* white label tablets. Presumably built and sold in China, elsewhere.

White label tablets are sold in China, but also everywhere else. Rebranded as Aldi / Staples / Wal-Mart or what have you.

We need to recognize that premium android might as well be a different OS than white label android. The apps will be different, the languages will be different, the monetization will be different, the fragmentation will be different.

What are you talking about? I have a white-box Chinese Android tablet. It came with Android 4.2, gmail, Play store, google maps, etc. All of the no-name (Aldi Branded / Walmart / etc) tablets I've seen are the same.

For all intensive purposes premium android is as removed from white label android as it is from kindle.

Totally incorrect. The cheaper manufacturers actually provide a better android experience as they're using 'pure' android rather than putting shitty touch-wiz / sense style overlays & attempting to sign you up for a million stupid Samsung / etc services.

Oh - and you say "for all intents and purposes". Think about it. Intensive purposes makes no sense in the context this phrase is typically used in.

...don't create a vile and toxic cease-pit of comments just because you hate the mild inconvenience of whatever issue with the beta you have

This goes both ways. It is not uncommon that the protestors are disliked for "disrupting" the everyday patterns of those who do not care about the issue at hand. Only apathy should be disliked. So, thank you for voicing your dislike of the protestors. However i would suggest some patience until all the ruckus is over.

Sounds like victim blaming. "Beta didn't do it. You did it by not accepting Beta." There is always resistance to change. But the change has to at least bring something better to the table. Not a reduction in functionality. If the villagers didn't riot and just left quietly instead then you would still be left wanting better comments.

It's pretty normal in the US. I can deposit money to a friend's account. They don't even want to see my ID.

It seems to be the camera that has made it popular, not the operating system. What happens when android ships on something with over 40mp?

Mine looks more like classic now. Just an inch on each side that is wasted instead of half the screen. Everything has sharp edges instead of rounded ones. I can moderate and filter comments again (i read at 0 normally and -1 when i have points). All the images are broken for me though? Even turned off no-script and icons appear to be missing.

Didn't you say a few posts up that you use a youtube downloader?

I have VS 2010 and 2013 installed. Eclipse, Arduino, PhpStorm, WebStorm, and MonoDevelop as well. I don't think an IDE is going to set VAC off. I'm not even going into all the various services, emulators, and editors running either. Other than something deciding to randomly update and steal focus when i'm playing Rust, it has been just perfect. I get lazy sometimes and don't shut everything down : /

Are you sure about that? Closer to 20% it would seem.

A fraction of a percent? They're de-listing ~74000 hectares of 1.4 million. Thats closer to 20%.

You can't even get basic facts right & you expect people to believe your assessment of what will cause much damage? Even by slashdot standards, you're a fuckwit.

I only checked out http://www.hackbrightacademy.c... but they don't appear to offer any kind of certification. Just 10 weeks of training for women that ends with a "Career Day".

Maybe if colleges could teach software development there wouldn't be a need for these code bootcamps.

You would have to go way out of your way to get x86 binaries on an arm box. Your package manager certainly won't be giving you pre-built packages for the wrong architecture.