Seen lots of contractors use them. They can take notes and hold them with one hand, so there is a good market for them. At for myself, I don't have nfl receiver-sized hands and for a regular phone I think 4.5 in size is more than enough

maybe a sacrificial satellite like goldeneye?

Imagine if the apple store had its own tasers... they wouldn't have replaceable batteries either

as soon as canonical gained some popularity, bashing them here on slashdot became the cool thing to do. If slackware became the number one distro on distrowatch, some of these same people praising it would drop it like a bad habit. I have no problem compiling binaries; however, I do want to use linux on my desktop and have some good driver support and not compile everything and ubuntu helps achieve this goal. While unity does have its shortcomings, as of 12.10, I find it good to use with unity working like a much improved keyboard launcher, and the web apps integration is really nice. some customization has been removed, and that is sad; however, i think unity has matured and is looking good

Can't go without some battlefield 3 or netflix, but that's what dual boot is for.

Second that. In America you are guilty until proven innocent the second you are suspected of a crime like this

happy to see this after the yakjuxw...

I will only consider it a sign of life if they reject the 1-click patent in its entirety.

Regardless of whether or not you see the big 3 tv news channels as news or entertainment, not airing something because people might do rash things isn't really a good reason for not showing it. If DC's cops went on strike (if that's even possible, like in robocop) then I am sure the minute that that news is disseminated, and crime would increase; however, that is not a good justification for not sharing that news.

Ideas whether offensive or not, are just that, ideas. People can express these ideas, but no one has to listen or even acknowledge them. They cannot help or harm you unless acted upon, which is why there should be no laws against expressing them.

while using new animal and desert names in alphabetical order is a bit obnoxious (they could do without making them alphabetical), at least it is consistent. What microsoft's naming convention is for windows, i'll never understand...

I am just as concerned about the private sector abusing and destroying the open internet as I am about the government censoring and over-regulating it.

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this is slashdot... as soon as any linux distro reaches a large distribution, it is the next micro$oft...

This is never a good thing and Apple and Google have both figured this out. This is a result of Steve Ballmer not understanding the definition of a PC vs a tablet. When I use a PC I want a real OS, not some hybrid of windows phone 7 and windows 7. This wouldn't be an issue if on a tablet all operations could be performed within the metro ui and in a PC operation could be performed within the normal windows UI. Sadly this half and half approach will just lead to problems. Even the windows server 2012 ui has metro in it. I predict enterprises skipping windows 8.