For me, my 7" tablet is ideal. I take it almost everywhere and I can comfortably hold it in one hand while I write,drink, etc. With the other. If I had a 10" tab, I think I'd leave it home more often than not.

You might want to give it another look. My experience (which seems common compared with others ' remarks) is that it improved with each point release to being quiet stable and usable around 4.5 or so.

1983. But they "got better".

Good point. There's even earlier prior art. The patent application describes what I had used the Prodigy application to do back in 1992.

Amen, brother! I mean it ain't like one of the four companies has been very conspicuously threatening others with claims that Linux violates unspecified patents. No sir! They are all exactly the same!

If Microsoft were truly "not evil" as its apologists claim, they would address the concerns of consumers by making it a requirement that the OEM provide the key to the buyer as a prerequisite for being "Windows 8" certified.

You are ignoring a large, third group of us. Those who think that lock-in by anyone is bad

...try IdeOne. Code doesn't run in the browser -- it's compiled and runs server-side -- but it supports dozens of languages, including esoteric ones like intercal and whitespace, and allows you to optionally publish your code snippets, a la pastebin.

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You mean the "we the people" who, as a jury awarded the RIAA $675,000 in this case, and $1.5 million in the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset?

No hope for sanity with them.

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Page and Brin are huge proponents of the need to take drastic action to deal with man caused global warming

[Citation Needed]

Wow. Did you grammer that yourself?

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Using Pick WRITE and READ statements may avoid the need for escaping quotes (or - preferably - using prepared statements) that SQL INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT queries need, but you still need to be careful. MVDBMSs carry the risk of unchecked delimiter character (@AM, @VM, etc.) injection. Plus if you use an SELECT/SSELECT query for record selection, you run the same risk of quote-based injections that SQL has.

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People pay money for Android phones, the providers give away the so-called "feature" phones. There is a difference, even if snobby Apple fanboys don't want to see it.

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I wish I could mod this up. That was exactly what I though of when I read their claim.

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Is this an ironic statement? You realize you didn't post it anonymously! ;-)

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