Well, I sure missed *that* call.

If you're referring to the MOTOPHONE F3, that's not what you want. I have one & everything is fine untill you actually start talking on it, then the battery drops very quickly. It's a mystery to me how such a simple phone can have such lousy talk time.

I remember when SuSE was one of the only distros, perhaps the only one, which used reiserfs as the default filesystem. No, there's no punchline. This was when you could buy it in a box (including the little chamelon pin) off the shelf at CompUSA. SuSE has always had a fascination with new filesystems.

I have 3 USR Sportsters, 2 USR Couriers, and a Multitech Multimodem (the one with the LCD status display). What I don't have is a live phone line to connect them to.

Last month if someone said they had an iPhone you knew what they were talking about. Different generations, sure, but you knew it was arguably the finest device Apple had ever made, within each generation.

Next month when someone says they have an iPhone the first question will be, "Do you have the cheap one, or the good one?"

Well, yes & no. Sometimes the equipment is used/returned/refurbed, sometimes not. When Apple puts a new model in the stores, it is introduced in every Apple store on the planet the same day. What happened to the "old" model which was here yesterday? They were all shipped back to Apple, where they were reboxed in plain white boxes & will be sold as "refurbs". So, at the Apple store, "refurbished" does not necessarily mean "used".

Point taken, & I agree. If it was mine, I'd rom it to Cyanogenmod. But my point was that... well I think you know my point. Anyway... good shot!

I can pop the back of a Galaxy S4, slide in a microSD memory card & replace the battery - all without tools. That's why the Samsung phones have become the default geek Android phones (well, that & they are also easily rooted) even more-so than the latest Nexus devices. With the latest quad-core devices having enough power to run Touch-Wiz seamlessly (from what I've seen in-store, anyway) they are very nice out-of-box, even without root.

That's interesting. I have an old Nexus S running CM10 which I plug into an Apple charging cube & I've never seen that. The Apple charger is ~2 years old, I wonder if they've changed something.

...I made a chair for my mother-in-law once. .. My wife wouldn't let me plug it in.

Yet another Linux distro.

If I really need my pistol to function, and I have blood on my hands, I don't think I'd trust one of these.

Isaac Asimov wrote an essay about this, "The Left-Handed Universe". The book, of the same title, in which it was published is a collection of non-fiction science essays; "Why does ice float?", "Why is the night sky black?", etc.. I don't know if Asimov's ideas in "The Left-Handed Universe" are correct, but Asimov is always fun to read anyway.

WTF does public domain have to do with the GPL?