Bachelor's degree == the new high school diploma?

Instead of up skirt shots, it was a bunch of pictures of ankles peaking out from underneath their burkas.
No lie I saw it on the discovery channel that Arab men love when they catch a little glimpse of ankle...scandalous.

Do religious food restrictions cover licking things, because if you are actually consuming something during oral sex you might be doing it wrong?

When I offer a Steam game/account on a forum or craigslist I do not post the steam ID or anything that can identify the account.

The only way Steam can get the info they need to ban the account, is to buy it from me.

If Steam wants to pay me and then ban the account, well it is their account they can do whatever they want with it...

My dog accepts all EULA/TOS, not me, Steam can sue him if they want.

You can sell your Steam account, although I would not let Steam know you are doing so... I open a new account for each game I buy, that way I can sell them off one buy one.

Understood, sorry to press you, I though they had out right said that MeeGo was not to be touched any longer and I missed it.

I have read a few things here and there that Nokia is very polarized internally with different factions competing and almost opposing each other on developmental direction and decisions; but I am not sure how reliable that info is.

The N9 just got a MeeGo update at the end of February, so someone at Nokia is still working on it...maybe, I am still hoping?
Perhaps it is hiding under Meltemi, which unfortunately means weaker hardware, but hey the N8 had a great camera.

I guess Intel is our best hope now for Tizen, although an x86 based smartphone still just feels wrong.

No inside info here sorry.

I did not know the Microsoft deal had the precondition to dump Meego/Tizen, I figured it just had the precondition to produce a WP7 phone.

But I do not think the rumors of two new Nokia MeeGo phones would persist at all if Nokia had the precondition to dump Meego; although it appears the rumored phones will at best have the MeeGo GUI and run S40.

A little Google searching on the topic does not reveal any such agreement to abandon Meego, at most Nokia agreed to make Windows Phone its primary platform, do you have a sources to clarify that Nokia has to kill all in house MeeGo development? I hope I have not missed something: paidCOntent, Telegraph, CNet, The Next Web, Microsoft.

But I am sure that it is wishful thinking to think that Nokia will drop Windows Phone and get back behind MeeGo in full force any time soon, if ever...

No you misunderstand, I am cheering for Nokia to leverage the money Microsoft gave them into getting Meego/Tizen off the ground.

My understanding was that the commercial was saying that other phones, the current ones on the market such as the iPhone and Android mobiles, were so distracting you would not see your beautiful wife in a nighty. On the other hand Windows Phone is so slick it allows you to be present and live life, it just fits in seamlessly, not as a distraction. Here check out the commercial. The problem is I think most of use want to live life on our phone and be distracted from reality...great marketing missed the mark and did nothing to further the brand. In case you did not see the Dr. Spaceman Beta Test commercial.

Nokia has often been praised for its hardware.

Two aspects of Nokia hardware have always appealed to me.

Foremost Nokia's use of Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash, unfortunately the Luima and the N9 did not seem to fair as well as the N8.

Second Nokia's support for penta-band GSM HSPA which until the Galaxy Nexus was hard to come by in Android hardware.

Admittedly the Lumia hardware is a bit underwhelming compared to what Nokia was turning out a year ago.
Sadly the N9 was a little late and they never let the N950 out to the public.
But I suspect that Nokia could easily catch up with the latest quad core gig a ram hd screen super phone with a little Carl Zeiss icing and multi-band LTE support for the win.

Before Android my experience with Nokia handsets was much more positive than say Samsung or Motorola, the hardware was a little bit more open to my tampering. Samsung and Motorola charged for software to interface with there phones or locked them down, while Nokia provided PC interface software free and did not limit things like uploading MIDlets over bluetooth. Nokia was the first handset I saw with VoIP/SIP support. For a while the N900 was in the news every week running something new, meanwhile we are still fighting Motorola for an unlocked bootloader.

Overall, Nokia seemed to buck the US carriers a bit, unfortunately probably why they lost shelf space here in the states.
From what I have seen I like Nokia politics and innovation.
I would rather Nokia get my money over other manufactures whose every move seems anti-consumer.
Although Sammy has been a lot better as of late, HTC is not bad either, and hopefully Google can beat Moto Mobility into shape.

But ultimately I would love to see another open player in the smartphone OS market, and Android seemed like a much better transition to Meego/Tizen.

Why can't I? The Nokia N900 and N9 both have Android ported to them, I see no reason the Lumia could not be blessed in the same way.
Android has been ported to the iPhone as well, and there are groups working on porting it to the latest iPhone hardware.
I would have loved to have the iPhone 4 hardware back two years ago with that 960x640 screen running Android, it would have been better.

I am not sure how stable the ports are, but it is not a false choice, it is a choice that Nokia made and operators are saying it was a bad choice, fix it.
Nokia Anssi Vanjoki said something to the effect of adopting Android is like Finish boys who "pee in their pants" for warmth in the winter.
Well it seems Windows Phone is like taking some money on a dare from another Finish boy for defecating in your pants...

The Windows Phone advertisements have been great. I loved the one with the people so distracted by their phones, especially the chick in the black nighty.
Even better is the latest one with Dr. Spaceman telling everyone their previous smartphone was a beta.
The advertising is very clever, the problem is the Windows brand is tarnished, who wants a phone running Windows? Everyone loathes Windows.

On the other hand the iPhone and Android advertising campaigns are fairly blah, but the brands are hot. Everyone wants Apple and knows what the iPhone is. Everyone also knows there is something they call "Droid" despite that being the Verizon brand. If you do not want an iPhone, you get a "Droid" phone, those are the cool ones.

Microsoft should have used the xBox brand, brought out the Phone-X or Mobile-X or something cool. Windows branding was just a bad choice.

As you said we know Microsoft can continue to dump tons of money into Windows Phone.
Android despite being superior seems poised to piss all over itself with confusing hardware releases and crippling skins.
Steve is dead and Apple seems poised to follow.
I am praying Nokia will wipe itself, leverage the Microsoft funds, and use MeeGo excrete some other bodily fluid on the competition.

All the need to do is make the Android "tiles" into widgets, then they can be dynamic.

I came hear to complain about the same thing. I have had little luck with Android phone recording apps. If they sold this Trojan in the Android Market, I mean Google Play, they could make some mad cash!

We need Tim to take it a step further and force Sprint and Verizon to allow all CDMA capable iPhones on their networks. Hell I would even set aside my Android phone and buy an iPhone to support that!

All voice communication should be handled over a data connect and handed off to WiFi when available...

Are there proposed, possibly superior, alternatives today to tower-node communication?