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How do you figure that? My Droid will be the second phone to receive Froyo. HTC phones aren't slated to receive it for 5 more months. Also, I received 2.1 well before most HTC phones (at least on Verizon). I suppose it depends on which phone you have, but you can't just make a blanket statement like that. What do I care if most Motorola phones get later updates as long as the one I have gets early updates (which it always is in line to be one of the first phones updated). http://www.ozcarguide.com/technology/cellphone-pda/3507-htc-evo-4g-incredible-froyo

No Contest means you are not admitting guilt, but that you are accepting the consequences of the charge as if you were guilty. You don't get a chance to prove anything when you plead No Contest. If you feel you are not guilty, you put in a plea of "Not Guilty" on the date of your court appearance and then you get a trial date. That is when you argue your case (or accept a plea bargain). "Not Guilty" pleas are very hard to win against an officer. That is why on a speeding ticket they will always check "Unreasonable For Conditions". If they don't, they have to prove the speed you were going was dangerous (assuming it's under the state speed limit, usually 55 MPH in Ohio) as most speed limits are prima facie limits (simply evidence that you may have been driving too fast, not breaking a hard set law). Then it becomes your word against the officer's. Your best bet for taking the case to trial is to hope the officer doesn't show up, then if he does, see if you get a decent plea bargain. TBideon, in your case it sounds like the officer already lowered the charge so it's up to you whether to take it to trial. If you represent yourself (most people do in traffic court), your court costs are already paid for (you pay for them as part of the cost of your ticket regardless of whether you go to trial or not). The only thing you stand to lose by going to trial is your own time and energy.

Or if they had to help pay for the convention centers, stadiums, museums, libraries, etc. of the nearby large city that they enjoy (this especially applies to suburbs just outside of the core county). And don't tell me they're "pumping money into the city just by going downtown". Every resident of the metro area does this when they enjoy a game at the ballpark, it's just that some don't have to help pay for it through taxes.

Most of Motorola's new phones are running 2.1, especially on Verizon Wireless. The only Android phone in the US running MotoBlur is the Devour. As long as you stick with the Droid line (Droid, Droid X, Droid 2) you'll have 2.1 and then 2.2 very soon. I think Motorola is wisely moving away from the MotoBlur garbage and running stock Android on many of its new devices. It's actually HTC and their Sense UI overlay that is seeing releases held up (the Droid Eris just got 2.1 in mid-May and no HTC device is scheduled to get 2.2 until near the end of the year, except for the Nexus One).

Yes, but the infrastructure costs per capita are much higher when everything is spread further apart.

This is true, and I would argue that people should move near these new job centers. The problem is that they aren't designed with density in mind, so hardly anyone can live near these new sprawling job centers. That is the advantage downtowns will have until new "centers" are built as dense, mixed-use areas.

Mint Cafe is a better Thai restaurant than Lemon Grass IMO, and being on Coventry, it's closer than Cedar/Lee.

Coventry is a reasonable walk from CWRU as well.

I am not saying there aren't valid complaints about urban areas that need to be addressed before people will want to move back in to the urban core en masse, but claiming people living in the suburbs do so for shorter commutes is just plain false most of the time.

Fair enough, but what if your job was "only" going to stay there for three or five years? That's a respectable tenure at a job and a respectable tenure at a residence. So I'd still tell someone to consider living downtown, if their living situation is conducive to it, for a few years--and then, if and when their job *does* move out to the suburbs, just move then. You get some good years out of the city that way and then adjust when your employer does. There is such a thing as worrying too far in advance. Living near the core gives you more options when you switch jobs as well. That is why it is the core. You are within a 15 mile radius of MANY more jobs in the core than in a suburb, and you are within many more jobs within a 1 mile radius than ANY suburban location.

You'd be better off than if you lived in Mentor. I work in Beachwood in a small office. The people from the suburbs/exurbs here have much further drives than those of us who live in the city or an inner ring suburb. They come from Medina (really far), Stow (really far), Uniontown (really far), Parkman (really far), and Macedonia (not very far). So I don't think people move to a suburb to be close to work. Either that or they transfer jobs after moving, and often times end up really far from where they live. Where I live, I can walk to a rapid station to go downtown or bike to Beachwood (I drive about 8-10 minutes when the weather is bad). When I was switching jobs, I found most of the jobs in my field were in either of these two locations. I didn't even consider the very few positions not in these areas. I guess if I had chosen to live in Medina or Mentor or Westlake or Strongsville, I would have been SOL if I didn't want a long commute.

I was wondering. I was just about to say "what's this talk of no beer sales on Sunday?" Well I guess there IS a valid reason for Cincinnatians to move to Cleveland after all! :)

? Some HTC phones are still stuck on 1.6, and due to their Sense UI, HTC phones that got 2.1 got it well after my Motorola Droid. Now my phone is in line to be the second phone out of all phones to get 2.2 (behind the Nexus One). I have been impressed (and surprised) by Motorola's efforts to keep Droid owners satisfied. I do like the HTC phones, and their UI is nice. But what it really comes down to is whether you want a physical keyboard or not. I love having the keyboard, so Motorola is currently the only option for me.

Bainbridge? :)

First off, if you are comparing the Android OS to BlackberryOS, I'm willing to bet you haven't used Android much if at all. And I have no idea what you mean by having to program the phone. Android is as easy to use as iOS. I understand some people will like iOS better, and some will like Android better, but don't keep perpetuating the "iOS is easier to use" myth. Android is more powerful and will let you do more, but it's up to you. For basic functionality (phone, internet, email, install and use some apps from Android Market) it is just as easy to use as iOS. If you want all the things you said, you have two options right now: Android and iOS (sorry, Cincinnatus, but I don't consider Nokia phones to be mainstream players yet). Android and iOS are similar in a lot of ways. If you want Verizon or T-Mobile or Sprint, then Android is the way to go. If you want AT&T, then you have a choice. If you want your phone in white and a big apple on the back, then I guess your decision is easy. But you don't have to justify it by making Android seem like a hard-to-use, dorks only, needs to be programmed manually device. Also, as to your discussion on app quality, I do find that most of the apps in the Market are of good quality. Google seems to have at least some regulation around what goes in there, and the rating system helps in choosing a good app. The selection isn't quite iPhone selection (yet), but it's still a great selection and improving VERY rapidly. The "openness" has been implemented very well and anyone who complains about it just doesn't understand how it works IMO. You actually have to go to Settings and enable an option to be able to install non-Market apps, so anyone who is uncomfortable with it should just leave that setting alone. If they go change it and install a crappy non-Market app, that's their fault. They were not deceived. But it's the fact that you DO have the option which makes it open and makes it a great thing. So it keeps both sides happy, leave the Allow Untrusted Apps setting unchecked if you don't need them, check it at your own risk if you want to install whatever you want (or write your own apps).

Android is anything but a hot mess and their security model is great (apps notify you of exactly what they wish to access before you install them). Good for you if you enjoy the Apple experience better (many people do), but the popularity of Android is exploding for a reason.

Not quite Vanilla Ice. :lol:

LOL. Been there, done that! :)

Yeah, everything about the place is cool except the food. I had the burger and it was probably worse than mediocre while not being cheap. The other time I was there I had the steak. It came with absolutely nothing. No starch, no vegetable. It was a small steak, too, so it looked awfully lonely on the big plate. Who serves a steak like that? If they do, they should have warned me and I could have ordered a side (although I'm not sure they even offer a potato or vegetable as a side). My wife had the burger once and some sort of entree salad the other time and she didn't care for either meal either.

Yeah, that's why I searched for "investor" on the page and just read that paragraph. :)

http://www.onlyincle.com/2010/06/what-about-those-chinese-investors.html http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/06/29/sports/nh2711077.txt "Apparently, the Chinese group is waiting, like the rest of the league, to see what happens with James in free agency."

I think what's confusing to us is why you would assume uphill should equal north. :)

Because we already determined that no part of the west side of Cleveland is in any other school district.

Has anyone had better luck than I at Stone Mad? The patio is cool, and the bocce in the back, but I have been really, really disappointed in the food the couple times that I have eaten there.