Windows itself takes the majority of the 32 GB SSD that comes with a Windows 8.1 tablet such as a Transformer Book, Aspire Switch, or older Surface Pro. I imagine that most people don't want to have to manually shuffle data between such a small internal SSD and an external HDD.

Unless Winqual disqualifies your application for storing settings in an INI, XML, or JSON file in %appdata% or %localappdata% instead of in the registry.

You'd be surprised at how many games have the same digital restrictions management BS in the game's dedicated server app that they have on the client.

Trial software can work around this by going into reduced functionality mode until it verifies payment. Much already does, such as the "lite" versions of apps on Android and iOS. So does Doom, which comes with only the first episode unless you register.

Good luck running Visual Studio or Xcode on one of those. But I will grant that Android has AIDE, which might sub for Eclipse in a pinch.

The one kernel of truth in your joke is that sometimes you do have to reorient the Wi-Fi AP to improve signal coverage. And sometimes you have to unplug and reseat cables in order to get devices into an operable state. One phone rep recommended disconnecting the USB line and "shaking the bad bits out".

When you drag from the file manager or Office to your e-mail program, the operating system would make a read-only view of the file in the e-mail program's space.

Three words: good fcuking riddance.

Having been published under the same private key (that of Adobe Systems) would let them run in the same sandbox, if the model you envision is anything like the model of Android.

They could join through more structured data sharing mechanisms, such as local sockets set up by firing an intent.

Console gamers and iOS fans would say "good riddance". But they could work the same way AIDE does on Android.

Again, having been published under the same private key (that of NVIDIA or AMD) would let them run in the same sandbox.

Console gamers and iOS fans would say "good riddance", as I described in another article, because modding helps cheating. But a mod could be installable through the same share mechanism I mentioned above.

I was under the impression that Sprint supports only the exact makes and models that it sells. If I bought a CDMA2000 phone without carrier branding, do you think Sprint would just sell me a CSIM to plug in?

Arkanoid is about global warming. It'd never get Republican butts in seats. At least Tetris Worlds tried to add a plot of opening stargates by playing Tetris.

Didn't they already make a Ping-Pong movie starting Tom Hanks as a table tennis star named Forrest?

So what other microcontroller to which ordinary people can solder things should people be using instead of an AVR?

Some places on Earth are just as alien as anything you saw on Trek. How explored is the ocean floor?

That was written prior to October 1998, when the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was signed into law. Besides, that applies only to the underlying musical work (as embodied in sheet music and the like), not to any sound recordings thereof. Sound recordings fixed prior to 1972 are covered under state copyright until 2067.

I disagree.

I do. I carry a 10" laptop while I commute to and from work on the bus because it fits in a bag that doesn't scream "steal me" the way a full-size laptop bag does. It's a four-year-old Dell Inspiron mini 1012 with 1-core 2-thread Atom N450 CPU and 1 GB RAM that runs Xubuntu. But once its second battery pack loses its ability to hold a reasonable charge, I'm looking at replacing it with an ASUS Transformer Book (quad-core Atom, 2 GB RAM) running Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell.

No, $99 is less than $100, but the fact that $99 is less than $100 is irrelevant. The tablet advertised as $99 is not $99 because prices in the United States are typically quoted excluding shipping and sales tax.