Some phones have OLED screens that consume less power when displaying dark colors.

Another reason is nighttime usability on a smartphone. Too much light is blinding after your pupils have dilated to accommodate the dark.

I'm wondering when/if a U.S. company is going to sue China and go after their assets. Namely the Chinese government's stake in U.S. debt.

If they had free data at night, I'm pretty sure that'd lead to people running bit-torrent at those particular hours.

That would be one option.

Another would be something like "Thou shalt not use facebook to gather data pertaining to the hiring of any individual." This would hopefully cover the other scenario of requiring people to be friends with an HR manager.

These comments that call for "I'd rather xyz was improved, why are they bothering with foo?" are silly. Very simply: the scientists who study xyz don't know a darn thing about foo.

Also 30 gigabits/second is so effing fast that they hopefully wouldn't need data caps at the 2 to 4 gig mark, but could go higher. Because, in theory, those data caps exist because that's the cell companies can reasonably provide to everyone. yeah I know I'm being way too hopeful given the nature of cell phone companies.

Like by introducing 4g? OK, maybe that wasn't an intelligent response of me. What other techniques are there that increase spectrum effeciency?

Since the current laws about unauthorized network/computer access are vague enough to include doing something against any website's terms of service couldn't FB just put it their TOS? Then setup a bounty or whistle blower reporting system.

So many posts making fun of this, but does Sealand really have an internet connection?

Time for scientists to get to work? What an elegantly simple solution.

The next time I have to debug something, maybe my fist step should be identifying the problem [taken from dilbert..]

I was hoping that my first sentence that they are powerful enough encompassed video decoding. Oopsies.

Hopefully netflix runs out the HDMI port. That would be another fun use-case. no ripping, encoding, and several hour long transfers to a micro SD card.

Its cool that the n8 came with the adapter, but what I've seen is that most don't.

Also, I'm pretty sure its not the poor little 680 MHz ARM 11 that is doing the video decoding.

Yes they are powerful enough.
Second, some people want to use their tv as a slide show projector.
Third, its an extra feature for those people out there who shop based on feature lists.
Fourth it creates a need for people to buy a mini HDMI to full size converter. Even if its just to experiment with and never use again.

The first video has some text saying that the current robot vs robot record is 176 strokes.

I know its semantics but its nice to see an industry specific title with the word "roboticists" Instead of the generic "scientists" or "researchers" do XYZ.

It'd be funny if a bunch those occupy wallstreet protesters decided to occupy the handicap parking at apple.

Who's the Jerk who sold a bunch of monkeys to Iran ?

And that's billions of dollars right?