Huh. The glitchy desktop is the thing I hate most about Windows. I need Windows for some of the software I need to run under it, but gods I wish I could replace the buggy platform I'm running them on with one of the stable, spiffy desktops I use when I boot into Linux (and still have them run well; sorry WINE).

Yep, my experience exactly. The flurry of app updates driven by the release of Lollipop has made my Galaxy Nexus a slow, annoying device. It was fantastic before.

For some amount of time, yes. I have a Galaxy Nexus phone which is now a couple years old. KitKat (4.3) runs fantastically on it, and after experiencing Android L on a new tablet, I really don't care for its changes.

What I have noticed since Lollipop's release in November is that the application updates to the Material UI style (plus whatever else underneath) has greatly slowed down the GMail, Google's News&Weather, Play Store, and Play Music apps on my phone. Since this round of updates, when returning to home screen after running the play music GUI or news/weather, the launcher has to reload all the app icons, and it's actually a few seconds before the home launcher is ready to use. My phone has been fantastic, but the November app updates have just crapped on it.

The frustrating part is that I keep my phone fairly minimal -- no twitter, no facebook app (another POS) -- just to maximize battery life and keep it running fast. All my efforts are wasted now due to the apps I listed above. It sucks, because I really like this phone and don't feel like EOLing it yet.

I liked the default music app from about the G/H timeframe. It worked great for me, was fast, and playback was responsive. The current Play Music app is a piece of laggy shit. I'll just have to try some alternative apps.

A lot of my electronics keep working. Indeed, one of my most important electronic devices is the one I'll subsequently use to call the power company to complain that the power is off.

...I mean, it's the miracle substance you can do anything with, so maybe you can use it to make graphene! :D

...and you didn't. The text you quoted neither says nor implies that that's a traditional strength. (In the text you quoted, the word traditional is used as an adjective modifying "languages".)

...and that was great when I got it, but it's gotten a bit on the small side actually. Apple wants me to upgrade, they need to produce a bigger unit. Current store only has them up to 64MB. I'm certainly not going to downgrade just to get a newer unit.

Yeah, I have an iPhone 3GS I still use, but it's getting more and more difficult. Support for this generation of phone stopped with iOS 6, and a lot of newer apps, or newer versions of some of my existing apps, require iOS 7 or 8. I'll be forced to buy a new phone soon...

What's the crime? A lot of nonviolent crimes are felonies. If I were looking for candidates, my consideration of an employee would entirely depend on what the crime was, and what my legal counsel thinks.

And also, especially in drug-related offenses, the felony limit can be quickly reached by an exaggeration of drug mass. LSD charges, for example, are typically trumped up because they weigh the grams of paper, not the micrograms of LSD on it. Or here in Austin, where a guy was facing PCP possession charges partly based on the weight of the tray of brownies he baked (couple pounds), instead of the mass of PCP actually in the brownies. (But, he did have a bottle/supply of PCP which *was* a serious issue, but the charges based on the brownies was absolute nonsense.)

No, he was caught trying to deliver schematics for an aircraft carrier to the FBI. Since he thought he was trying to deliver them to the Egyptian government, that makes him a scumbag, but let's not pretend an actual crime that would have occurred without the FBI's action has been thwarted here. They didn't step in and stop something bad from happening, they just found some guy who likes money more than ethics and made a good headline out of him. Arguably doing so maybe has some deterrent effect, but don't misrepresent what happened or blow it out of proportion.

Eh, okay, maybe they're adequate, but they have the huge disadvantage you noted: no lasers!

Well, for the most part, it's not liquid.

It's called "space cheese", and you can't ruin the Star Wars universe by adding more cheese, because the entire thing was made of cheese to begin with! It's kinda its whole schtick.