Printing usually implies a physical result outside of the computer. 'printing to PDF' would be more of a transformation of content. I would even stretch to say it could be considered a form of publishing to the new format. The only reason it "works" like printing is to take advantage of the uniformity of print driver inputs, thus allowing any format to translate to PDF. Despite being installed as a print driver, it does not print. As for 3D printing, it is probably unlikely that home use would produce more 3D models on the whole than sheets of paper (taking a model to be one printed thing and say a report to be a traditional printed thing - they may both have sections, but still a single entity). Especially taking into account how short a time home 3D printing has been available.

This was mentioned at the alpha launch(es), I guess it was an oversight on 'real' launch day. Being able to write 1 app that with little to no code change runs on a BB tablet or phone will be huge for bringing the BB app store back into the light. Not to mention to android OS support making porting a piece of cake.

The camera on a smartphone has evolved to having near quality of a professional camera. That said it is NOT a professional camera. When I take a picture with my phone I want it to capture the moment decently and for the size of a dime they go far beyond what anyone realistically needs. If I wanted amazing quality photos I would use a camera with proper optical zoom, etc. Basing a smart phone on 1 feature of which should not be primary is hardly advisable. That would be like not buying the perfect car because the horn sound isn't a perfect pitch. Sure you use it and some days more than others, but it is not core functionality and should be weighted as such.

Woops, typing to quickly. Thanks for the correction.

Repeating the same thing in different terms does not amount to a meaningful opinion. Generally a reason or fact follows such statements as a sign of supporting evidence.

There's no denying RIM's made some mistakes and targeted the wrong audience with there recent devices, but from everything I've seen the BB10 is a real turnaround to what they do right and what people want. Business oriented, with speed and just a touch of flashiness to go with it. If people can get it out of their head that RIM is dead (which they're not: no debt and rising stock prices, over hiring resulting in mass layoffs, etc., but that's a discussion for another time) they might just find the new BB10 isn't half bad.

The first model of the BB10 labelled 'N' is a full touch. Expect the model 'L' which will run OS 10 to resemble something closer to a BB Bold with your ever desired physical keys.

There are technicalities on both sides, but the idea of using proxies does imply a certain amount of expected of privacy (similar to using a vpn) which can be enough in some countries to have these lawsuits dropped or thrown out.

The idea that something so complex could be automatic in a bird's perception based on visible traits is very interesting, but what intrigues me more is the possible correlation this could have to other species including humans. Immune malfunction, more specifically auto-immune disorders can be some of the hardest to diagnose (some can't actually be confirmed, only determined that you don't have anything else) and they have all sort of symptoms that resemble colds, allergies and other more easily diagnosed issues/illnesses. The idea that something visible could be measured and possibly have more meaning than all the x-rays and bodily fluid tests we have to date would prove an amazing breakthrough for health care. Of course that is a big IF that there is something in humans corresponds.

Despite the appearance of the fulfilment rate going down, if you do the math, since requests are up 70%, Google is still supplying a little over 20% more private data than they were in 2009. It would be nice to have the exact numbers or percentages of partial vs. full requests AND how much information is requested on average. These statistics really do not shed much light on anything. For example: A full request compliance could be as innocent as your GMail account name. A partial request compliance could be as much as everything they've excluding your credit card numbers. (which still wouldn't leave you feeling very safe, despite being a 'partial compliance')

Are people that dense that they create their own opinions on headlines without doing any research or even reading the article these days? Censoring graphic content, both visual and textual makes perfect sense, we have no need to desensitise ourselves any more than we already do, society expects Google to be the pinnacle of internet information. You can't have an expectation like that and then handcuff them by allowing them to only autofill/display results for the touchy feely nice things in the world. It's not realistic, that's not how humans behave (in addition, there's a lot of people searching terms and creating pages to purposely defame) and there would be very little of our recorded history that falls into that category. Knowing our past triumphs and mistakes is the way forward. Go out and make a new name for yourself, don't blame Google for finding your dirty little secret.