What else would you use for a company that started out publishing BASIC interpreters for 8-bit microcomputers, where string variables' names always ended with $? (DEFSTR, DECLARE, and unnumbered lines came in the 16-bit era.)

Not This Fscking S#!+ again. True, Microsoft has been trolling the IT world by patenting exFAT and getting SD Card Association to mandate its use in SDXC. But supported Windows desktop operating systems (since Vista) can read and write UDF on flash drives. Or do specific Microsoft products have problems with UDF?

Oh really? One thing that Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio and Dickens's Oliver Twist have in common, other than that Walt Disney Pictures loosely adapted both decades later, is that they were both first published as serials.

If money were no object, all data transfer would be instantaneous, or at least no longer than a break. But in the real world, the benefit of instantaneous data transfer has to be weighed against the costs.

No. And the reason is that a $200 netbook costs a lot more than $35. Part of the perceived embarrassment is how cheap it is to build a rig that remotely 0wns someone's Chromecast device. If mentioning the Raspberry Pi brand is too much of a Slashvertisement to you, would "a $35 single-board computer" sound more honest?

Good luck taking a picture of a QR code with a desktop computer. A 40-bit key fingerprint using eight base32 characters should be enough for home use.

That's a looped Rickroll. Instead, have this video about music on android.

I'm not sure kids should be exposed to Mario Goatse.

That'd be relevant if all dramatic series on pay TV were adaptations, the way Game of Thrones and Under the Dome are. But things like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos are original. (There is a novel titled The Sopranos but it's completely unrelated. And no, I myself don't currently follow any such "things like".)

Let me put it another way: Waiting for the season box set breaks the shared social experience of all being at the same point in an original serial work. Then the question becomes whether this experience is beneficial.

I'm aware that this question isn't in the form of a question. But neither was Hamlet's.

The individual shared responsibility tax introduced in the Affordable Care Act doesn't change one thing about tax law in the slightest: if you have a taxable income, you have to pay tax. But you do raise a more general question about whether taking away a tax evader's right to vote through imprisonment is constitutional under the "or other tax" provision of the 24th Amendment.

True, Breaking Bad itself has concluded. But people who followed Breaking Bad while it was showing had the problem that I describe, as do people who follow other original shows produced for pay TV networks (the "things like").

You could always buy a clip-on Bluetooth keyboard.

It is. I've used both USB keyboards and Bluetooth keyboards with my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet. Android 4.3 broke the ZAGGkeys Flex keyboard (and several others using its chipset) but Android 4.4 fixed it. And a few people in my circle of friends have Android slider phones. I know Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure plays far better with a keyboard than with the on-screen controls.

Nobody with a clue "wishes" to use such a computer. They instead suffer through it because such computers are the only affordable ones, possibly because people without a clue are a bigger market. Even on PCs, which computer lets you replace the BIOS?

I too type well with Google's Swype-alike on my Nexus 7 tablet. But I'd think a hardware keyboard is better for certain kinds of games because your thumbs stay centered. The ridges on the keys help you feel whether your thumbs are over a particular key without you having to look down at on-screen controls. It's a lot harder to accidentally slide the thumb from one key to the next than to slide the thumb a short distance over a completely flat sheet of glass.