They later say to use "passphrases", or a string of dictionaried words. This infographic is kind of hypocritical that way. Basically, there are hacking tools that use dictionaries, but in most cases, these tools prove to be less effective than brute force — unless your password is "cat".

You are right, but I am sure that is not the point of this feature. It just prevent someone from being able to impersonate you (easily), and is not meant to hide military secrets (they have their own security measures for that). The password is kept safe, so they can't log in as me later. And, if someone really wants…

Do people actually close stuff that they need?

What you are describing is a much different problem, not one of "why won't anyone make ICS work on my old phone". (I will skip the whole PE thing, since it is largely irrelevant to what you are saying.)

Like everyone has said, there is no one feature that make it amazing (the "one killer feature" is an Apple gimmick, rather than a standard). The ICS code base is greatly improved though, and it is a big difference from the 2.x code base. It actually shows why the upped the version number.

I have not looked at the code specifically to confirm this, but I am assuming that this is the case (since it is what I would do): the accelerometer (or gyroscope, whichever one is used) is not on all the time, unless specifically turned on by an app (such as games, or YouTube). It is in passive mode, in order to save…

Like demarcmj hinted at, the OS is not by any means "bloated". Android has indeed improved a lot in terms of memory management, efficiency, and elegance (seriously, look at Android 1.0 — that code was, to put it nicely, a mess). However, "improving code", "adding features", "handling memory" really all mean the same…

Don't worry, Google is actually working on that. The problem with engineers is that they cannot account for all use cases (and sometimes even most use cases), so no matter how polished a "final product" may be, if it a "first", it will always be a beta product. Give it another revision, and we will see these…

From a programmer standpoint, it is actually quite the opposite.

I'll add a little bit to this:

I agree with what everyone else has said.

I never said it was easy. But then again, neither is Photoshop. But by that logic, you should learn how to use it so that "you know exactly what you're doing", not just give up since it not easy. If you are that meticulous about planning your shots, you should also learn how to use powerful software.

Get GIMP. I believe it is available for all versions of Linux (and I am sure you can get the code and compile it yourself if need be). GIMP is much more powerful than Paint.NET, and most will argue that it is on-par with Photoshop.

It is fine for most use. It gets uncomfortable for people that travel a lot, when they may have to carry it on their neck for 10 hours while travelling through an African savanna on foot, or something like that. Those straps don't handle sweat well, and start to irritate on bare skin after several hours. However, for…

I know I am a little late, but hopefully this will still be useful.

Have you tried lifting the paper up instead of dragging it against the wire (or the walls of the tub you mentioned)?