Having just completed the process of searching for a new job, I can tell you that you often (nearly 100% of the time) can't even submit a job application without providing this information. Those fields are typically marked as required.

Same. I want a mini but don't want to buy 4 year old hardware.

Personal preferences or needs. Some keyboards are better at handling multiple languages. Some are better at gesture-typing. Some are better with predictions. Some are better for one-handed use. Some people like to apply themes and colors to their keyboard. And sometimes the stock keyboards just stink. Personally, I use GBoard because I'm accustomed to the layout and the way it does gesture-typing, but I've also liked using Swype.

Please explain how Rovio (creators of Angry Birds) had $106 million in revenue in 2011, then.

That sure was a long way to go to just say "I'm being pedantic."

I can never quite tell if the people that make this argument are trolls or they're just trying to rationalize their use of BitTorrent to download stuff illegally. If you take something that's not yours and it's something that would normally require payment to acquire, then you're stealing. It's theft.

That was Transformers 3.

how many frames per second does it get in Crysis?

I'm incredibly amused that my original comment has been modded "offtopic."

Hey, does anybody remember when there used to be tech stories on slashdot?

Done and done. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

I'm curious about your thought process while writing this. Why would you add an apostrophe in "female's" but in "animals" or "girls"? And not in the send usage of "females". If you're going to abuse apostrophes, why not go whole hog?

How do you kill that which has no life?

http://xkcd.com/927/

The Gulf coast maybe, but not Austin.