I recently picked up a Droid (after having had iPhones for the previous two years).

It appears to me that Gameloft's offerings for Android are poorly executed. The market reviews for this developer are quite low. Looking at the reviews for their paid games, you'll commonly see comments along the lines of "looks like an NES game", and it's easy to see why from the screenshots.

I have only tried Gameloft’s (free) Solitaire, but if that product is representative, it should come as no surprise why their Android sales are extremely poor. This games is so horrid that I wouldn't have it on my phone if you paid me to. It appears to be a port from some lesser-spec device.

When playing the FreeCell game, there is a man in the lower portion of the screen who looks around, nods his head, and emits little “Z” graphics if you take too long to move, i.e., indicating that he is tired. Who is this guy? Are they familiar with the fact that Solitaire is a single-player game? It is, after all named a derivative of the word “solitary”. And it does not help that the graphics in this game appear to use a 256-color palette, and textures that were originally intended for a non-smartphone with a screen resolution of about 160x160.

I'm currently annoyed that there aren't many good games for Android. I'd pay $10 without blinking for a well done solitaire game. I've even emailed Solebon suggesting that they port their iPhone product. But if the only offerings available are crap, I'll stick with the free sudoku and my SNES and Genesis emulators.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

PS: The Slashdot lameness filter needs to be sent to the ministry of love.

...because it's the only one I have. About eight years ago Slashdot posted a story about the "Happy Hacking" programmer's minimalist/old-Sun-layout keyboard. I bought two, and have been using them ever since.

http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/index.html

No caps lock, unless you count "Fn-Tab". Control is where it should be.
No windows key. There's a "diamond" key that's mapped to that keycode. Incredibly useful to have such a key that is not mapped to anything by default (in Linux at least). It's custom keyboard shortcut heaven.

It's held up well for eight years. I've pulled all the keys out of it several times for full cleanings, and it still works as original. Only damage so far is I've managed to break one of the flip-out feet on one of them. But again, it's seen eight years of constant use.

GM vehicles have similar third-party systems available to the general public, but they only target powertrain (engine/transmission) tuning (rather than body systems). The higher end ones such as EFILive (http://efilive.com) and HPTuners (http://hptuners.com) will let you edit most parameters (or at least the ones you care about) in your vehicle's PCM. In addition to programming, the devices allow you to log all parameters available to the PCM. The companies offering these tuning/logging devices have additionally written custom operating systems for the PCMs of these vehicles, for such purposes as running forced induction/large camshifts for drag racing applications. Additionally there are spliced-together operating systems for applications such as running engine X with transmission Y, even though GM never put those two items in one vehicle.

I don't know the true history of it, but I believe reverse engineering was involved. Given the large tuning market for GM products, it was apparently cost effective for multiple companies to do it.

I know of similar systems that exist for Fords, a few models of Honda (mostly Civics), Subarus, and Mitsubishis. Not certain on Chrysler. As I understand it, nothing exists for Toyota.

In my opinion, the presence of these devices removes most all of the big-scary "it's all electronic, you'll need a team of technicians to even open the hood" stigma that is commonly associated with new vehicles. Using EFILive, I've managed to improve both the performance and mileage (at the same time) of my brick of a vehicle, and diagnose trouble codes as well. If you plan on keeping a vehicle for a long time and doing the maintenance yourself, I find such a device to be a must-have.

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/samsungblueearth2.jpg

I don't get it. How are you saving trees with this phone? Has Samsung employed a gang of vigilante loggers to cut them down if you do not walk a certain distance per day using the phone as a pedometer in "Eco walk" mode? Has there been a new scientific discovery that CO2 may in fact kill trees, negating the previous data that it is neutral or possibly even beneficial toward plant growth?