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I imagine Xfinity TV will make you watch commercials on the Xbox. On my DVR, I can skip them. That's a pretty big deal.

Works fine when tethered to my 4G phone.

I hate it when I move a decibel place AND MY CALCULATOR GETS TOO LOUD.

I've been depositing paper checks using the Android app for months. That part's not new.

Those fools who dipped out of unlimited data plans will look at you in envy as you stream music from Spotify, watch Netflix movies, upload pictures to Instagram and download apps over 3G.

Spot on. The day one of these articles is published that didn't originate from a company that sells security software is the day I will start paying attention to this topic. That day hasn't come yet. Nothing to see here.

Since the 1950's, the smoking rate has gone down, and the obesity rate has gone up. Therefore, it must have been all that secondhand smoke in the air that was causing us, as a society, to be thinner, because correlation = causation.

Guess so!

Ah, I misunderstood the part about watching tv. That makes sense. As for the battery life thing: a car charger is like $5. :)

Yeah, the last part was a bit of hyperbole I guess. You don't need to spend $X/year of course. But I know people that do just that, and I don't understand that at all. That was my only point of the last paragraph.

Hey, whatever floats your boat is cool. But to me, an iPad seems too big for the car and too small for watching TV at home. I'm just genuinely curious, why do you not use your phone to listen to music in the car, and your TV to watch TV at home?

Maybe tablets are the future, but I still don't see it. Maybe that makes me an old man, I don't know.

It uses native Windows APIs only, not the CLR or other higher level runtimes.

MS has the ability to push out quick fixes for 0-day vulnerabilities without going through weeks of QA. They do it all the time for various products.

Is the A5 really 2x as fast as the Tegra 3? Couldn't they refute that like... now?

Not sarcasm. What's the crime? And how do they determine when it crosses that line? What if you're just being paranoid?

I'm kind of wondering if it would be somehow illegal to cry wolf to the feds. I certainly wouldn't want to poke the bear.

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Or on a website?

I can't say, "Remind me to get milk when I get to Kroger at [exact address]". That should be possible, but it's not.