I think that it depends on your vocation. I'm a science reporter and I still take all of my notes --- interviews, press conferences, scientific meetings --- with pen and steno pad in *cursive*. It's so much faster for me than using a keyboard or *printing*. Plus with a laptop, I can't use any of the shortcuts and organizational symbols that I use. A triangle is change; up and down arrows are increase and decrease; wavelength is lambda; arrows tell me when a note refers back to some previous item. It would take forever to add those symbols using a keyboard --- even with shortcuts.

Walk a mile in my shoes.

Others (like me) just don't want to put that much effort into it. It's a phone. If I can call people, check my gmail, use hangouts, use google maps, look something up, and maybe use the camera, I don't really need anything more. I can mod my Droid 4 when I need to, I think I could run over it with my car without too much wear, and it has a REAL keyboard. You can have it, when one of us dies. I have no time or desire to learn a new OS either. I use a PC; my Droid is kind of intuitive.

Plus, the little Android dude is adorable.

Straight A student here... high GPA, AP classes, gifted program, etc. I went to Maryland by choice. The school really only matters if you're there for an exceptionally good program (which I was --- UMCP was and is consistently one of the top journalism schools). Otherwise, the level of education that you get is based on the effort that you put into it. Crap in = crap out. Or, as the Math dept's Dr. Gulick put it when I was initiated into phi beta kappa, 'the best students are the best students anywhere.' It doesn't matter whether you went to an ivy league or a state school.

On the topic of creativity, writing is one of the more creative disciplines, in which one can earn a degree. That said, I don't know of a good way to quantify something that by it's nature defies quantification. Aside from sending in clips of my stories from my high school newspaper --- which someone could subjectively evaluate --- I don't know of anything else that I could have done to demonstrate my creativity/writing ability during the general admissions process. I DID have to do that to be accepted to the journalism program though.

If you're a serious coffee drinker, you're continually exploring and refining the techniques, the equipment, the beans, the water, the temperature (a la the Breaking Bad coffee clip)...all in search of the perfect cup. Those of us with a chemistry background can discuss coffee and its maddening number of compounds, well, ad nauseum. The genome of one species of coffee can provide information that takes us closer to that brewing the perfect cup OR even helps us make the perfect cup by adding another variable over which we can have some control (especially using a more precise and cleaner genetic modification tool like CRISPER). My cup of coffee this morning was better than most people's, but it wasn't perfect...

Credit where credit is due: Rushdie in a BBC interview. The man knows the subject ... probably better than anyone,

Never heard of her or her series. I just checked it out and appreciated/agreed with some of it. The last time someone did me that kind of favor, I read with relish the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Congrats, trolls. You've made it to the big league...I mean the Catholic League.

Copious auto-correct errors are a deal breaker. I'm a science writer. You can't have my physical keyboard...not even from my cold dead fingers. Extra points: my Droids are sturdy damn things. (plus, the little Android dude is supercute)

I'd pay to see that.

Agree. Sometimes the glass is 1/2^1,000,000 full.

Because it's an automatic/involuntary movement for Windows users. It's no different than pressing an elevator button. You don't think about it.

Another quick fix: unclassify it (the methodology, not specific search information).

If the media is wrong, release the evidence and prove it.

All of this technology sort of smacks of ripping off Doug Adams anyway. Go back and read your "Hitchhiker's Guide".