The only reason they didn't release the Honeycomb source wasn't because of some shift to evilly exploiting the open source community (*cough* DARWIN), it was because it really really wasn't intended for phones. Google likely didn't want manufacturers hacking it into running on phones and giving a largely unsatisfactory experience. They always said this, and people still suspected Google of shifty evil motives. The ICS source being the unification of phone and tablet branches should keep people happy for a while...

Summary is blatantly incorrect. Google Reader will still function standalone. This is about incorporating Google Reader into G+ for people who're already using it (So Google employees, Will Wheaton, Felicia Day, and me). What will change on Google Reader is it will lose whatever social bullshit it had before that I wasn't using anyway; which were actually added after Google Reader's inception in response to social hives of bickering and misinformation like Reddit. In other words, those who liked bickering over politics and science with their degrees and diplomas from Google U and Wikipedia Community College can still do that, over on Google+; those who just want to read their damn news can still do that, without Google+

No one forces you to live outside our sanctioned government community safety dormitories.

No one forces you to keep closed containers in your home.

No one forces you to draw your curtains.

No one forces you to NOT install these convenient transparent walls.

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Bahahahahahaha It doesn't even have a fuckin' KEYBOARD! :D

Proof that Ballmer's crystal ball doesn't function correctly. He's in charge of a multinational powerful corporation, WHY?

I call it the "fuck Australia" rate. It's a legacy of the time our dollar bought 50 US cents, and companies still take the US price and double it for ours, now; though Sony haven't been quite so dickish.

I'm sure they'll be more than happy to sell you new copies of games you already have.

I'm no astrophysicist, but I'm sure they could find an affordable way. Likely involving ballutes or space planes. I say "affordable", it will obviously be expensive to manufacture in space and get the output back to Earth, but you have to consider what it would cost, or if it's even possible to do some things under Earth gravity. Offworld manufacturing won't be some amazing new thing that breathes life into the economy, it's just another possible money source. It's up to the people who need stuff made to decide if it's ultimately worth the expense.

I'm just saying, in a capitalist democracy, money talks, and consequently votes. What is space WORTH to the US Government? What money can they make from it? What exploitable resources does space have? First, the obvious one: space. Offworld residence, tourism, storage. Not much reason to go into low earth orbit right now though. Second, space doesn't have a great deal of gravity. Zero-G manufacturing of larger equipment, for instance, is something that can't be done on Earth. Thirdly, you have mineral resources. The only way the US Government will invest in space is if they can get a financial return from it.

Sure, create jobs. And pay them with...? The government's running out of money, and reinventing the wheel (and face it, unless you're changing the energy source, that's EXACTLY what this is), is the real waste. To generate more wealth, America should focus on offworld mining. Introducing something of value to the economy, and selling it.

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I'm always full of great ideas. I should become a patent troll ;)

It's true. I have a 500GB monthly cap, and some movies aren't worth the 700MB and half hour it would take to pirate them.

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