As good as Apple was, it still had its share of Fart apps in the app store. It was kind of a running gag early on. It wasn't just Android that suffered from this.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that they could build NFC right into the packaging itself. Yes, it might make the pods a bit more expensive, but I could see where maybe Keurig could have cut a pretty good deal with an NFC wholesaler to bring it into play, especially if the cost is offset with some patent sharing. There's more than one way to offset cost.

Great, except for the fact that it is Starbucks coffee, which I find overpriced and unnecessarily bitter.

That does end after a while (the headaches, typical withdrawal symptoms). Maybe it's the age, but I found that my caffeine tolerance went down considerably after age 40. I found that it would keep me up at night and actually started having some anxiety issues as well - namely unexplained heart palpitations, shortness of breath. Cutting caffeine down by drinking only decaf coffee or herbal teas helped dramatically. Yes, I had some headaches as I started down the decaf path, but after a few weeks, those subsided. Yes, I know that decaf isn't necessarily good for me either, but I still love the taste of coffee and my brain still believes that it is waking up from the coffee. Go figure.

Her parents should have simply kept their mouths shut about the settlement entirely. They had one job to do in this settlement. They didn't do it.

Chrome, Notepad++ and Eclipse if I'm doing any development work.

I think what also matters is what stage of life you're at. If you're closer to the end of your career than the beginning, I think it matters alot. At this point, I have one in college, and the second one about to enter college. Our finances are such that neither kid should have to take out a loan to complete 4 years, assuming I work at something that can pull in at least 60% of what I'm making, so I figure that within 3 years, I'm going to downsize my career, start doing something I want to do rather than something I have to do. What's nice is that my company actually encourages bridging out to a new career, offering a kind of part-time work arrangement while you find your niche.

They hired the political hatchetman, Mark Penn, in 2013. So they're spending money on political attack ads when they should be innovating. That has nothing to do with the past. It has much more to do with the laziness that has pervaded Microsoft since Ballmer took over. Maybe they can improve now that he's gone, but they're not likely to win fanboys until that happens.

There's no reason to think the melted core will get that far down, or even burn through the concrete floor, or even leave the reactor vessel in any sort of coherent form. Chernobyl's overheated core just spread through the lower parts of the structure (look for the 'elephant's foot' picture), Three Mile island's core was scraped off the inside of the reactor vessel, having only blued the metal.

'Corium' is basically molten ceramic (The fuel is a uranium-oxide matrix.) It has such poor heat conducting properties that during normal operations, it could be 3000F in the center of a pellet, and 650F on the surface of the cladding- 3/16" away from the center.

The most important reason is that 'corium' isn't actually hot enough to burn through the earth like that, nor does it conduct heat all that well, even if any part of it became hot enough.

The integrity of the fuel rods is challenged at 2200F (zircaloy-water reaction, which released the hydrogen that caused the reactor building roofs to blow off on three of the Daichi units.)

Steel melts at about 2600F. Concrete breaks down at about 1800F.

In addition, the fuel is a uranium-oxide mix, a sort of ceramic. This class of material is generally known for poor thermal conductivity. That's why the pellets are the size of a pencil eraser, they need to be small and have a high surface area in order to conduct heat from the center of the pellet- which might be at 3000F in normal operations- to the fuel cladding and into the reactor coolant, which might be around 600F.

Anyway, from what I know about western reactors (it's my line of work, but i'm not a reactor engineer per se), I seriously doubt the fuel would 'burn' through steel or concrete. The fission products escape because of physical destruction to the facility caused by the Tsunami, or because of relief valves that limit reactor coolant system pressure, or primary containment structure pressure.

Chernobyl's release was due to a massive overpressure event that physically broke the reactor vessel. Nothing ever burned through concrete (check out the photos of the 'elephant's foot')

Three Mile Island's core was found in the bottom of the reactor vessel; a small amount of fission products was released by mis-operation of support systems. The integrity of the reactor vessel was never threatened, though the containment building (much larger than Daichi primary containment structures) withstood several hydrogen burns.

The fire department ruled out everything that makes a Tesla a Tesla,so I propose:

1) cigarette embers on a napkin

2) a bad 12V accessory

Impossible? No. Very difficult to get both people management and engineering skills in the same person? Yup. That's true, but that's why you take care of that person when you find them.

Correction, I should have said that Amazon, et al build ANDROID devices, not AOSP. My bad.

But you don't need to sign this agreement if you don't include Google apps on any of your devices. That's the point. Amazon, Ubuntu, Firefox all build AOSP devices without Google apps. It can be done. Of course, the hard part is making your own services and apps layer on them that makes it something people would want to use.

What Acer violated was the Open Handset Alliance agreement, something different than the agreement discussed here. Again, you don't have to belong to the Open Handset Alliance to fork Android. Acer did, so they got called on violating it. But you do not need to sign onto it to produce Android devices.

No, Google has no problem with anyone forking Android. What they don't want is people taking the Google Play Store, Google apps, but supplanting them with others, like Samsung has done.

Android itself was built to be forked. It literally is a platform to build other platforms.

The Google apps and Play Store are a different thing entirely.