Not just the NSA, but the TSA aswell. Myself and many other Canadians that I know refuse to vacation in the States anymore because of the invasive border checks.

Can't compete? Litigate.

But a phablet? I just can't get behind it. I have my Nexus 7s. I have my Nexus 4

It's hardly a phablet compared to your Nexus 4, it's only 4mm longer...

Nexus 4 dimensions: 133.90 x 68.70 x 9.10 mm (with a 4.7" screen)
Nexus 5 dimensions: 137.84 x 69.17 x 8.59 mm (with a 4.9" screen)

Galaxy Nexus isn't supported. Source.

I want them to continue developing Half Life ! And I miss the simulation games of yore - Age of Empires, Civilization, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc..

Age of Empires was an RTS, not a Simulation game.

I'd much prefer something challenging and stimulating than a boring game cloned from 15 years ago because they haven't bothered to come up with anything new and just want to jazz it up with eye-candy, give it a new name, and sell if for $60...

Geez, make up your mind. First you say you want more sequels to a bunch of 10-20 year old games, and then the next paragraph you say you don't want rehashed versions of 15 year old games. Which one is it?

When I first "signed on" around 1995 dialup prices were around $30-40/month for a 28.8 connection. Within a few years there were so many competiting dialup providers that you could get a 56K connection for $5/month and it came with a personal website, several emails, usenet access, etc... You could literally find a hundred competiting ISPs in the yellow pages in the Toronto area.

I was one of the first to get cable internet in my area. I can't remember the price, but it was fairly decent, and the service quality was amazing. I remember being blown away by the speeds. I'd usually get 600KBytes/sec down from sites like sunsite.unc.edu. A few years later my isp (Shaw) and another isp (Rogers) decided to swap customers for some odd reason (without any say from the customers of course). So I ended up getting stuck with Rogers, and service quality quickly degraded over the next several years. The dialup ISPs slowly died off and competition died with it.

Fast forward 10-15 years and I'm still with Rogers. The service quality is much better than it was 5 years ago, mostly due to the CTRC finally getting off their asses and slapping Rogers over their throttling practices. The speeds are good, I get 6.5MB/sec on average and I almost never have any service outages (maybe once or twice a year for a few hours). The price and caps are unacceptable though. I pay $80/month for 50Mbit down with a 150GB monthly cap. What I wouldn't do for a little competition again. I had it with dialup, why can't I have it with cable? I should still have access to dozens of competiting providers like I did ~20 years ago. /rant

Uh no. Google was selling an unlocked Nexus 4 8GB for $200 on their store. They're sold out now, and rumour has it that they aren't restocking them either.

While I agree with some of what you said, there are medical cases where supplements are neccessary. I had a severe Vitamin D deficiency 2 years ago that ended up causing osteomalacia-like symptoms (severe muscle, joint, and bone pain throughout my entire body). My family doctor ran blood tests and told me I had the worst Vitamin D deficiency that she had ever seen in 35 years (I had something like 12 nmol/L of 25-hydroxyvitamin D). Anyway, long story short, she perscribed me 1000mg of Vitamin D once a day and the problem went away within a month or two.

So we can assume that Xbox One games will be always-online and have server side processing ala Simcity 5... because that worked out so well for EA.

I thought you could already do that without requiring READ_PHONE_STATE? When your app loses focus (for whatever reason, a call, user switches to another app, etc..) then onPause() gets called. You should be able to handle losing focus there... without needing any special permissions.

Though I only write android apps as a hobby, so maybe I'm wrong.