First, Steve Jobs complains that Android is fragmented and offers too many versions.
No one else had said it before.

Then a bunch of second-rate tech websites echo it.
Then it gets reposted here and a bunch of 7-figure IDs and Anonymous Cowards post "me too" stuff.

Do I have to spell out a marketing-company forged FUD campaign? Has it been so long since IBM vs. Microsoft? Do we really need to re-learn what this looks like?

If a carrier abuses the phones, leave the carrier.
If a phone comes out neutered, don't buy it.

Having a codebase that moves rapidly forward is a simple fact of computing since broadband got big. Calling it a weakness is pure bullshit, especially when the competition moves (at most) at the rate of about a significant change once per year.

I've driven on both the Autobahn and on US freeways.

Those interested should think of it this way:
In the US, there are roads, highways, and the Interstate Highway, often called the freeway.

Roads are obvious.
Highways are sort of a middle-place; they can be 2-lane, 4-lane, or sometimes more. But they can still have cross traffic, and tend to follow the contours of the land. These seldom have a speed limit over 55mph, and for good reason. For example, Route 66 was(is) a highway.

The Interstate is a cleared, flattened passage designed for speed. When you get outside city limits, most parts of the US allow at least a 65mph speed limit. This is the closest thing to what tourists think of as the Autobahn.

With Germany, the Autobahn has 2 parts: that part of the network near cities where the speed limit is set, and that part which is somewhat more rural, where there is no limit.
It's not just a straight stretch; it resembles the American Interstate Highway system in most respects, except the surface of the road is significantly better from the start, and is generally maintained to a higher standard to support the high speed, and is more closely monitored for trouble so accidents/disabled cars can be removed before "really bad" becomes "virtual train wreck".

Also, driving slowly in a left lane is almost a birthright to some in the US.
In Germany, it isn't just illegal; it's a good way to die from Porscheinbackofme.

What's with these Democrats and fingering?

The last one did it with an intern, this one's doing it with a console.

Technological progress I guess....still, can't these guys just leave well enough alone?

It's nice to see the broader technical community getting recognition from Google as.... ...bringin' the HEET

How about the lesson, "Never save data that can only serve to get you sued out of existance if something bad happens".

Until there's tort reform in the USA to bring us in line with countries like Germany, this data will never be captured or saved.

I don't recognize your late-generation stuff. Original, yo.

Now get off my lawn.

Autobots can't transform into flying things. Only Decepticons do.

This can't be allowed. We can't let the US Military get infiltrated by Decepticons!

Only if America was populated by one race, the way most States are.

Here's a bit of knowledge the world's forgotten:
State = a soverign government over a specific area
Nation = a race which generally has/seeks its own government

Virtually every European nation is, by definition, a racist entity because it is a Nation State.

The United States of America is a collection of States which contain many Nations.

Therefore, AT+T did not perform a racist action; their equipment was used in a racially neutral way.
Nokia, however, is a chief contributor to the repression of the Persian race.

Sounds like an open and shut case for the International Criminal Court.
Thank you for highlighting it.

Unauthorized user? By whose definition?

You're assuming it's your definition.

Judging by Steve Job's previous actions, an unauthorized user could be:

-Anyone who installs an application Apple has not formally approved of (Apple store)
-Anyone who uses unauthorized hardware in conjunction with the device (proprietary monitor connections)
-Anyone who does an unauthorized review of an upcoming product (AppleSecrets, iPhone 4 vs. Engadget)
-Anyone who touches an Apple product wrong (Antennagate)

The camera simply lets them prove, in court, exactly who did the unauthorized deed just before the phone was bricked. And face recognition software is so normal, now, that even my Nintendo DSi has it....you think they won't know when they get a good face shot on that forward-facing camera?

I didn't realize the train from NY, NY to Binghamton, NY took so long that you'd want to sleep.

No wonder it died.

Do you know where "Pullman" comes from?

It comes from the Pullman Company of Chicago, IL, USA. They invented the idea of a sleeper car, and they were very popular in the US.

Back when we had passenger trains.

Then people gave up passenger trains for flying, and all the railroad companies that depended on passenger traffic either went full-freight, or went out of business.

The Pullman company made some cars for Amtrack in 1982, sold all of its intellectual property to Bombardier in 1987. Now it's gone.

You see, we tried cross-country passenger trains in the US.
They failed.

The problem is that the people here aren't old enough to remember it.

The study:
1. was done by professors at UC:Berkeley, an institution known for promoting left-wing points of view and squelching others.

2. was performed by a married couple; therefore it is unlikely that a serious evaluation of study shortcomings would have been performed by those guiding the study.

3. used 100 toddlers in the San Francisco Bay area. This is an incredibly small and narrow sample to draw such broad conclusions.

4. relies on the evaluations of a school teacher as to the state of mind and social attitude of a 3-year-old; no psychological professional ever did an actual review.

5. relies on 3-year-olds being in school (day care), as public school does not exist for 3-year-olds. This will taint the randomness of the sample with social and economic influences.

If you start arming monkeys, you end up with a banana republic.

The RIAA took on Russia to get allofmp3.com closed, which was an online bulk-purchase site for music files - in mp3, ogg, wav and others. You were charged for the size of the file, but you could have it any way you wanted it, and in near real-time.

It was so superior to iTunes that it had to be stopped, and so they used the US government as proxy, by buying the right congresscritters to "convince" Russia that it was in their economic interest to shut the site down, which was done.

The operators of allofmp3.com were subsequently found by Russian courts to have been operating fully legally under Russian law.

Do you really think the oligarchs will do differently with this, with a media-friendly Democrat majority running the show?

Seems like we only hear about election fraud when the Democrat National Committee gets a result they don't like.

But in this current political climate, what's so hard to believe about an unknown outsider at the top of the ballot winning?

The only ones who can't believe it are the ones heavily invested in forcing the outcome to what we're led to believe is the "predictable" outcome.