How long as Windows Phone 7 had tiles? (honest curiosity)

IANAL, but if it's been a while, one might assume that SurfCast has been sitting on the lawsuit, waiting for Microsoft to roll tiles out into more and more products so that they could reach a bigger settlement, though that might have to be weighed against the notion of "not defending one's patents".

Thoughts?

This is the reason why I switched to KDE from Gnome back around '05.

Gnome and its related applications presume to know how best to use an application, regardless of peoples' varying workflows and, by extension, their preferred configuration.

To sum up my experiences with Gnome:
1) Find something that doesn't act how you want it to
2) Open configuration menu for that particular application / OS function
3) Find out that the configuration menu only has one checkbox, and it's not for the feature you want to change.
4) Ragequit

Conversely, of course, KDE is more along the lines of:
1) Find something that doesn't act how you want it to
2) Open configuration menu for that particular application / OS function
3) Tab through multiple pages of options until you find what you want
4) Celebrate

Honestly, I'd rather have to wade through 100 pages of configuration options to find what i want than to not be able to find it at all. That said, there are some Gnome apps that have 100,000 options, and some equivalent KDE apps that have 1 or 2; however, I'm speaking more to the overall design ideology of the Gnome system.

On a side note, I'm amazed that there is actual honest discourse going on in this thread. Why, even just a few years ago, one couldn't shout "Gnome!" or "KDE!" without starting an all-out flamewar. This thread seems, in comparison, fairly civil.

At least one of the major brands of Smart Meter use Zigbee radios. Hardly what I'd consider unsafe.

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, you'll want a second, deep-cycle battery rigged up in parallel with your regular one, but that cuts the connection when the ignition is off such that you can use the deep-cycle for accessories until it's dead, while not killing the ignition battery.

I've seen the circuit in a few different books; you might want to hunt down a copy of O'Reilly's "Car PC Hacks" or 50 Awesome Auto Projects for the Evil Genius, as I'd imagine they would go into it.

XKCD (jokingly) saw this coming a while ago: http://xkcd.com/908/

4.3" with Touch, SD, supported by Arduino: http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=57_58&products_id=541

That could make a great band name...

What, John Shepard buys gasoline? Madness.

As all of the of the more recent router models come with WPS enabled by default...

Don't you still have to physically push a button to (temporarily) enable WPS? If not, whose bright idea was *that*?

and several major sites threatened to pull their domains from Go Daddy, including Stack Overflow and I Can Has Cheezburger.

You can add Wikipedia to that list. [cite]

From the looks of things, this's just multiplied the Drop GoDaddy boycott by the Steisand Effect.

Then divided it by zero. Fffffuuuuu----

Anyone have any recommendations for domains/webhosting?

So would that make this a Sopa-Opera?

But at least in Soviet Russia, Bonds redeem *you*.

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