Circumstantial experience is circumstantial, whaddayouknow.

Clones.

That worked so well, I mean it's just ubiquitous now with overwhelming support right?

Aren't these people supposed to be, you know, working?

Hold on, I need to set up my Beowulf cluster just to run it...

Frankly, this is SOP on Slashdot. Take any other subject that's discussed here, like George Lucas, Star Trek, the programming language du jour, etc., etc., etc., and you'll find a large portion of the posting and moderating population will lean one way and tend to overwhelm other opinions.

wft steve jobs? did you report this as stolen? are you filing criminal and/or civil charges? Are you really taking advantage of your company's incompetence? You already like to go all-gestapo in that fucking app store, but it's time for you and all your altar-boys in Apple to back the fuck down from the religious fanaticism, respect the press, respect developers, and stop disrespecting users with your "retarded customer confusion" pile of shit. The people I feel most sorry for are the intelligent, independent, Apple employees who are in crisis mode and daily thinking about publicly screwing you over, along with your madness. THIS is the reason they threw you out from Apple in the past, Steve. And I tend to think you sorta want to see if they'll do it again, hence all of these shenanigans. I hope this becomes the magical and revolutionary mother of all streisand effects, and that it comes at an unbelievable price.

That's news to me.

Wait a minute? You guys actually have THREE competing mobile carrier technologies in the US?

More like Stone Age, since the average modern-day beggar has more metal in their pockets than pretty much everyone but the richest of the rich did 1500 years ago.

I'm not certain Google ever truly wanted to be in the phone market. It makes sense for google to want a reference platform for their employees, for developers and to spur the market for the android PLATFORM (this is the key). But Google really isn't a hardware vendor.

When the Nexus One was released, the motorola droid wasn't out yet, the closest competitor to the iPhone on android was the mytouch 3g and HTC hero on sprint (i'm referring to US market not european market).

I don't know if the Nexus One actually accelerated any plans, or what, but now, there's a whole bunch of decent android phones that can actually compete with the iPhone.

Google doesn't need the Nexus One on verizon, and likely doesn't want it. The Droid, Droid Eris and Droid Incredible are all much better suited for the purpose because Verizon supports the phones fully, sells the phones and they are all excellent Android experience phones.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Nexus One for Sprint never materializes either, since the Evo 4G is not that far out.

Google doesn't need to sell the Nexus One everywhere for it to be a success. They just need android to be a viable platform on all of the major wireless providers, and it's definitely shaping up to be that way now.

The loophole with that is when someone undermines the responsibility of a parent by selling them an M-rated game without the parent being around to consent to that. Asking that a parent or guardian be present when a kid is purchasing something above their "appropriate rating" as determined by an association of videogame publishers is, in no way, infringing upon your rights. It's taking the "granting of permission to view these materials" away from the store and putting them comfortably into those who YOU claim should have the responsibility to make those decisions. Is it a stupid law? Absolutely not. Is it neccessary to make a law about it? Very debatable.

On the contrary, I feel that it is highly likely that once a civilization goes interstellar (and especially after encountering extraterrestrial intelligence) that it is likely a good deal of homogenization would happen. Hell, simply improving communications amongst a species on a planet will result in this to a certain extent -- just look at the unwitting cultural imperialism we see spreading across the globe from the United States. Granted, I think that the degree to which this effect is present in popular sci-fi is a bit exaggerated, but I would not be surprised if an alien civilization did show much more cultural homogeneity than we see presently in our humble species.

I can paraphrase: Ridden just as hard from behind, but with lubrication.

... did you happen to notice that there was a police car following the Google car? It was both Big Brother *AND* Google. Road blocks or no road blocks, Google is coming in with a police escort.

    Coming soon: Google House View - See the inside of every house.

To be fair... 504 promises = 3.76% broken = 21.82% kept = 28.57% kept if we count 'compromise' as kept (which I'm fine with) Leaving 67.67% promises stated but not yet completed, kept or broken. I check on the Politifact Truth-o-meter periodically, and over the next two years, I think it's going to be more important whether there's an increasing trend toward promises broken or not. Still have a long way to go. And as was said, how many broken promises is too many? Is it one, or is it more than one? How many promises will you let a friend break, versus the leader of the free world?