Getting Doom with it was a large part of their Kickstarter campaign.

They did say the Kickstarter was only for devs, so Doom would be more as a tech demo than the main reason for purchase, but a lot of the 9,500 supporters looked like regular people wanting to get in on the next cool thing.

I can imagine a lot of unhappy people.

I reckon I'll use it to run Notepad, so I can take notes on my phone, and Solitaire, so I can play games when I'm out.

I doubt anything more heavy duty would run fast enough, and besides, I can usually remote desktop to my home PC from my phone if I need to.

Apple still tries these tactics in Australia, even two years after being brought to public attention. In Australia, if a product isn't fit for purpose, you can return it to the store it was bought from, regardless of what Apple try to tell you. This is one small part of the reason for the 'Australia Tax', the other parts being inexplicable.

See http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/01/apple-stores-warranty-approach-contradicts-australian-consumer-law/ for more detail.

I am not visiting the US until you get rid of your guns. You are all batshit crazy. As pointed out elsewhere on the thread, 3 deaths / 100,000 people /year in the US vs 0.09 in Australia. The founding fathers were wrong. Get over it. A lot of you disagree with their religious beliefs which were the reason for fleeing Europe. You are allowed to disagree with their beliefs in other areas too.

...and for this reason, if someone chooses them as their ISP, then having a backdoor to their network probably IS necessary, as they are the type of person who will forget their password and lock themselves out of their router, and not be able to find the factory reset. Telstra were just being proactive in their service offering. For this same reason, noone that cares about security was affected.

The issue was that after the shooting incident, his photo was wrongly associated with the name of a violent gang. He might have been shot by that gang, but wasn't part of it. A website wrongly used his photo with the wrong name, and after indexing that site, Google showed his photo when people searched for a particular criminal. He asked for Google to block that photo when those search terms were used, and they didn't. That is when his lawyers said he had a case.

I misread the title, was disappointed until I saw the word Hadoop. It's such a a silly name.

According to the internet, ordnance is "Origin: 1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance". So ordnance is just a very old spelling mistake. The original is ordinance. Which suits both congress and war for the same reason; in both settings ordinance is used for shooting your enemy.

I came here to post that exact same comment. "Can I scan it with my Android QR scan app?"

We all know models are never a perfect description of reality. And it is well known that models are usually wrong, but some are useful.
But more importantly is the World Bank's comment that

because as you can see, the model is generating discussion. If the model is wrong, it is still the first step towards making a better model.

Churches have been doing immortality for years.

They'll release the rest as DLC

How much landfill will 25 million phones take up?

I'm not sure Apple products are of better quality than your average branded PC. They are more of a pain to fix, that's for sure, and don't seem that well built. Anyone got real maintenance data ?

but how big is a foot?