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As a followup to my previous comment, I don't see why this is a frivolous lawsuit. He's not seeking damages as much as he's seeking to get Denny's to include nutritional information on the menu.

Is that a bad thing? I'm sure people who are eating out want to remain blissfully ignorant about what's in their food, but I would prefer knowing that - for example, not from denny's - a deep fried onion blossom contains more calories than I would be expected to consume in an entire day and enough salt for several days' consumption.
I'm not sure why everyone is saying that this person is stupid for not knowing Denny's is unhealthy. I think that's really rude and ignorant.

Did you know that bug spray was unhealthy to spray in your mouth/nose until the bottle said, "hey, this is dangerous if you use it improperly!"? Of course it's bad for you, it's bug spray, full of toxic chemicals!... Which are written about all over the bottle, so you know they're toxic and you know the risks.

Did you know that a big flour tortilla contains quite a bit of sodium? The burrito tortillas that Chipotle uses contain 670mg of sodium. I wasn't aware of that until I was looking at their nutritional information. Surely their other ingredients contain quite a lot of salt and you can certainly taste it, but I doubt most people would realize that a fair portion of it - more sodium than any of their other ingredients except for the vinaigrette salad dressing - is contained in 'mere bread'.

Restaurants should indicate the nutritional information for meals for the same reason the food you buy in the store has the nutritional information written on it, for the same reason your household cleaners have their chemical ingredients listed, and for the same reason that dangerous things have warning labels on them.

It's only common sense if it's common and makes sense.

There is a downside to Bonjour. The downside is that it is designed to 'just work', and that when it doesn't just work, you may be at a loss to describe why.

Bonjour works over multicast on UDP port 5353. If anything on your network blocks this, Bonjour obviously won't work. So, you'll need to make sure the necessary holes are in firewalls, etc. Bonjour also doesn't really work between subnets well, so if you have a wired network and a wireless network on different subnets, you may be out of luck. The same is true of using a Virtual Machine - you need to make sure it's using bridged networking or Bonjour might not work.

There's also the problem of networking hardware improperly handling multicast traffic. I see this all the time in my job, an endless stream of people who have networks where Bonjour simply isn't functioning despite there being no obvious reasons for failure.

This _sounds_ gross, but then look at apple pie with a slice of cheese on top. Heck, apples and cheese = exquisite pairing. But COOKIES and cheese? Hmm....
So are they going to be burnt like starbucks coffee? Actually, their coffee isn't just burnt, it's too strong. We buy their bagged coffee at work, and the instructions say to use something like two tbsp per cup. If you do that, it's sickeningly bitter. We use half that, and it comes out much more... consumable.
Which looks 'bigger', a towering burger, or one that's enormously wide? Which looks more like you can eat it?

I would say that the towering one probably looks more consumable.

Also, towering lets you see the layers. A dinner-plate burger with just a patty and some tomatoes? It's all bun!
I've never had this happen, even though I leave airplane mode on when I update at work.

Also, does the author have a 1st gen or a 3G? The 3G has GPS, which neither iPod Touch generation has. Both iPhone models also have a camera, which neither iPod Touch model has, as well as an included microphone and a speaker that does not exit through the back panel of the device (like the iPod 2nd gen.)
why do compact digital cameras have 12MP sensors? Why do people buy cars with freakin' HEMI engines when a 1.5L 109HP engine will merge me onto the freeway just fine?

People know that higher numbers mean more. More bits mean more security.
Perhaps you should have:

a) looked at the screenshots of the upcoming iPhone application instead

b) looked at or used many Windows Mobile and PalmOS applications, especially those developed before they started trying to clone the iPhone touch interface, to see what users generally expect(ed) of those two platforms.
For all the people who say, "but my only development mac is my home computer!"...

Perhaps you should make a separate hard drive partition/get an external drive and install another copy of OS X on that which is the development image that you boot into when you want to do things that might otherwise ruin your regular installation.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"
 

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