Hollywood has always had a different standard. I was rewatching Good Morning, Vietnam. I was a little surprised to see child nudity in a major Hollywood film. Mind you, it was an innocent shot of some Vietnamese kids playing in the fire hydrant, but it was full frontal nudity of children nonetheless. And it's also hard to argue intent. Something that was meant to be innocent by the artist could still be arousing to other people looking at the content.

Good to know. I was under the impression that updates came from MS, and that the carriers and manufacturers were completely out of the loop on updates. I plan to buy an unlocked version anyway, so perhaps that will help with the situtation.

Especially for an embedded/mobile device. My phone came out with Android 2.3, and Android 4.0 was released 6 months later. It never saw an update. Less than 6 months of updates for my phone. iOS is a no go for me, because I don't like being locked into one vendor, and their phones are expensive, at least of bought new. Android is really my preferred choice, but I really don't want to be screwed over on updates again. I'm seriously considering going with Windows phone for my next phone, as there are multiple manufacturers supporting them, and the updates come directly from MS.

Why should it not be? As long as the Koreans can build the ship to the same specs as the Danes, I don't see why the jobs should go to one country over the other. Giving the jobs to Danes might mean that they have more jobs and more money to spend, but it would also mean that shipping costs would go up. As a country that is highly reliant on trade with other countries, they should want shipping costs to remain low.

While obviously not as impressive in size (441 ft.), the Liberty ship could be built surprisingly fast. As a publicity stunt, they built one in 4 days, 15.5 hours. The average build time was 42 days, and in 1940, they produced 200 ships in a year. Impressive what countries can do during wartime.

If it's anything like the rest of Android development, if you haven't used it in a few months, it's most likely completely changed from the way you did it last time.

Datacenters are mostly remotely managed now anyway. You have a few people working there to make sure it's secure and to switch out a hard drive if you need to, but there's really no reason for a datacenter to be located where most of your employees are, unless you are doing research and development and are constantly adding and removing machines and changing the hardware configuration. Servers can even be completely powered down and powered back up over the network.

Even as somebody who doesn't have a car and cycles just about everywhere, I find that spending $10 million dollars on bike repair stands to be ridiculous. First, if I get a flat, I don't want to walk even 500 meters to get to the repair stand, because that would take 8 minutes or so, by which time I could almost be done fixing the tire with the tools I bring with me. And it's not likely that they are going to have a repair stand every 500 meters. A high estimate of what it would cost to supply yourself with the tools is probably around $50, so for $10 million, you could outfit 200,000 cyclists with their own repair gear. Which is 10-20% of the population depending on if you just count the city, or metro area.

Probably need to do too much work to make them wired and well ventilated. As far as I'm aware, there isn't much electricity in jail cells, maybe enough for a few lights, but nowhere near enough for racks full of servers. And ventilation is pretty sparse. If the roofs were high enough, I guess you could retrofit them with raised floors and put all that stuff in. You have to be careful who you sell it to though, it might end up in the wrong hands.

I think that most users didn't really care about those features. They saw $200 and laptop, and the choice was obvious. Most people don't have any clue what secure boot, or sandbox is. When there's a Windows laptop sitting right beside it at the same price, people are going to pick the Windows machine, because it can run everything they want.

Yeah, they definitely aren't the first, but the fact that the new HP ones are 11.6 and 13 inches changes things a bit. the 10.1 inch and 1024x600 resolution of the EeePC is something that very much constrains what you can do with it. Also, I remember them being a bit more than $200, at least when they were initially released.

Personally, I think that Android (and iOS for that matter) sucks on anything bigger than a phone screen. They just about work for a 7 inch tablet. With a 10 inch tablet, they really start to show their weaknesses. The fact that you can't show 2 apps on the screen is a major downfall. Also, the default on-screen keyboard has all this extra space, but doesn't display important keys like arrows or ctrl that are quite useful if you want to copy/paste text. Copy and paste on a Windows 10 inch tablet works a lot better than on Android. No more futzing around with the touch screen trying to tap on a specific character. tap in the general area you want to highlight, and use the left/right arrow keys to home in on exactly where you want to be. And Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just work even on the onscreen keyboard.

I think the coming Windows laptops with Atom processors are going to obsolete the whole reason for getting a ChromeBook. When you can get a laptop that runs full Windows for $200-$250 and get's 8 hours of battery life. To make it clear, these are full Windows 8 Laptops, not Windows RT. I'm waiting for the reviews to come out to see how they will perform in real life, and how durable they are, but I'm definitely looking into getting a couple for my kids if they are decent. Even in grades 2 and 3, all their homework is done on the computer. So I either have to get them computers, or let them use mine. I'd much rather let my kid have their own computer.

But they'd probably get a lot more subscribers. There's a lot of people cutting the cable, especially the younger generation. They don't care if you throw in ESPN, they aren't paying $80 a month for television,even if they really like to watch sports. If you make it $10 a month, you'd probably get a lot of college guys signing up. A house with 4 guys in it would probably split the cost of the subscription and it would cost almost nothing for them. And since they may want to watch the game together anyway, it probably wouldn't matter if they could only watch one stream at a time. I hardly watch sports at all, but I'd at least consider paying $10 a month to get ESPN. Sports is something that's great to watch when you have a few people over. Movies and TV require that you actually pay attention to what's going on.

I have a Surface 2, and I really like the trial option that MS worked into their store. Apps can be time limited, feature limited, or have many other limitations. With Android apps, it's usually possible to trick the trial version of the app into giving you a longer trial by uninstalling and then reinstalling the trial app. The way MS has designed it, once you've tried an app, you're no longer eligible for the trial. You can either purchase it or uninstall it, but there's no way to revert the trial back and get the functionality back. It allows apps to give you a full trial with all functionality, without having to worry about people cheating the system and getting the entire app for free.