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@Chefgon I'm getting the same error, but I'm not running Cyanogen. I'm running the standard HTC image on an Android developer phone (ADP1).
The new design is pretty nice, but I find the default font of the news text much harder to read than the older font. It appears much smaller (I know I can make it bigger) at least on Linux/X11/Firefox.
Presumably that's not a picture of the actual Cosworth F1 engine or else the FIA started allowing turbocharging in F1 without telling me.
My TC died after 18 months. Had it replaced for free buy buying applecare for a recently purchased MacBook. Actually, the old one was a 500GB model, the replacement was a 1TB model, it will be covered under applecare for the next 3 years.
Purple! Very bold - good on you. Given that you drive a Polo and that it's purple, I'd venture to say you are not in the USA. Here in the states, the color palettes of euro automakers are far more restrained that what I've seen in Europe.

Picking a car model at random, the VW CC Luxury, here is the entire choice of colors on the VW USA web site:

moca brown metallic
shadow blue metallic (very dark)
deep black
island grey metallic
light brown metallic
iron grey metallic
reflex silver metallic
white gold metallic
candy white

Is that pathetic or what? No reds. No greens. Only one blue, and it is pretty dark. In fact, the one blue color is the only "color" that I would actually consider a color.

Pathetic.

http://www.vw.com/vwfeatures/cc/en/us/
Apparently we are in violent agreement. My Boxster is Guards red with black interior and my S4 is Sprint Blue. I know about Tequiment paint-to-order option, which is great. I was just speaking to the "standard" colors that you find in the brochure and what the dealers choose to order and put on their lot. Porsche isn't the worst offender -- also look at VW, Audi, BMW. They all have lousy color selections. I guess as long as 80% of the car buyers are happy with white/black/grey/silver, that's what they'll keep making. Sorry for ranting, but it's a pet peeve of mine.
Is silver really a color? Ditto for black, white and grey.

I get really pissed off when I go to (say) the Porsche dealer and they have eight cars out front in the following colors: black, silver, a different silver, white, black, grey, a different grey, guards red.

Well at least they had one in color.

Please take me back to the 70s when Porsche really had colors: lime green, bright blue, orange, yellow, red....
It appears that it is no longer in the Android marketplace (search for "pandora" yields nothing). My continued attempts at downloading the app I previously found in a search yield "download unsuccessful". Going to pandora.com from the android yields a nice big button that says "download pandora". Clicking on it yields an error: "There are no matches in the Android Market for the search: pname: com.pandora.android"

What's up pandora? Does this currently work for anyone else?
Dear Sony,

Please call me back when you don't reduce picture quality of the XBR series trying to make it thin. Please give us local-dimming LED back again.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
 

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