This. MyFordTouch 2012 (Powered by MS) car owner here in full agreement. I get angry every time I see an ad touting this hellish "feature". Other brand's seem comparably nearly as bad.

Wow, did a quick Google and learned a lot about this infamous sound-check. Reagan... really seems like a fool. Was just a little tyke at the time but the more I hear the less I like the man.

Oh I think value will be lost. We're already seeing it in the disintegration of the Xbox brand globally. Now kindly fuck off troll. Cheers!

I bought a Nook HD+ (9in) 2 weeks ago and it is a great value. For a consumption device it is a hacker's dream at that price. Custom ROMs really make it a great device. But it is not a desktop or notebook PC. And only a fool or a media consumption only user would feel they are equivalent.

Good! I've never been against porting to any platform that gives a dev more potential customers; Until the X1. Fuck those assholes for what they tried(and nearly succeeded) to do. We won't forget and my 360 is the last Xbox I will ever buy.

To be fair Apple took the same stance pre-Appstore, and they managed to build a healthy ecosystem.

I'm not a tinfoil hat type who won't touch GMO because of any silly number of silly new age concerns or paranoid fantasies. But, that doesn't mean people don't have aright to know what they eat. Sure labeling won't solve problems like in TFA, but anything additional that informs consumers is a good thing. And knowing the potential pitfalls of different food choices should be a right. The current inability of shoppers in the US to know what foods are GMO means consumers have no choice. It also leads to suspicion and support to the luddite part of the anti-GMO crowd.

Labeling is the first step to educating the public on GMOs and what they provides as well as potential impacts worldwide from GMO such as increased yield (with less chemicals) on one hand, and things like genetic diversity concerns and the role of seed/pesticide suppliers and patents on the other. The reason labeling here is so opposed by the industry isn't because of some conspiracy or concern that customers will decide to stop eating their product, or radically change their diet. Americans have known what we eat and its volume are deadly and McDonalds hasn't been shut down.

Instead the reason behind non-labeling is to keep the status quo, labels on food mean questions, questions lead to competing information and the rise of the conspiracy theorist. Not having to label is just the path of least resistance. But keeping a few loud mouth idiots quiet isn't a good reason to not engage honestly with the public about a very profound change in the way we produce food, and quality to support a growing population.

To be fair, I don't believe there is a jailbreak for iOS6 or any of the new iDevices. So I imagine that number must have gone down. Of course the general gist of what you say is accurate. If WP8 gains any relevance at all I expect them to be in the same boat Apple and Google are in.

I really hope Nokia realized that when they sold their soul to MS they don't get to say what they want anymore. They are tied to a much stronger company, who literally controls their only chance at having any relevance in smartphones. When they had options, and in-house OS production they might have been able to say what they wanted, and risk souring one of many relationships. Now it's all the eggs in one place, with a company not known for treating even perfect partners with an ounce of respect.

I believe the setting you are referring to was only in the pre 6.0 betas. I can't remember what it was called. I assume it was removed because of issues like this. But perhaps only the toggle was removed?

Very true about GMaps being awkward vs native app. But did you ever use the older YouTube app? It was fucking horrible, featureless, HD-challanged, slow as all hell. The new Google provided one is so much better, and even the web interface was miles ahead for literally years. The other benefit for iOS users is one less uninstallable app. But Apple should have let people do that from the start.

I seriously almost fucking died from choking on my lunch reading this. Cheers!

Perhaps it's limited to phones at the moment? Surprised to see the Android version beat iOS considering MS has supported iOS much more in the past.

Oh come on Alien Being, quit being so politically correct and tell us how you really feel!

Wow, despite the stereotype you peddle to the angry at the world basement dweller *portion* of Slashdot, these same social scientists you mock include most of the founders of any significant human civilization and the documentors/philosophers of high level thinking; which I'm told is something required even to do even "real" science. Heck many of them were "real" scientists as well and not just wimpy philosophy space wasters. Back when people were only considered wise if they valued both understanding the physical and the metaphysical. These beta test scientists understood silly things like maintaining analyzing history, being able to speak/write coherently, and many other social innovations were key to a society where ""real" science could be performed. These proto-social scientists found patterns and themes in history, created structured language, documented things, and otherwise enabled the wide spread acceptance and clear reasoning for the social contract distinguishing humans from other animals through mutual generational information transfer. This is what makes us able to understand the value of interaction over pure instinct and creates an environment where experiments and science can exist. Humans didn't do much of anything to progress up until this point. Before all this a lab would have been pointless and useless, specimens/materials from far away lands would be impossible to acquire or identify, the concept of the academic collaboration/review model would seem pointless. Heck good luck building anything even resembling a piece of modern scientific equipment over the course of a lifetime. Even if you did you would be all alone in figure out how to use it. Though none of that would interest you because you likely would be too focused on survival, unfamiliar with anything you hadn't personally experienced, and without any way to compile, compute, or transfer knowledge to future generations. So science, "real" or "social" would seem like a total waste, and in the just another thing distracting you from the next meal. Luckily some early humans understood what you do not. Thank them everytime you do anything that you wouldn't see your dog do.