It's only the one and I imagine the phone wouldn't stand up the proper way round.

Because presumably if the charity didn't pay electricity or anything, his profit would be slightly lower. We can't have that now, can we?

How do you figure? The app takes on the icon/text of the play store app and launches itself and the legitimate play app when activated. Where have you been confused?

I think that would fall under "communications" if you re-read the summary.

A child shouldn't be handling technology until about 3 years old, as many Slashdot stories have reported. It's also just common sense that so much stimulation so early on is bad for a developing brain.

You mistake interest for curiosity. It is in the child's nature to explore and learn about their environment, but introducing them to your tablet is just going to impede their progress as all their attention is consumed by the device.

The only thing that pisses me off about this is how much they are suing for. There is no way someone can pay that amount of money back in their lifetime, and they surely didn't do that much damage to you. Why aren't these sort of things set at a limit? If they are, why is it so bloody high?

No, but it is a scenario that is proven and works, so they seek out similar scenarios. With the vastness of the universe, it's bound to happen again.

I believe Ericsson was a quite popular brand of phone in the dumbphone era, but their reputation has since died off.
Are companies that are unwilling to compete simply going to sue their competitors? Instead of devoting their resources to innovating, they're wasting their time and money on lawsuits while other companies are free to spend their time doing something interesting on their own.

Samsung sells a lot more than just phones, and I don't know if these companies are just trying to sue them into oblivion. If that is their plan, they obviously haven't planned it out very well.

My $120 china tab has a 1024x600 display. 1GHz and dual-core mai-400 GPU. It has Android 4 and there is a ubuntu image available that runs from SD. Even the Nexus has an official ubuntu port, and many others have the same port as mine I'd wagger. So what exactly is the purpose?

The company that made my tab (Ainol *snicker*) has released their kernel sources, so it's not like some companies which don't honour the usage rights.

What a load of rubbish.

All the UN has to do is say "To use our planets orbit, or services reliant on satellites or anything airborne , you need to agree to these human rights." There goes their GPS tracking. If they launch a satellite, wait for it to reach orbit and then let it "malfunction".

If these people can leave the stone age, they should be confined to the ground until they smarten the hell up.

It is neither important nor appropriate to differentiate. No one would possibly confuse the two. The only person who would feel the need to differentiate was someone purposely being an arse just so they could make a post telling people that it is important to differentiate between GNU/Linux and Android/Linux in an attempt to appear superior and knowledgeable, knowing full well that no one would possibly confuse the two if they were a professional who already knew the difference, and a consumer would neither know nor care in the first place.

But who would do that?

All the video rental shops are closed, taking the video game rentals with them. I miss being able to rent a game instead of outright buying it. May not be a big enough market though.

Buying and reselling used games that don't cost as much as their brand new counterparts is something that people are sorely in need of. Maybe credits for game rentals with a trade-in instead of cash?
Even if you don't charge much less, charging $20-25 for a used game opposed to the $40-50 EB and Gamestop charge might drive some business away from them and towards your friend.

I the device drivers for a specific hardware configuration aren't OSS and therefore it's incredibly difficult to build from source specifically for your device. I have a limited understanding but I believe it is something along those lines.

Anyone with more insight care to comment?

Judas? Seriously? Why did they even trust him in the first place?

I only just now realized that the rom is called cyanogenmod and not cryogenmod. Christ, I've been calling it cryogenmod for over a year!