That whole paragraph looks like it was run through Google Translate, it's kind of silly to pick it apart line by line.

I'd assume the sentence you quote meant there won't be problems including drivers as new models are released or in various distributions that have different policies about non-GPL binaries.

Oh, so many tax dollars...

"Winners will be announced on July 20, featured on our homepage, the homepage of LetsMove.gov, the White House blog, and also printed in the next issue of GOOD. We’ll send GOOD and Let’s Move! T-shirts and a free subscription (or gift subscription) to the winners."

That's some astonishingly lazy finger pointing. Where do you normally get the news spoon fed to you?

Are you blaming Apple for corrupting Microsoft? Wow...

I don't see the distinction between phone software and other consumer electronics. There are all sorts of software stores from every type of consumer electronics manufacturer out there that are screened in similar, if not more restrictive ways. If you like unfiltered software on your phone, there is still Android and J2ME devices.

Windows Mobile really isn't a good example to hold up in my mind since you must be a masochist to put up with its flakiness and third party software that is generally terrible compared to other platforms. When I was in charge of IT for a medium size company, every experience we had with Windows Mobile was an unmitigated disaster, especially compared to the iPhone (after it supported Exchange).

You mean Microsoft doesn't take a cut of Xbox and Zune content? You mean I can install flash and porn on those devices? Nope.

Apple doesn't make money from OS X software, just content for it's 'appliance like' devices. Just like Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc.

Yeah, I forgot about all the flash applications I download through Xbox and Zune Marketplace.

Oh wait.

Fixes:

http://patches.ubuntu.com/

Credit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/Debian

I really don't know much about the history here, but this all seems pretty lame. Ubuntu doesn't hide it's Debian roots at all (it doesn't take much poking around to run into a Debian logo, .deb, etc). Also, Debian itself is based on a bunch of other works, it's how the community works.

For me, Ubuntu has been the up-to-date but still useable Debian; if I hadn't gotten used to the Debian world via Ubuntu, I would still use CentOS/RedHat on servers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx

godmode isn't needed, that's just the name of the folder (Cnet named thiers thankscnet). Also, that so-called 'godmode' folder probably isn't documented because it's broken on x64.

Unless their faulty equipment contributes to your death in a car accident. Put simply, many things in this world can and should be regulated because their existence depends on public spaces, spectrum, safety or trust.

A whopping $.50 a gallon, which more or less covers what we spend on roads.

While the fuel tax may not work as cars advance, today it's a logical way to fund these projects, it's effectively a user fee.

lossless != uncompressed

Analog recording formats are all 'lossy', but they do not suffer corruption from isolated errors.

A lossy digital format could contain errors to small sections, likewise a heavily compressed lossless format could suffer total corruption from a single bit error. To improve digital archiving we need redundancy, error recovery and error isolation (preventing errors from propagating).

Yes, that's why it's called RAID 0; it isn't true RAID, but depends on similar logic. I don't know why you brought it up since the GP didn't mention it.

This might be interesting if you had some proof.

Otherwise I'm inclined to believe you confused an auto-complete from your own history with a suggested term.

Notebooks that have other legacy ports are only annoying because I know they wasted real estate where I'd rather have more USB ports or just a smaller/cheaper computer. VGA on the other hand is actually a deficit. You generally only get one monitor output, and if your only output is VGA your stuck in the analog world. Many high quality displays show a marked degradation in text rendering and color, many cheap LCDs suck at syncing with VGA sources and many newer televisions don't have VGA (or compatible RGBHV) input at all.

If you get DVI or DisplayPort, you can convert to just about anything else you need, while having a lossless option for most displays.

No one is asking you to replace old equipment, but you might need to buy an adapter.

Double tap on a paragraph and it will zoom to fit.

AutoFill passwords works fine for me, perhaps you forgot to turn it on (Settings -> Safari -> AutoFill). Do bear in mind, many sites manipulate login forms to prevent saved passwords from working.

I really don't see how the OP was missing the topic at hand. You're original claim was that OSS CMSs don't handle mobile well, but then failed to mention Drupal.

Drupal core and almost all contrib modules output simple, valid XHTML Strict by default. You can override themes for every bit of Drupal and it's modules within your own theme. Customizing a simplified theme for mobile browsers is trivial and far easier than your suggestion, writing you OWN CMS!

When you do that, you're playing right into what this article is talking about, partitioning the web between functional desktop sites and mobile sites that provide little more than a presence.