If it smells like a fish, and tastes like a fish... Why else would a eink reader, that no one has heard about, get so many stories?

It sounds like a good marketing strategy IMO. The only problem is that it would almost be impossible for anyone to unseat Amazon's Kindle from the #1 spot because Amazon has apps for not only Kindle, but the iOS and Android platforms.

I myself would never buy an Amazon eBook because you don't really own it, as they showed when they deleted everyone's 1984 copy. Good luck deleting my physical copy asshat's!

Google has shown that they will take away the free services they offer at any time, or even increase the advertising in them to make them almost unusable to some (such as Google Maps).

What Microsoft learned is that you are still going to be profitable if your platform is the major one that people use. Google's free services are really good, but if you choose to use them, you prevent a better alternative from appearing. Since Google supports CISPA, that alone should make you ban all Google products.

Are there Eskimo's left that stick to their past diet?

From the book "Fat of the Land", published in the 1950's, the author gave me the impression that the Eskimo culture was increasingly being influenced by the American/European diets. I assumed that by now, the majority of Eskimo's would consume more carbs and less fat, than before. I may be mistaken though.

Microsoft knows better than you whats good for you, apparently.

Bear liver can be poisonous, just because it has too high of a concentration of vitamins.

Yes you are right, Eskimo's really enjoyed the fat of the animal, in combination with the muscle. You would die if you tried to just live off of the muscle. Fully cooking meat destroys some of the vitamins in it, so its better to eat it not fully cooked (pink on the inside). Eskimo's ate what we would call a high fat diet, consisting of about 70-80% fat.

A diet of seal fat and slightly boiled seal muscle will save you from scurvy :)

Your assumption about unrefined foods is incorrect, Look up the teeth of the Indians and Eskimo's before they were "civilized". From what I've read, eating a meat diet, or one that included some vegetables, didn't have cavities. Cavities seem to be associated with the consumption of sugar and starches.

To avoid cavities, eat a meat diet. Eskimo's had 0 cavities on a pure meat diet, without brushing their teeth (no scurvy either).

If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing instead of software development?

When Sony's console launches, it won't have the capability. But I can easily imagine that they will include it in some mandatory patch, cause that's how Sony rolls.

Yes, that's why Microsoft and Adobe have freely available pirated versions. They would rather you be dependent on their product, than for you to use something else.

Every time I try to use it, I am confronted with the intuitiveness and the additional time spent hunting around menus for the things I want (coming from Office 2003). The last time I checked, their replacement for excel is lacking too...

But by supporting LibreOffice, presumably one could fix those problems, and make the software greater than the competition. Supporting closed source platforms like Microsoft Windows, Office, Gmail, google calander, Exchange, etc... actually prevents decent alternatives from being popular. Microsoft would rather people pirate their software than for them to move to Mac or Linux.

It is in their best interest to take advantage of any loophole, just as normal people would go to a tax accountant to get the most money for our tax return. To do otherwise is silly. Do you really pay more taxes than you should?

If there are loopholes in tax laws, then our representatives should fix those. But our representatives don't represent us, they represent the corporations which spend money lobbying. Perhaps the Onion piece about America hiring a lobbyist is what we should do to get some representation...

Actually, it is Google's problem for not setting stricter standards for those who adopt their android OS platform. Google doesn't really care though, because it is an advertising company wanting as much data as possible.

Good for you. I imagine your support for a web-based google product, prevents a decent non-web based solution from forming. You should never depend on something you don't have control over.

That's why I think Windows OS piracy is as popular as it is, they don't terribly mind you pirating their platform, as long as you keep using their platform. If you couldn't use a pirated Windows OS, then you'd either pay for it, or switch to linux. They don't want you to switch to linux, so the pirated versions are available.