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False: The boot loader can be unlocked using the Android SDK. Boot into Fastboot, then use the command 'fastboot oem unlock'. Rooting is pretty straight forward these days, plenty of how-to's out there on the Internet. Lastly, factory images can be downloaded from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=compass :-)

They own the copyrights to the material they write, and should be able to (try to) charge for others, including Google, to use that.

No, they should be able to stop Google from using it if they don't like the terms. If only there was some easy way to politely tell Google not to index certain pages. Then the french newspapers could do that, if they don't want certain readers to read what they have freely put on the web.

Have you ever used Google News? It uses just the title and first sentence of the article. It is basically a news search instead of a general search with a news feed of the most recent entries. If don't know if their are Fair Use laws in France but I don't see why Google would owe the news sites anything. They don't even have ads on the site. My guess is that they only run it to encourage people to use their other products that do have ads or cost something.

I don't know where you'd find references that discuss the trend, but a good place to start is Google's IPO. Read the founder's IPO letter. On the question of other companies following suit (with the corporate control structure, at least, if not the user-serving focus), look at the info about Facebook's IPO. There have been lots more in between, and I think it's likely that the majority of Silicon Valley tech IPOs since 2004 have followed Google's lead, but I don't know where to find figures to support or refute that belief.

Is leaving the child screaming for an hour in the bassinet extreme neglect...

Why yes, yes it is: http://google.com/search?q=cry+it+out+brain+damage

Pretty bad. 5 inches or so of ice on power lines, people were without power for a month.

One of the trees in the front yard exploded from the cold as well. It was.... terrible.

Some photos for you.

The summary says November 3rd, but the linked article says November 13th. I'll assume the original article is correct.

The horses mouth suggests your assumption is correct: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb

Last I heard, failure rate was directly tied to process size. Does any of this fix that?

Also: Sandforce controller? Way to go, Intel - Sandforce is a bucket of fail:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sandforce+freeze

and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SandForce#Issues

and more...

There is a rather useful search engine run by a company you may heard off, that helpfully directed me to the official specs when I made an appropriate enquiry: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb

The dimensions are listed there, to the precision of 0.1mm (no word on the accuracy though).

Black is not a color.

Yes it is. It's #000000.

Silence is not a sound.

If it's not a sound, how can it be music?

Atheism is not a religion.

I'm inclined to agree, except in database terms it's cleaner (or at least simpler) to treat it as if it is. Or maybe not, if you're dealing with some Asians (a thing I only learned recently), but then you'd need a join and those are not webscale.

I made some cutouts of a 11.6" screen and 13.3" screen, and 11.6 is just too narrow. 13.3" buys you nearly an inch in portrait page width (5.69" vs. 6.52"). What I wouldn't give for 8.5".

P.S. Original source of that tablet+stylus table.

One more try to get this link right.

SIZE

133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm

Only 8GB and 16GB available:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb&feature=device-featured

8GB is a joke, I don't get it.

Here's a charity local to me that builds PCs for the disadvantaged:

https://sites.google.com/site/carolinafreepc/

Purpose
        To provide PCs with educational programs to low income
        families and children at no cost.

Goals

        To help kids become knowledgeable about computers

        To interest kids in engineering and technology

        To encourage kids to stay in school and graduate

In my my experience, most theists on the internet are insulting towards atheists. They link Hitler with atheism (Hitler sure wasn't a traditional Christian, but he was no atheist), they expressly claim that people become atheist just so they can justify their evil ways, etc. If you want to find argumentative people in any area, you won't be searching long.

So you can point to the existence of argumentative atheists. Bully for you. Now, do you have "grounding in fact" to indicate that "hardcore internet atheists" are, say, a majority of atheists or a major problem or something?

In my my experience, most theists on the internet are insulting towards atheists. They link Hitler with atheism (Hitler sure wasn't a traditional Christian, but he was no atheist), they expressly claim that people become atheist just so they can justify their evil ways, etc. If you want to find argumentative people in any area, you won't be searching long.

So you can point to the existence of argumentative atheists. Bully for you. Now, do you have "grounding in fact" to indicate that "hardcore internet atheists" are, say, a majority of atheists or a major problem or something?

except... God Created Baseball.

The freedom was a huge incentive. If nothing else, I get to make my book beautiful, while other educational publishers are putting some of the fugliest covers on god's green earth on their author's books. (Think I exaggerate? Look at this. Just look at it.) With this project no one made me change the focus, or put in language I didn't like, or otherwise force a change for no good reason. If nothing else I'll have more leverage going into a traditional publishing situation next time, because I won't be a first-time author anymore.

Now it is not.

> Does that mean the entire tax system is a sham?

Government enforced stealing doesn't make it right.

Stealing from those that have more and giving to others who have less isn't fair.
i.e.
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+gpa+redistribution

Dude, come on, just look!

There is premotedroid. Is a bit laggy over WiFi, and my laptop doesn't have bluetooth so I didn't try that. YMMV

BSD based Chrome over the GPL based Mozilla

Chromium is BSD-licensed. Chrome is available under a proprietary EULA. So much for freedom...

Partially BSD based OS X on the desktop over the clusterfuck of GPL Linux desktops

You say "on the desktop", but really Darwin is only a bare-bones OS with nothing GUI/desktop related on it.

* BSD based(outside the kernel) Android dominating the cellphone market over the effectively dead GPL based Linux cellphone efforts

Android has a lot of software licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. They also have a lot of proprietary software on it, especially drivers and firmware.

The Pirate Party of Greece has already issued a statement positioning itself on this matter: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=el&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pirateparty.gr%2F2012%2F10%2Fvaxevanis-lista%2F

Maple Syrup Reserve was on the other side of the country at the time

It was stolen from Quebec again?

http://maps.google.com/

Ha.

Just Michael Savage UK ban.

Hell, the UK actually BANNED him for daring to exercise free speech - they didn't just DELAY him.

A DIY friendly system and the programming language on the ISY is easy to use and quite flexible.

DIY friendly? Why not go GPL? http://www.linuxmce.org/

Some video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829

OTOH I would not want a home system. All I would want is a central button that I could use to turn the house into 'away' mode. It will turn off everything. Bit like some hotels where you must place your key to be able to urn on the lights.

Oh and keyless entry, like at the office placed on the height of where I have my wallet, so I can enter the house with my hands full.

Google TOSWhen you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).

I have used the WiiMote on my Nexus 7. (and phone, but the phone is too small of a screen for that kind of use) I just downloaded an app and every game that supported gamepads worked.

To get this Wii Remote app working in Nesoid, I had to perform several steps, some of which resembled the steps to connect the Wii Remote to a Wii console, and then configure the buttons in Nesoid. But I still had to configure the buttons in Nesoid to match the keys that the input method installed by the Wii Remote app was pressing.

OpenWatch Recorder

ProTip: If the subject of recording can reach you before you can hit the "back" button three times and tap "Yes, upload now!" then you are standing too close.

I have two cats that I love so much it hurts. If a hurricane were bearing down on me, I'd get them to some place safe and fuck a bunch of boats.

Hitler directed his Nazi propaganda apparatus to find a way to, in effect, replace "Christmas" with "Hitler Day". This objective is not indicative of a genuine Christian belief..

What's all this in aid of, then?

As is common with politicians *and religious leaders*, what one claims to believe, and what one actually believes, are often quite discrete.

FTFY.

What are you talking about Googles Revenues for 2010 was $29,321,000,000 and in 2011 $37,905,000,000

They have already have revenues of $30Billion this year alone.

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

The wages dropping has nothing to do with people coming to America to work, and everything with moving jobs out of America to countries with much cheaper labor.

The wages dropping has nothing to do with people coming to America to work, and everything with businesses not increasing wages.

Over the last 40 years, the average inflation-adjusted wage has barely increased.*
The current $7.25/hour minimum wage is actually less than the average wage of 40 years ago.
And yet, in that same period of time, the Dow Jones avg went from ~735 to ~13,500**
(actually, it peaked at 14,100 in late 2007. Then crashed to 6,500 in 2009 and recovered extremely rapidly)

TLDNR: Massive amounts of wealth have been generated and almost none of it has trickled down to the working class.

*Be careful which graphs you look at, not all of them are created equal.
**You can look up the S&P 500 if you prefer, they're the other market index that's existed before the 60s

You're seriously going to use blatant fear-mongering, appeals to cowardice, and logical nit-picking to defend the practice of groping children? I can't even begin to imagine what's going on in your head. I personally would rather be shot by terrorists than have my children sexually abused by government bullies.

Alcohol abuse harms more innocent people than terrorism. Is that better? Or will you find yet another way to stand on the side of TSA paedophiles?

And yes, the above is ad hominem. You're going to need to get used to that if you're going to defend state sponsored child molestation.

I'm not sure it's really advertising...

For example, I can ask Google "What time is it in Hanoi?" the first result is the answer. The second, third, etc. results are for various sites which offer a similar service.

I got my answer from Google. I don't need to go to those sites.

And if you don't want to pay for that, get Power8. It's free and open source.

Android IS a really modified linux distro, I run Debian under chroot on my ICS phone (I wanted a useful command line for some hacking I was doing and there was no combination of partial GNU ports I could find that gave me the tools I normally use so when I found linux installer standard I was very happy)

"Once a Tyrannosaurus took down a Triceratops, how did it go about eating it?"

I thought T-Rex was downgraded from a hunter/killer to a carcass plundering carrion eater, like a buzzard. Besides, didn't these Triceratopses have soft underbellies and such? Seems to me that the neck and face bits would be the LAST to go, not the first.

The article specifically says the bite marks in the triceratops frills weren't healed, which to me implies that healed bite marks have been found on triceratops fossils. If you Google tyrannosaur healed bite marks you get a good number of hits with references to specific instances of herbivore fossils with healed tyrannosaur bite marks.

Figures - like a dog, T. Rex probably ate whatever he could.

FTFY

The idea that requiring ID to vote some how disenfranchises legitimate and legal voters is asinine.

You have that exactly backwards. A quarter of black Americans do not have ID. Those "free" ID's can cost $200 for older Americans born at home without birth certificates, and expensive trips to the DMV for the poor.

Please explain to me how the poor were able to make it to the welfare office to sign up for government assistance.

And all to address a problem that simply does not exist.

A quick Google search proves you to be a liar.

As you probably saw from the posts before yours, this is a pretty common phenomenon... not just a saying I made up for slashdot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

https://www.google.com/search?q=everyone+thinks+they're+above+average

...like they successfully did with Wikileaks.

Operation W.T.F.
COINTELPRO

If by "just works" you mean you install it on 1.- A desktop a couple of years old,so you don't have to deal with the mess that is wireless 2.- You idea of "work" only involves a browser, an IDE, and LO, 3.- you don't actually update it EVAR so you don't have to deal with "update foo broke my driver"...then yes it does work.

The problem is you just eliminated a good 85% of the planet with that list. there is a REASON why the ONLY inroads Linux has made is because of Google Android, where they took the kernel away from Torvalds, its because Torvalds and his old guard clic simply will never change the way they do things.

Heck even one of the developers of Red Hat says Torvalds "top down let the devs control everything" approach is WRONG and has made the desktop "suckage" and that if anything Linux should be copying Android in just concentrating on the kernel and let the makers of the hardware deal with the drivers, certainly more open than the way its done now and he does have some really good points to make.

Huh, this is marked +5 Insightful?

What you're saying may have been true in 2003 or so. Not so much now. Anecdote isn't the plural of evidence, so take this for what you will but I don't know of anyone who's had all those terrible terrible problems you've gone on about.

Most people I know fire up the installer, install it and done. Everything works. Hell, usually works better than Windows out of the box since with Windows you're almost certainly going to have to come back and start loading drivers for this and that to get everything working properly.

I just give completely bullshit names, that a machine is happy to accept but a person would immediately know is false.

I always chuckle when I sign into a site under the name "Anon Ymous".

Oh yeah?!

Whose fault? Who's "we"?

Subsidising unprofitable US producers would be extremely costly. It's extremely hard to fight market forces in a globalized environment (if it was just Montana vs Nevada, one could just pass a law). It's also most of the time counterproductive.

Now this is beyonf "free markets", this is clearly price manipulation. And price manipulation is "legal" only when there's no law. OPEC has been manipulating oil for years. Why do they get away with it? Because they don't belong to the WTO and hence don't fall under its "laws". China is a WTO member, so it's not that legal for them to act like that, and there is precedent action against such manipulation: http://www.google.com/search?q=wto+china+rare+earth

Not exactly. I do agree that region-coding DRM sucks and should probably be banned. But that's not what's going on here.

The Australian dollar has gone up about 40% against the US dollar in the last 5 years. If you compare game prices in AUD vs USD and subtract ~40%, you'll find the prices are nearly identical.

International contracts involving two currencies are usually written to cover one year at a fixed exchange rate. Consequently there's a large lag between when a currency goes up, and when prices go down (time constant is on the order of a year). Especially if the seller is a large manufacturer (like Apple), while the buyer represents a small market (Australia). They may not have enough negotiating leverage to get next year's contract changed to better reflect the high rate of currency appreciation. (To be fair, the manufacturer may also be worried that a currency rapidly rising in a few years is a sign that it'll also rapidly fall in coming years. And they don't want to get stuck holding the bag if that happens.)

Then you have the same thing going on at the retail level, where the retailer (who got ripped off by the manufacturer) now realizes the shoe's on the other foot, and they now have the upper hand in negotiating prices with the individual buyer. So you end up seeing retail prices which reflect the exchange rate 5 years ago, with half the excess going into the pockets of retailers, the other half going into the pockets of the overseas manufacturer.

The suggestion to buy from overseas is a good one. Typically the currency exchange fees and overseas shipping fees will more than offset any advantage you gain from lower pricing from buying overseas. But when the disparity is this pronounced, its sufficient to exert downward pressure on prices. The last thing you want to be doing in this sort of situation is grudgingly pay the higher prices.

Popularize is the meaning the GP probably intended (I hope!).

If by "just works" you mean you install it on 1.- A desktop a couple of years old,so you don't have to deal with the mess that is wireless 2.- You idea of "work" only involves a browser, an IDE, and LO, 3.- you don't actually update it EVAR so you don't have to deal with "update foo broke my driver"...then yes it does work.

The problem is you just eliminated a good 85% of the planet with that list. there is a REASON why the ONLY inroads Linux has made is because of Google Android, where they took the kernel away from Torvalds, its because Torvalds and his old guard clic simply will never change the way they do things.

Heck even one of the developers of Red Hat says Torvalds "top down let the devs control everything" approach is WRONG and has made the desktop "suckage" and that if anything Linux should be copying Android in just concentrating on the kernel and let the makers of the hardware deal with the drivers, certainly more open than the way its done now and he does have some really good points to make.