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@MotorboatJones: That's now how it works. The CyanogenMod project contains support for many devices, but it doesn't mean the drivers for every branch are included in every other branch.

@Kolian: She wears a power suit most of the time you see her.

@Druxk: Except this demonstrates the very essence of capitalism (but yes, communism in its purest sense would prevent such things from happening). Before manufacturing largely shifted to foreign sources, this exact kind of worker abuse/underpay/etc. happened in the United States (and many other Western societies)

@quasimog: Application piracy is a huge problem, but Google introduced a licensing API that should (in theory, and if you obfuscate your code well) prevent it if implemented into your app.

As a developer: YES!!! GOOGLE CHECKOUT IS TERRIBLE IN ITS CURRENT STATE! I get at least several support requests everyday about billing issues that are not under my control, and I hate to not reply, but it's pretty much the only thing I can do. This would also open many more countries to the paid app roster.

@LARPkitten: Then get root access (by the way, I've owned an HTC EVO 4G). If they're really taking up CPU cycles, then apply a barebones custom ROM. A task manager is more like putting a band-aid on a cancerous tumor. It won't help for long because those rogue apps will just continue to receive intents and start

@A_Sad_Peon: Blizzard has full control of Warcraft III and all in-game assets (and maybe even the data within custom maps generated from their tools), but not the concepts, custom art, etc. behind user-created mods. You don't transfer ownership of your trademarks or copyrighted material to Blizzard just by uploading

@Nick2: From my experience (I'm a pretty prominent Android developer), I'd say that's probably a driver issue. In any case, a PSP phone would need a better GPU than what's in the current 1GHz Snapdragon core, but Qualcomm's upcoming offerings should fit such a device just fine.

@Chris00: Getting hired doesn't necessarily mean you give up all your intellectual property rights to the company you're working for. But thanks for the clarification, guys. Maybe Valve went to the original developer, maybe they didn't.

@Nick2: Who told you that "Snapdragons have crappy GPUs?" Why can't this one use a more powerful Ardeno core than the current generation Snapdragons?

Guys, if you didn't already get this, they likely they bought the trademark rights from the creator of DotA, their own employee (or gave him a large compensation/a promotion/company benefits for the rights)... Stop calling Valve out, they have every right to do this.

@Pashdut: There is no need for a task manager. If there were, Android would not support multitasking.

@Pashdut: Then don't kill the tasks. If they're supposed to run in the background, then don't mess with them.

@Pashdut: You uninstall the applications behind them. Seriously.

This site used to make you go through a portal that shows pictures of the Eternal Leader of the Republic and the Dear Leader before showing actual content.

@JDickson87: Should have made it more clear: the driver issues are 10.6.4 specific, 10.6.3 and below perform a lot better.

@menuka: It will run infinitely better in Boot Camp. On top of the Mac client performing worse (not by as much as I expected, though, which is good), OS X 10.6.4 has driver issues that kills graphics performance on Nvidia cards.

@El Pollo Loco: I can't comment on Bugless Beast, but a lot of Android ROM developers are "WinZip script kiddies" who only know how to scrap together an update.zip from prebuilt binary blobs. A lot of them don't know anything beyond basic XML.