I am with Seandry. Not only is this not admitting defeat, it is brilliant. When the Android Market first started booming the first thing I thought is why is no one creating a way to virtualize this. I can see MS not doing it but for a company like RIM who may not be prepared to overhaul their sdk to make it more friendly this is the best thing they can do. If they could actually make a quality touch screen product hardware wise, update their OS, use Android apps, and maintain the security features they have and keep doing BIS and BES right they could get back in the game. I wonder if Palm errr HP is paying attention. Slap Alien Dalvik (I don't know if RIM is using this or something they cooked up) on a Pre 3 and I would be more than happy to give it a shot.

Aha. I always assumed it was similar to the final nail in the coffin. Thanks for the correction.

After the rumor that ABC was planning a Fables show and it never materializing, I will say that if they make a blatant rip off instead of the same thing, I will boycott every show and every channel they have.

For you, yes it is but not for everyone else. While you may believe that people started with Adam and Eve and that marriage was started there, there are others who do not. Judeo-Christian values may point to one man or one woman, but there are and have been other cultures that have had "marriage" with different beliefs on what that entails.

I believe that each individual Church should simply decide what they are willing to recognize as a proper marriage and refuse to recognize what is forbidden against their beliefs. Get the government out of it, and allow people to make their own choices, as the article says. Allow people to have their secular marriages or perhaps a Christian marriage under a body that is much more liberal than yours. Then your church can simply say that they do not recognize it (nor should you have to.)

When you are trying to keep people with different values you are simply trying to dictate the meaning of the word. Marriage has become a string of characters that represent a committed relationship. Would you feel better if homosexuals (or any other abnormal marriage) did not use the word marriage?

I believe having a freemium model is the best approach. You get people on the free app with an ad, and have a pro version for people who like it but can't stand the ads. If and when I start developing mobile apps, it is the way I would/will do it.

I can speculate that this article is reaching a bit.

Thanks for your thoughts Regina. I will say that I do not have a problem with trying to keep things similar to an old look. It was just this building, and I can't quite remember exactly how it looked before. I wish that more people would open restaurants downtown and I might be willing to give it a try for a plate lunch, although I can't imagine it comparing to The Courtyard Cafe. As far as the TV's go, that is not really important. I just found humor in the attempt. I would lean toward either do TV's right or don't do them at all, and I certainly would not have nudity on the TV on a Sunday at noon.

As I said, I am far from a professional food critic, I just wanted to share the experience and even though I said do not go there at the end, that was just based on my own experience.

I do not think that that is necessarily the case. If you look at their major releases they have not had this big of a snafu,
Google Wave- This was announced, had several months on the shelf before being released, and had a segmented beta invite rollout.
Google Voice- This was in an absolutely locked down beta and stayed in beta for what felt like an eternity (at least for those of us who wanted to get in.) On top of that this is a product that has been almost flawless.
Google Chrome- Windows version came out and worked well enough to replace most browsers and has only gotten better. They did not rush on getting out a mac version. The Mac version finally came out this year and I have now dumped Firefox.
Chrome OS- Code has been released for the super geeks who can put it together and test it, but it will be a while so no rush.
Android- The initial version of Android was fine and did the basic functions of a smart phone. I think it may have been just as complete as a whole as the first iPhone OS (some areas better others worse) if not better. Now since we have hit version 2.0 Android's growth has exploded.

Those are just a few of the products I can think of and in my opinion they are not experiencing the same new product pains, As a matter of fact I think most of Google's are flowing quite differently than Buzz. I think the problem with Buzz is that Google is strongly influenced by a culture of engineers, and I am not entirely sure that is a group that you want doing the beta run on a social project.

I am not sure about the device but that guy's hair is awesome.

I am surprised they went with someone so young.