You're right. Predicting the future IS harder than averaging the past! Science wins again!

NEITHER? You do realize that there is more than just two candidates, right?

They probably haven't for the same reason that Intel or AMD engineers haven't developed algorithms to do whatever job you do for a living for you. Because computers aren't nearly as good at doing things as we sometimes give them credit for.

Explain how this is false?

I get it, 4 digit UID, you must be a database god.

But lets be real here. You didn't jump straight out of the womb into calculus. You stepped on stones to get where you are. For many, Access is that stone that introduces them to databases and SQL. For better or worse, it is one of the most accessible database tools around.

All Google is saying is that you can't play both sides of the fence. Either be Amazon or Archos and successfully roll your own with your own app-store, or be a part of the OHA and get special access to Gapps and early releases. Being in-between was seen as a conflict of interest for Google for obvious reasons.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is their product, their choice in who they do business with. And for the rest of us, they release the source code.

That makes it quite the distinction between them and Microsoft for those people trying to make a comparison. Google isn't saying you can't run another OS like WinMo or Symbian or WebOS etc. Just saying you can't run a non-OHA compliant fork along side a compliant fork.

That said, I think Microsoft got the raw end of the deal there too. But it's the price you pay when you make it to the top.

He did us a favor. It's like if Microsoft prevented the world from using Windows ME.

Honeycomb was a turd, and an old turd now at that.

(I admit I didn't read the article, or even the summary)

Except, when comparing two identical machines like they should have done, there should be zero differences except for the OS. So, from the first push of the button to the desktop is a good metric.

But, what I think is an even better metric, is from push of the button to USABLE desktop. I noticed that Win7 seemed faster to boot than XP on an equal machine, but I think Win7 may just in fact be faster to get you to a desktop, and it keeps loading things in the background. The first 30-60 seconds after you get to the desktop, things are sluggish anyway. Might have been my imagination, or I remember XP through my rose colored glasses...

Not sure if you're trolling or just woefully unaware of the state of smartphones, but my Original Motorola Droid A855 from Nov 2009 (which I still use as my primary mobile) has a PowerVR discrete GPU. To this day the battery life is still tolerable on the original battery, but I also cut my smartphone teeth on the UTStarcom PPC6700 and later HTC 6800 so I knew what I was in for.

Lets fast forward nearly 3 years and compare my Droid to the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. Huge screen, faster in every possible way, and probably 2-3 times the battery life. Granted, the Maxx is at the head of the class, but even the regular Razr is bigger and better than the Droid A855 but still has comparable battery life on a comparable size battery.

If that isn't progress, I don't know what is.

Yeah, because it's feasible to have a country full of nothing but doctors and executives? FFS, SOMEBODY has to scrub the toilet, grow my vegetables, shovel the cow poop, and yes, work retail.

Thats one of the issues we have in this country today. Everybody thinks that those jobs are below them, so they opt not to work at all and game the welfare system instead because somehow that's less embarrassing and sadly probably is more lucrative...

That design concept is NEW? And you seem impressed also. It's just a standard fare all in one computer I have a couple because I like the simplicity, but they are generally powered by laptop class hardware, and are no replacement for a high power desktop.

So a law or regulation that says that I can not take away your freedom, does not remove my freedom to enslave you?

I am no longer free to enslave you (without punishment), and thus, I am not entirely free.

The 3D printer is more than $30...

So is a CNC Mill.

And both are capable of making gun parts with $30 in raw materials. I see no difference except the method.

You can buy off-road gasoline/diesel and not pay taxes for fuel used in lawn mowers, tractors, etc.

Not exactly. That works sometimes to be sure. But saying that is like saying a PC always tells you what is wrong with it. Sometimes, the module itself is faulty and you have to use diagnostic skills to figure out what link in the chain is not behaving. There are also hundreds of non-computerized parts on an automobile that can't tell you when they break.

So nice try, but so totally wrong. Have you ever even changed you own oil?

Because the dock connector is capable of sending ANALOG signal. The MicroUSB spec does in fact allow for analog stereo audio, but not simultaneous charging which is pretty useless. No USB connector supports video.

UNLESS you encode your audio/video at one end and then decode it at the other. Which is NOT what we are talking about here.