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I've found that this kind is very common; a company will build a good reputation on high-quality products and then slowly lower the quality to make more profit.

It's a bad deal for consumers.

You do have a good point there about clones... but is pop-cap sue-happy like King?

Candy Crush Saga wasn't enough of a clone, apparently. They had the revolutionary idea to use "gems" this time!

I really hope that they finally face legal karma as a result of releasing this one.

Yeah, it was really jarring when I scrolled down. This one was a LOT worse than others that I've seen.

Oh, I didn't say/mean that it had to be a quadrocopter/multi-rotor vehicle... I was just saying that it'd be a pretty large vehicle. While it's a cool idea, I suspect that a lot of people would be very wary of something of that size flying around their house/building without a human pilot onboard. It's basically the "not in my backyard" syndrome.

Imagine the size of that drone! =-)

I loved that thing all the way up until I saw that ctrl and fn were swapped from the standard layout =-(

Otherwise, I know of quite a few people who could really use this thing!

That would be a major shame since there are AC power inverters that run off of 12V ports in cars. Some people rely on those for different reasons. For example, it's a really nice way to recharge a laptop while traveling.

I think that it said that a message was sent FROM his phone. You can view all messages (to and from) through voice.google.com.

I was expecting it to merely be a graphical version of "dialog". I was pleasantly surprised!

Oh, was it Caprica? Oops.

...so basically we're at the "robot butler" stage of Cylon development? That thing seems a lot like the common household robot in the (new) Battlestar Galactica pre-series "Blood & Chrome".

It's perfect for that! The BattleCON guys do it...

In this case, it was a Ford Escape. It has proximity sensors all around -- it'll also tell you when someone is in your blind spot in a neighboring lane.

You must have a magical car that has absolutely no blind spots! Which one is it? I'd like to consider purchasing one as my next car.

My current car will give warnings if it sees cross traffic approaching when in reverse. It has warned me a few times when someone is driving way too quickly through a parking lot and my view has been blocked by parked cars.

Things like this are REALLY useful. You just don't realize how useful they are because you haven't used the technology yet.

..........not always.

Well, always. But they're not always who they claim to be!

My wallet's receipt to cash ratio is at least 10:1 at all times. I hate it!

I wish that everyone would switch to the YYYY-MM-DD ISO 8601 standard... It sorts nicely and there would never be any question about whether it's "January 5" or "May 1"!

I use voice control for one thing: to send text messages while driving. It's a lot safer to say "text bob i will be there in fifteen minutes" then "send" than to try to type while driving. It's also (understandably) illegal to type the messages while driving in many areas!

Nintendo may not like the use of "Mii"...

We're going to need verifiable sources for claims like that.

...but how would people know when it happens if the information is censored before it can get out?!

Their answer is to "color over it", but BE CAREFUL if you do that. I'm sure that some of us remember the US government document(s) in the late 90s/early 2000s that were released in redacted form, but the person didn't realize/understand that people with the Acrobat editor program could remove the black bars.

...but then the engineering department would start sending their people out to the new off-campus location to pick up their materials?

(alluding to the google bus fiasco)

So basically it was a small-scale model of what happens in city neighborhoods?

One of the comments said "That's what you get for writing your own installation/removal code instead of relying on the proper tools and processes provided by the distributions."

I'd have to agree. There's a reason why those tools exist!

"for everybody as long as you're using Chrome or Chromium" (or perhaps another browser that accepts Chrome extensions)

Hmm... There's a lot of Wheaton hate here!

Surely it's nothing but the Wesley Crusher episodes.

Did they? If so, that's a huge improvement over the iOS 7 beta release.

Although I suspect that it does nothing for those who add reviews through iTunes on the computer rather than through App Store on the device!