with Wikipedia is that you can use Wikipedia articles as a base.

What if you're on IRC or Usenet instead?

Knuth's suggested pronunciation is kind of awkward. I'd suggest using it like it's a homophone for "tour".

I'd like to see the author of this piece respond to the criticisms in the "uninstalling" article. Some of the answers will be "it's a lot better with a touchscreen," of course, but I'd like an experienced user to weigh in.

I've been to restaurants where you get a random word instead of a number, and it solves that problem nicely.

I like that stupid comments are consistently voted down.

That's the traditional definition, but it's neither a good nor a modern one.

I'm in my early 20s, and I have heard of (and respect) Zagat. I'd never heard of Frommer's until this story broke.

Why are you tempted to say that?

Sparrow is an email application for OSX and the iPhone.

If they release a phone, they're competing directly no matter what.

He clearly is.

Yeah, but what does it mean?

Yeah, that picture is misleading-- the two devices aren't on the same scale at all.

Do you guys support Chrome for Android?

BTW, I just checked out the application for the first time. The [Fax Document] [Request Signature] page is lovely-- Yes, those are exactly the two things that I this to do. There's no doubt I'll be using it at work.

I liked Louis CK from before his $5 special. When he released it, I read all about what the deal was, bought it, and thought it was at least five bucks worth of funny.

I also like Aziz Ansari, so when I saw this, I skipped the reading part-- I skimmed the copy on my way through the checkout process to make sure everything was cool (it was) and paid my money.

I'll keep doing that as long as artists I like keep releasing stuff like this.

What an awful headline.

I could never own a laptop without 3 hardware buttons, ideally set up like a thinkpad:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nVGyx975u38/SkzCHnkMbAI/AAAAAAAAGg...

OCR, duh.

Offensive like an offensive smell, not like an offensive remark.

"If you don't have an iPhone, well: you don't have an iPhone.*

I found those ads particularly offensive.

I just donated 200 bucks to the Against Malaria Foundation.

Your comment is the direct reason for this.

The site isn't loading-- does anyone have a mirror?

Right, that's what they'd have to do.

What on earth does his karma have to do with anything?

Please delete this. It's stretching the page.

I agree with you about most/all voluntary transactions being win-win (it seems almost tautological), but the question then becomes, "How many transactions involving both the very rich and the poor are truly voluntary and non-coercive?"