Learn to fucking read then, you half-wit.

The paper in question cites the ability to make carrying out work easier for us as innovation, and doesn't cite "computers" as not being innovative. They cite bullshit like Twitter and Facebook as failures of the use of the word "innovation."

Only if the money actually went to improving broadband access and speeds in America. The problem is that it just goes to the government coffers and is distributed, mostly, to Social Security.

If the money went to directly improving the system it taxed, then yes. I would love to see a tax that helped pay for a nation-wide fiber-optic system that replaced the aged copper system we rely on.

Unfortunately, it'll only go to lining the FCC board and chairman's pockets with money.

Is anyone else not psyched about this?

I mean, I really don't know which way this project will go - it could take off like the Wii did, or it could flounder around after it launches - but am I the only one not caught up in the hype?

We saw, after a month of *very* aggressive advertising - mostly through paid-for sites like Tech Crunch - a console that has "sold" about 58k units (tracking only the customers that contributed money for the minimum to get an Ouya console). This is in an industry where we constantly see simple handhelds push 200k+ units per week in one region, let alone the world.

Where's the uniqueness of this that makes this a kill "must have" item for everyone (not just geeks like me)? This plays Android games. So does the majority of smart phones around the world, and some tablets. Where's the "killer app" here that is locked into the Ouya? What's going to be the driving force behind continual sales? What's going to push this console to selling millions of units around the world per month?

Congratulations to the crowd that managed to fund this to $8m, but until I start seeing more of a demand for this - this thing got exposure from the likes of Tech Crunch (multiple times), Kotaku, IGN, G4, and even coverage on CNN - I really have to consider this to be a niche device, competing in the Android market and not competing in the console market. After all of that coverage, and hype, I expected to see *millions* of people funding this device. Instead I saw 58k.

Sure, 58k funders is far more than I could achieve, but at 200k+ units per week for something like the 3DS in just Japan alone turns Ouya, in my eyes, from a game-changing console, into a niche device that will make its audience happy.

you're arguing that we need more reliability, then you say game developers should use Java.

Yes it don't matter to anyone not looking to never make any conversation.

I came here to say "that's why independent tech podcasts are so important" but then I realized my own tech podcast was completely and utterly irrelevant :(

You have to understand something important here:

I'm karma whoring for the next Apple thread. :)

There are some medium-long term downsides to this, should Apple fall hard in the long term (ie; tablets prove to just be a trend, iPhone sales fall, etc...), but this is what investors have been waiting for. This is a fairly large buyback, which will inflate the price of the shares even more, but it's a small amount of money for Apple to be investing in itself.

This will more than likely force AAPL above $600 for the remainder of the financial year (and probably closer to $700).

There are a lot more people who are homeless who aren't begging for spare change at your local grocery store than you seem to be aware of. Many of these people actually still have some dignity left to seek out help at a homeless shelter, and to bust their asses to find paying work instead of turning to bumming.

You just don't notice them because they use whatever spare money they can muster up to buy a gym membership and shower there.

The drug cartels are not playing Anon's little kids game of doxing people. :(

Goddamn Universe! Stop treating us like we're kids! We want over a million factor reduction in our power usage! Imma go in a corner and cry :'(

That's called Reddit.

These scumbags - the RIAA and MPAA - act outside the bounds of government to force their worldview on us. When the fuck can I act outsides the bounds of the law?

Every time Apple says something like this, I get the uneasy feeling of working with a slick-haired businessman who promises that they've got nothing bad planned for the future, but then fuck you in the ass with Perry Saturn's mop.

Marketing claims to have a number. Engineers say otherwise.

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