I'm somewhere in the middle on this.

Yes, AC, that's _exactly_ what you would do. This is in beta, where you choose a prime sub-section of your market to run tests with. That is literally part of the definition of beta testing.

With Windows running only 27% of the Internet's web servers*, calling it "severely limit[ing]" is more than a little hyperbolic.

* source: http://news.netcraft.com/archi...

More importantly, the different Sony divisions (Movies, laptop, portable, camera etc) are really distinct and different business entities. That's how the rootkit got to be implemented in the first place: not much from-the-top controll.

So, yeah, screw the laptop division, but their phones and tablets are great and supporting them might mean more from that division get promoted up and bring along their values to the whole.

Whilst I do agree with the Sony hate due to the rootkits and erstwhile proprietary storage media ... that is their laptop and storage division. Their phones and tablets are top-quality (after you uninstall the bloatware).

The hardware is topnotch: the z4 tablet? Wow. It weighs something like a thin square of plywood, yet feels sturdy. The one and only problem I have with it is that it feels so light that I want to break it over my knee, just to see what it would feel like :-) I'm not a violent person: you'll understand what I mean as soon as you hold one of these light wonders in your hands.

Sure, mate.

First of all, the iphone 4s (released quite late 2011, by the way) is very slow, to the point of unusability, especially if you upgraded to ios8. We support it because we must. However a measly cheapass Samsung SIII mini, released around the same time can be trivially (yeah, even for non-technical users) be upgraded to the latest android version on Cyonagen and runs surprisingly smoothly.

With minimal effort (yeah, yeah, 'most people can't/won't do that!' ... actually, a surprisingly large group of people do have friends who do that for them, as I can tell from the various app figures the Google Play console gives) a crap phone released at the same time runs much better than the Apple flagship.

The ipad2? What. Are. You. Smoking? That one-time flagship device is un-usable except for single tabbed webbrowsing.

Recently got an Alienware 15 with the highest specs. At first I thought the battery life was a bit crap, but that was to be expected with the highest end i7 and a gtx980m.

Put it in low battery mode and I get 9 hours of internet/office/video use.

And I get a great keyboard.

So, suck it, Lenovo, with your spyware.

Come on. I have used this exact same method on a Windows Mobile 5 device (HTC Touch HD) waaaay back when, using the accelerometer and gravity to determine how my screen was moving and moving a virtual object in virtual space and showing that on my phone's screen.

Not only that, but it's a rather OBVIOUS solution to a problem. Whatever happened to the "non-obvious" requirement?

"The UI on phones and tablets aren't designed to help us find one app among dozens"

I agreed with that. So the first app I made was AppGrouper for Windows Mobile, back then. It's a single icon on your homescreen which launches a panel with categories of your favourite apps. You can swipe between your categories (favs, communications, graphics, whatever you want to call them) and launch the app. You make your own categories and add your own selection of apps to them. It makes for very easy and quick launching of your most used apps.
It's also the first app I made for Android (look for AppGrouper by LifeBoatSoft on Google Play), and by far the most used app on my phone.

There's even a free, old version which you can find on the forums of XDA-Developers.

Read your post and this really encapsulated it all:
"THIS IS NOT HOW YOU UNIX"
Well said.

This. I'm at work right now, and the best I'm allowed to do here is run Chrome (the alternative being IE). No Firefox, no NoScript (which is what I normally use at home).

To other posters: I'm aware of, and sometimes read, Soylent News. Thanks for the other various suggestions as well. Sniff you jerks later!

Seriously, DICE? I'm sitting here looking at the first few comments, hoping for a little clarity and maybe even some insightful discussion - you know, Slashdot style - when the window contents scroll up and a video ad, with sound, starts playing.

I am done with this piece of shit website. How do I delete my account?

What we're dealing with here is a trade secret dispute. Zenimax alleges that Carmack was privy to inside knowledge of Zenimax's work on VR tech while he worked there, and now he's allegedly run off with that knowledge and given it to Oculus VR.

Think of it like the formula for Coca Cola - it's not patented, never has been, but it's protected by trade secrets law. If someone works for Coca Cola and discovers/absconds with the formula, and then sells it to, e.g., Pepsi, then that person violates trade secrets laws by doing so. But if Pepsi independently discovers or reverse engineers Coke to discover the formula on their own, without relying on Coca Cola's inside knowledge, then more power to them.

Perhaps, but there is far more reason to think that Putin is lying, because he's been telling bald-faced lies to the entire world as recently as the past couple of weeks (concerning Ukraine). At least in the US, our politicians tell their lies in a gray area such that fact-checkers give numeric ratings to indicate just how untruthful a statement is. Putin just tells outright lies as if he believed them to be completely true and reasonable himself.

Or, phrased another way: In Soviet Russia, Putin fact-checks you!

Clearly, the Executive chair is just for show, since he'll be out at the golf course all day anyway.