Now if only MS and Google could patch things up and MS get google services on MS Phone 10.

Yeah I know, don't hold my breath.

The whole thing sounds like intentional discrimination against Nascar drivers! It starts here, but where does it end?!? I ask you: where does it end?

@thecreativeone91 said:

Yep, I'm sure it's some of the same people using it. I really never understood using these it's too risky. If you need a VPN get a virtual server you can use or something.

In this case, it's because you want to select the country out of a large list, some of which you cannot easily get a virtual server in. Normal people can't maintain a dozen virtual servers around the world and build their own VPNs just to watch television.

One of the reasons I didn't go with another Android phone after my last one broke is I don't trust google. I noticed things like it recommending me add people I've been around on google plus. Recommending contacts based on some random text etc.

I, too, am concerned that results on my phone are not as good as the results on the computer. I often get search pages that are nothing but ads and unable to find things that, on a computer, are easy to search for. I've never been happy with mobile-only pages or mobile-altered search results.

I am musically challenged. I don't think this will be a feature that I'll use but I think others might find it useful.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Everyone has a reason for what they do. I'm sure Google felt it made sense when they set that up, which was probably at least 10 years ago.

Making sense often just means being lazy. Being lazy or not bothering are common, logical reasons for doing things. I just wish that the reasoning was better than that.

I'm not disagreeing but remember that what may be totally illogical to us might make perfect sense to someone else.

I never implied that laziness was illogical. It's perfectly logical. Their laziness outranked their desire for a good user experience. Extremely logical.

@nadnerB said:

Perhaps your dropping packets like a laxative poop fest and the page keeps refreshing (or just parts of it)

Why would Google make it do that? That's just more of a YouTube bug!!

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Okay, so if I Archive + Label, it will act like a folder, more or less?

What happens if you Archive but don't Label?

The message, for all intents just vanishes.... but you can get to mail that is archived with no labels on Gmail by searching for

-label:inbox and has:nouserlabels

That should get you there.

Or just click all mail as noted above. No need for arcane search syntax.

I had an iPad but sold it. Phones are 5"+ now days. If I need something bigger I likely want a full on OS, otherwise I can do most things on my phone.

Most of the malware comes from people installing apps not from the Play Store or using a rooted phone. The same risk exists using a jailbroken iPhone.

I just bought a new Dell Inspiron for one of our part time workers that has a flip capability. I doubt she will ever use it that way.

This has really been a long time coming. X11 is very old and a lot of people have been trying to figure out how to get this replaced. Probably makes sense that Google really just took the lead on this.

Good stuff.

@Reid-Cooper said:

@thecreativeone91 I thought that the HTML5 spec was going to have specific file and codec types specified. Was that dropped?

No. it just provides a way to present the video. It's up to the browser to support the codec. H.264 is the most common, but even then there are differnt types as it's a GOP codec there's I frames and P frames. where I frames are key frames and P frames are rendered by the computer as inbetween frames at the time of playback using a lot more cpu. All I frames take less cpu usage but are much bigger in size.

I'll be grabbing CCleaner for my Transformer Prime when I get home.
That thing runs like a sleepy Hutt going up a greased hill.