Apparently if you are foolish enough to run Microsoft's Skype on your Nexus 5, they have found a way to kill your battery. This is the same old Microsoft we have always known.

The link was pop-sci Australia. I'm in Australia, can read all the other articles, but it says that one isn't there. Strange. It was however while reading my first article on the main page that I realised that I didn't want to bother with any more...

Couldn't find the story the article originally linked to, but here's the wikipedia article on the teletanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

No more photos at the beach at any time...

Well, since all the evidence was tainted by rush to judgment and poor procedure and had to be thrown out, all that was left was Kato and the limo driver's testimonies. And that wasn't enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.

Really I know it's shocking, but one billion smart phones were actually sold last year.

The desktop was once everything there was, and Microsoft's control of it mattered. Now it is one fifth of everything, and Microsoft's control of it doesn't matter any more. Servers have to support these new things that cannot run IE, AD, Outlook and Office because they outnumber PCs 4:1. Corporate cannot ignore 80% of the world. Developers are suddenly aware of cross platform needs. OEMs just cannot afford to keep ignoring this Android/Linux, ChromeOS/Linux demand. And so even on the desktop with 80% share Microsoft has lost the ability to set the pace and path of progress, to keep developers, OEMs, retailers, and VARs in line. They have lost control.

We are here talking about Android/Linux outselling Windows last year by 4x, and what a challenge that is to FirefoxOS/Linux. Congratulations on finding the exact wrongest possible place to put your Windows desktop 4EVAR ad.

By one billion he means per year. This year will be more of course. I think Firefox has some interesting potential, but agree with him that the incredibly high volumes of the low end of the Android device market make for amazing economies of scale. Getting under what components Android can run on may offer less scale and so no net savings at all.

Sprint was a bitch about selling me a SIM for my Nexus 5s for prepaid. Offered to give it for postpaid, refused for prepaid claiming it might hurt my phone. This at their corporate store AND online chat. I had to buy Sprint SIMs from Ting. At this point I am so frustrated with the treatment that I don't think it's worth dealing with their dicky customer support to follow through with service. Plus, T-mo just doubled my 4G data for no extra fee. Ting is looking like a fun company with enthusiastic support if you need Sprint's 4G network though.

Or to put it another way, if someone feels the need to say "XYZ is settled science" that's a clue that it might not be.

Ditto to Linux Mint LTS. Don't forget to install the ssh-server and x11vnc for remote management. :) I replaced WinXP on my Dad's computer with LM and forgot to install the ssh server since it isn't installed by default; I was accustomed to RH distros and assumed ssh-server was installed by default.

"Their definition makes it legal to look down shirts as well as up skirt"

As a 6' tall Resident of Massachusetts, I'm very glad to hear that. I very often find myself looking down shirts despite having no intention to do so, because I am otherwise unable to look at many women at all from normal conversational ranges. If they had made it illegal for me to speak to women, that would have sucked. I actually can't make it through most days without doing that at least once.

The purpose of the existence of DirectX is to prevent cross-platform solutions.

Hm.

I predicted you would not give evidence.

You did not give evidence.

Given that you do not provide evidence, it is likely you have none.

Which part do you incorrectly think is a lie?