In Europe, they speak English in Great Britain, but in Georgia, they speak Georgian. In North America, they speak English in British Columbia, but in Georgia, they still speak English. The US and the anglophone part of Canada are homogenized a bit more than Europe.

For a component that isn't a direct part of the human-computer interface, I agree. But for the same reason I won't buy bananas without touching it, nor will I buy a computer keyboard without touching it. I don't want to have to buy one, pay return shipping, buy another, pay return shipping, rinse and repeat. I've already been burned once by a Bluetooth keyboard for Nexus 7 whose space bar was so short that my right thumb would consistently press the key that was to the right of space.

In these days of conglomerate companies whose right hand can't tell what the left is doing, it's common in some circles to use a product name to refer to the part of the company that makes that product. Xbox, for example, is a common name among the gaming press for the Entertainment and Devices division of Microsoft. Sony Computer Entertainment has occasionally referred to itself as PlayStation in the "Dear PlayStation" ads. "Steam", for example, may refer to the division of Valve that develops its app store and game support services, as opposed to the "Source" division that develops games but can't count to three. And sometimes, a company even changes its name to that of its product line, like what BlackBerry did at the beginning of 2013 to avoid more "RIM jobs" jokes.

If Steam wants to keep its safe harbor from copyright infringement lawsuits, it'll need to quickly pull any unauthorized derivative of Urban Terror after receiving a notice of claimed infringement from the Urban Terror team.

On the other hand, without copyright, the company would have no basis to complain when someone disassembles the company's modified version, comments it, and distributes it.

I've got this crossword puzzle, and I'm looking for a nine-letter word meaning "Copied without author's permission". What I have are
I _ F _ _ _ G _ D

Oh, I get it: INFRINGED

In my country, pre-1923 culture and knowledge is a human right. English from 2013, apart from jargon related to the calculating machines of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, would probably be comprehensible to somebody from 1922.

Now I understand. Thank you for explaining. Next time we discuss this, "South Africa is like Australia or New Zealand used to be" might help others understand your edge case quicker.

If enough popular applications come to be developed exclusively for the addition, then not supporting the addition means not supporting those applications. The existence of Windows RT encourages professional developers to support only the addition to save costs by developing once and running on both Windows RT and Windows 8, as well as Xbox One if the rumors are correct. I imagine that this will become more common in about a year and a half when Windows 7 leaves mainstream support.

The shelves of which (U.S.) store chain? I tried Walmart, Best Buy, and Staples, and netbooks had disappeared in favor of more expensive tablets and Ultrabook laptops. If I plan to be entering a lot of text on a device whose keyboard isn't replaceable, I prefer to try to make sure that the keyboard it comes with is acceptable before I buy it. Or should I just buy any brand and just eat the return shipping if I don't like it?

Yes, and I'm not the only one who thinks it's "a cognitive burden".

If I fail to understand a Slashdot comment, for example, and I reply out of your lack of understanding, and it turns out that the comment that I misunderstood was a movie allusion, what often ends up happening is that the comment that I misunderstood gets modded up later by others who got the reference, my comment gets modded down as Overrated, and I lose karma for not getting the joke.

Except /system is read-only. So a user who wants to use a keyboard that he paid for on a device that he paid for would first have to learn how to back up, unlock the bootloader, root, and restore the backup.

I've been waiting since the 4.2 release for a fix that restores the ability to use a a Wii Remote, something that 4.2 broke.

I thought the Chrome OS that ships on a Chromebook was designed to surf the Web and only surf the Web. Can you explain further? I guess I could use a remote desktop connection to a PC running Windows or Linux in order to run non-web applications, but mobile broadband for that would cost me $420 per year (source: virginmobileusa.com).

I plan to apply the suggested fix tomorrow when I have access to a PC with ADB on it.

If the suggestion works for me, then #44614331 may be the last time I post this.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

"I already pay for a DVD player, so I'm not going to pay for DVDs on top of it."

"I already pay for a game console, so I'm not going to pay for games on top of it."

"I already pay for a phone, so I'm not going to pay for international calling on top of it."

"I already pay for a car, so I'm not going to pay for gas on top of it."

Which of these sound unreasonable?