Dead wrong. They hold the release signing keys.

when I can pretty easily get a dual core i5 for $400? Or if I care about battery life a single core i3 for $299?

I can't help but wonder if these products are just HPs way of saying to Microsoft that they have alternatives to Windows.

to anyone that didn't already know, but Comcast doesn't spend a dime on it's network. Like all major telecoms they get massive subsidies in the form of tax breaks. Basically they don't pay taxes on their profit from the monthly subscriber fees they collect. Verizon does this too. In fact the just got caught in New Jersey impersonating voters to push through a bill that exonerated them from building out the network they promised to build in exchange for 6 billion worth of tax subsidies. It worked out to something like $10k per resident paid to them for nothing. Oh, and that bill? It passed.

In the states and around the world guns are pretty easy to trace. A lot of crimes are solved on ballistic evidence. 3D Printed guns do away with that.

How does making the handsets in China reduce the cost to ship them to American customers? Seriously. Are there some odd shenanigans or something here? otoh, I can't imagine how any company can compete with the kind of wages you can get in the Philippines and China. The time to market thing woulda been nice since they could beat Apple or Samsung to the punch, but then Motorola's engineers and marketing didn't really have the punch they needed :(.

Possibly. There are a number of ways to game this: Freezing, bad raw material, less structural elements, overpressure ammunition, putting something in the barrel, etc. However, I do not believe they are lying, I think it just requires a lot of expertise to get this right. On the other hand, drilling a hole into a solid block of material may give superior results without the need to get the printing right.

The kicker in the end is that you cannot usually get ammunition in countries with strict gun control and a different black-powder-and-ball design may be needed anyways. But quite frankly, what do you need guns for? Gun violence is very rare in countries with strict gun control. If somebody pulls one on you, you run away and call the police. But you being run over by a car is vastly more likely, so I would recommend being careful when crossing streets as an effective measure that greatly outperforms carrying a gun in preserving your health.

And make Heisenbugs the norm: Just compile, and you bug may vanish, multiply or behave completely different. Not smart at all...

I did the calculations and don't care to repeat them again, but depending on your use case, it might help... or it might be totally imperceptible. A medium-large on the other side of a good-sized living room, your eyes shouldn't be able to see the difference. On the other hand, a large computer monitor right in front of you, in many situations you will be able to see the difference. Note that human eyesight isn't a simple matter of resolution comparisons, it gets kind of complicated... there's basic measures of how far apart you can see two black dots or lines separated by white before they merge into one, but the less the contrast, the greater the distance they have to be separated (absolute brightness matters too, as does distance from the center of your field of vision and all sorts of other stuff), and of course your ability to perceive fine detail drops tremendously when viewing moving objects. But in relatively static, high contrast images, on a large screen near the viewer (say, a nice computer monitor), most people shouldn't have trouble seeing the difference in a side-by-side comparison.

The only problem with this gimmick is that we're basically running into a resolution dead-end here, there's only so far you can go before the improved detail becomes meaningless. I hope for their sake that they come up with true (non-stereoscopic) 3d or something of that nature, or they're going to be running out of TV-sales gimmicks.

Hmm, I just thought of something that I heard about a good while back but haven't seen any movement on - "peripheral vision" TVs. I seem to recall reading years ago about a type of TV that used lights around the edges to dimly shine the peripheral colors on the TV image around the room parallel to the TV, giving the illusion to your peripheral vision of an expansive screen. I could envision improving that with a video format that includes a lower-resolution peripheral video stream and side projectors instead of simple side lights. Maybe that could be the next gimmick. ;)

The Steam Machine was just a shot across the bow at Microsoft. The Windows 8 Store threatened to squeeze Valve out of the software sales market. Gabe Newel's Ex-Microsoft and he knows as well as anybody how they operate.

When Win8 flopped harder than a beached whale and the Store flopped harder still they almost immediately laid off the engineers they hired to build the darn thing. These days it's mostly just a curiosity.

Apt analogy.

That is pseudo-mystical nonsense. Entropy is a _measure_ of a configuration or state, not an effect by itself. Saying there is entropy is like saying there is numbers. That holds for both definitions of entropy.

For variable values of "high end". Or in fact for things that many people cannot do, but which do not require real skill either. There is zero evidence for anything like that happening on the actual high end. There is ample evidence for the contrary. Of course, not many people have "high end" capabilities, but these people are in high demand.

Don't be ridiculous. Expert systems are as dumb as dirt. They can only replace non-smart human work, of which there admittedly is a lot.

Seems these people and the OP have already given themselves stupidity...