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Users: Wow, android is neat, but why is the interface performance so crappy? Google: silence Users: Hmm, I bet it's X, because of ____. Google: No, no, X in android is great, it's awesome, and even if it weren't awesome it totally wouldn't be the cause of anything anyone might think is bad.

Users: Ok, hmm, then I bet the clunkyness and chippiness are due to Y, because of _____ and _____. Google: No, no, Y is actually great in android; android has had Y since the beginning. Users: Ok, so why is the android interface universally clunky? Google: silence

"I am not writing this to make excuses for whatever things people don’t like about Android"

Dianne, don't you dare insult our intelligence by pretending the worst thing about the android experience is a case of personal preference by a small group of loonies.

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The article begins by taking pot shots at Americans. Classy.

Following that, the article only presents statistics in the particular way that shows Australia as leading, while leaving the other ways unsaid.

First it talks about GDP growth percentage without adjusting for population growth differences.

Then it compares the average income growth per year while ignoring the hard numbers of both where it started and where it ended, removing the ability to compare income with other nations.

This is followed by more of the same, an odd obsession with comparing the economic growth of Australia's poor to the rest of the world's rich, citing a high minimum wage as if it were an accomplishment instead of a fiat law, a claim that anyone who disagrees is in denial, and topped off with a shot at the American government.

It seems Americans aren't the only ones who enjoy chart-fueled autofellatio.

Ah, the march of technology busily grinding the concept of intellectual property into dust. Glorious. Imagine if every patent troll was greeted by thousands of citations of previous use?

Incorrect. Once capacitive screens that could detect a finger were invented, they were immediately incorporated into tablet PCs. Many tablets incorporated an active digitizer underneath a resistive one, allowing both fingers and styli. As for a custom app-based OS, look no further than any tablet running Windows Mobile, like the HTC Shift X9500.

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You can add to that the Uren V1, the Samsung Q1, the i7210, the HTC Advantage, the Samsung Mondi, and the W1090, just for starters. Apple did absolutely nothing when it came to device innovation, they just made brilliant, easy to use software to go along with it and gave it a good price point.

By those standards Apple ripped off 50% of the UMPCs ever made along with quite a few tablet PCs and PDAs.

(Cue poorly-drawn comic of Bill Gates hurling a TC1100 through Apple's front window.)

I'm disappointed. Hyneman especially should have recognized the danger of combining energy levels like those with the elastic properties of a cast iron ball. If the firing range was within five miles of inhabited area, stone canonballs should be used. They've obeyed this rule in the past.

There are only two websites which I endorse enough to whitelist them in my adblockers.

It's a case of having a finer control over the behavior of your web browser. Once upon a time, you had only rudimentary control, and had to use your eyes to ignore extraneous information. Adblocking gives us a little more automation. It's my hope that in the near future browsers will be able to parse the "real" content out of web pages in order to present it and only it to the user. Wouldn't that be nice? No more sidebars, no more banners or popups or buttons or other garbage, just paragraphs of text you want to read, pictures you want to see, and videos you want to watch, undiluted.

Myths about the feasibility of reducing the spectrum of human personality into a binary value.

Is it just me or does this patent appear to be describing someone using a mouth to send a verbal order to an ear, which is processed by a brain, with the resulting sequence of actions being held in a thought.

Doesn't NFC technology already cover this?

Why would I use 8.0 and spend time and effort turning it back into 3.6, when 3.6 already does everything I want or need it to?

- When you're in a bandwidth-limited situation like browsing over a tethered phone

- When you're using an access point operated by someone you don't trust

- When you want the best performance out of your system but need to have a browser open

- When any spike in latency could have bad consequences

- (possibly) when there's a significant chance of the computer losing power instantly and without warning

Five reasons I don't auto-update anything.

I just tried it. Guess what? The interface is still broken.

You look at the page contents constantly, at tab names often, at the bookmarks toolbar sometimes, at the URL occasionally, and you almost never look at the page title. In 3.6 these are arranged in order radiating from the center.

8.0 completely breaks the flow by sticking the address bar below the tabs. WHY. Also, where's my status bar, with all of my plugin status icons that I use constantly?

4.0+ is still broken, so I'm still going to use 3.6. Simple as that.

Never before have I read an article and been greeted by the mental image of a vein bursting in my brain, the blood spewing out of my eye sockets, forming itself into an axe, and traveling through a magic portal to mutilate a company's board of directors.

Problem is, that's exactly how the human brain interprets real-life people, too. You can call it the Monkeysphere or Dunbar's Number, but fact is that people are incapable of conceptualizing random strangers on anything like the same level as familiar people. It's the reason you have more emotional reaction to a package being delayed than you have to a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. It's a limitation of the human brain. Movies and games with collateral casualties reflect the way every single human being actually looks at the world; you just notice it because it's someone else's version of who's important and who isn't instead of your own.

If I hadn't had a family member willing to give up their upgrade for me, I would be locked into a phone running 1.6 until May 2012, one which has no custom ROMs.

The non-smoothness of android interfaces is a gigantic hulking monstrosity of an issue. I deal with it dozens of times a day, and have been for years now on multiple phones. It is the sole reason why anyone cares whether android does hardware or software graphics acceleration. No one would care if there wasn't a problem for which they picked software acceleration as a cause.

The post spends pages on how hardware acceleration in android is just fine, but it completely ignores the actual problem. This is like a man in court for a DUI who bases his whole defense around the fact that he has a legitimate driver's license.

Going from Heinlein's razor, I assume that google does not know the cause of the problem. The alternative is that google is deliberately trying to mislead us by ensconcing the clunkiness issue within the hardware acceleration issue in the belief that by disproving the software acceleration claims they can nullify the elephant in the room: poor user interface performance.

When I opened the link I thought it was a domain squatter. Wow.

Thank you. Every six months some school or company has some miraculous super-battery that somehow never goes anywhere. I'm not reading any more of these stories until they include the words "Consumer Electronics Show."

So, in summary, "We have hardware acceleration, have had it for a long time, but it isn't the reason android interfaces are almost universally clunky. We actually have no idea why that is."

I don't use any apple products but I get tired of Google touting how much better 4.0 is when most people are locked into phones running 2.2 or 2.3 for years into the future.

Every single app review says their phone was clean. That makes me think this app is less detector and more placebo.

I would be wary of anyone calling him/herself a "web security expert" who tolerates a presence on multiple social networking sites. It speaks of a mindset not nearly paranoid enough.

If you actually wanted this, you could just spend five dollars on a gameboy printer off ebay and make the exact same printouts.

I'm uninterested in anyone's apology after they've been caught. If I'm convicted of a crime, I go to jail. No matter what comes out of Zuckerberg's mouth, anything less than people behind bars is a perversion of justice.

Controversial titles drive clickthroughs.

You call it the X Attitude, I call it taking six thousand milliseconds to draw a five megabyte graphical email interface in order to read a five kilobyte email.

You say your computer is "fast enough"? Imagine how little power your phone's processor would draw if it only needed the performance of, say, a PXA270 from 2005. What does your phone do that a seven year old PDA doesn't have the horsepower for? High def video and flash video, and that's about it. Software bloat is a pox upon computing technology. Something is very wrong when it takes a hundred times the computation to read the same email ten years later.

Are the dots larger than average chunks of ice from the fuselage?

That's his point. Some people don't want to grow and create, they want to relate, to transmit. I have absolutely no desire to make high-contrast lighting photos because they're "edgy," nor do I want to take "mysterious" photos of models intended to impress the viewer with its ambiguity.

When I see something I think is interesting, I want to be able to preserve it , for myself and for my friends. That's the difference between an artist and a hobbyist.

I don't see this as useful. Using USB drives to share pictures with friends was never popular, and with social networking is utterly dead. Sharing of larger files is already marginalized by the likes of dropbox and upload sites, and becoming more so over time.

USB flash drives aren't used for everything anymore. I don't know anyone who regularly uses one and would find it acceptable for the only thing holding 3/4 of the drive to their person to be the static friction of one USB plug, which is the only thing holding one of these combo drives together. If you're using a flash drive for a file today, chances are the file is too essential or too sensitive to depend on one of those plugs never coming undone, over a multi-year daily use lifespan.