Here in the USA Dental health is looked at as a luxury. Dentists fight like hell to keep costs high and insurance crappy.

It's a crime that most americans have almost no dental care they can afford. Yes most. you have to count the 90% that make less than $65,000 a year.

I just bought the USB-Serial adapter. Native serial ports on laptops are gone and they're not coming back. I know most of those adapters are total crap (so many fail when transferring block data at even just 57600), but chipset manufacturers don't even include serial port lines on the southbridge anymore.

3 ports means I can plug in a Keyboard, Mouse, and have one port for a USB Thumb Drive, Serial Adapter, Ethernet Adapter, DRM Dongle for whatever I'm actually doing with the laptop. If USB keyboards reliably came with USB hubs built in I could reduce that count, but you can never be sure what the site will have when you get there. Most USB keyboards aren't well equipped. In a pinch you can obviously use the keyboard on the laptop itself, but it's not as comfortable and most places have random USB keyboards sitting around.

You mean everything equal if you are white.

Because a lot of us out here still use that port. a LOT of advanced hardware is still RS232.

I just wish that Dell and Lenovo still offered it on their top of the line laptops that us pros use. Yes I will pay an extra $150 for a native rs232 port on my laptop.

Unless you are ok with that app not working at times.

Web based is 105% crap when connectivity is flakey.

If you are making "free" apps, go for it, but if you are charging a customer $29.95 for the app, it had damn well better be a native app that works even with all radios turned off.

And I have a couple of $29.95 apps. Hell I have one for room audio tuning that was $59.95

When is pepsi going to make their cola taste good?

I've always been amused at the depth and quantity of nested DIVs on a Google Play store page. This is something that's going to be loaded on crappy cell phones and the code for the page is just monstrously large.

...from Diet Coke?

I have had 10 Nexus 7's given to me, every one with broken screens.

They needed to stop making the screen with potato chips. They need gorilla glass that is 2X as thick.

It does work just fine, you have to do a full wipe on it. Many users whined and refused to. they suffer bugs.

Wipe it, then go along re installing apps. DO NOT restore it, just let things come back from the holy google cloud.

I love those free coffee breaks that windows give me!

Pandora is paying record labels via ASCAP and BMI that much more. Artists are probably getting less because the record labels and ASCAP/BMI are charging an extra processing fee.

The artists only lose because of the leeches that grab onto them and suck them dry.

EXT4 encryption seems like a pretty good bullet point, especially with the TrueCrypt situation. I hope it's not fatally flawed in some way. Caveat: I have not looked at it yet.

One could argue that the Islamic world went through an reverse of the Enlightenment. An unenlightenment if you will. People like to blame the British for screwing everything up (they certainly did not help), but really they were exploiting the repressive and regressive systems held in place by petty tribalism that long predated their appearance.

This is going to be a continuing problem until they figure out how to get some separation between church and state. This separation will be difficult to achieve so long as assassination of potential political rivals remains commonplace. The christian world had the advantage of making the separation back when a King could be reasonably protected against assassination by simply living in a castle and keeping a close eye on his advisers and family. Today with high power sniper rifles and small but powerful bombs available to any random stranger it is much harder to avoid being assassinated.