>"But Honda is working on a way to use smartphones to protect pedestrians from bad drivers"

Bad *drivers*???

Um, no. How about idiot pedestrians who walk into the road without looking because they are too busy with their damn phones.

Surprised Mageia is so low on the poll, especially considering it has been consistently near the top on distrowatch for years.

Well, whatever. I use several distros (work workstation, servers, embedded, laptop, tablet, home server, home workstation, etc), but the one on my main home workstation machine is Mageia, and I think I like it the best. Seems like the best compromise between power, stability, completeness, ease of use, and support.

It is nice having choices.

It is called a "DVR"

http://www.tivo.com/

The sad part is that "Under the Dome" really does SUCK. I am hooked and want to know what is happening, but the whole "drama" part is so horrible, I am fast forwarding through at least half of each show now.

And no, I don't pirate the video, it is on Cox.

And yet no-name 50GB bluray writable discs still cost $4 EACH! And it wasn't long ago that it was many times that, and remained that for years. THAT is why it had no future as a general file storage medium. Not enough bang for the buck.

Meanwhile, blank NAME BRAND 4.7GB DVD's are $0.22 Even per GB, that is still half the cost. New formats need to be at least as cheap on a per GB, if not significant less expensive. Plus they need to be much faster and at least as reliable.

I suspect if Sony is involved in this new "next gen" crap, it will contain tons of artificial DRM licensing crap (even if not used for plain data storage) and industry price-fixing to keep the price up and it will fail, again.

>"Apparantly the orange industry isn't on speaking terms with the banana industry."

LOL!!

OK, that isn't quite what I meant, but very funny

>"Florida orange crop is threatened by an incurable disease"

And perhaps that is because they plant millions of the same species/strain with no natural variation? Haven't we learned yet how bad that is?

I agree with you. I would never say anything if I thought the person in question were a non-native English speaker. But the TYPE of mistake made in this case seems more like a classic "ignorant American" mistake than a generic one. And it was certainly not a typo.

>"The Ph.D took longer than expected, so before finishing *me* and three others were able to code an entirely new editor"

A Ph.D that makes a mistake that glaring is a sad thing.... we are talking very basic English.

This is sad in so many ways. Primarily that there has to be such lock-in with public funds and on such an overpriced device. No need to go into ALL the details, it has already been hashed out on Slashdot before regarding price, toyness, theft, maintenance, battery wear, lack of E-Ink, lockdown, spyware, compatibility, damage, serviceability, insurance, attention span reduction, etc, etc.

Love technology, but sometimes it seems like it is not moving things forward, just sideways.... especially when it gets political.

Oh, and 30 million dollars for 31,000 tablets comes to $968 each. And that is supposed to be some special deal discount??? Meanwhile, the smaller, lighter, faster, higher res, second iteration of the Nexus 7 releases for $229 WITHOUT discount.

>"US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden""

I can't believe how sad it is that such a letter would ever be necessary coming from the USA. I am so ashamed to be an American since 9/11. A land where everyone is treated as a potential terrorist and the government has destroyed the Constitution the country was built on.

>You open it, take your parcel, and lock the key inside. Awesome.

Yeah, but what is even more awesome is that at my house, the carriers drop the package at my door. No walking blocks. No messing with keys, no hauling something back home.

I would rather have less deliveries per week than dealing with a cluster F***... I mean cluster box, or even street/curb box.

Mine has over 12 million times the 4K of my first computer. Surprised they stopped at only 1 million in the choices.

>"Few special features" --- really stretching there to come up with criticisms. Worried?"

Worried??? Of course not. Want more examples?

GS4 has temp and humidity sensors.
Evo 3D has 3D display and cameras.
Evo LTE has a kickstand and camera button.
One has ultrapixels for better night vision.
GS4 has "hover".
Evo 3D & LTE and GS3 & 4 all have SD slots.
Evo LTE, One, and One X all have HD voice.

None of those are just software gimmicks, there is hardware behind it. I am sure there are many more, just picking some I can think of off the top of my head.