0% interesting.

GOP 2016 campaign sticker:

  2016: Ben Ghazi / Jerry Mander

By some accounts the regular articles are not that biased; it's the editorial section that resembles the usual Rupert style.

that link includes smartphone sliders. http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-VN271-extravert is the verizon popular 'feature' phone

http://www.lg.com/us/touch-screen-phones?cmpid=sem%7Cmu%7Cmuao_2014campaign%7Cbing%7Cbr%7Cfeatures%7Ctscreen&s_kwcid=TC-18467-15408061578-bb-2102835509

the highly rated models i think are good enough. qwerty slider keyboards i prefer to 'swype'

Don't make me puke... (Score:0, Interesting)

Gotta love slashdot

when we're far more likely to die from something mundane, like getting hit by a truck.

Just think of a truck as a small, slow asteroid.

my 'fix' has been to stop upgrading, about 2 or even more years ago.

yes, it has bugs and probably security issues, but I deal with that instead of dealing with more bullshit from moz.

really - a web browser is a little bit like a flashlight; it has a job to do, its clearly defined and its not hard to solve the problem. I don't need a flashlight with 'accessories' on it or with 'helpful advertising'. I simply need it to work, stay stable and not change every damned time someone has an itch to change-just-for-changes-sake.

I won't give up what I have, but I have stopped upgrading a long time ago.

IIRC there was a raw feed dump where everything going into the database was shown live -- i don't recall the url for it, but now they have the firehose... too lazy to check the source for how they do it, and google was no help finding it.

Then what is a Hammond organ?

You can also use it to Bach up your files.

I've read 3 different explanations of why VisiCalc was done on Apple first.

1. The dev TRS and Pets were tied up on other projects.
2. Jobs promised free hardware if they targeted Apple first.
3. Apple had more potential RAM ability.

I don't know which is true or if it's a combo. Either way, Apple would probably be dead if not for VisiCalc. VisiCalc sales gave Apple just enough money for R&D into GUI's (Lisa/Mac), and those were relatively slow sellers until desktop publishing kicked in.

Without the VisiCalc boost, Apple would probably fall short, and die with the rest of the early microcomputer makers (who got clobbered by IBM clones).

I'm always astounded how someone as smart as Woz could hookup with an egotistic leech like Jobs.

A master brain plus a master liar, perfect tech biz combo.

Woz has money & fame up the wozu, you have shit. So where is the "astounded" exactly?

ODDLY enough, I have 2 nas boxes here by zyxel; and the truly odd thing is their model number: nsa-320. I kid you not!

had them running about 2 years, now, with no problems! not the fastest thing but they are tiny, they do support both nfs and smb (most small nas boxes don't do nfs) and it has not crashed or had o/s issues that I've seen. I dont use usb on it, only ethernet in and 1 or 2 drives internally, but its been pretty good for its size and price!

And Windows Phone on the same hardware specs outperforms them all (which is why a $49 Nokia running WP is actually not a terrible experience)...........I'm pretty sure .Net has garbage collection.