Third party candidates have the benefit of knowing what the questions are and are able to give prepared answers.

Not that it really matters. We all know that none of the third party candidates will come close to getting even 5% of the votes.

I have a Kindle Fire and a Google Nexus 7. My advice to anybody out there considering buying an Amazon Kindle Fire is: "Don't do it"

Do yourself a favor and buy the Nexus 7. Kindle Fire OS is utter crap. It has limited hardware, is slower, cannot compete on battery life or RAM or cameras ... the list goes on. In a world with Google Nexus 7, nobody should be buying Kindle Fire.

I don't think a president alone has the power to do that. Also patents are seen by many as one of the ways America makes a lot of money. Siding with Samsung in an Apple vs. Samsung is just not good politics for an American president.

I recognize this and I hate software patents.

Oh please. I hate the clueless sales people as much as the next guy but you are really making me sympathize with the sales people. You go back to the store without the receipt and want them to help you? Are you a child? Do you know of any store that will do what you are asking?

Some will say that this is a good way to admit fault and do right by customers, even though they haven't done this before with previous faults. Others will say that Microkia is giving phones away to gain market share because they cannot get people to buy their hyped up and top of the line phone for $100.

Who is right?

You do realize that Obama is in favor of single payer, universal healthcare. However it was just not in the cards. Republicans would not allow it. He could either take baby steps towards single payer or have nothing at all. He decided on the former.

You failed to provide any evidence of how Obama Care is responsible for the rise in your insurance costs.

If I counter with a claim that Obama Care lowered my insurance costs by $10,000/yr. and fail to back it up anything, would that claim have any merit?

Once the business friendly Republicans win more elections, all of this will be reversed. AT&T needs to start bribing / donating some big bucks in that direction to make it happen.

All the hosted projects should be archived. I was looking for an older uvcvideo driver source the other day and all the links Google pointed me to were dead BerliOS links. It was a very maddening experience.

I offer to host an archived version of BerliOS over a dedicated 35Mbps (symmetric) connection and have systems and TBs of hard drive space to spare. Please get in touch with me if you think this will help. Whatever you do, don't kill the whole thing. Not all projects will get exported before the closure. That would be a terrible waste.

Can you imagine all business users switching to tablets? Or enthusiasts completely ditching their powerful and configurable systems for tablets? I don't think that is happening. Market for PCs and computer parts of all kinds will be around for a long time. It may shrink some. And it probably will kill smaller component retailers. But the bigger ones like Newegg will get more entrenched.

I have a two Asus RT-N16 routers, one running DDWRT and other running Tomato USB. I have been extremely happy with them. These guys have monster specs as far as wireless routers go.

Ethernet Ports = WAN x 1 RJ-45 for 10/100/1000 Base T, LAN x 4 RJ-45 for 10/100/1000 Base T
USB ports = USB2.0 x 2
Unit RAM = 128 MB (2x 64MB - Samsung K4N511163QZ-HC25 or 2x 64MB - Samsung K4T51163QG-HCE6)
Unit Flash = 32 MB (MACRONIX MX29GL256EHTI2I-90Q)
Unit CPU = Broadcom4718A, 533 MHz (Factory clocked to 480MHz)

More at: http://dd-wrt.ca/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16

I am ssh'ed into one one of them right now and trying to install webcam drivers into it. I plan to do some fun stuff, including using motion detection etc using the relatively powerful CPU in this router. Could you do anything even remotely like this with Apple Airport Extreme? No.

This is a hacker's router and smokes the competition.

BTW, openwrt is not supported on this router. But as I mentioned earlier, DDWRT and Tomato USB are. And they are both running rock solid for me. Whatever you do, do not use the Asus firmware. It's worse than junk.

I have many portable devices. ipads, ipod touches, various Android tablets and phones. I like them all and use them as a user and a developer. I had never used a WebOS device before. I went ahead and splurged for the $99 tablet and I was blown away. The card interface is beyond awesome. I had seen videos of it before, but that didn't do much for me. Using it in person was a different matter. The control and the visual feedback this interface provides is unbelievably good in my opinion as an advanced user of these devices.

Apple dumbs down their interfaces to appeal to an average user. Android provided a more advanced but somewhat complex UI. They have been attempting to dumb it down too with their honeycomb tablets, with horrible results (my opinion). WebOS managed to provide a more capable and advanced user interface while keeping it simple. Google should, nay, must, beg, borrow or steal some of these ideas.

Now that I have seen a superior interface, as primarily an Android user, I am quite bummed out that I have to put up with mediocrity that is Android UI.

I did a little more research into various PDF option for Android after posting my earlier comment. And I think I have found a really good one. APV PDF Viewer. It is considerably better than any of the other PDF readers I have tried. Including the ones on ipad. It has a lot of useful features. What's more, it is completely opensource. So if I develop a minor itch, I can scratch without too much fuss.

I cannot recommend this reader enough.

I am in the same boat as you. I wanted an ideal portable device for reading PDF documents. Here is what I have tried so far:

1. Barnes and Noble Nook B&W e-ink device. PDFs simply do not look right on this device.
2. Barnes and Noble Nook Color. Slow processor and small screen. Some squinting and patience is required to read PDFs on this device.
3. ipad (1 & 2). Really good PDF rendering and pages turn fast. Downsides are: a) No easy way to transfer documents. Some may consider iTunes easy to work. I do not. b) Lower resolutio and physical size of the display when compared to Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and other similar Android devices.
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7". Very portable and reasonably fast processor. Downsides are: a) Battery drains faster than other modern tablets. b) Small and low resolution screen when compared to its big brother.
5. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This is my current PDF reading device. I use it quite frequently. Display is excellent. Battery performance is outstanding. There are many ways to transfer documents. I just mount a share over the network and drag and drop content. Messing with cables and another computer etc. for doing this is stupid and Steve Jobs should know it. The only downside is that the PDF reader options on Android are not as good. The built-in reader on ipad is really really good. On Android, you have Adobe reader, that is missing some really critical functionality. For example you cannot bookmark a page. I currently use Aldiko. It is OK. It is a bit slow. And appears to render PDFs not as sharp. Also it acts utterly dumb if you switch to landscape mode. There is no way to tell it to fill the width of the screen. So I mostly read my docs in portrait mode and for that it is quite good. I really like the ability to change brightness level without using menus and moving my finger up and down.

Microsoft (and countless other companies) sell you their software in the same way. You get the top of the line product for more money. The ones with less features (you call them crippled) go for less.

Some of these companies allow you to upgrade these products later for a fee.

How the hell is this different? When you make your CPU purchase, you know exactly what you are getting. You have an option to upgrade later if you would like. Can someone point out exactly where the scam is, while not just pretending to be utterly dumb?