These days it seems that Garmin makes most of their revenue from fitness trackers and GPS watches. While the trackers and watches do not use the old subscription model, they do depend on cloud-based services for a significant and non-obvious chunk of their functionality, e.g., syncing your watch with your phone This makes this outage worse for Garmin customers, compared with the old navigation unit days where connecting to Garmin was only relevant when you needed to update the map.

I don't care whether or not they use usb or something else, I just want to be able to use my car charger on all my subsequent new phones. I want my docks etc. to at least work across the entire family of phones, looking at you motorola. I want a headphone and mic so that I don't have to use an f'ing bluetooth headset.

Reality can't spell either, you f'ing bigot.

Are you serious? Or are you being sarcastic?

"A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/02/18/pilot-crashes-texas-building-apparent-anti-irs-suicide#ixzz1NBnUiitg

The US State department doesn't check their results before they publish?! Ok.

Coursework isn't the cornerstone of most PhD programmes, even in Computer Science. And utility, beyond C/C++ and Java, really isn't a big concern. The closest we have a to a mobile computing class is based on four or five experiment languages, languages that don't yet work on smart phones. We also another have research group that develop applications for the iPhone, but they are not interesting in improving mobile computing.

My point is, in a PhD programme you can go out and pick up what ever skill you find useful.

Odd. I quit IEEE-USA because they were opposed to H1B workers and supported lowering H1B limits. As an H1B worker, it did not seem prudent to I pay fees to an organization that was acting against my interests.

http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/POLICY/2003/index.html
http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/features/070703.htm

I would prefer risking the chance that the postman would steal my stamps, rather than have someone track all of my mailings.

I think the postman would be quickly caught because the tracking system will be able to retrieve where the stolen stamps were used. If there is enough theft, it doesn't appear that hard to figure out who probably stole the stamps.

C'mon dude it is Christmas, don't kill my buzz yet.

You do not have to renew your contract but you do pay the same price (except Tmo) and if you switch carriers you appear to have to pay the same fees. Of course now, it makes less sense to switch carriers as the US GSM carriers are no loner really compatible.

Apple prevents third party devices (PalmPre) from using their software (iTunes). Given iTunes prominence in the online music market, I think you can argue that this is lockin. I would also like to point out that Micro$oft still makes Word and other products for the Mac.

White. Armed. Hostile. Genocidal. Self-centred philosophy. Ethnicity is the important factor, Ok. I will have to disagree with that. Crusaders wanted to "recapture" the "Holy Land", this was the problem at the centre of the dispute. Sorry, but I fail to see how race becomes a dominant factor.

Of course I will demonize it, ethnic or racial discrimination is stupid. It has been a source of evil in the past, millions or billions of people were slaughtered. Thousands still die today because of it today, and there is no evidence that it is useful. Beyond weak conjecture. A bunch of feudal kings and their pope decide to slaughter people to claim their territory, and you would think it prudent to kill any European ... discrimination is a stupid policy.

I hear yah. Not Asian, but I watched an amazing amount of crap because of a black cast.

Hmmm ... do you think before you write this? Only black kids glorify criminals? Sopranos? The Godfather Trilogy? That whole Billy the Kid fetish? And I would love to see these wonderful people who value education above all else ... the Intel commercial are funny because they run counter to normal behaviour. I don't think anyone is making movies about C.V. Raman, but there is one about Devi.

Quoting an African about the behaviour of American blacks seems a bit odd, since I assume you are an American white and therefore you would have more contact with American blacks than an African. Right?