The point of the HD support is to play the video on an external HDTV, not to improve the experience playing videos on the devices built in screen. So yes, 720 is supported in the same way it's supported on the X-Box and Applet TV, except this device comes in to play in additional scenarios.

Judging by the Zune store integration, I would say people who bought an X-box. Not just the old and confused ones.

This just goes to show how backwards we are in the States. They already solved this problem is Japan. - Stop having babies.

It also wouldn't be so far fetched to assume that he was just trying instill some confidence amongst the investors. Internally there is benefit to recognizing Linux, but it may not be something he wants investors loosing sleep over.

How does a state partnership, especially between a huge corporation and it's home state give the appearance of neutrality? If anything such a partnership gives a biased appearance.

I'm Lone Wolf. Are you my dad?

They have always worked diligently on making money, so if breaking anti-trust is going to be less profitable in a given situation, then it is no stretch to suggest that they are trying to avoid it in that case.

They did back down on the Vista security plans because of antitrust threats from 3rd parties. MS doesn't want to get sued, especially in cases where it thinks it might loose, so yes they spend a lot of time making changes so they don't get caught violating anti-trust law. Nobody said they were doing it to make the world a better place.

Both statements are true and not mutually exclusive.

I posted two completely different price ranges. You just picked the high end of one and the low end of the other. Nothing to see there except you trying to twist some numbers. It's a $200 to $1000 difference between a midranged Dell and the low end MacBook Pro, and the $2000 MacBook Pro has lower specs all around than a $1600 Dell XPS Studio notebook.

Is it a requirement that you get overly dramatic when you talk about an Apple product?

I have always found it's the midrange and not just the low end Dell machines that have much more competitive pricing than Mac notebooks. The XPS and Studio XPS notebooks (~$1000-$1800) are really at the sweet spot of performance and pricing, while Macs really have a big gap here. You can get a MacBook which has a low end graphics card for the price of a mid range Dell, or you have to step up to the MacBook Pro ($2000-$2800). I think this is one major reason why Macs are considered more expensive.

Since he is talking about domestic politics this is irrelevant.

Infomercials? Your example might as well be a Craigslist add.

This is what Comcast does for people who don't want to use their credit cards on modems or other equipment. Unless I am missing something I don't see anything different here. Also there are hidden cost in the European plans, they are just put in different places. An example might be subsidizing roaming plans by increasing other charges.

No I got that part. I just wasn't being subtle about the fact that I found other aspects of your post more interesting.

If your comparison didn't have the effect that you expected, you might want to consider why you used it in the first place. Your argument was simple enough that it was not needed to clarify anything. In addition, your choice of a comparison was dramatic enough that if a reader ignored your real argument, you deserved it.

If you want people to focus on the real point that you are trying to make with your comparison, then don't use emotionally charged scenarios to make things sound overly dramatic.

He never said they didn't explain it, he just said it was weird. Despite the explanation it's still weird that Japan is a single entry. There is just as much reason to at least give Tokyo a separate entry.

I don't think the explanation is accurate. After reading the article, I think the more likely reason is that the authors are just more familiar with the Bay Area than they are with many of these other places. The Japan entry for example reads more like something copied from tourist literature. Here is an example:

Anyone familiar with Japan and the consumers there would know that Japanese Smartphones are not more advanced, most of the popular and advanced phones are not Smartphones but clam shell phones with numeric key pads. In fact most of the actual smartphones you see in Japan are not Japanese, they are American or Chinese. I'm not merely trying to correct him, just point out that the real explanation probably has a lot more to do with the authors having token incorrect information about some of these other places and having first hand info about the bay area.

"ask a kid who's been raped by his priest for 5 years if he thinks what the priest is doing is wrong; you'll be surpised to find that the kid EXPECTS that from priests and thinks that priests who dont rape him dont really love god."

Do you think what the priest is doing to you is wrong?.