I have no problems with Google policing the android market, in fact it might be good if they did more of that to prevent rouge apps from appearing there. The key difference between android and iOS is that you can get your apps from other sources than android market so the devs of PSX4Droid can just host the app at some other server and they are in business again.

Superior how. Do you fit your code in a smaller memory footprint, can you you make it run on a slower clock, using less energy? If not I am not interested in your so called 'superior code'.

Bull.

There are other SW development jobs out there that absolutely do not require OO. In fact I would be very reluctant to hire anyone who have done OO and framework based stuff most of the time. To clarify: Our SW devs are firmware developers who work with embedded devices that get all of 2-8KB of ram and 16-128KB of flash to play with. Devs that rely on libraries and frameworks will never be able to get the job done.

On top of that I will still require your code to be understandable and reusable.

"The most lucrative market in bicycles isn't cheap commodity bikes like Schwinns"
Do you have references for this. In most markets it is the low end that contributes the most to the bottom line simply because the volumes are magnitudes higher than the high-end.

"Besides, if adopted, economy of scale would drop price dramatically"
Of course, economies of scale will in practical terms mean replacing the printed parts with injection molded parts. Economies of scale isn't magic. In practical terms it means you can afford to pay larger up-front costs to get to more rational manufacturing. Consider SRAMs XX casette. This part is milled through a time consuming process while other casettes are stamped. SRAM will not be able to simply push a button to manufacture more XX casettes and then get them cheaper, it is the more rational manufacturing that leads to economies of scale, not the other way around.

A lot may change yet until the election. What if the republicans end up winning despite this? Then these guys might just have caused the worst candidate (in their view) to win. Sure indications right now is that this improves odds for Obama, but it isn't a win.

I would have preferred an approach where both candidates are reasonable. I don't care much for gaming the democratic system, I think if this actually have any impact it would need to drive electoral reform.

P.S: I am european and I do not have much personal opinion on any of the candidates.

telecom was deregulated in norway in the eighties. It was done quite ineptly leaving the resulting telecom company 'telenor' in control of the distribiution infrastructure as well as the last mile granting them monopoly on the existing tax funded highly costly infrastructure.

Nevertheless an immidiate positive effect occurred in that you could get a phone installed in days instead of waiting months. After a couple of years competing distribution companies turned up (as a consequence of regulation that partly undid that they did not split the last mile from distribution, forcing the ex gov. Teleco to offer last mile access at fair rates) this turned significant pressure on pricing.

Now that cell phones have made the last mile irrelevant we have very healthy competition in telecom with a lot lower prices that before deregulation.

Considering that wifi can use both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz ISM bands, how do you figure there will be more interference issues with wifi than BT (That only use 2.4GHz as of right now)

HTC et.al will likely go to microsoft with one of their android phones and say "here is the hardware, now port the software, design a new chassis and give us money to market it and we'll sell your stuff"

It's not like they will spend much green on WM7 until it is proven in the market,

So i can buy the one with the most radiated energy. That way i get more reliable connections.

I herby revoke your geek license.

There are no patching capabilities in any ARM core I am familiar with. (OK they have ROM patch capabilities, but that was not what you was suggesting)

"And no one gets the idea of synchronizing the charghing cycles of your car to the output changes of a windpark 100km away... so shortsighted."

The idea have been had a while ago. It take time to implement. and of course right now the load from electrical vehicles isn't very significant, so it doesn't matter that it isn't implemented yet.

The communication protocols must be defined and the infrastructure to distribute commands from the utilities must be built.

Some keywords for you to google:
Smart Grid
Smart meter
Zigbee smart energy 2.0

If this is true and android had non-replacable parts with GPL3 licensing no device manufacturer would have touched it with a ten foot pole.

Being able to lock down devices is for better and for worse a requirement from the device vendors, if android through it's licensing prevented this no commercial android phones would exist and no software developer would bother developing for it (as there would be no customers)

That is a crap description.
efuses are just nonvolatile bits that can be read by the software. Once the software reads these bits it may make some decision such as refusing to boot from an unauthenticated boot image. Efuse bits may also have some hardware implications like disabling debug/test from boot to prevent a debugger from interrupting the boot process.

Poly fuses are commonly deployed in embedded processors and systems.They are not designed specifically to brick a device, but this can be a side effect of some security fuse bits which commonly disable JTAG interfaces and enable secured bootloader. If you corrupt the boot image such that the bootloader no longer works, and you have no way of getting a new image on the storage element the device will indeed be effectively bricked.