Kadrith's comments

A little late on the thread but I wanted to add this for anyone reading in the future. My sister purchased an iPad 2 about a month before Christmas; I talked her out of a Galaxy Tab.

She has since returned the iPad 2 and gotten a Kindle Fire. Her main reason was that the iPad was too big for her to carry around constantly and the Fire fits in all of her purses. Since she would use the device while waiting or at random times, it was more important to have the device with her than sitting at home.

How so? I ask because I received a Kindle Fire for Christmas from my parents because I had been debating whether to buy one. So far I have used it for reading books and some light web browsing.

The experience has been good so far, although I have not attempted to stress the device or perform an action it was not designed for. Every person I know, who has actually used a Kindle Fire, has had nothing but positive comments; most of them are non-technical.

Someone should make an app which lets us scan bar codes to know if the manufacturer is a SOPA supporter. This could also be extended to help with other things. For example, if you care a lot about animal rights it might help you avoid supporting companies abusing animals, to include suggesting alternative products.

If it ever came to that I'd probably just switch to a Nexus or an iPhone. If I buy a device with the expectation that it will be supported for a period of time, I don't expect to pay additional for the updates that were originally promised.

What if people pledged to reduce what they purchase from Comcast? Maybe turn off cable but keep internet services. It would not have the same impact, but it would still hurt their bottom line.

I wonder if money paid to people like this is an attempt to get time with them and change their mind or alter the bill.

I wonder if the use of this patent, and any associated software, would be tied to Android or other Google services.

I block things like third party cookies but don't block adds on sites that I frequent. However if I go to a new site the adds are blocked by default; if I find myself going back to the site I unblock it.

I believe they have something in the contract a patient signs before services are provided which turn over copyright to any reviews.

I have 9 siblings and my mom had at least one box for each of us with stuff. When I got married my mom gave the box to my wife. :/

I thought Schmidt also left the room when they discussed the iPhone.

Someone asked me what day Thanksgiving falls on in 2012; I just realized I could type "thanksgiving date 2012" and get the answer.

I have an Android phone, ATRIX specifically, yet I recommend an iPhone to any non-technical person I know looking for a phone. The main reason I do this is consistency. Android has come a long way, but iPhone still has a more consistent interface to include the applications.

If they have questions any other iPhone owner is a potential support person. If they get some Android phone they either contact me, need to find someone else with the same phone or someone who is willing to learn the UI shell of a given vendor and where things are on that device.

None of this has anything to do with status symbols. The last person I recommended an iPhone to was a retired police officer who wanted something to get information on but did not want to deal maintenance like a regular computer.

After talking to him about the different approaches, including how iPhones prohibit you from doing things that are possible on Android, he was confused why he should care about not being able to do those things. He didn't want to validate permissions of applications when installing them, he just wanted them to not screw up his phone.

He was more than happy to give up some freedoms that he may never have used in order for someone else to try and protect him from malicious apps or to have everything "just work." I can't see that ever going out of style with people that could care less about underlying technology.

At prior jobs we would put similar language in our privacy policy, not because we did anything with the data, but because we didn't want someone to claim we violated the policy due to how web browsers worked. Either you trust Facebook to follow their privacy policy or you don't; short of auditing them there is now way to validate otherwise.

If you are really concerned about this why not use a browser extension that randomizes your HTTP headers?

Maybe they are trying to create something big that is not a copycat.

From what I understand that is an issue with the Telcom, not with Google.

I really saw the hostility start to show when Google required "real names" with G+. Before that I don't recall as much hostility; at least not more than any other large company would receive.

Where I work the organization matches up to 4% for retirement accounts (403b) and puts an additional 2% of your pay each year into a pension. If you work here for 3 or more years you get the pension when retiring.

Things could still happen, but if I was within a few years of retirement I would have taken most of it out of stocks.

Animated GIFs have never crashed my browser or cause it to perform horribly though.

They also bought the means to create that content going forward.