TheOtherBob said, "Please cite the portion of the constitution that was violated by the actions of this administration in saving GM."

That's the wrong approach. The Constitution was written from the assumption that the federal government has NO authority except for that specifically granted to it by the Constitution.

What you should be saying is "Please cite the clause of the Constitution that authorizes this administration to save GM."

If you insist on asking for what clause was violated, the answer is simple. The 10th Amendment (part of the Bill of Rights!):

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Um...

I have a little Eee PC (running Ubuntu) to augment my BlackBerry Bold cell phone and MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is my workhorse, the BlackBerry gives me the ability to do essential tasks anywhere.

But my Eee fits perfectly in the middle for writing a blog post, idly surfing the web in front of the TV, doing some writing in a cramped airplane seat, and other 'low impact' tasks. There are plenty of tasks like that which are doable (but inconvenient) on a smartphone, but not so complex that they demand a 'full powered' computer.

Netbooks present a perfect bit of low-cost, light-weight tech to do CERTAIN tasks. They're more of a 'smartphone extension' (which is what Palm had intended with the Foleo) than a laptop replacement. They're more convenient than lugging a full-size laptop around, but much more powerful (and with a much better keyboard) than any smartphone.

I suspect that plenty of us bought them for this purpose. People who buy them to be 'real' laptops will be sorely disappointed, but there's plenty of room in the market for netbooks, at least for folks like me that know what they're for.

Here in the DC metro area, been unable to connect to my email all day on my AT&T 8525. Strangely, SOME web sites work in IE mobile (but not others) and my coworker with an iPhone reports no problems at all.

Hope it's fixed soon.

That's a darn shame...

I switched to Mac in 2001 (and my girlfriend at the time, now my wife, switched about a month after). Between the two of us we've had a Power Mac G4 'Quicksilver', PowerBook G4 Titanium, iBook G3 'dual-USB', PowerBook G4 15" Aluminum, and MacBook Pro 15" (all purchased new) as well as some used Macs that float in-and-out including a Bondi Blue iMac, iMac DV, PowerMac G3 beige, and others.

Out of all those machines, between September 2001 and today, we've had two catastrophic failures. The iMac DV crapped out (power supply, I think), as did the iBook G3 (logic board failure). Both failures, however, were on 'consumer' grade machines and after 3+ solid, reliable years. We've also had to replace (under AppleCare) the batteries on the PBG4 Aluminum and MacBook Pro, which are our two newest Macs.

Apple has certainly got a lot of attention lately for quality problems, but I wonder what the actual statistics are... maybe we hear about it more since there are more Macs being sold than ever before.

Regardless of the statistical realities, it certainly sucks for the folks who got the lemons. I've just been really lucky.

Same in my 2006 Honda Civic (with the Honda MusicLink)-- you pause the iPod by turning off the stereo or switching it to another mode (AM, FM, CD, etc.). There's no CD pause either; you stop the music the same way.

It's actually good that way... when I need to turn off the music to take a phone call, it doesn't matter if I'm listening to the radio, a CD, or my iPod... I press the power button! Then I press it again and I'm right back where I left off.

I'm confused... 7? If all Windows releases to-date had regular version numbers instead of the name-hodgepodge, it we would be at 8 or 9 (depending on if you follow the Windows NT scheme or the 'consumer' Windows scheme).

Consumer line: Windows 3, Windows 95 (4), Windows 98 (5), Windows 98SE (5.5), Windows ME (6), Windows XP (7), Windows Vista (8), so the next would be 9.

Professional line: Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 (5), Windows XP (6), Windows Vista (7), so the next would be 8.

Unless, of course, Microsoft admits that XP was nothing but a candy-colored sheen on Windows 2000, but that doesn't seem like them. Only if we called XP v5.5 instead of a full number iteration does this add up.