Huh, UofA has had puppies around finals for a long time, but then we have a massive number of suicides every year... Something to do with the deliberate policies of torment and prejudice the president put in place. But the puppies rock. Love the puppies.

The hate comes from MS forcing you to switch between two disparate and incompatible interface metaphors, using a device that only does one of those metaphors well.

You don't deserve respect just because you are capable of producing children, thinking you do deserve respect just for that is entitled and ignorant.

You clearly don't have a computer science background or you would have caught your error in saying "322 terabytes bits per second", you should seriously consider shutting up when you address someone who is an expert in the field you are trying to make a point in. Oh and btw QNX isn't posix at all…

"talking back to their parents in a way that NO ONE should be allowed to talk to an elder"

System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Speakable Items

Except BBM doesn't offer anything over the competing messaging platforms... so no there's no differentiation for the consumer and the product would flop.

You realize that Android prior to iPhone OS coming out was mimicking BBOS? right? That Android wasn't at all desirable until it started taking hints from a company that knows how to do good software? (Sorry Google, love you guys but your UI/UX/reliability blows)

How cute you trust Trend Micro for security advice.

Benchmarks are worthless as measures of realworld performance, people make them for the same reason that they like to talk about anything where two numbers can be found and the bigger one is allegedly better. It's a simple way to try and win an argument without needing any knowledge of how something works. (Both sides…

You do realize that benchmarks mean absolutely nothing right? As in the SPEC guys don't even like them. Also you are misquoting the S3 geekbench score anyway (try 1560, just shy of the Nexus7's 1591 and far shy of 1602 or your quoted 1688).

Ignorant android user is ignorant. Nothing new here.

Like how everyone is bashing Google for project butter? A usable interface that isn't constantly lagging on a quad code multi GHz chip? How dare they!

The 4th Gen is going to lag on the newer games, and be excluded from many alltogether. But then so will the new one to some degree as games start to require the A6 SOC.

Well there's a sample app on apple's developer site whereby you can share a contact card ala bump or android beam and it's instant as well. No setup, no setup, just launch the app and put it close to another BTLE device running the app. Took about 1/5 second to show up from my observations. Haven't used Android beam…

bluetooth uses wifi (device-to-device network) to transfer files, it's faster than NFC. anyone transferring files over BTLE without ramping up to BTHS is an idiot.

You realize bluetooth uses wifi to do actual large data transfers as of 3.0 and is far faster than NFC? bluetooth LE is optimized for low energy interactions, like pedometers, heart rate monitors, mice, paying for things, etc. You always have the option to ramp up to a better protocol for a transfer.

Nope, Bluetooth 4 has security, NFC basically doesn't. It's already been shown to be vulnerable to spoofing and eavesdropping with little technical knowledge.

Remind me which phone had BTLE in it before the iPhone? Everyone wants mobile payments which requires security which pretty much requires that you not use NFC.

I wonder if the gender neutral toy department will even work, after all aren't the "themes" toys come in essentially "pink-girly-homemaking and shopping" and then everything else is for boys? Isn't that the problem in the first place? So you'd still wind up with a "girls section" so to speak.