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 :(.

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.

if you ignore the Math then "Computer Science" is writing if-elses and for loops. As near as I can tell this is just a bunch of rich people tired of paying programmers 6 figures. Points to Ms Clinton for asking that money be put to fundamental development and the general betterment. The cynic in me wonders if she means it (who watch half his career go overseas and the other half eroded by cheap 'n easy work visas) hopes she means it...

or will be. She's a member of the American Ruling Class. The working class is hoping she's turn on her own and help us out....

another way is to say that automakers are shifting their costs. Dirty air and smog lead to lung disease and cancer, ergo higher medical costs. The health problems also lower worker productivity.

Why should I have to pay for the damage done by cheap cars?

Toyota & Honda, heck even GM, can all make zero emission cars. I do like what California did though. They set _sales_ qoutas_ instead of manufacturing qoutas, so they companies couldn't weasel out of getting real zero emission cars on the road. It's rare to see regulations that have teeth in them. I suppose with the amount of Smog California has (insert South Park Smug jokes here) that's pretty important though. But I wish Arizona would do it. We have days when you're not suppose to go outside because the smog is so bad...

it's almost like having a company with a virtual monopoly on online sales is a bad thing. But hey, you don't _have_ to shop at Amazon, right? Not yet anyway... And they certainly wouldn't use their massive size to undercut all competition while making razor thin profits that no mom and pop could possibly sustain. And besides... Americans don't shop only on price, right? Boy, there are so many good reasons not to regulate here I can't pick just one.

despite all the jokes you've heard we're pretty damn resilient and it takes a surprising amount of effort to kill us. The trouble is once you start killing someone our bodies will rebel (trying to get us to get away from whatever it is that's killing us). That's pain in a nutshell.

There aren't a lot of ways to kill a man without significant pain. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or ignorant.

Now, a better question is why are we still killing people when at least 4% of ppl killed are verifiable innocent? I guess it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits for false imprisonment.

If someone from my country rips me off then there's a chance local law enforcement will do something. The nightmare that is international jurisdiction means they won't bother for China.

Also, stealing $100,000 USD in America is a nice haul, but not really enough to risk as much jail time as it'll get you for actively scamming that many people. In China $100k goes a lot farther, so it's more practical.

back in the days of Win 98 it was loads more stable, faster, and it used all my hardware.

With XP, Microsoft got it mostly right and with 7 SP 1 they fixed it. Yeah, Vista and 8 suck, but you don't have to run those. So until Win 7 drops support I can't think of anything practical I _get_ with Linux besides a kick ass shell. I do like Bash though. But I'll run some Linux in a VM for that.

because all potential candidates are vetted by the rich before you and I get a chance to vote on them. We're basically picking which corporate shill we like the best...

ET wasn't nearly as bad as everyone said. Judged by the standards of the time it was just mediocre. Its failure had more to do with a major recession in America than anything else. Minecraft was an untapped market (builder games). It didn't occur to anyone that there was a large number of people that wanted a Lego Simulator. It's an entirely different type of 'gameplay' and when it was pitched to people in the industry they just figured it would be a failure.