Well, Samsung, LG, Sony, and HTC all pay the MS tax on their Android devices. Does Kyocera have a larger legal war-chest than those companies?

My Nexus 7 is quite a bit worse after the 5 upgrade. I need to reboot every couple of days or it will slow to a crawl. Wifi is also dodgy - takes forever to come up after being switched off, and takes a *long* time to connect to new APs.

I'm hoping 5.1 will be better.

Again, depends on your definition of AAA. If you think that only huge companies spending lots of money can generate AAA titles, then no. If your definition is it's simply a successful game, then yes.

Depends on what your definition of AAA is, I guess. Minecraft is written in Java, and from what I can tell is one of the best selling games right now.

And I used to be able to do that with 68HC11, but it only had a few dozen opcodes, and programs could fit into 2K. Unless you're specifically a compiler or bootloader hacker, I don't see someone memorizing the several hundred opcodes in modern x86/64, or being able to follow program flow in multiple megabytes of compiled code using a simple hex dump utility.

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Regarding computers and the internets:

1. Everything is connected to the internet. Refrigerators, traffic lights, mailboxes, lightbulbs... everything. And it all can be hacked and controlled remotely.

2. Hackers do not use mice or trackpads. They only use the keyboard, even when opening, moving and resizing windows in a GUI environment.
2a. Hackers only use LOUD keyboards. Even their laptop keyboards are buckling spring action so you can hear them go TAPYTAPYTAPYTAPY

3. Hackers are capable of accurately predicting anything. The trajectory of a car going over an open drawbridge, the food someone buys at a grocery store, which entrance someone will use at a shopping mall - ANYTHING. Because they have computers.

4. Any computer can be easily broken in to and controlled. Except for when you have a light plot and need to eat up time, in which case you have to physically break into a highly secure office building and do some technical thing to gain access. Hackers are good at doing that too. Because, you know, hackers.

5. Hackers can tell exactly what a program does by looking at a screen of hex code and random plaintext.

6. Hackers can pull signal out of noise floor in ANY SITUATION. Sharpening blurry photographs, pulling intelligible voice out of a noisy recording, un-deleting files, doesn't matter.

The USSR started sinking after it stopped raping it's Warsaw Pact allies for food, manpower and natural resources. It's easy to focus on industrialization and modernization when you can just steal food from eastern European countries you have control over. My Romanian and Ukrainian friends have stories about that...

I also notice your timeline of the great successes of the USSR seems to bounce over Stalin, under whom most of the modernization and industrialization took place (Lenin was only in charge for roughly 7 years.)

Bitte?

Zip everything. Null modem serial cable, CKermit on both ends. Done.

I'm going to take a wild guess and state the reason it took three months before my GOOGLE BRANDED DEVICE (Nexus 7 2013) got Lollipop after it went GA is issues with fragmentation. It seems like nearly every device had severe and differing issues with the original builds and the update kept getting pulled and pushed back. It works pretty well now, except wifi is unstable and it has a memory leak that forces a reboot every couple of days.

  When iOS 8 went GA I got it the next day on my iPad Air. No serious issues.

If only there was some way of detaching politics from science.... Hm....

Try to get a taxi at 6th and 44th in Manhattan at 5PM. Taxis are pretty damn expensive in NYC, and pretty much impossible to find when demand is high. Know what is available at 5PM? Uber cars.

Why? The main use of registration is to keep the number of cabs low and the prices high.

The Phalanx system on US navy ships is, once activated, pretty much automatic. Anything within it's radar envelope automatically gets a dose of 20mm cannon fire. It's designed to take down anti-ship missiles, but will engage pretty much anything moving towards the boat that it's radar can pick up.