I agree, the only time a "saturated market" exists is when you're talking about items that aren't often replaced or when people aren't buying those items. If the market was saturated, we'd see GOOD new cell phones showing up at discount outlets being sold for a loss. WebOS products weren't didn't fail because the market was saturated, they failed because of poor marketing and not listening to what consumers wanted hardware wise. While I liked the pebble design, the market wants 4"+ screens or Apple products. Had the hardware been more appealing to the masses, the OS would have caught up. I sold a number of people on WebOS products, despite their dislike of the hardware, after demoing the software. IMO, WebOS and WP7 are the only two mobile OSes that make sense from a usability perspective.

The issue isn't fast food, it's regular restaurants. At restaurants where you order an entre instead of ala cart items, the entre is usually way too big.

I just get the Southwestern chicken salad if I have to go to McDonalds. It's actually pretty good. They recently stopped putting transfats in their crispy chicken as well, so sometimes I'll even treat myself to that! People should stop slamming McDonalds so much. They actually do have a handful of fairly healthy menu alternatives. I'd actually RATHER eat their salad than their burgers, it just tastes better.

Don't worry, that was an typo on the editor's part. I clearly remember Hugh Jackman describing it like getting a "Fiero without a paint job."

No it doesn't, it upscales your games from 720p or less to 1080p. The only games that are true 1080p are some live arcade games. If you're lucky, the title screen/menu screen in your games will be true 1080p. All the 1080p blurb on the back of the box means is that the xbox will upscale the game. Same goes with the PS3, there are a small handful of titles that will run native in 1080p (I want to say 3). 1080p will be a huge deal next generation, especially for those with large 1080p tvs or people who play at a desk attached to a monitor. You'll definitely be able to see the difference.

Why does everyone bill this the 720? This thing should be called the Xbox 1080. Everyone's billing their next gen systems as being 3x as powerful (360x3, do the math). Also, the next gen systems will all do 1080p. Despite marketing, there are only a small handful of current gen console games that run at 1080p. Even if the game states 1080p on the box, it's generally just stating that it will upscale the game to 1080p. The only real 1080p you're getting are menus and title screens.

Windows 9 is going to be everything and nothing at once. They're stripping the kernel to its core and use it as the basis for all their products. Desktop OS, mobile OS, Xbox, set top boxes, etc. It's going to be a great thing for MS because they'll be able to focus on improving a unified core. Basically, they're trying to do with Windows what everyone has been doing with Linux for years, make it something that's easily scalable and customizable across a family of products.

It's going to save MS a ton of money and allow them to focus on keeping their products secure and fast instead of constantly having to patch crappy modules of code that have been carried over for a decade. Microsoft is a lot smarter than people give them credit for, they're just such a huge entity that it takes a while for their plans to build inertia.

I said, I'm glad we don't have mosquitos anymore. I'm just not happy about the fact that I have a vortex of bats flying around my patio. There's usually about 50 circling at all times and over 100 living in my shingles. When you have to power wash your patio once a week because it's covered in guano (that carries disease), it gets to be a bit much...

It's not uncommon for them to actually get in the house. About once a year one manages to fly in while I'm hauling groceries or have a sliding glass door open.

I don't know about fruit bats, but we definitely have bat issues in my area. Anything that thins the bat population would be great by my book. I'm definitely glad I haven't seen a mosquito in years now, not happy that I have to deal with a patio full of bat guano due to the fact that bats are protected.

If so, I suggest creating your own business and get ready to bid on some work. No one is going to do this in house, they're going to take bids on conversions. I used to work at a company that made quite a bit of money off of paying people, per page, to OCR patents, correct OCR errors, and tag the document in XML. And I can assure you that, because of the way the government works, the majority of the work will go to minority owned small business. The work is easy and you can get college kids to do it for peanuts.

Thank you, other guy on /. with some grasp of English....

The issue is that all banks were shitty and risky and credit unions were extremely strict. You throw some Reagan era trickle down policy into the mix, deregulate banks, and artificially raise the price of property over the course of 20 years to the point where people have to go through banks because the credit unions realize the risk of giving out loans in a shaky market and bam! That's basically what happened. And the banks went bankrupt and we had the option of a) letting the banks collapse and forcing the American population into such a strict loan situation that people would have killed the real estate market or b) bailing them out to relieve the stress on the American public that would otherwise no longer be able to sell their property or buy new property. We picked b. The issue is, we picked b without imposing regulations that restricted how they used their free tax money.

That's why we need to impose rules upon the banking system. Capitalism is broken and encourages wealth to sharply rise to the top instead of having a more balanced distribution. When the people with the wealth are also the people making the rules, it's time to reboot the system. Unfortunately a reboot isn't an option, so imposing rules until the situation naturally takes care of itself is the only reasonable fix.

I'm all about small government and giving rights back to states, but we've got to clean house before redistributing power.

Or how about giving the states back power as initially intended and keeping the central government around for social programs, diplomacy, the post office, upholding constitutional rights, and settling disputes among states. The only reason we have such a centrally focused government now is due to wars, domestic and foreign.

The way we're set up now, no progress can be made due to our centralized government and corruption. I'm sure we'd be seeing a major redistribution of the population right now if the government was primarily state run, as it's a lot easier to vote for what you want by moving to areas with other like minded individuals.

This one is simple, guys. Google will sell an Android license to anyone. Apple and RIM make their own hardware. They have a stake in the reputation of their company. Consumers are smart enough to realize that a Google phone failing is not Google's fault, it's the fault of the manufacturer of the hardware. It's giving the manufacturer's a bad name, not Google.

There's plenty of junky Android phones with junky hardware on the market. That being said, there's some bleeding edge Android phones out there with incredible hardware. It goes back to the old saying, "You get what you pay for."