So once you're playing the music and four sound effects at once, you have only half the CPU left for the rest of the game.

The problem is that if getting an Android phone out of contract is harder or more expensive or both than getting an iPod touch, Apple has won a new convert.

Internet connections in data centers have caps too, implicit in the phrasing x kbps burstable to y Mbps. For example, a 768 kbps CIR is comparable to the Comcast Cap of 250 GB per month.

Then why are .pyc (compiled Python bytecode) files roughly the same size as .py (Python source code) files?

Closing security exploits isn't a "war against jailbreaking" if there's no "jail", that is, if the operating system's publisher doesn't monopolize distribution of applications. Each GNU/Linux distribution has a central repository of applications, but PC owners are free to add more repositories or to install the compiler at no additional charge. Users are likewise free to add desktop applications whencever obtained for Windows on x86 and x86-64.

What make and model of pocket-size tablet would you recommend for that? Most Android devices smaller than 7" are priced to be subsidized by a 2-year full-price cellular voice and data service commitment.

A DSL line supports service burstable to 512 kbps. But that's only if you happen to be able to afford real estate close enough to the DSLAM, as others pointed out. And for the file sizes we're talking about, the upstream is oversold. Comcast, for example, sells "6 Mbps", but if you read the fine print of the acceptable usage policy, you discover that that's a burst rate, and the 250 GB/mo cap makes it closer to 768 kbps sustained, or half a T1: 768 kbps * (86400 seconds/day) * (30 days/month) / (8000000 kbit/GB) = 248 GB/mo.

Which requires having a cell phone that supports playing a music collection over Bluetooth. Among phones that I've investigated that are capable of doing that, they tend to cost more over time to operate on U.S. carriers than cell phones that just make calls and receive texts. Virgin Mobile, for example, refuses to activate smartphones on dumbphone plans, and the price difference between the cheapest dumbphone plan and the cheapest smartphone plan is over $330 per year. And that's why a lot of people still carry a separate phone and MP3 player.

There are lots of urban areas with no radio stations of a particular format. For example, the adult standards (Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra) station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, just switched to classic hits (60s-70s) last week because the Social Security demographic isn't quite as attractive to advertisers. And I still haven't seen a single station that's all Creative Commons all the time.

Color CRTs can't address the phosphor areas behind individual holes in the shadow mask. They address whatever phosphor is on the other side of where they're aimed.

But then you're back using Java and dealing with One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

Use the same technology that blocks iPlayer outside the UK to decide whether to display Summer Time during summer (in the UK) or all UTC all the time (outside UK).

That depends on how quickly other Android distributions adopt a way for applications to opt in to Samsung or Cornerstone multiwindow mode, which allows applications to opt into having variable window size, through the manifest. Currently, the Android CDD allows applications to assume that the screen area will never change after an application is installed, and this mentality of all maximized all the time leads to workflow problems analogous to only having room on your desk for one piece of paper at once. If Android supported multiwindow mode like Ubuntu for Tablets ("Side Stage") and even Windows RT ("Snap an App") do, a four-function calculator app wouldn't need to fill the screen.

I see more continuity from one version of Linux to the next than from one version of Windows to the next for one simple reason: The upgrade from LInux 2.2 to LInux 3 is free of charge. So is the upgrade for all the GNU and GUI stuff that sits on top of it. In terms of your pocketbook, a major upgrade to GNU/Linux feels more like a service pack for Windows than like a new named (and therefore priced) version of Windows.

If all you want is something like Quicken, not something that actually prepares and files the return for you, then Shaman's answer should work for you.

For the most part, yes. And that's similar to what users had under AT&T-customized versions of Android prior to Amazon Appstore: "Unknown sources" is hidden, but adb install still works. But I'm also assuming that unlike Apple, Google will continue to refrain from using a monopoly on SDKs targeting its mobile platform to push sales of its own branded personal computer hardware. And there's still a problem with the "non-compete" provision of the Google Play distribution agreement. If someone were to make an Android application for developing simple video games and sharing them with friends, similar to The Games Factory or Game Maker or Nintendo's WarioWare DIY for Nintendo DS, I'm afraid Google might see that as an attempt "to facilitate the distribution of software applications and games for use on Android devices outside of the Market".

What makes it noticeably worse than a Chase savings account that pays 0.01 percent APY?