If you have that much of a problem with them describing the mass being added, just convert the mass to energy. 160 tonnes of mass is equivalent to 1.438 x 10^22 Joules of energy. Just pretend the article is saying that energy is being added to the system so the energy of the system must go up by this many Joules.

That makes sense, but I was asking about the comment trschober made where he says they got the monopoly through antitrust violations associated with already being a monopoly.

And, considering the case in question, he is really saying that bundling IE is what got them their monopoly. Which, doesn't seem historically accurate or physically possible.

They achieved a monopoly by being a monopoly?

I don't think so. You would still need the Kinect since there is specialized hardware in it that allows all this to work. When they talk about embedded devices, I seriously doubt they are talking about phones, or any other consumer electronics. This sort of support is most likely targeted at point-of-sale embedded devices or kiosks or something else along those lines.

I think that applies to this conversation if your local Cracker Barrel is publicly funded.

He probably did, but you can't overlook the time he mentioned as well. I don't know who backed light rail in Europe. I'd be interested to know and now that I'm writing this comment I think I'll go look into it later. In the US, light rail was often backed by land developers and power companies. Light rail is one of the things that facilitated power lines spreading out from city centers into suburban areas in the US. And suburbs would spread out as far as light rail could take people in some cases. A mogul could buy up big chunks of land outside a city, run a light rail out to it, and advertise how quick and easy it would be to get from there to the city. Having a cheap light rail while you are selling the land is great. It's worth having. Once the land is sold and developed and the mogul is moving on to another area, how much value does that light rail system have?

A lot of things contributed to the decline of light rail in the US. Big Oil, I am sure, was part of that. But other forces were at work as well. Which one contributed most to it, I couldn't say. But if you focus on just one part of it, you are sure to find enough evidence to convince yourself that part is the most important part.

But is there a reason why he doesn't know anything about ducks? I WANT TO KNOW THE ILLUMINATI SECRETS!

As a result of this story, stealing passwords is now considered rape,

I am curious what Samsung could get out of this. bada has C++, Flash and Web App development models already. Would they ditch the C++ and Flash approaches and switch to the Tizen model, or use Tizen to build out the Web App model more?

Or could this be mostly a business move? Are there partners associated with Tizen that would look upon this happily and be more keen to partner with Samsung on things in the future?

This is the story on the House Oversight Committee website that announces that work on SOPA has been postponed (not canceled or killed yet) and the first link in the story is an Outlook Web Access redirect link. So you have to sign into the house.gov OWA server to get to it. Yep, these guys should be figuring it all out for us.

"Your honor, you can clearly see in Xzibit A that we have patented patenting patents..."

I don't know WTF you are talking about. I just described the difference. I didn't say a thing about it being good or bad.

I have found apps that don't work on my Android. But that's because when it was new it was one of the cheapest Android phones out there I believe. It was never ever intended to be a powerhouse and it was never going to stand toe to toe against the expensive, top of the line phones.

The fact that it was designed to be cheap is the only reason I have an Android phone now. And every time it manages to pull off 3D graphics or streaming high quality video my mind is blown. It's made by Huawei. It cost something like $99 with no contract when it was new. And it has, I would guess, the weakest technology that could really run Froyo. And I love it. It is to a high-end Android phone what a netbook is to a high-end laptop. And it's exactly what I wanted.

The cheaper one will have a slower CPU, smaller screen, lower resolution camera, reduced storage, stuff like that.

So, it's not going to have the same exact capabilities as the top of the line.

That part of the article isn't even a valid point. The Sun JDK is not being distributed any more because it is old. OpenJDK is still being distributed and that is the Java SE 7 Reference Implementation. So, the actual message behind the "Oracle is killing Java on Linux" fud is that old, closed source software, which has been replaced by new, open source software, will no longer be bundled with Ubuntu by default.