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Many have asked for this feature. Google keeps ignoring them.

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Many have asked for this feature. Google keeps ignoring them.

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Many have asked for this feature. Google keeps ignoring them.

Not sure why.

amsynth is one analog modeling synth. https://code.google.com/p/amsy...

There are over 1,000 posts mentioning amsynth, many of them comparing other modeling synths, on linuxmusician.com .
As I mentioned a couple of times, this isn't really my area of expertise, but there are hundreds of people on linuxmusician who can give better answers than I can.

The combination of Android Permission Manager, DroidWall and LBE Security Master have made things much easier to block, delete, drop packets, deny and forbid services from trying to use unnecessary permissions.

Dear members, please remember that installing closed source software as root will automatically voids your paranoid member card.

Permission Manager and LBE Security Master are both closed source, and need root to run. Not acceptable.
Bonus points, LBE's home page is in chinese, no offense intended, just paranoid.

On the other hand, Xprivacy does the same job and is GPL'd.
By the way, Droidwall is severely outdated, you might consider trying its (open source) successor / fork, AFWall +

Being paranoid is a full time job !

The combination of Android Permission Manager, DroidWall and LBE Security Master have made things much easier to block, delete, drop packets, deny and forbid services from trying to use unnecessary permissions.

Dear members, please remember that installing closed source software as root will automatically voids your paranoid member card.

Permission Manager and LBE Security Master are both closed source, and need root to run. Not acceptable.
Bonus points, LBE's home page is in chinese, no offense intended, just paranoid.

On the other hand, Xprivacy does the same job and is GPL'd.
By the way, Droidwall is severely outdated, you might consider trying its (open source) successor / fork, AFWall +

Being paranoid is a full time job !

If you're doing that, might I suggest just using "Tinfoil for Facebook", or use Orbot + Orweb, and browse a bit more anonymously through Tor instead.

If you're doing that, might I suggest just using "Tinfoil for Facebook", or use Orbot + Orweb, and browse a bit more anonymously through Tor instead.

If you're doing that, might I suggest just using "Tinfoil for Facebook", or use Orbot + Orweb, and browse a bit more anonymously through Tor instead.

You don't need to use the Facebook app on your phone, you can use the mobile version of the website, or if you're using Android (as is the case with the OP's gripe), you can use Tinfoil for Facebook.

Remember to uninstall Facebook as an app and from ROM including the SNS service (not a typo), to completely rid your handset of that mess.

If you don't want to do that, use Orbot and the mobile site over Tor using the Orweb Privacy Browser.

You don't need to use the Facebook app on your phone, you can use the mobile version of the website, or if you're using Android (as is the case with the OP's gripe), you can use Tinfoil for Facebook.

Remember to uninstall Facebook as an app and from ROM including the SNS service (not a typo), to completely rid your handset of that mess.

If you don't want to do that, use Orbot and the mobile site over Tor using the Orweb Privacy Browser.

You don't need to use the Facebook app on your phone, you can use the mobile version of the website, or if you're using Android (as is the case with the OP's gripe), you can use Tinfoil for Facebook.

Remember to uninstall Facebook as an app and from ROM including the SNS service (not a typo), to completely rid your handset of that mess.

If you don't want to do that, use Orbot and the mobile site over Tor using the Orweb Privacy Browser.

I couldn't be happier now that I've completely purged Facebook and its hidden (SNS, not a typo) services from my ROM and phone, and frozen/deleted all of the other assets in other apps that try to "phone home" to Facebook. Side benefit is that after removing Facebook from my phone, I gained seven solid HOURS of battery life back. I didn't realize how often the SNS service and Facebook itself were sending and receiving data, phoning home, etc.

The combination of Android Permission Manager, DroidWall and LBE Security Master have made things much easier to block, delete, drop packets, deny and forbid services from trying to use unnecessary permissions.

I guarantee that no app is doing what it shouldn't, and those that should have permissions (Camera => Take Photos Permission) are prompted every time they attempt to do so, never allowed by default. If I'm not using the Camera for example, and I get a popup that it tried to take a photo, I permanently deny it and remove/uninstall the app. I don't tolerate any of that out-of-band behavior on my phone.

You should investigate the same. Yes, we all know about the L4 kernel, but this at least will help remove the abuse from the application level.

I couldn't be happier now that I've completely purged Facebook and its hidden (SNS, not a typo) services from my ROM and phone, and frozen/deleted all of the other assets in other apps that try to "phone home" to Facebook. Side benefit is that after removing Facebook from my phone, I gained seven solid HOURS of battery life back. I didn't realize how often the SNS service and Facebook itself were sending and receiving data, phoning home, etc.

The combination of Android Permission Manager, DroidWall and LBE Security Master have made things much easier to block, delete, drop packets, deny and forbid services from trying to use unnecessary permissions.

I guarantee that no app is doing what it shouldn't, and those that should have permissions (Camera => Take Photos Permission) are prompted every time they attempt to do so, never allowed by default. If I'm not using the Camera for example, and I get a popup that it tried to take a photo, I permanently deny it and remove/uninstall the app. I don't tolerate any of that out-of-band behavior on my phone.

You should investigate the same. Yes, we all know about the L4 kernel, but this at least will help remove the abuse from the application level.

By the way, the video above shows the second generation keyboard. The infamous "chiclet" keboard had no labels on the keycaps. The letter labels were on the surface of the keyboard between rows of keys, in order to permit overlays. That was a clever idea, but it wasn't going to fly in an era where mechanical switch keyboards were the norm.

Of course today crummy keyboards are the norm; I bet the second generation PCJr keyboard beats what most people are using these days.

There is one minor problem that Dell might run into. In certain states, they won't be able to sell much of the refill supplies for the printer.

The state of Arizona has a limit of only two dildos per household. Therefore your girlfriend won't be allowed to have one for herself. And after you have printed your limit of two, you will have no need to ever reorder refill supplies for your shiny new 3D printer.

Just Google for "arizona dildo limit". Yes, seriously. Not kidding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Also related:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/...

My satirical take on it all:
https://groups.google.com/foru...
-----
Dialog of alternatively a military officer and Hitler:
"It looks like there are now local digital fabrication facilities here, here, and here."
"But we still have the rockets we need to take them out?"
"The rockets have all been used to launch seed automated machine shops for self-replicating space habitats for more living space in space."
"What about the nuclear bombs?"
"All turned into battery-style nuclear power plants for island cities in the oceans."
"What about the tanks?"
"The diesel engines have been remade to run biodiesel and are powering the internet hubs supplying technical education to the rest of the world."
"I can't believe this. What about the weaponized plagues?"
"The gene engineers turned them into antidotes for most major diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, and river blindness."
"Well, send in the Daleks."
"The Daleks have been re-outfitted to terraform Mars. There all gone with the rockets."
"Well, use the 3D printers to print out some more grenades."
"We tried that, but they only are printing toys, food, clothes, shelters, solar panels, and more 3D printers, for some reason."
"But what about the Samsung automated machine guns?"
"They were all reprogrammed into automated bird watching platforms. The guns were taken out and melted down into parts for agricultural robots."
"I just can't believe this. We've developed the most amazing technology the world has ever known in order to create artificial scarcity so we could rule the world through managing scarcity. Where is the scarcity?"
"Gone, Mein Fuhrer, all gone. All the technologies we developed for weapons to enforce scarcity have all been used to make abundance."
"How can we rule without scarcity? Where did it all go so wrong? ...
Everyone with an engineering degree leave the room ... now!"
[Cue long tirade on the general incompetence of engineers. :-) Then cue long tirade on how could engineers seriously wanted to help the German workers to not have to work so hard when the whole Nazi party platform was based on providing full employment using fiat dollars. Then cue long tirade on how could engineers have taken the socialism part seriously and shared the wealth of nature and technology with everyone globally.]
"So how are the common people paying for all this?"
"Much is free, and there is a basic income given to everyone for the rest. There is so much to go around with the robots and 3D printers and solar panels and so on, that most of the old work no longer needs to be done."
"You mean people get money without working at jobs? But nobody would work?"
"Everyone does what they love. And they are producing so much just as gifts."
"Oh, so you mean people are producing so much for free that the economic system has failed?"
"Yes, the old pyramid scheme one, anyway. There is a new post-scarcity economy, where between automation and a a gift economy the income-through-jobs link is almost completely broken. Everyone also gets income as a right of citizenship as a share of all our resources for the few things that still need to be rationed. Even you."
"Really? How much is this basic income?"
"Two thousand a month."
"Two thousand a month? Just for bein

did you realize that HP didnt start selling PC's until 1995... over 10 years after the macintosh was released?

I guess the folks who did that timeline didn't consider the HP Vectra, released in 1995, very important, perhaps because it wasn't aimed at "the home computing market", which is what the timeline says HP entered in 1995. (I also guess they didn't consider usability very important, either, unless it works better than it did on Safari.)

And, as long as we're beating up marketoons making misleading claims, HP didn't "create RISC architecture" all by themselves in 1986; the first Berkeley RISC processor and the first Stanford MIPS processors were developed in the early 1980's, and IBM were working on the 801 in the late 1970's. Perhaps the first PA-RISC-based HP 3000 was the first commercial RISC-based machine, but that's a different matter.

What is this silliness, that "humans" in the broad, blanket sense could not digest starch? Feh.

We already know from analysis of Neanderthal remains that they could digest starch, and did in fact eat things like starchy tubers and grains. By 8000 years ago, it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals were no more, at least as a distinct population, and that any remaining Neanderthal-specific genes had been absorbed by the wider Cro Magnon population. (Interestingly, it sounds like the Neanderthal genes might give their descendants, i.e. non-sub-Saharan-Africa humans, extra resistance to viral infection.)

This study, where evidence from one individual is extrapolated to the entire human population, sounds silly in the extreme. "One Size Fits All!" never really does.

Cheers,

Or they could have been using something starchy as a toothbrush.

What is this silliness, that "humans" in the broad, blanket sense could not digest starch? Feh.

We already know from analysis of Neanderthal remains that they could digest starch, and did in fact eat things like starchy tubers and grains. By 8000 years ago, it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals were no more, at least as a distinct population, and that any remaining Neanderthal-specific genes had been absorbed by the wider Cro Magnon population. (Interestingly, it sounds like the Neanderthal genes might give their descendants, i.e. non-sub-Saharan-Africa humans, extra resistance to viral infection.)

This study, where evidence from one individual is extrapolated to the entire human population, sounds silly in the extreme. "One Size Fits All!" never really does.

Cheers,

Can someone tell me why BlackBerry is so disregarded? I see a few posters saying that they love their Q10 (I love mine) - and people immediately jump on them saying that it's a sinking ship. Aside from their financial trouble, what exactly is wrong with the phones? The new OS is amazing, based on nerd-friendly QNX, and the keyboard is the best hardware keyboard you can get. The software keyboard on the all-touch devices is pretty damn good too. The only reason I keep hearing that people don't want a BlackBerry is because they're not doing well. Shouldn't quality of a product dictate what phone you get more than their status on the stock market?

Its not rootable.

Its not open.

I can not install the software of my choosing on it.

Does it have a microSD card slot for sharing data between the handheld, your laptop and your desktop PC? (Granted many larger corporations irrationally lock the USB slots down, which would be the same for SD card slots. Those same irrational large corporations are either no longer funding staff to perform the Windows automated updates or are planning too. Thus they lock out use of USB, but stop providing security updates to Windows machines, the most afflicted infection vector in the IT world! I call this mentality insanity. Stop expecting a different result!)

Can I connect via WiFi with a BlackBerry?

I don't need Microsoft Office, love LibreOffice, so any advantage with MS Office is a non-issue for many of us.

I can run LibreOffice on my tablet / Linux handheld and love to not have to worry about the mindless data format upgrades by Microsoft that served no purpose and cost organizations significant dollars to convert their proprietary documents to the new format, only because Microsoft told them, they had too to run the latest version of MS Office.

I don't need Adobe anything (including Flash) on my device, though occasionally I have to update the .so file, thanks to Adobe no longer supporting Linux but putting out a new security update for Windows. Never mind that when you drill down into the security exploits, 98% of the time they require local access. Meaning its a non issue if you do not hand over you device to another or give a cracker the keys to your home/apt!

I could go on, but enough.

BTW, Blackberry is a sinking ship! Its just a fact. Been watching the stock (marketwatch), BBRY (Google Finance), not sure they will survive, such is life for any company stupid enough to get in bed with Microsoft and Microsoft only applications and development tool chains.

Almost every company that gets in bed with Microsoft is acquired or put out of business in 4 - 5 years from the start of that relationship.

If a company's vertical market is lucrative, Microsoft will take it away from them or purchase the company within 4 to 5 years of the arrangement. There are many examples of this happening over the last 30 years. I wonder how many went out of business or saw their market share significantly eroded as Blackberry has? Had Blackberry catered to both Linux and Windows, they might still have a market and a business.

Only Hyper FEARful corporate/government entities are bothering with Blackberry today.

Yes FEAR is a motivator, however when a company acts out of fear primarily, without growing their company through new product offerings, its only a matter of time until they are diminished or gone.

We are finally getting to the point, economically, where companies that have cut their way to stock increases are up against walls created primarily due to their letting so many employees knowledable about their market and business go, they are discovering it very difficult to change their mindsets from one of offshoring/layoffs to one of growth. This too is a normal part of the business cycle. Their loss.

I'd like to agree with you, but note with displeasure that core functionality of the OS is being moved into the Google Play Services framework, with the result that bugs in original features are not being fixed if there is an alternative API provided by Play. E.g. bug 577072.

Erm. I meant bug 57707. The 2 was caused by me not pressing shift when I was trying to close the quote on my URL.

(Captcha: superego. WTF?)

For those who don't know, you can cruise through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River via Street (River) view... but who the hell is the guy in the sunglasses?

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=grand+canyon&hl=en&ll=36.180562,-113.116608&spn=0.215596,0.885086&sll=-34.880632,138.660651&sspn=0.030277,0.055318&t=h&hnear=Grand+Canyon&z=11&layer=c&cbll=36.180623,-113.116661&panoid=3hhY7tdbII1RSBq3fRGQ6A&cbp=12,41.4,,0,-2.93

Easy enough. Get any recent phone that's supported by Cyanogenmod. Install Cyanogenmod. Then install Debian (or similar). This can be accomplished as a dual boot or as a chroot inside Android.

Or as neither.
I like Sven-Ola's debian kit which takes advantage of the (mostly) disjoint directory structure of Android and Debian (or rather LSB) to run Debian and Android in the same root. The benefit over chroot is that you can plug in a USB drive, SD card, etc. and instantly have access in /Removable/Foo for both Android and Debian apps, as well as the ability to use Debian programs (e.g. text editor) in the Android hierarchy. You can get the same functionality with enough bind mounts, but debian-kit makes it a lot simpler IMO.

I'd also recommend zshaolin for those looking for a friendly *n*x environment without installing a whole distribution, or if they don't have and can't/won't get root access.

It's no hardware keyboard, but the Hacker's Keyboard is quite useful for scripting/cli purposes. Unfortunately it only works well in landscape mode, which ends up severely restricting your vertical space, and some apps insist on using the stupid "full screen text box" input method in landscape orientation which is completely useless, but by and large it works as well as one can expect for an on screen keyboard.

If you've got a big, high res screen (Nexus 5, S4, etc) it's actually a pretty decent solution, especially considering that hardware keyboard phones are all but dead and gone nowadays.

From Google's Privacy Policy Page

With your consent

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information..

So Google does "share" data with advertisers as part of their money stream. A very specific subset is opt-in, but everything else is opt-out. If services get updated and you're not careful, you can miss an opt-out. See Privacy and Copyright Protection

I'm not sure how anyone can read that and not understand that they're selling your data. They're just calling it sharing. Everything in the EULA you already agreed to in order for you to use a Google service grants them the permission they need.

From Google's Privacy Policy Page

With your consent

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information..

So Google does "share" data with advertisers as part of their money stream. A very specific subset is opt-in, but everything else is opt-out. If services get updated and you're not careful, you can miss an opt-out. See Privacy and Copyright Protection

I'm not sure how anyone can read that and not understand that they're selling your data. They're just calling it sharing. Everything in the EULA you already agreed to in order for you to use a Google service grants them the permission they need.

From Google's Privacy Policy Page

With your consent

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information..

So Google does "share" data with advertisers as part of their money stream. A very specific subset is opt-in, but everything else is opt-out. If services get updated and you're not careful, you can miss an opt-out. See Privacy and Copyright Protection

I'm not sure how anyone can read that and not understand that they're selling your data. They're just calling it sharing. Everything in the EULA you already agreed to in order for you to use a Google service grants them the permission they need.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Hats off to you, sir, for holding out longer than I could with my Palm T|X.

Currently I'm rather happy with CyanogenMOD on my HTC myTouch Slide 4G (and the slide 3G before that). Too bad they haven't updated the myTouch Slide line for a while, since they'd carve out a nice little niche for themselves being one of the only major Android manufacturers that did physical keyboards.

I'm about to break down and just get a Nexus something, and pair it with an external portable keyboard (there are various cases that help make this more portable).

Also, I think you'd enjoy running full ARM linux on an Android device, but look at the forums for
https://play.google.com/store/...
and check which ROMs support the loopback module (or make sure you can build one for yourself). Not all of my third-party ROMs bothered to do this, so I only have a full chroot Debian distro behind one or two of my Android devices :/

But let us know how you turn out! My musings were plopped down here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
and maybe a few more relevant posts here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...

Let me google it for you

Are you shitting me? The claim is that the deal was the "biggest ever deal in the history of Software." If you would like me to dispute that claim directly, you are an idiot. Here is all the references you will ever need. Just off then top of my head, here is a company that had done far, far, far more with software at the time. They even went so far as to create high quality software; a feat that M$ never did pull off, even after hiring one of DECs lead OS architects (Cutler.) The reason Gates was able to get the deal was because it wasn't a great deal. Nobody knew that the internet would explode and cause everybody and their baby's mama to want a computer. In other words, Gates made a deal. It wasn't a big deal. It wasn't a huge deal. It was a tiny little deal. The fact that history unfolded in such a way that Gates completely lucked out and got the opportunity to turn M$ into a criminal enterprise and make billions has nothing to do with it, and calling it some huge deal based on incredible insight is flatly revisionist. It wasn't a big deal. Period. Claiming it was some great accomplishment, or even that it was a huge deal, is disingenuous at best.

That said, the Republicans are in a civil war between the "statists" and the "liberals" (in the european sense of the word). The Dumbocrats (sp?) are similarly torn, but they are miraculously immune from questioning by the Media-ocratic press. Meanwhile, the rest of the planet (~6B not in Europe or US are basically killing themselves, us, and anything else as they squabble over whose imaginary friends are the most potent (sorta like a real-world extension of the Friday night fights between StarWars fanboys and Trekkies, but with real bullets and real bombs).

When I taught military strategy, I often asked mystudents if they thought rational societies could win out over irrational ones. The mathematics of mutual assured destruction (the context for my question) fail in the absence of a form of rationality on both sides. In the 60s and 70s there was a form of that rationality as required by the assumptions. I fear that in the present world there is no such bi-lateral rationality, at least not between the Western European styles of government and the theocratic forms we are confronting.

Good luck with all that. Myself, I don't live near a ground zero during these time. Welcome to World War IV.

In three or four days, I can BitTorrent most 750 Mbyte movies.

Really, you have a <24 Kbps connection?

You probably mean that you can't decide on a movie, prepare tea, and then watch it, but you can very likely download any movie in a few hours (I assume you're not on dial-up). I have the nominal bandwidth to get that movie in two minutes, in reality it would take something like 10-15 minutes because the torrent takes some time getting up to speed, and I prefer higher quality.

Still most episodes sit unwatched for days or weeks after downloading (I generally don't download movies). As of now I am lucky that I can very easily download something I want to see on short notice, but I rarely do. If I had to wait several hours for a single show I would just maintain a queue of already downloaded stuff like I do today.

The point is that any line faster than a dial-up would be ample to satisfy my viewing habits. A fast connection is nice, and I would miss it, but it's not strictly necessary to enjoy digital content (which apparently is what you experience as well, making my post superfluous. Oh well).

I think a scientific study might show that welfare, truly, solves poverty in the same way that arsenic solves cancer.

Then the evidence suggests you may be American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare's_effect_on_poverty.

And there are plenty of scientific studies

That said, you may be right... after all, arsenic trioxide is used to treat some forms of cancer.

True. We know federal judges are above anything like bribery.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09...

http://articles.orlandosentine...

http://news.google.com/newspap...

Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.

SAT scores are a terrible metric to compare schools. SATs are specifically designed to measure raw ability, and to exclude, as much as reasonably possible, the benefits of education. According to this chart the average American SAT score in 2013 was 1498, while California's was 1505 and Utah's was 1694. BUT WAIT: in California, 57% of high school students took the SAT, while in Utah just 6% took it. So the top 6% of Utah are better than the top 57% of California students on a test that is specifically designed to NOT measure the quality of their education. I am not sure what to conclude from that.

Most college/university bound students in Utah take the ACT rather than the SAT. There are ranking conversion factors listed in the Wikipedia article on SAT test scores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... See also the map on that page.

When I say they scored higher, it's after running the ACT scores through the concordance tables.

Utah has some of the largest class sizes in terms of student/teacher ratio in the nation; California has one of the smallest.

This is not surprising. There is very little evidence that "smaller class size" improves student performance. Small class size mostly helps poor students in low grades, and even then, much of the benefit is because of a reduction in distracting noise. Noise absorbing insulation is far cheaper than hiring more teachers, and may do almost as much good.

Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.

SAT scores are a terrible metric to compare schools. SATs are specifically designed to measure raw ability, and to exclude, as much as reasonably possible, the benefits of education. According to this chart the average American SAT score in 2013 was 1498, while California's was 1505 and Utah's was 1694. BUT WAIT: in California, 57% of high school students took the SAT, while in Utah just 6% took it. So the top 6% of Utah are better than the top 57% of California students on a test that is specifically designed to NOT measure the quality of their education. I am not sure what to conclude from that.

If it was 1981 in Buffalo, it made it into UPI piece... http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19810127&id=R_pXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vvYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3348,1959438

For me, "gold radioactive wedding ring" gives first link of: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19810127&id=R_pXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vvYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3348,1959438

You clearly don't understand online advertising, nor Google's vision as a business. It hasn't changed since they started and being an ISP is a compliment to that core vision (and it is not advertising alone). Google has always wanted to be the interface to information. Advertising supports the vast majority of this. But being an ISP is a "moat" to their castle -- their core vision. Similarly, Google has no reason to sell or give away personal information, nor would they want the NSA to have that. They sell ad *targeting*. Selling personal information is giving away key to the castle. You should learn how online advertising works.

You are correct though that Fox News sucks. So, maybe there is hope.

Now, go forth, and read:
https://fiber.google.com/legal...

It appears that using Google can be harder than you thought. It seems that you have to ask a question to get an answer - such as "what is the average cost of adoption?". It's about $30K for a domestic US adoption BTW, and that doesn't include the "false starts" where an adoption falls through part way through the process. Or providing siblings. I guess these guys didn't think to ask Google (or a lawyer) "would the state override what seems to us a perfectly legal and sensible contract"? Should there have been a lawyer, well I guess that depends on your perspective for interpreting "should".

You appear to have found one of the government solutions to the problem of matching kids who really really need parents to parents who really really want a kid - they give a loan for 10% of the cost. Classic. (Yes I know there's sometimes other benefits from other sources to help out - but they don't always pan out either and the process is long, hard, and usually involves a few heartbreaks along the way).

I'll just leave this link here ...

considering that Samsung replaces 90% of the core apps a normal user expects on their phone, what Samsung did feels already like a fork.

https://plus.google.com/+Marqu...

Yup, and there are plenty of people who don't understand why people pay so much for an Android phone, especially the phablet stuff.

As for your son's android phone, maybe check one of these?

• AppleTV AirPlay Media Player
• AirSync: Sync Music, Videos, Podcasts &\1 iTunes playlists over WiFi
• AllCast for Android

The sad thing is, if this would've been Linux you would've been flamed for not doing enough research and having bought the wrong hardware....

Google: image duplicate finder

You're just plain wrong.

So as I understand it, you want to use searches for Gmail to rule out other things that could have caused the 2013 decline in searches for Facebook. Google Trends: Gmail happens not to show this sort of decline.

I have done a Google Trends search for reproduction, and as you can see, interest has been steadily declining. Based on my findings, I conclude that humanity is no longer interested in procreation. By extrapolating into the future, you can see that all humans will have died out around the year 2140. Mark your calendars accordingly.

I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of the builders of the empire state building sitting on some I-beam with no safety gear or even a rope to hold on to. I somehow doubt construction employers cared more about their employees then than they do today.