Personally I think tablets are a solution looking for a problem that doesnt exist.

Which either explains why, in some alternate dimension, tablets aren't selling like hotcakes but netbooks are or, more likely, why you aren't an analyst.

EXACTLY! And for a number of technical reasons under specific provisions of Oregon statutes dealing with libel and slander.

Someone mod the parent up for actually reading the opinion.

You know, when you hear that some TV star from your childhood dies and you immediately think, "I didn't know he was still alive." Well, that's the same reaction I have every time I hear that Google has killed a product: "I didn't even know that product existed."

Surely,I can't be the only one who has this reaction.

Let's make a couple of assumptions and see where they lead.

1) The Earth is heating up.

2) The heating is bad for human life.

3) Actions that can be taken by humans can reverse, or at least retard, this trend.

Now, given these assumptions, regardless of whether human action is causing the heating or not, should we take action to reverse or retard the trend?

If the answer is "yes," it becomes an engineering problem. If the answer is "no," we do nothing a let the bad consequences come.

150,000 other people I hadn't met died that day too, but nobody gave a shit about them.

Yeah, but those 150,000 people didn't co-found Apple, they didn't midwife the birth of the Macintosh or the iPod or iPhone or the iPad; they didn't resurrect Apple from the dead; they didn't get rid of those damnable buttons; they didn't change the world.

Let's face it, some people actually do more than others. It's nice when those folks' passings are mourned.

Clearly, the premises of the article are wrong.

P1: Flash sucks.

P2: Adobe has an outdated business model.

P3: Developers are abandoning Flash.

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C: It's all Steve Jobs's fault.

Having been a long time /. reader, I know that the conclusion is supposed to be that it's all Steve Job's fault, but I'm having a hard time reaching that conclusion from the stated premises. Therefore, I conclude that the premises are wrong.

LOL. Maybe if there was one or two transactions, you might argue entrapment. Sixty-two transactions suggest he was not an innocent victim.

Not to mention, according to the Jerusalem Post, Court filings show Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.

The idea didn't originate with the Feds, it originated with Doxer.

I always thought Akamai was an Israeli company. I guess it's an "American company" co-founded by an Israeli.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.

The poor schmuck probably just thought he was carrying out company policy and making a quick buck on the side.

The "walled garden" is the least of your problems.

I really need a crippled and vulnerable mobile phone. Oh, Damn you Apple! Damn you Steve Jobs! You are so petty and narrow minded.

I have trouble accessing certain features of Google programs in the latest version of Chrome. How is this announcement newsworthy?

Now that people can do art and music without being lined against a wall and shot (like in Mao's time), people there are more interested in education and developing their economy as opposed to military gains.

Was that meant to be a joke? Countries fight wars precisely when they are rich. I can't think of any countries that have started wars when they were poorer than their opponents. That's a recipe for quick defeat and cultural extinction. I'm not saying it was never tried; I'm just saying the ones who tried it haven't left any descendant, so we'll never know.

You must be new to gaming to have missed such classics as "Ultimatum," "Fortress America," "Arab Israeli Wars," etc.

Why did everyone who hates glossy screens buy them and then bitch about it instead of just buying the matte screen and crooning? There was a time when almost every manufacturer offered glossy AND matte screen options. If 75% of the purchasers had been buying the matte screens, glossy would have gone the way of the dodo. Obviously, that was not what happened. Manufacturers did not perversely ignore 75% of the market, lose money hand over fist, yet insist on the glossy standard.

Good call. I assumed it was a Google Translator translation error.