Yup. But they screwed the pooch because the 3D experience on my 65" DLP is better than the theater. I bought a HDR TD10 3d camcorder and set the convergence so that items 5 feet from me... look 5 feet from me on my tv. In contrast in most movies everything just looks so flat. Maybe I have abnormally wide eyes but I doubt it.

Actually it says it had to go through the same hurdles, but it was less likely to be turned down because they aren't gobbling up a competitor.

As an AT&T customer I really get sick of how poorly the service works at my work. Oh if I go outside its a bit different but if I'm inside the usable spectrum drops drastically and when you get... I don't know, 4 thousand subscribers in a single cell, you don't really get any throughput. Adding spectrum wouldn't certainly help, especially if its on the lower frequencies that travel through walls better.

"Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports."

The newspaper continued... "We aren't sure which blow dart hit him but it was probably both"

Well, windows/DOS has "exe" (pronounced EX-ey)

I throw people off when I say "no, don't click the icon, click the exey!"

Can be found here:

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/55402?start=0&tstart=30

The atrix phone, which "does everything", cannot play music without the sound micro-pausing.
The fix is in faux's kernel. The CPU isn't ramping up fast enough when there is a sudden large cpu load.

What is the #1 cause of random large CPU loads on the atrix? Motoblur. If you break motoblur by signing into a different phone, 95% of the random cpu spikes go away. You're not allowed to have two phones with the same account, so it disables the functionality on your old account. Except the phone seems to work perfectly fine without it. It also reboots a lot quicker with motoblur broke.

If you listen to music your phone will eventually randomly reboot
If Android kills the built in music player app when it is idle to conserve memory, it will go into a state where shuffle is stuck on and your playlist will be corrupted

Motorblur's big feature is that it keeps the state of phone saved.

Except it doesn't. I've gotten 6 phones and in my most recent restore, it was 6 months out of date. My home screen arrangement was old and wrong, and my sticky notes were out of date.
Oh yeah, Motorola doesn't actually test their phones with a working SIM card and motoblur account.

In fact motorola doesn't even turn their phones on for more than 15 seconds. A lot of refurbished phones get sent out with a defective screen that would had been caught if someone actually went to the set-up screen.

Also the hard reinstall only deletes the /data directory, so it will not fix a corrupt upgrade, OS installation, or user who dicked with their phone

yeah but nobody wants to buy a phone with Australian auto-correct.

#TODO: insert funny English -> Australian translation

People who listen exclusively to conservative news radio is a great example of this. Absolutely blows my mind to hear what some people actually believe and most importantly, what they believe others believe as well.

That said Siri sounds like something I wouldn't use because talking is an inferior input device that voids all sense of privacy I get when i use my phone.

Maybe he holds a cardboard sign that says "will hack for booze", then someone hands him their laptop and says "lets see it" then he goes all slappity slap on the keyboard and BAM!, "swordfish" was the password.

I was going to say, stacking Nand has been around for years so I'm not understanding how this is any different for DRAM.

I don't believe the census when they say the average american family has less than 2 children. If you read how they came to that number, it is based on essentially what you mark down and nothing more. That means when you have a kid after one of your kids moves out, they don't consider that kid that moved out as coming from the mother. They don't do anything like a massive data crunching, its just excel type stuff.

EPS is only relevant for a company with no foreseeable change in demand.

Every tech company has a high uphill to remain relevant. Apple's iPhone was/is pretty cool, the Motorola RAZR was pretty cool, the blackberry was cool, Windows XP was pretty cool, Windows 95 was cool... etc etc You can't just sit on what you have and make money. Your against the clock

An oil company similarly has limited oil supplies and must keep exploring, but those don't deplete nearly as fast as relevance depletes does for a tech company (also don't forget oil companies are becoming 'energy' companies as they move away from oil).

Apple's iPhone is already feeling... dated to me. Its weird but when I hold my wife's iPhone 4 it just feels old compared to my Atrix even though the iPhone does many key features better than the atrix and motoblur isn't exactly the spiffiest interface out there. Her home button issues don't help at all (randomly quits working). Eventually she'll get like me and say "well, I'm not buying another Apple product again" after she gets fed up with all its quirks and shortcomings like I did with my iPhone 3G.

Apple's market capital is driven by speculation, but its probably the wrong kind. Some people buy into apple because they think it has a future, others buy into it because it seems to be more resistant against market swings as a large-cap stock and because it's had a long-term growth trend. The rest are bots running an algorithm that will continually drive up the price of the stock until something triggers them to decide the stock is going to go down... Then those bots will drive down the price of the stock when they go bearish on it. It is likely Apple's price/share is too high given their long term viability, but you do have to give credit to the fact Apple has built their long-term income on their iTunes store which people will probably keep on using well beyond when they decide Apple's hardware just isn't the best item to buy with their money.

However, when someone major starts selling songs cheaper than apple while at the same time giving more money to the creators of the content being sold, then I would say apple is in trouble. At that point, creators may stop using apple as a distribution source

shut up steve, we're on to you

ever notice that the recession has been more or less tied to the rise of apple and its iphone?

a lot of people do this to prevent accidentally arriving at a typo-squatting webpage.

Give a mid-entry level programmer an accelerometer, an SDK for it, and 2 days (on and off) and watch them come up with the same solution as this patent.