The real question here is not if Android is open, but rather is the Asus Transformer open source. The answer to that is no. Android itself is open source, including allowing other manufacturers to do with it what they will.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE! In no scientific definition of the word can they be termed people. They do not think for them selves, they do act with volition. People within them do. The taxes paid by companies are a tribute to the government for allowing them to operate in the US, as well as giving them the protections against unlawful acts(such as destruction of property) to protect the taxpayer whom owns the business.

Yes, businesses are intended to be a second class, to provide service to the populace. The governments job is to protect the rights of EVERY individual in the country. By treating a business as if it were person, you give that business the authority of a person, the autonomy of a person, and the rights of a person. There then comes no real reason for a business not to run for office.

THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED!

Humans must represent themselves. If businesses want representation, they can create there own government, something that regulates them, and then deal with the government on an equal footing. This way, we are more justified for wiping all businesses off the planet.

Warning: if this post seems to represent reality to yo...ackkk.

This clip was in no way owned by UMG. Megaupload solicited and paid the artist for the comercial, has releases from the artist to prove it. Megaupload holds the copyright to the video. UMG filed the takedown notice on the clip without holding the copyright, which was the story covered by TNT. TNT showed a video of the clip, without audio, and spoke over the clip. At the end, to show how bad the song was, they played less than 3 seconds of the end of the clip. UMG is being taken to court by Megaupload over the takedown notice for the original video. I was the original broadcast of TNT. UMG is censoring the news, and acting anti-competitively.

Please stop being a shill and think. Spread FUD elsewhere.

Amazon can and does set prices for the Apps on its app store. It is in their agreement.

100 million cavemen can't be wrong!

One problem is that GPS bleeds into the spectrum that LightSqured is supposed to use, due to poor design decisions. The GPS satellites would need to be fixed to prevent usage outside of the range they were supposed to operate in. LightSqured's solution to this is to use half of the bandwidth they were allotted, in order to not interfere with the GPS satellites. They even offered to pay to fix the satellites themselves, in order to solve the problem.

Using Lyx as your text editor, you can export directly to Html. The html that it exports can be used by Calibre to make a ePub. Also, Lyx will output well formated pdfs, and can handle very advanced math formulas, as it is based on LaTeX. It is a graphical version, a WYGIWYM (What You Get Is What You Mean) Editor, allowing you to format the book with presets geared to different formats such as technical documents, non-fiction, or fiction. You tell Lyx what a line is, such as the Author's name, Title, Section, or a Subsection, and it handles the formatting and transcription. You should have very little need to change the html, and Lyx works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

The simple answer to this is, surprisingly simple. When iPad was the only tablet on the market, they were the only ones that that counted. Simply by selling the Android Tablets, they had to lose market share.

Call me when they have numbers again next year.

Or live in a house that contains college students taking online classes, high school students using Pandora, iTunes, and Facebook, or a house with 10 people in it. This is my current situation, and looking at my router statistics, May 2011 (Incoming: 586440 MB / Outgoing: 48713 MB), convinces me that it is unrealistic to assume anything about a particular household or usage pattern. It might possibly be fair to charge based on the number of people living in a household, but I don't like that idea either, to many people would simply claim that only one person lived in a ten person house. P.S. the highest days' usage last month? 50GB down on the 25th.

Somewhere, there's an iron in that post....

Slavery is not limited to the US, it has existed in ALL cultures and countries. It also still exists in many countries today.

You assume that every valuable project will be invested in, which is not strictly true. Many ideas are passed over not because the idea is worthless, but because the large company cannot make a large enough percentage from the investment. Many scripts are passed over thanks to this, yet the script may win many rewards at Sundance Festivals; big investors think in terms of quick recoup on investment, and not everything qualifies.

The publishing industry abounds with tales of authors submitting their book to twenty publishing houses, and then the twenty first picks it up and it sells 600,000 copies. Tyler Perry started out on the streets before he was able to do his first play, yet those Matilda plays have made his career.

It is easy to dismiss things because it must not be good if our corporate overlords don't buy them; the harder path is to think for ourselves.

Diaspora is a DISTRIBUTED social network. The project sets up micro Facebook sites and federates with other Diaspora sites. So in theory, You have a Diaspora server, and your friend has one as well. Yours will connect ot his, and his to yours, only giving out the info each of you set up. You can have it set up to get all your post from Facebook and whatever.

The source code and install instructions are on the Diaspora site, and gitHub for you to use. However, it is no trivial to install. I have not been able to get it ot work in the virtual machines I have created for that purpose. So in reality, what you will end up with may be small sites that focus on a small number of people, then federate to other Diaspora sites, versus everyone and their mother having their own.

Still, it is available, and has been available to those that donated since the summer, as the Diaspora team is using them as guinna pigs.

How about really rethinking the default UI. I currently have my start menu on the right, and the tabs of my browser on the left, because that is where I have more space thanks to the new 16:9 screen ratios that the industry has standardized on. Why not have the Title bar on the left or right, or at least customizable to be. They finally have Windows Update usable, after 15years of working with it, so why not let other companies, such as Adobe, use that technology for their updates, for a price, of course. Why not have a screen when you first start the computer that will walk you through choices of antivirus, and anti-malware. Oh yeah, when are we going to get a Mac OS like, as in the functionality, quick bar, with out having to rely on these things that can't work with windows explorer.

Technically Windows 2000 and Windows ME happened at basically the same time. And Windows 98 was much less buggy than 95, its just more people were using 98, so we received more complaints. They were over the same issues again and again.