I get out of work at 6 AM, you insensitive clod!

But they're not tested much before they're given a license and allowed to drive.

And I honestly don't think I've been tested 'tens of thousands of times' by pedestrian traffic. I've had someone step out in front of me three or four times, maybe? Perhaps a hundred or so walk behind me while I'm backing up in parking lots?

You go through fifteen NEW, PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN traffic lights every day?

I call bullshit. I don't think most city DOTs could manage to hang fifteen traffic lights a day.

That's what we're talking about here. NEW lights. Not existing, mapped lights. Those aren't a problem.

You can use a bootable DOS disk/USB stick to update the firmware.

The 'performance restoration' part just rewrites all the data on the disk. You can get the same effect by backing up the disk, formatting, and copying all the data back.

(Brief summary: The problem makes data slower to read as it sits there. The firmware fix prevents that from recurring, rewriting the data fixes it on already-existing data. There's no data loss associated with this, just speed.)

I have an Epson WF-7510 and the drivers for OSX, Windows, and Android seem solid. There's a lot of stupid optional cruft, but there's a just-the-driver option.

That really depends on what fills it up and how. I've had my torrent client glitch out and completely fill my drive a couple times, to the point where the UI was too slow to even move a window.

Fortunately I was able to ssh in and kill the program and delete the offending temp files, but the first warning I had was 'oh hey, trying to type locks the system.'

(And the other pain in the butt is that completely filling an OSX volume will tend to horridly fragment things, and defragging it isn't free.)

What DRM?

iTunes music has no DRM. Hasn't for years and years and years.

You can't get a DRM'd music file from Apple even if you beg them for one.

There are plenty of legit reasons to bitch about iTunes and the iTMS, but DRM isn't one of them.

Serious question: How? Whenever I try to access it through Chrome, the only option I get is 'Join Google+!'

If you need to support old scanners, try VueScan.

On the other hand, with the price of scanners these days, it may be cheaper to buy a new scanner.

If you had the original version, your login still works.

And I think you get a free month for returning. That promo might be over.

If so, it wouldn't cost anything to check it out.

It's been included as an 'exhibition sport' at the Olympics, though - in 2000 at least, and I think earlier.

That usually means 'This isn't really in the Olympics, but we're strongly considering it.'

Not unless the show is set in the past. He stopped sending those out quite a while ago.

The last Shield had Play, and also has its own curated app showplace - that just links to the Play Store to actually buy the games.

Wait, what marking on the Q10 isn't implemented in software? All the printing on all the keys on mine are for things it actually does. I don't have any mechanical problems with mine, though I do have an issue with the battery compartment. (It's slightly too big. Drop the phone just so, and it reboots. They'd fix it, but I just stuck a paper shim in there. It's not worth the hassle of sending it in.)

The thing that gets me, is that in most Android apps on it, you can't press the Sym key and then touch the screen for a symbol - you have to press the physical key that maps to it. Which is okay once you figure that out, but rather frustrating until you do, especially for little-used symbols.

I read an article a while back about 'why no keyboard phones' and the writer interviewed a high-up at Sprint, who basically said it's because no one comparison shops phones any more. They used to walk in and go 'I want an iPhone', so we sold them that, or 'I want an Android' and they would look at all the phones we had. Now it's 'I want an iPhone' or 'I want a Samsung Galaxy' or other halo phone. They buy the heavily-advertised models, and don't actually check features.

People who need to land tons of rescue supplies into a flood zone or other disaster area where there are no runways, or the runways have been destroyed.

I can also see a market for these in areas with lots of small-to-medium inhabited islands, that don't have an airstrip big enough for conventional cargo planes, for the occasional high-bulk, time-sensitive cargo. (Medical equipment, for instance. Replacement engines for a ship.)