The keyword in your post is "can". It can replace it, but for intensive data entry or email, the lack of physical keyboard and the smaller screen means that even though you can replace it, you shouldn't.

"Drawing of a gun" could mean "pulling out a gun" or "a picture of a gun". TFA's headline is "Father arrested for girl's picture of toy gun" which is much less ambiguous.

If the university's IT department isn't providing the services that students and faculty need, then the issue should probably be raised above the IT department. The purpose of an IT department is to provide a service to the organization, not to make the organization bend over to the IT dept.

The problem with games is this: what depth do you put the HUD on? The HUD is supposed to display quick information at a glance, but it's hard to do that when you see two of it due to appearing at a different depth than what you're currently focusing on.

If they only had composite to begin with, anything above VGA is completely excessive. These machines are never going to be outputting 1080p.

From my experiences with the AMD driver, it was extremely difficult to get a single X display that would span across multiple video cards. Xinerama just completely made the drivers fail. Nvidia on the other hand seems to support Xinerama just fine.

There isn't a practical way to do this. Forensics is going to immediately shut down your computer and pull the drive. Then they will simply make an image of the drive so there is no possible way to ruin the original data.

A typical strawman respone from someone with no actual argument. Copyright is an artificial construct whereas communication is human nature.

Sending information to other people isn't communication?

Seriously, what is the point of all this UI-phobia lately? First removing the start menu, now removing the button?

If this becomes widespread, then I can forsee video game makers and sellers scrapping the rating system to avoid this tax. You know how far corporations will go for their money. Personally, I think no tax of the sort should exist. A tax should be on all video games or none, but you would have to separate "video game" from a simple computer program. If windows comes with a couple games, does that mean windows is a game?

The 5000 series was better in some regards than the 6000 series, so it is entirely possible that it is worse than the 5000 series yet better than the 6000 series.

As for email, you can rent a vps and run your own. This also covers your need for a blog. Be sure to find a provider with good backup options so you don't have to worry about so many things. In the end, it's worth it both from a privacy perspective and a control perspective, plus its scalable and will cover future needs.

The "purposely neutering a product" is something that pretty much every CPU and Video card manufacturer does. And besides, choosing not to support something on an old phone isn't neutering it, it's just them not providing a particular feature, just like how they never brought multitasking to the original iPhone even though it was possible through jailbreaking.

But that would cost them money. Instead, they could just use Siri as an incentive to upgrade to the 4S.