Ok so you don't like social apps. Now tell me how you feel about having a market place for apps, a keyboard, the system level text-to-speech interface, google maps, a browser, a print service, an easy to access search function, ... the list of Google apps that are almost necessary to the Android experience goes on yet people keep using the word crapware. I wonder what my computer would be like if I installed an OS which had no browser or ability to print.

You had me until you said Significant amounts of very limited flash memory. Google's complete app package takes up a pittance of the total OS even including those features required on a system level like a text-to-speech engine and a keyboard.

The reason you can't uninstall them is the same reason your laptop which allows you to delete everything will come with a multi-gigabyte large recovery partition hidden from the OS. The default apps are read-only to facilitate a factory reset. Nothing more. Don't like the apps? Hide them. If you seriously have problems with storage space then maybe you should spend more than $50 on your next Android phone, or get one with an SDcard slot.

Erm IE?

Also while we're being pedantic which unrelated app are you using that requires you to hand over Google credentials? Think carefully about what you are doing before you respond considering you can use any Android device without even having a Google account (though installing apps becomes a bit of a pain).

The reason this sounds overbearing is that not all apps are immediately customer visible. Consider looking up the Play Store and search by the vendor Google Inc. and you'll get a lot of things that your phone already has by default without you realising:

Search
Text-To-Speech Engine
Chrome
Youtube
Play
Maps
Drive
Keyboard
Voice Search
Google Now
Google Cloud Print

These apps are already part of nearly every Android install as it is. Some of the rest of the 20 can be due to Google's (IMO silly) decision to split Play store content by type:

Play Newsstand
Play Books
Play Movies
Play Games
Play Music

So what is really left? 4 apps? I probably won't notice or care if 4 additional apps are installed on my phone, especially if it eliminates some of the crapware that already comes with it.

Not all "crapware" is "crapware" when you realise that they are functions of a system that you already use. i.e. do you consider the Windows Print Spooler crapware too? As usual the article is sensationalist and people are freaking out.

The problem with any system is content. You said all Wikis have failed so far, have you figured out why? The answer may not be in the format itself but rather the content it provides. If you can't get the content right, and most importantly relevant, then it doesn't matter what technology you will use.

My suggestion is before you even consider doing this you need buyin from the various departments you support to help create content. If you launch with little you will be irrelevant. If you put it off long enough to fill it and make it useful then you may have a chance of surviving.

"Build it and they will come" does not apply here.

The IoT does not mean your fridge. Every idiot keeps posting about their fridges for some reason when IoT is discussed.

IoT is about having data available at all times. Since you people keep harping on the fridge example let me give you a good example. Is it going to benefit you in your house? No. What about if you owned a large store? Or you are a big company with some 100 fridges throughout the building. Having fridges able to continuously upload diagnostics about power use, time door spent open, and temperature can give you an indication of mechanical failure or tell if you seals are worn. This may save you real money in the form of power bills or savings by not having a service man come out every month.

Of course it never rusts. Rust is the formation of Iron Oxide. That last word is key, "oxide". Quality stainless steel (as with aluminium and titanium) do not rust, but they most definitely do oxidise, they are just more resistant to it than iron.

See the key part of stainless is that the alloys form a protective coating on it which prevents oxidation. When scratched the coating slowly reforms. However there are many cases where this coating can be continuously damaged and oxidation will occur. It doesn't look like "rust" but it definitely is the same mechanism. Tightening stainless on stainless is a classic case which is also why stainless bolts are very sensitive to galling if you don't use a protective grease when you put them together.

There's no such thing as "crap" stainless steel, and expensive does not automatically mean "good" either. Stainless steel comes in many forms and grades which have different purposes and are used for different things. "Austentitic stainless sucks" is 100% false for many applications, but 100% for others. Your pot is likely 304SS, most good pots are. It's far from the most expensive stainless steel but it's great for cooking applications.

Best place I have seen Braille is on the warning outside the door to a squash-court. Ironically it was a legal disclaimer and a note about wearing safety glasses while playing.

I live in Brisbane with several small inhabited Islands off the cost. It costs Australia Post about $200 to do delivery / collection to the island in transit fees for the barge, not to mention that it puts the truck out of order while it sits on the boat.

I can definitely see a business case for this. A simple small letter does not need a truck to come pick it up. Weekly mail deliveries can be done more frequently and the large stuff can be reserved for a truck when need be.

Aside from the technical limitations already mentioned there's a physical limitation too. Go and have a look at the prop span of a helicopter and look at injuries too.

For an autonomous system I like my blades at high speed and low momentum. Having flown my quad into myself it was no fun, but nothing a few bandaids couldn't fix. On the other hand the last injury I heard using a helicopter involved near complete decapitation. It's a whole world more dangerous having a large prop span.

Also there's the number of moving parts issue. A quad has 4 motors. Motors are very reliable with the only thing that can really fail being a set of bearings (which don't involve falling out of the sky) or electronics failure (which is common to both types aircraft). A helicopter on the other hand has swashplates to tilt blades as the rotor spins, and they are not only expensive, but on a small scale not the most reliable from what I can gather. The only person I know with an RC helicopter of any size says he services his every few months, quite a bit more than the never I do to mine (save for checking the various bolts are tight).

It only uses 400MB of RAM. I think you need a new computer.

I can with the authority of someone who tries, jumps between and uses a LOT of apps say that the one thing has nothing to do with the other.

Crap apps are always crap regardless of language and portability.
Good apps are always good regardless of language and portability.

Specific function apps coded for specific hardware can be good or crap, but force you down a particular language.

It doesn't which leads me to ask why they would collect the inadmissible one in the first place.

Also your post fails Occams Razor but sure let's just keep on thinking that oil companies spend time and effort trawling through obscure sites looking for references and then look up users they can pay to post comments. Because what happens on Slashdot as far as the resources industry is concern really makes a reputable difference... / sarcasm.

Yes but they don't need "fixing" they simply need "deleting".

> OMG a severe bug in MySQL that is currently unpatched and has exploits in the wild.
> Looks at server
> service mysql stop
> time for a beer to celebrate a job well done.

A guy with a low UID is a paid troll for oil companies on slashdot which feature articles related to oil once in a blue moon, and you came to this conclusion because he thinks the kickstarter is crap?

How about asking yourself if he's right or now. The premise of the kickstarter is to avoid going to an independent lab. Then what? Without going to an independent lab you have evidence that could be tainted, isn't admissible in court, and likely has problems to begin with (many oils in a common region share very common traits).

Have you ever heard of the saying "Just enough information to be dangerous?" That's what this is and if the person isn't incredibly careful could very quickly lead to being in legal hot water for slander and whatnot.

Indeed. Don't call an ambulance. Instead take your emotionally compromised self and jump in the drivers seat of 2T of metal, and make sure you get to the emergency room as quickly as possible.

Actually it is as easy as calling an ambulance. Or do you actually not care about the life of the person you are trying to get to the emergency room, or for that matter the lives of other people on the road?