I'm completely uninspired by these bland boring android watches. There's no way I'd want one of these on my wrist. I mean for starters... plastic watch straps... really? what a retarded decision. Has no one at these companies ever actually tried wearing one of these for any length of time? especially in a hot climate?

The writing has been on the wall for years. Apple has shown over and over that people want and care about good design and quality materials, and will even pay through the nose for them. Evidently for many people, style is even more important than actual functionality in a buying decision, yet LG and especially Samsung are still releasing products (both phones and now watches) that look like cheap plastic wal-mart crap that cost at most 20 cents to make (not least because they saved on the cost of hiring a designer), but still the actual price makes it a non-trivial purchase. You get the worst of both worlds.

LG and especially Samsung should finally get a clue and take quality materials and good, interesting design as seriously as Apple (or better yet one-up them).

>> Your experts compile/test the code as they wish over time at the site. The end result is then known.

You can never guarantee any amount of code coverage (especially not 100%) just from black box testing.

>> saying that while their methods were "close to the line of constitutional reasonableness," they were used for good reason.

This is an obvious sham. Someone's justfication of their actions should have absolutely no effect on judging whether they actually broke the law or not.

>> a place where governments who use Microsoft software can come to review the source code

Where's the proof that the source code you see is exactly the same as that which gets compiled to make the Windows you buy?

Also does anyone else find it as highly suspicious as me that this center is only open to governments?

It does seem that the biggest reason that there's a no spying agreement is because the UK already gives the US access to everything it wants.

>> a strength of 17.6 Tesla â" roughly 100 times stronger than the field generated by a typical fridge magnet ...only if you have the kind of fridge magnets that once in place are then permanently inseperable from your fridge.

it seems its pretty much the same for every other large US company too.

Emacs is a great operating system. It just needs a good text editor.

Perhaps I have just been lucky in my 35 years of working for quite a few different companies to never have run across anything even remotely like your bad experiences.

For each of these incidents I very much hope you reported all the associated ass hats to someone high up enough to actually do something appropriate, like fire them all immediately.

>>If we as a society don't do these things,

I disagree. I think there's already plenty of opportunity in the tech field in the US no matter what gender or race you are (and no... I'm not an American white guy). You just need to get off your ass, do the schooling and go get a job. Yes its hard so it takes continued effort. That's really the part that most people actually dont like. Personally I dont see much of a problem with the current system, or feel society has any responsibility to change it.

>> zip code, ethnicity, and even gender will play too a large a role in determining who becomes a "have" vs a "have not"

Again I call bullshit. Unfortunately I've seen first hand all to many times that some people automatically just play the minority card each time to avoid ever having to make an effort to help themselves. The only reason they still do it is because it works thanks to most white men having already been programmed to feel socially guilty for everyone elses failures by a society with a screwed up socialist agenda like yours.

I can't wait for the first lawsuit because the driver wasn't driving with due care and attention.

can we get over these complete bullshit stories about gender and race prejudice in high tech offices? Nothing I have seen during my 35 years of being a software developer at many different companies has suggested this is even remotely true.

Literally every company I have ever worked at has gone above and beyond all existing laws to make sure there is absolutely no racial or gender-prejudice in hiring in any way . In fact they err on the side of caution so much it actually seems to be a positive advantage at interview time to be a female, or racial minority, or disabled. if you're all 3 you could probably name your own salary (joke).

I refuse to believe that these days anyone can't get a job at a high-tech company just because of skin color, gender or racial origin. Not least because if they could even slightly prove that, they could sue and it would be all over the news, and the companies themselves are hyper-sensitive to this.

I'd bet a stack on that the fact that high-tech companies are still more filled with white guys than anything else solely because that where nearly all the (actually suitable) job applications come from in the first place.

If you want to force an actually very biassed and unnatural 50% racial and gender balance in the work place, then you need to look at why its still mostly white guys that apply in the first place, not blame the companies for hiring from the pool of suitable applicants who are actually out there.

>> nouveau.modeset=0

Thanks, this is great, just the information I've needed for a long while.

I've never seen this parameter documented anywhere. How the heck did you find out about it?

>> I'm attracted to the ease of "owning" an android device, but, ultimately, I want a phone that just works. I rarely want to tinker with it.

This whole post looks very much like more FUD/advertising from Microsoft using social channels.

Having owned and used several different android devices for years I can tell you android exactly does "just work". What makes you even think you have to tinker with it to get it to work?

>> Regarding Android - every android phone I've seen has been completely different from the others.

Thats a GOOD thing. Its called freedom of choice. Besides, Android is easy to figure out (IMHO way easier than Microsoft's UI) and the user interface of all the differnet Android phones really aren't all that dffernet from each other anyway. If you need more than a few minutes to figure it out then you probably won't ever master chewing gum and walking at the same time either.

>> I don't use gmail and I don't trust google.

Everyone's free to their own opinion but coming from the angle of a comparison to Microsoft thats just downright funny.

>> Today windows phone architecturally is quite good

TBH I don't know much about the current Windows Phone OS. Does it (still) have a registry?
If so that alone would be enough cause for me to disagree with your "architecturally quite good" statement.