Ditto in India. Used to be that one identified a mobile phone store by the Nokia logo on top of the store. Even now, for feature phones (or dumb phones) people will choose Nokia without a second glance. But everywhere I look, Samsung seems king in smartphones in India.

I believe you mean 'karma'.

But then, the things outrageous about consoles are price of storage and the restrictions. Not the price of consoles themselves.

And I report your mail as spam or junk or (if the option is given) phishing. Screw you over, since my response is likely to get your emails to others classified as spam or - worse - phishing. If it takes me more than two clicks to unsubscribe, you're marked spam. Most people won't respond, some will be vindictive like me and very few will be willing to send an email.

There was a nice bit in one of the Foundation prequels where Seldon tricked the junta into using poll tax. Read that to understand what's "fair".

What? Why? It should be:
try
{
blahBlah = blah(); //throws exception
} catch (Exception e)
{ //Do whatever War is good for.
}

Odd, since Opera and UC Browser did very well on all counts on Nokia phones (and these were decent touchscreen phones with maybe a quarter of the power of an iPhone). I don't see why they should fail. Any links to the study?

What about mosaics, or chimeras.. (or whatever the term is)?

They can't even do the one thing they're supposed to do - publish news - decently, unless you count celebrity X kisses celebrity Y's ass as news. how on earth can you think they can bring out a *better* search engine than Google's?

Depends. Which driver? The wifi drivers? GPU drivers? I have a Dell Vostro that has no driver problem except for those two. And as far as I can tell, those are the two main areas where driver problems still exist (except maybe for audio). I'd guess that the GPU is Intel's, so drivers aren't a concern, and the wifi drivers shouldn't be a problem if Dell picks the right card (same for audio). So where did the extra 50 come from? And I'd gladly pay the extra 50 over the standard price, if a) Dell released a solid 15" laptop with enough ports and peripherals, not Ultrabook nonsense and b) if they released it in India, where I live.

Don't they have some deal with M$ preventing them from selling laptops with non-MS OSes installed? That was that why they had the whole n-series, with only FreeDOS on them and a CD of Ubuntu in the box. Maybe the extra 50 is perhaps an exception fee or something?

"way back" being the key phrase here. Would the GNOME devs have used that screen if Windows hadn't featured it? I know corelation doesn't imply causation, but this does stink of a me-too thing. Now that I think of it, GDM's lock screen is even less funtional than Windows 8's.

Woosh! Or is my sarcasm detector misfiring?

we had Andersdotters here in India. Young politicians here are 40+, most are 60+ who can't understand tech if their lives depended on it. hence the facebook-post-arrests seen recently.

Have you seen the new GDM lock screen? What is that, if not a blatant rip-off of the lock screen of 'that which was formerly known as Metro'? Back to Cinnamon + LightDM for me. I never much liked GDM and this stupid lock screen is enough to send me running to LightDM.