Ahead of where it is now, of course, if it has chosen to pursue Android instead of Windows.

How much further ahead would Nokia be if the 1020 had been an Android phone?

It seems like since he couldn't have known, it didn't affect the situation at hand

While Zimmerman wouldn't have know about it, it can inform our calculus of who started the fight. Martin was a drug-abusing hothead in a downward spiral with a penchant for starting fights. The courts have rules about evidence like this as being 'prejudicial', but I disagree with them. The jury never heard exactly what kind of person Martin was to help them assess what happened.

What I'm wondering is why that law didn't give Martin the right to stand his ground when Zimmerman pursued him?

Stand Your Ground applies after some attacks you. All the evidence indicates that Martin started the fight by sucker-punching Zimmerman in the nose. (Martin had no injuries other than to his fist and the gunshot wound.) Thus, Martin wouldn't have the benefit of Stand Your Ground; Zimmerman would. However, the defence never asserted it.

Where have I heard that? "The earth isn't warming" to "Ok it's warming but that's a good thing"

The equivalent claim here would be that earthquakes don't happen. Are you asserting this?

If OS support is important to you, then go with Google's Nexus Android devices. They always get quick updates.

... for the buggywhip makers.

When do we get to start rating individual taxi drivers? There are a few of them I'd like to never be matched with again!

Why would Intel want to go back into ARM fabrication when they are trying to beat ARM chips with Atom?

The same reason they gave up Itanium for the AMD64 architecture?

just shooting off his mouth.

Not only that, but it's very clearly a joke. This guy needs to be compensated $1M by the state for malicious prosecution.

Let's see. With Apple, you can target 100% of 17% = 17% of phone buyers, whereas with Android you can target 75% of 75% = 56% of phone buyers.

A robot or computer does not feel anything unless you've programmed him to simulate such a thing.

And what exactly do you think a human being is? It's a robot with a computer brain that has been programmed to simulate 'feeling' things.

I read the headline as "Threaten [to cause] Academic Freedom".

ESRI would have gotten away with it if they had just taken the Microsoft path of stuffing the committees with Yes-men. I'm sure the OGC procedures would have been completely defenseless against this and the OGC management would have been overjoyed to collect $10k per temporary yes-man.

FACTS: Worldwide 15% of CO2 emissions are from personal vehicles

FACT: 97% of CO2 emissions are natural. Therefore, 15% cannot be coming from cars; it's 15% of 3% or 0.45%. You might want to be more careful about your phrasing.

um if you can't afford a lawyer then you can't afford to retain one.

And yet you have enough money to pay off the ridiculous extortion demand?