The Moto X was actually an outstanding phone. I dumped my gs3 for one. I think the real end-game here was getting Samsung back in line. Motorola phones were selling enough units to raise alarms at Samsung. It's not like Samsung was in any danger of losing their stranglehold on android phone sales in the short term, but long-term with Google's backing it was only a matter of time until Motorola started taking significant chunks. End result: Samsung has supposedly agreed to dump it's custom UIs and custom applications and fully embrace the Play store and the Google ecosystem. It seems unlikely the timing is just a coincidence.

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/29/report-samsung-to-hold-the-touchwiz-on-future-android-devices/

So who is? He's the first candidate that gets touted when a libertarian talks about politicians who "get it".

But it's working so well for Russia...

I'm assuming Ron Paul isn't a libertarian then? Because he wants to eliminate the FDA and the EPA entirely. The private market will take care of pollution via a means of fines that would be imposed by... well I'm sure there will be private citizens who regularly test drinking water and then if they find any abnormalities track down who the offender is so they can be tried in a court of law by... some other rich person who wants to take them to trial. Right?

That's because the House budgets all included the elimination of the national healthcare mandate: that wasn't a legitimate budget, that was their way of claiming they were just looking for compromise.

That's the equivalent of a Democratically controlled House passing a budget that eliminates all military spending. I'm sure the Republican Senate would amend it and send it back rather than tell them to pound sand. Right?

Ya, the problem is these new Republicans think compromise is a 4-letter word. If you aren't willing to find middle ground, our country will literally collapse. 50% of this country thinks differently than the libertarian Republicans. You aren't going to win telling them all they're wrong about everything and they'll just have to go your way or the highway. Half the reason the Republicans are so screwed is BECAUSE of that attitude, not in spite of it.

They can basically charge whatever they want at this point. The average consumer has no way to know how much bandwidth they're REALLY using. Verizon Homefusion is NOTORIOUS for overcharging people, and they get away with it because how do you as a consumer PROVE that you didn't use as much as they claim you did? If you're technically savvy you'd probably be bright enough to setup something like pfsense and log all of your traffic so you can prove it, but for the average mom and pop, you just have to eat it.

Case in point: https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1035492

Except you can't use it for commercial implementations. You have to pay Oracle if you want to create a product based on it, which is how Larry gets his money.

So buy LEDs.

Microsoft stated with Windows 8 that they'd be moving to a far faster release cadence. What's with the surprise? The version number change... or? The title says it all - Windows 8 was released a year ago, windows 8.1 3 months ago. If they're going to get Windows 9 out the door anytime soon to follow the faster release cadence they'd HAVE to be working on it already. They probably started the second that Windows 8 shipped. Since everyone here appears to have a ridiculously short memory, let me remind you what was stated at Build 2013:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57591154-75/microsoft-moves-from-short-twitch-to-rapid-release-at-build-2013/

God the irony of a company who makes 90+ % of their revenue from advertising not being able to market ANY of their own products for shit.

*Computers are both. Depending on form factor, the tablet just might be a more convenient tool for consumption.

Seriously, can we stop with "the PC is going away" bullshit? The PC isn't going away, the reason sales are down is because PC's are *FAST ENOUGH* for most people for their daily jobs. As a *geek* I'm still running a 3 year old system and have no desire to upgrade. Nothing I do is slow on the system. Every game I run can run full screen on my 24" monitor with my GTX465's in SLI.

The #1 reason PC sales have slowed is that there is no demanding new technology forcing upgrades. In the past, every year a new system would drive me to want to upgrade because the speed boosts were noticeable and meaningful.

You could've looked at the shady history of OCZ and guessed what their failure rate would be. They had about the same success in the memory market in the 90's when they were first formed.

Since when? Every large software vendor I've ever worked with breaks their product up into modules and do standalone module testing and once those tests are passed add it to the main code line and do additional integration testing from there. Why on earth would you not test a software project of this size until it was completed in it's entirety? While there may be modules that you can't go live without, there absolutely shouldn't be a requirement to start from the ground up because one module failed testing... That's just bad software architecture. Healthcare.gov should be a prime example of a system that can be modularized. Hell, half the codebase is likely code to talk to external API's for the various government and private institutions they're sharing data with.