As a developer it's been a problem developing for Android. It's one of the reasons why at work we charge more to develop android versions of apps usually as we'll only QA test against Nexus devices. If our clients want QA on any additional handsets basically increase the development costs by 50% per device. Usually if clients add any other devices it's will be Samsung, but we charge QA per model on Android devices. So Galaxy S4, S5, Note could double the price we charge for an Android app vs. iOS.

Personally I no longer develop apps for Android. I used to, but Android apps were less than 25% of my revenue and accounted for about 90% of my support requests. In particular "App crashes on startup" and on a handset I've never heard of before. Especially problematic seemed to be the number of prepaid android devices. Their OS's never seem to be kept current or running some tweaks that may cause compatibility issues for whatever reasons.

You are one fucking idiot.

The pictures that you are linking to are carefully staged photos taken from exactly the right angle to fake a similarity that doesn't exist. The Braun clock radio for example, sits on your table, six inch wide, three inch high, three inch deep. So it has been set to sit on its side in a way nobody would position it because it falls over. It has been photographed exactly from the front so that you don't see that it's actually three inch deep. It doesn't have a screen, it has a speaker with little holes. It doesn't have a wheel, it has a round frequency dial.

The "radio" shows a tiny corner of the case of the radio. Nobody seeing a complete radio would ever figure out that it is supposed to have any similarity with a PowerMac.

With the Braun LE1 speaker, something strange happened: The site doesn't show the usual image depecting the LE1 speakers exactly from the side, where you can't see that the feet are totally different from the iMac stand. There is actually no similarity! (What the picture doesn't show is that these are very expensive high end speakers (the first electrostatic speakers ever sold) that are about 1.5 m high - so nobody could ever confuse them with an iMac. The only thing they have in common is a roughly rectangular shape of the main component.

With registered mail, some post office employee would write down that they tried to deliver the mail, went to the right address, and the person there refused to sign. The court doesn't care that the person didn't receive the mail, as long as they could have received it if they hadn't acted like a dumbs.

In the same circumstances. If a person disappears without leaving a forwarding address, but is actively using their facebook account.

The same thing happened to me. I'd been buying my own health insurance since I sold my company in 2011. It cost me $83 per month. I'm in my early 30's and healthy. Only time I used it was for a sinus infection and annual check ups. Deductible was $3500 with max out of pocket of $11,000. Office co-pay's were $30, $50 for urgent care and drug coverage worked well enough for me. My last antibiotics cost me $20 co-pay. Then I was informed last fall my plan was not "ACA" compliant and would be cancelled at the end of last year.

So I went shopping on the exchange. The closest plan to what I had was a silver package. It was $280 a month. 3x what I was paying. That was more than I wanted to pay. So I looked at a "Bronze" plan. Still $156 a month and eventually what I selected. It had a $6000 a year deductible and $17,000 max out of pocket per year.

Then I actually had to use it for an Urgent care visit. Under my old plan, Urgent care was a $50 visit. Well it was $90 co-pay under my new plan. I was prescribed the same antibiotics as the previous time. Cost: $45 co-pay instead of $20.

Fortunately I got married and now on my Wife's company plan (although they're likely to pay the fine as it will be cheaper than providing insurance so not sure for how much longer). It was about the same as my bronze plan (~$180 per month to add me). But coverage is a hell of a lot better.

It is AMD fanboy sour grapes. For some reason some people get really personally invested in their choice of graphics card. So when the other company comes out with a card that is substantially better than what their company has, they get all ass hurt and start trying to make excuses as to what it is bad. The nVidia fans did that back when the AMD 5870 came out and nVidia had no response. Same deal here. The GeForce 900 series are a reasonable bit faster than the AMD 200 series, and way more power efficient. At this time, AMD doesn't have a response, so the AMD fanboys are going on the defensive.

The real answer is, of course, buy the card that works best for your usage, which will vary person to person.

Anonymous coward, you have never in your life knowingly talked to a gay person. I think you have three problems in your life: No man wants you, no woman wants you, and your parents are ashamed of you.

Up to now, you had to pay a lot of money to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB. Now you get 64GB for the same money. I'd think the percentage of 64GB purchasers will go up.

XP also tweaked the VM subsystem in a way that was quite noticeable if you had more than about 256MB of RAM (better performance), but the main feature it added was remote desktop (although only in the Pro version). I was quite tempted to upgrade from 2K for the remote desktop stuff.

I'm not a huge fan. The goal of D was to produce a better C++, but if you're designing a new language then C++ really isn't where I'd choose to start. It's not as bad as Ruby (I can't imagine the kind of person who would look at Smalltalk and say 'what this language really needs is Perl-like syntax'. Actually, I can't imagine the kind of person who'd say that about any language. Including Perl). Rust is probably the modern language that I like the most.

Excuse me - Apple Pay. Not PayPal. Unless you lived under a stone for the last two weeks I would have expected that you've heard of Apple Pay.

40TB hard drive space isn't that much. About £1,300 or so with the latest offer I received in some spam email.

40TB reliable data storage, that would be a bit more expensive.

Unless they are hacked, like in Home Depot :-( Point is that the POS system doesn't see the credit card number either.

That's what you call rewriting history. The only reason why there was ever DRM on the iTunes store was because the record labels demanded it. The only reason why Amazon was allowed to sell DRM-free music in mp3 format was because they record labels wanted a strong alternative to the iTunes store - I wonder how happy they are with this nowadays and when Amazon will turn on them like they are turning on the book publishers. At the same time Apple was still not allowed to sell DRM free; only after Apple agreed to raise all the prices.

Just a reminder: The two A's in AAC stand for "Advanced Audio" and have nothing to do with Apple. And AAC = mp4.