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Comment Re:Another Double Standard (Score 3, Insightful) 1160

Actually, I doubt that. They are not an extreme version of what the people controlling this country believe. They're a bunch of psychopaths that try to provoke a response so they can sue. I put them more in line with Anne Coulter and whatshisface on Fox that had his show finally shut down because he took it too far. I doubt they believe 1/3 of what they say, they're just in it for money and power.

Comment Re:Still not technically illegal... (Score 4, Insightful) 1160

Agreed. In fact it's quite important to note that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences if your speech pisses people off. It just means the government can't stop you from speaking just because they don't like what you're saying. That said, the government has been actively (IMHO) violating the first amendment for a while now, the most stark example being the emergence of "Free Speech Zones" when George W. Bush would travel.

Comment Re:T-Mobile for service. (Score 4, Informative) 375

I used T-Mobile for years, and was very happy with them in major metropolitan areas. I had to switch to Verizon when I moved to a rural area, and I hate them. We now have T-Mobile coverage here, so once the next batch of Nexus phones are announced, I'm switching back.

IME you can't beat the customer service from T-Mobile. Verizon's has been less than great and their prices are through the roof.

Comment Re:Undoubtablyt the one who will kill the iPad (Score 1) 657

I am thinking of sites like Salesforce, Kashoo, Highrise, and many others, where they don't really have a good mobile site, but a tablet application is a very very useful thing to have. Always they implement for iOS first. It's obnoxious, even though I understand there are sound business reasons for it at the moment.

Comment Re:Undoubtablyt the one who will kill the iPad (Score 1) 657

I'd love to think you're right. However, what I think really gives Apple such an edge now is that EVERYONE makes apps for the iPad. And most of them make no apps for Android. There is a sort of network effect in play with the iPad. What amazes me as primarily an Android user is that iPad users often have to buy separate, more expensive versions of the same app for iPad even if they already have said app on their iPhone. What a ripoff.

Comment Re:This has been fixed (Score 1) 596

I understand that, but the issue is making it more difficult to do the cracking/downloading/installing than to buy legitimately. It has been discussed elsewhere in this thread, but it's just not worth trying to lock it down more for the people who can't/won't pay $1 for most apps. I just thought the license server DRM (vs. simply not allowing access to the APK files on the system) would go a long way toward improving the difficulty. Guess not. That said, the author of TFA is an asshat.

Comment Re:No problem here (Score 1) 663

My main problem with e16 is that all of the modern things like wifi and removable drive auto-mounting aren't really supported. I'm discovering (as I type this from i3) that some of these other spartan window managers don't have those things either. In my quest to try it anyway, I'm finding a number of utilities that are filling in OK, if not great, for the modern trimmings in Gnome and KDE. I'm fine with the command line, but I do find that some of those conveniences are worth a little extra bloat on modern machines.

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