"... in some cases, coordinate the actual upload and download of that content"

You bastards!

... outsource the hosting.

Sell, absolutely. Then take the money and build something even bigger.

Getting rid of Ballmer could be nothing but an improvement to MS.

"Can anything stop the all conquering iPad?"

The question should be, can anything stop the self-inflicted implosion of RIM, and the answer is no.

Heh... well, yeah. My only point was how bizarre a concept it seems to *buy* a FB app. I've never seen a single one that I'd pay a nickel for.

... we hate facebook apps!

Good for Apple.

I've been thoroughly enjoying it.

... but I would say lack of money, i.e. no commercial potential. Lots of endeavors are difficult, but if they pay off, great. If not, not so great.

... and I had better reception, I'd probably like it a lot more, but the truth is that even as a life-long techie I've always had a love/hate relationship with cellphones. Mostly hate. And the service still costs too damn much.

Programming is a great discipline. It's not my main gig anymore, but I still write widgets and utilities to help with the various other crap I do. Good for CodeAcademy (or whatever the hell it's called). Javascript is as good a place to start as any.

Google.

Read the news much? Local businesses all around OWS have suffered greatly, because regular customers (y'know, the ones with money) don't want to come down and hang out cheek-by-jowl with the protesters. And crime ranging from petty theft, to vandalism, to sexual assault and more, have been increasing steadily over the past few weeks.

MS Word will still take 20 seconds to launch.