Yeah, that Amazon app store is under real threat....

And your point is.... CM doesn't come with google apps. Nor do Amazon devices. Nor does anything running MIUI If you want the app store, you play by google's rules. You want to go your own way, feel free. There are other Android app stores that Acer could ship with.

Well, the brits do all sorts of weird things. They measure weight in stone, talk about distance in miles, but they talk about height in meters.

To quote Mr. Indiana Jones:

Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.

No. Apple claims that the Galaxy Nexus violated the patent on Unified Search. They don't claim any design patent infringement by Samsung with the Gnex.

Alternative theories is fine. Creationism is not a valid scientific theory. You cannot use the scientific method to disprove creationism. If you want to teach a theory that can be disproved by the scientific method, go ahead and teach it. But it needs to be a proper theory as well, as-in the scientific community takes it as a theory. Not some "idea" that a couple of guys have as a "theory". There is a big difference between a "theory" and a theory

I've been using tons of micro-usb connections for years. I've been plugging and unplugging every day, multiple times, across multiple devices. I'd wager I have something on the order of 10000 unplug/plugs across my devices. I have never broken or bent a single micro-usb connector. I know my anecdote is not very good, but if there really was an "annoying tendency to break", I'm sure I would've had it happen and/or heard about it previously. Besides, the inside piece is metal....not plastic as i'm looking at my devices.

Airplanes dont' burn much fuel....at cruise. Take-off is a completely different matter. That's where the most fuel burn occurs.

Not necessarily. It entirely depends on what parts samsung was supplying. If it's memory chips and flash, they would have no idea that a large touchscreen would be in use. It's quite likely that the stuff samsung supplied were COTS components and Apple signed a contract for X thousand pieces at a cost of Y.

I wouldn't say so. Samsung presented evidence of phones that were in development before the iphone was announced that looked very similar to the iphone. They came out afterwards, but were in development beforehand.

Also, from an icons standpoint, they said Meizu didn't infringe, but Samsung did. The meizu calendar icon looks WAY more like the iphone icon than the samsung one that Apple highlighted.

Vizio just came out with one. Looks pretty nice too

True

Not true. Though a guns main purpose is for killing something, many people own guns for a different purpose. Many people buy cars but don't drive them. Though the car is designed to be driven, many are garage queens that are looked at as works of art. Similarly, guns can be used for other purposes like target shooting, or just plain collecting.

Not really. I can build a CNC machine for about $600 in parts. I can build a 3d printer for about the same.

Umm...it's already been removed from the Verizon version. That was one of the first ones to get the update in fact. It may not have yet rolled out, but its coming soon. http://www.droid-life.com/2012/07/20/verizon-galaxy-s3-receiving-update-to-vrlg1-includes-new-kernel-and-dumbed-down-search/

Galaxy Nexus outputs HD video over the USB connector using MHL. Either get a dongle that converts MHL to HDMI or use a receiving device that has MHL built in. There you go.