It's special to the Kindle. No other Android tablet can use the app.

I'd likely pay the additional cost if they had a freakin' Android streaming app. They're going to increase everyone's membership by 25% but they can't support the OS the comprises 80% of the mobile market?

I'm not saying you need to be rude - I am a very polite person.

So, in short: be direct, firm, and unequivocal.

Objective statement: worth it, or generalized B.S.?

Yeah... I was a pretty good kid but I ended up with much the same understanding that you did. I didn't lie a lot, but if I did, the only way I was going to acknowledge it was if presented with irrefutable, absolute evidence.

Probably pretty accurate. The people in the middle are generally starting to become aware that they know more than many, but without that really solid mastery of the material.

It's funny, I feel like there'd be a U-shaped graph if you were to plot "amount of knowledge someone has" against "acceptability of saying 'I don't know.'"

I agree that Windows has a lot to gain from this. Application discovery is a huge problem for the decentralized internet model, especially for the average user who might not be clear on sites that do quality app reviews (e.g. Lifehacker) as opposed to click-bait sites (e.g. "CLICK HERE FOR OUR TOP 10 APP LISTS" ...and…

I'm far more comfortable renting my software from Apple or Microsoft or Google than I am from Adobe, for example. At least with the former, they have an entire dedicated infrastructure for managing and distributing the apps, so it's far more likely that they will be available in the long term.

Ahh yes, melted cheese that has been re-hardened, grease that has been re-congealed, and crust that has turned from crispy awesomeness to tough and soggy.

Plus, pizza re-heats pretty well.

The locked bootloader issue is a good point and is something I've mentioned to friends. I'm an "enthusiast" myself and have an unlocked bootloader/custom recovery/etc. on my tablet, which rarely leaves my house, but my phone is locked.

Okay, so I decided I'd actually not write off the whole website based on one stupid article. I poked around a half dozen other articles as well.

The one useful thing about this Lifehacker post is that it saved me time from reading the tripe at that site ever again.

My desktop backs up to the cloud using an encrypted CrashPlan archive. My laptop only has a few important files, so they get synced to the desktop, which then gets pushed up into CrashPlan.

See my note above... make sure you get a kit with some kind of buffing compound, not one of these ones that is some kind of "magic" wipe and restore. You'll need to put some elbow grease into it, actually buffing down the surface.

You need to use the kits that actually have buffing compound in them. There are kits where you supposedly just wipe something onto the lenses, and that doesn't work.

Note: If you buff your headlights with anything, you must seal them with a UV protectant, otherwise they will yellow very quickly.

Great topic.