Nobody is forcing anyone to use Google's services.
Just like a merchant can require someone to wear a shirt and shoes in their store, Google can set their own requirements. If you don't like it, go somewhere else.

If they get rid of all the child porn, there will be no more supply to meet demand.
Thus, people will make new child porn.

People still pay for cable TV?

You actually can have an android phone on prepaid. You only need a data plan to activate the phone. Just pop in a friend's SIM card (which has a data plan) activate the phone, then pop your prepaid SIM in and your good to go. Get your data via wifi.
If you really neeed it, t-mobile's prepaid plans allow you to pay $1.50 for 24 hours of data via the cell network.

Easy, get a job at a convenience store.

That depends on the goals of the mission. Why not study the effects of the environment on the elderly? And who's to say the man is in poor health just because he's old?

Because it's poorly implementing DirectInput.

By definition; Nothing.

Agreed. This a silly stereotyping and nothing more. This is no different then making jokes about blacks eating chicken, whites sucking at basketball, jews being tight with money, etc, etc. It doesn't mean it's true. It's just a stereotype. Chill out and laugh a little.

You guys fail to realize that xbox live is a matchmaking service. The games are not hosted on MS's servers. Your xbox is connected to someone elses xbox. Just like a PC is connected to another PC. Live simply points the xboxes at each other. Your lag is a direct result of the connection between you and the xbox which is hosting.

I 2nd this. Been using Comfort Keyboard for nearly ten years and would never go back. I don't the elevated swivel things but the keys themselves are designed to give good feedback yet little to no impact on your joints. Very customizable and they have a variety of options.

http://comfortkeyboard.com/keyboards_ergoflex.html

It's called, "ColorNote Notepad Notes"... I guess they were trying to fit in a bunch of keyboards or something with that name heh. It is a great app though.

Oh, there's also a wonderful Android app that lets you put postits on your home screens. They're great for todo/shopping lists and things of that sort.

I do pretty much the exact same thing. Google/Android Calendar keeps my upcoming appointments/events in order.
If I'm out and want to do something when I get home, I put a postit in my pocket. When I get home I remove and handle any notes in there.
Sometimes I'll e-mail myself if it's something I don't need to do asap once I'm home.

I'm also a fan of whiteboards. I have one at home and one at the office.

As far as hard drives go. I'm oldschool and have categorized partitions/directories as I'm sure many of us here do.

That's like predicting that people will stop painting because we have applications like Painter.