They are not trying to write their own os!!! they are simply offering an alternative shell that happens to be a full screen browser inteface. I could easily see someone slapping this on its own linux distro in a year or two, then you put it on your netbook/laptop/tablet/whatever PC and you can use this as a quickboot…

No different than going outside in the SF Bay Area right now. :P I really hope this rain in the bay clears up fast. I'm on the last summer vacation of my life, and its exactly the same as winter vacation!!!!

Not sales tax thats for sure.

As much as I hate having to pay sales tax, I hate the idea of some large company having enough power to force a state governor to veto a bill. I say charge me the sales tax as long as its for the state I live in, so I know that my state will get some money back in the vaults (particularly since I am a college student…

I still dont think she should've been on Maxim's 100 hottest women list

Left or right???

So im not allowed to use my parent's netflix account while im sitting on my bed in their house anymore? That makes perfect sense

I dont see the problem here. Qualcomm is trying to show that all of connectivity is built in, and that LTE 4G is better than +HSPA "4G" even if the HSPA phone has dual cores.

Yeah its called put the torrent on your laptop and copy it to the device via USB.

Nickel batteries (particularly Ni-Cad) have zero memory effect (at least within the life span of humans) because of the chemical process by which the store charge. That is the reason they are used in applications like electric toothbrushes where the use cycle is very well defined

Im in college, and the very well known rule in the auto shop is that if you leave any personal site open it will get fucked with. Leaving Facebook open usually just results in a dirty status update or very strange faebook chat records. However, things get really funny when somebody leaves their gmail/school email…

As with all the other distributed computing efforts out there, they have systems in place that check all the data being returned, and they know about how much data current top of the line computers can process, so its fairly easy to setup a warning system that can check if one computer is putting out impossible levels…

That sounds like a good plan, but who's gonna give you the $1000 your bitcoin is worth?

I can't tell if your describing the collapse of the bitcoin or the collapse of our current economic model. :P As far as I can tell, the only reason the global economy hasn't blow up (I'm talking true collapse, not just economic downturn) is because we keep pulling more money out of our ass.

so who do I talk to when I want to exchange my bitcoins for real money?

This is very sad considering that almost everything great to come out of Microsoft in the last several years came from this group. Hopefully the people who worked at Pioneer Studios are being integrated into the company in positions where they can develop more great products and ideas.

There is a huge difference between a sponsor and a handler. Just because Comcast gave them money does not mean that the group now has to fall in line with Comcast's corporate line. Conversely, Comcast has every right to chose not to sponsor groups which talk negatively about Comcast. However, the "classy" way to pull…

Is that a true fact that women on their period are considered unclean and thus won't be Raptured?

I would say that deserves a nomination for #quoteoftheday

Looks like the Rapture is on my 21st birthday...thats gonna be one helluva hangover!!!