the Apple watch looked more like a copy of the Asus ZenWatch. Had one of those back when they first hit the market. When the Apple watch began to get popular, I used to have folks ask me if I was wearing the new Apple watch.

Used to happen a lot when I was sporting the Galaxy Note Pro 12 as well..... was asked many times where to get a pen like that for the iPad.

I don't disagree. Otherwise I would have done the usual "there, I fixed that for you". ;-)

The echo chamber that is the internet is a large part of the far-left hellscape brainwashing a good portion of the worlds youth into being lib-tard fuckwads. The sooner it goes away the better.

I've been with 3 different carriers over the years. I've bought phones outright while at each. I have also financed at least one from the carrier at each. In all cases where I financed the phone with the carrier, as soon as it was paid off, I have contacted the carrier and had the phone unlocked within a few minutes.

Its not a matter of "In The U.S." Its a matter of they lock it until you own it. Once you own it, they will unlock it with no problem. If you don't want a locked phone, just buy the phone and bring it with you when you go to a carrier. I've done it several times. They don't care if you bring your own phone. They want you as a customer because they make their money through the service. Ensuring you stay with them by allowing you buy a phone over time but having to stay with them until its paid off is not "shady" its just a way of making sure you actually pay it off. Do other types of business lock you in in some way until you pay it off, no, because they are not selling you a product and a service. If they were, then locking the product to their service until its paid off would be perfectly acceptable.

You don't want lock-in, bring your own phone. you want them to let you finance, live with the way they make sure you actually pay for it. You don't get the phone for free.

I miss the good old days. Now -- Get offa my lawn you whippersnappers

This!!!! Yes!!!!

if its a "business decision" as to using GIMP or Photoshop, then you will use Photoshop. Stating it as a business decision means that your business relies upon functionality and efficiency in workflow, neother of which describe GIMP. GIMP can do wonderful things in the hands of people who know it well. Photoshop can do equally wonderful things in the hands of people who know IT well, and they can do it faster, and their work will better interface with the workflow for any pro shop that does photo manipulation.

backward compatibility is what kills windows..... If you could force developers to move off Win32 and us the new UWP platform, you'd have far fewer problems with the OS. The app store is actually a good thing. UWP apps are a good thing. Microsoft, however, did not have the balls to stand behind this, and offered up Centenntial, so, unfortunately, Win32 lives on. All in all, Windows has been remarkably backward compatible over the years, too much so to its detriment.

Why? Neither are remotely funny in HD, or even SD for that matter. Extra pixels wasted putting them on a 4k screen.

if the information is free, then he is free to write his own book. That particular combination of words, phrases and ideas is the authors personal information and it has value to them, and if you wish to read or watch or listen to that authors information, it has value to you as well.

ideas are free, words are free, sounds are free, images are free. If you are going to say that this poster's individual information is different because it is words that uniquely pertain to and identify that poster, than the individual songs, movies, pictures, etc are unique to the author, musician, production company, and should be treated exactly as that poster's particular iformation.

Here is you valid use case for Google Glass. Make every officer be required to wear it at all times. All arrests recorded from initial contact to Miranda. Traffic stops are recorded from the minute they get out of their car to the minute they get back in. All video footage is uploaded to the cloud and stored on third party servers. When a person is issued a citation or is arrested, The DA and they are provided a copy of or at least access to the video. No video available = no valid citation or arrest. It also eliminates the excuse of "Well, things look different when you are in the field" as you will see things exactly as they looked form the officer's own eyes. Failure to use the camera = suspension on first offense, termination on second. Simple enough.

/. beta is broken.

There, fixed that for you.

uninstall the update, then tell your phone not to autoupdate that app. Nav reappears. All good. This is old news, happened on my S3 (Sprint) 2 weeks ago.

and. might I add, once they have the start menu and boot to a desktop, the ONLY complaint I have heard about windows 8 is the damned ugly window borders. I see a lot of money for stardock when they finally get a version of WindowBlinds for windows 8

I don't know of anyone who has left windows over windows 8.... EVERY SINGLE person I know who has purchases a machine since October has either installed windows 7 on it, or installed something like classic shell, set it to give them a start menu and boot to the desktop... No exodus however.