Your post is not very well written. Are you suggesting locking MPEG-LA from the internet or the United States entirely? And was this an attempt at humor? Usually I don't feed trolls, but this has somehow been upvoted as 'insightful'.

The only insight I see here is straight up your ass since you are talking out of it.

You should give Palm another chance instead of burying your head in Apple beach. The Pre is great.

-My Pre lasts all day. That's reasonable to me. Then I toss it on its little wireless charger at home.

Agree, but why wouldn't you want the capability to swap the battery if you needed to? There's no logical reason.

This is great!

I would add multi-tasking to this list. Multitasking doesn't mean running sendmail in the background, it's more like having 3 webpages open to 3 different restaurant menus (2 on web, 1 PDF), while having google maps open to see locations and listening to music. I do this all the time with my Pre. Sure, it does use more battery when you have multiple cards open, but you don't have them open all the time! You open 3 or 4 or 5 cards, then pitch them. Totally worth the 15 seconds of battery drain. I couldn't go back to not having it at this point.

Not sure where you are getting your info. My Pre lasts all day. Having a bunch of cards open does drain the battery a bit faster, but you don't keep them open all day.

I often have 3 web pages open to 3 different restaurants menus, while also having google maps open to see where they are while listening to music the whole time. I flip back and forth make the decision, then close the cards. Why would you not want that? You have been fooled (hoodwinked!) if you think the 15 seconds of higher battery usage is not worth it.

The only thing I see as a gripe is the touch screen is a little less accurate than an iphone, but thats it. It's flashy and slick AND open.

That $1 salary is a joke. And a tax dodge. He gets tons of stock/options/other compensation that he can then sell and then only pay capital gains tax on.

I'm not sure anything you just wrote contradicted the post you were replying to. So ARM designs the core, licensees take that design and build a chip out of it. Yes, you need some people that know what they're doing (PA Semi) to do that, but the task would be exponentially harder if they started from scratch with their own core design. (That was the point)

It's still just an ARM based chip with maybe some unused stuff ripped out, big deal. There are few details about the chip because it's not really that special.

You started off so balanced and well-meaning and ended up a total hypocrite.

Well maybe Americans consider Europeans self-righteous, moral snobs, but that's of no consequence when you are one.

Remember many Americans are cast-offs from the voluminous past failures of Europe. Being a cast-off, it's not hard to have your morals and values switch around a bit. Americans value freedom, family, god, and local community over national community for this reason. National community failed a great many of us.

So the next time you want to call someone 'inexplicably stupid' for having a different set a values, think again.

Great!
Then you of all people should appreciate the importance of the power of the States.

Texas passed Tort reform in 2003 (Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003) which imposes a limit on non-economic damages in a medical lawsuit. This was a great start.

The government should follow Texas' lead and then promote more flexible Health Spending accounts, and force transparency on insurance companies cost (ban 'negotiated rates')

What congress is calling 'reform' is anything but.

In a way, yes.

Their market was completely untapped by the other mainstream news outlets. The market demanded it.

If you don't like it, I have a suggestion for you: don't watch it!

I avoid all cable news like the plague myself - it's turned into a parody of talking heads desperate for ratings.

Many European countries would be more analogous to US States, than to the entire US.

The larger and more heterogeneous a group of people are, the more difficult it is to find a neat little solution to a problem.

The US has States for this very reason! But the power of the States has been eroded with the growing power of the Federal Government. And it hasn't helped.

So please stop comparing the US to your nice little homogeneous mecca in Europe somewhere.

I always hear this knee-jerk Fox bashing.
Guess what? All news sources have a slant, and bashing Fox just shows your bias.

Right Slant
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Fox

Left Slant
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CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
Comedy-f'king-Central

So watch your TV with your brain turned on at all times, I would think.

Yeah because the communism of N. Korean and USSR are beacons of progress.
Maybe your angst is misdirected.

People can use their skills (whatever they may be) to make money and that should be their right. Even if it means they make more money than you can with your skills. Tough cookies. Life is not fair.

The *real* problem here is with Carlos and how he made his money. His business has a monopoly on the Mexican (and many other latin american countries) Telecom industry. That is bad because it hinders others from making money in the same industry. Gates and his dirty company have a near monopoly in their market segment, but that's not quite the same, and they've already had to answer monopoly inquires to the US govt.

Capitalism in not a fallacy. Mexican trust regulation is just broken/non-existent/corrupt.

The richest guy in the world being from one of the most corrupt countries? Big surprise. When you own much of the industry in an entire country, you know some nasty deals have gone on somewhere.

I'm pro-capitalist, but if a single business/person owns controls that much, it ceases to be capitalism. There is no competition, no new investment, no invention. Nothing but collecting payment since there is no other option. The sad thing is the Mexican government probably couldn't break up Carlos' monopolies at this point even if they wanted to.

Congrats Carlos. You won. Everyone else in Mexico loses.

Kudos to Disney for this! Very cool.

One of the reason this is so rare, though, is that patents and IP in graphics are in a bit of a mucky muck. Companies just cross-license and forget about it, but usually that means nothing gets opened up because it's too much work to determine if they can, legally, or it's too risky, legally.

I hope they keep this up.And some lawyer doesn't come and ruin it, which I guess is inevitable, but I hope it's not right away.

Looks like a cool chip. It will be interesting to see how Nvidia does in the marketplace when the don't have rabid enthusiast gamers subsidizing their development efforts every 6 months. Let's face it, who runs out to buy the latest graphics card anymore, when you get the same game on your 360/PS3 with no upgrade? They're mostly positioning this launch as a 'compute' GPU, so they certainly see the writing on the wall. With Fermi and beyond, Nvidia will have to provide tangible real-world profits for some company that needs things like this in order to make it.

Texas relies on property taxes quite a bit (along with sales tax) and has no state income tax at all. California on the other hand has much of their property taxes capped, I believe. When the economy goes down, there's no other stream of money coming in.