I thought a lot of what you said made sense, but -- hobbyists don't value their time less; they just enjoy their hobby. It's different from a company.

Maybe I should RTFA more often.

I have one! It is an excellently designed tablet, with a nice feel in the hand, physical buttons for media and volume, cameras, a great screen.

I sincerely wish I had paid more and bought a cheap android tablet instead.

Hey, Linux can run Android Apps -- in fact, aside from that Bluestack or something that runs it on Windows, and Blackberry's Android Player, that's where it runs natively.

Kinda wish it could run on desktop linux.

I actually clicked and read that... and, err... that's a bit of fuss about nothing, isn't it?

I bought one and really like it. It's a nice choice if you really want a netbook, and maybe sometimes to use a tablet -- which turns out to be precisely my preference... aside from seldom using it outside the dock.

The main advantage over a netbook that costs less would be the IPS screen and battery life. All the same, to be honest -- I think I would have been just as happy or more so with a netbook or chromebook, which would also have been thinner and lasted a bit less on battery, but not been quite as fun for PDFs and the like.

I actually RTFA to see if he said that.

<spoilers>Not in so many words...</spoilers>

His friend might have seen it, too. Around here, people like thinking up funny names for their SSIDs. It wouldn't mean the FBI really made the hotspot.

Well, a quick summary...

BART (short for Bay Area Rapid Transit) is the mass transit system for San Francisco and surrounding cities -- think of it as like the Subway in New York, or the Underground in London, or the Mass Transit improvement you build in Civ to restore the one one city health penalty you lost when you made that coal plant.

A group of people decided to protest the BART security shooting a drunk guy who was trying to attack them with a knife. BART, which runs repeater cell stations so that people who ride it can use their cell phones, initially responded by disabling that cell network to prevent protestors from coordinating their efforts to block the trains from running by climbing on the tracks, but later gave in and kept it enabled.

They did not run trains on the stations where protestors blocked the tracks, as that would have killed the protestors, but the protestors and some commentators here are angry they still ran the other trains, I think. I'm not clear on this part, to be honest.

It's actually spelled "American". You're welcome.

(You also need to replace a couple of those commas with semicolons -- and no need for thanks; I'm happy to help.)

Yes. And if he at least goes through screening, the TSA can make sure he isn't carrying any weapons he could use to do that with before they hand him his pistol back on the other side!

Or he could just use said pistol... let's just hope nobody thinks of that. ;)

I hope so. :( Minecraft's sucked down so much of my time already... if he keeps making games like that I'll be in real trouble.

This honestly hasn't been my experience at all. I'm not a layperson myself, but the ones I know call all android phones "Droids", regardless of the manufacturer or carrier.

I think you made the right choice for your household, though. If you call the iphone "the real thing" in another post, then clearly there are assumptions being made, and the easiest and best thing to do for household harmony is meeting them.

One change if you count the last one change, but I think Picass0 was talking about their Windows Mobile strategy as well. Microsoft called the same product as it gained new versions...
Pocket PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows Mobile 2003, 2003SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.1


Those at times had prefixes like "Phone", "Smartphone", "Classic", "Professional", "Standard" and so on tacked on to the end, with a strange mismash of compatibility.

Even after announcing WM7 they kept the game up with WM6.5x, but I think they are going in the right direction now. I really can't blame anyone who has already given up, though.

I downgraded from Maverick to the LTS when I had trouble with a Natty upgrade -- it's actually pretty nice.