First, the mini <rant>: F-U Apple & AT&T.    You pissed me off this weekend, and I’m a bloody self-admitted Apple fanboy!  Why on earth can’t I take an iPhone and yank the SIM chip and have an effective iPod Touch?  Why doesn’t this work?  Why do you force me to sign up for AT&T or [...]

As a mechanical engineer, I am truly in awe with how certain portions of the software industry (you can’t blame all of them, because there *is* good software out there) keep charging for beta-level software.