Because it, well, works. The older tech worked poorly when it worked at all and suffered a much higher rate of failure.

Crap resistive touchscreens were crap because they were crap. Good resistive touchscreens were good because they were good, not crap.

See up-thread for comments about the Psion 5 family. I forget who made the touchscreen - I know that the display was a Hitachi part, but I can't remember if you could get the touchscreen separately. That was a good part - and probably one of the highest cost items on the BoM to build the device. But it was also one of the major features of the device, and essential to it's success.

Capacitive touchscreens are more accurate to use with a bare finger than resistive ones, which call for a stylus

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When you want accuracy from fingertips, you use an implement. Be that a dissecting needle and forceps (I spend several hours each working day at the microscope - it shows), or a stylus, or a keyboard. Fingertips weren't designed for precision work. They evolved to their current form while we were still making tools by banging rocks together. By the time we started to make needles and fabrics, our ancestors were already "anatomically modern humans".

I used Psion 5s and 5mxs for about 10 years until supplies dried up - during the period that this device was designed. Applications and an excellent (for a pocket device) keyboard made the Psion ; the stylus wasn't a problem.

The US president is a Spokesmodel.

The last vestiges of Presidential authority as actual executive were blown out of JFK's skull, 50 years ago. The real rulers have allowed the cosmetic changes of politics, without substantial challenge to policy or imperative.

That's why you can argue successfully to let fags into the imperial legions, but not if such legions should be withdrawn from the globe and disbanded.

False conservatism, false progressive/liberalism. Everybody in the US takes a hot shower and drives to the mall, on the burnt bodies and broken future of a million dead babies - hidden in Congo and Yemen and Indonesia and...

13 years ago I was using a Psion 5 pocket computer (running EPOC, later renamed Symbian). Terrible feature set - you could drop in as large a CF card as you could afford. Connectivity was by serial cable (I moved data on and off via the CF card, so didn't bother much with the cable, and often forgot to pack it.) A half-VGA 4-grey screen (internally EPOC could handle 16 colours, but the colour screens destroyed the battery life and wrecked the price point). A keyboard with good responsiveness and which you could type on for hours (I did all the time). A touch screen that worked. A suite of office applications which met my needs. And most important of all - it would run for a month on a pair of AA cells.

13 years later, the tablet market is bringing out some devices that are comparable with the Psion 5, but are all severely crippled by being hooked to an app purchase "store", instead of providing adequate functionality out of the box. I spent about 5 years after Psion stopped producing the 5s using ebaY to get spares to repair mine (the screens were not robust!) before reluctantly giving up on them. But that month of battery life ... irreplaceable.

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/14/04/16/0221210/study-finds-us-is-an-oligarchy-not-a-democracy

Your brain washing has been complete. You are now free to follow orders, citizen.

You have the same government that you started this century with.

They just changed spokesmodels - while you felt like you had a say in the matter... Your coup happened in many stages, over many decades - but defining moments happened with the Truman/Eisenhower/Kennedy years - with a decisive event in Nov 1963...

Call us back, after you acquire a few more orbits on this rock... ;-)

The "people" who own Obama, own the media.

Obama is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.

Hillary is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect she would.

Kerry is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.

The wording is pretty clear. Back then they were starting to get some 'machine guns' and they've had cannons and explosives for a while, any futurist was talking about such weaponry and machines that fought wars. They knew governments and other rich entities were going to have the first and most access to new weaponry and were going to use it to suppress any uprisings. They also knew any government, even their own, was going to become corrupt and heavy handed and eventually degrade into something akin to their monarchy with heavy taxation without representation (it only took 200 years for their own government to do that).

The right for the people to have a "well regulated militia" is pretty clear to me, it's a militia (which doesn't have to be controlled by any particular government) that is well-regulated (they have a purpose to exist and are under a command) shall not be infringed upon.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed either. There is no statement there that clarifies what type of weaponry or when someone can bear arms because then an oppressive government could rule out eg. all automatic weapons or anyone who's not a leftie.

And does that mean that anyone can have a shotgun: yes, an ak-47: yes, an atomic or biological weapon: yes. The old government has it, why wouldn't a new government need it? And if an individual becomes a problem, the 'well regulated militia' can take care of it. If a group of individuals becomes a problem, we're talking about throwing over the old government, that was it's intended purpose.

Easily the nicest thing I could say about him.

Closed source is not inherently safer. Raymond's proposition is theoretically sound, however in actual practice, the NSA has "many eyes"...

Extrapolation and assumption are not the same thing.

Turn on your Heartbleed,
Let it shine, wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For the NSA to see...