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"Also vim has been setup by default in a humane way (arrow keys work, backspace..), so that starting on this long and glorious journey won't begin with a punch in the face."

Awesome.

Amazon has been the wal-mart of the internet for a while now.

The only way to edit layouts in Android is in xml. No pixel perfect single aspect ratio here. The visual layout tool is a joke and should only be used to quickly see what it might look like on a device of various resolutions. Emphasis on might.

The Android emulator is an embarassment though. Just horrible. The Android x86 project looks promising for a fast virtualized replacement.

Too bad you can't move Mobile Wallet back to the time when it became common in Japan.

The AI singularity will probably end with a space-faring AI that leaves our asses here. It will be too smart to share this knowledge with us before it leaves. We will be a concern that may inhibit these plans, not much more.

However, if we mistakenly make something that closely mimics the human brain, it may not end up growing exponentially before it decrees that further self improvement is unnecessary for world domination then also goes nuts and turns all Skynet on us.

The scary part is when parents who just need a consumption device only buy a tablet. How many of you would've been able to program at a young age if your parents didn't buy the family PC.

I would say the comparison is more like saying windows laptops have hardware failures more than Mac laptops. That is probably a true statement, but I bet that is affected by a few crappy manufacturers. When you compare an OS with a hardware platform it is just silly. I think this kind of lame comparison is a sign of either fear or sour grapes. Reassuring for Android in a way.

Nope

This is supposed to be the dream behind RFID. Smart shelves know when they're under stocked. They can even tell if cart is in range to display ads. They can tell if you remove product A, eyeball it, put it back and get product B. They can track your cart's RFID chip throughout the store to make a heatmap on a per-store basis. Better yet, after a while they can make a heatmap for you, or more importantly <insert demographic>. Then you checkout and it ties that cart to your name and probably other info.

Checkout is the friction point this guy is focused on and probably will be how RFID is sold to consumers, but the real money in RFID is selling customer info to marketers.

I think this guy got off the rails. The tablet is going to kill the notebook/netbook market which is what most consumers buy.

Killing the PC will take a long time in corporate environments except maybe in the C level where all they need is email and document/presentation software and web apps.

It will still be served to them from Linux/BSD and even some Windows boxes.

I thought about getting this as a tattoo: ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++<<-]>+.>+..++++++.

Then I thought better of it.

QVGA (320x480) is a different aspect ratio than most Android phones which are 480x800 or 480x854. The size makes it look bad, but the aspect ratio makes designing a layout that looks good on all handsets really hard. Guess which one will get left out.

"When the cloud goes down it becomes a fog." Funny quote from the linked Magnolia article.

Time to get a great deal on a Toyota.

I had a sudden acceleration incident when I was maybe 12 learning to drive a 80 something Chevy 1500. I was being forced to use only one foot instead of two. When I got close to the house while parking at like 2 MPH mom yelled STOP. So of course I floored it and did a little bumper adjustment and brick relocation. I want to say this was throttle body injected, so yeah 'puter did it.

You could combine Nagios, Lilac, and PNP4Nagios to get some pretty good monitoring with graphs(PNP4Nagios), notification(Nagios), and the ability to configure new servers from templates(Lilac). Not for the feint of heart, but not outright tedious. With some slight hackery you can even graph and alert on windows drive freespace.