There are the support costs when the user can't figure out how to configure it.

AES? PSK? What the heck are those things?
What do you mean it doesn't work if everything isn't set up the same?
I just want it to work. Why won't it work?

Companies have to pay people to answer these questions.

I'm not saying it isn't a good idea, just that there are actual costs.

Pray. A lot.

It sounds like the desktop version will be "AM3r2", or AM3 without the legacy DDR2 support.

Hey cool! They’ve got a blimp!

In general, any over-the-air content (broadcast TV) should be unencrypted on cable, and you should be able to use a QAM tuner on it. Practically everything else will be encrypted, if not now then as soon as they can. The operator has to pay the content owner more if the content goes out unencrypted.

All this is due to "analog bandwidth reclamation". Each analog channel they remove means several digital channels they can put in its place, or they can use the channel to increase data bandwidth.

I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.

However, Comcast would own a majority of the new company, so they get to set the agenda. They already do this in partnerships (or Joint Ventures) with other companies, including mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2

The connector got its name from the computer.

It sounds like that is exactly what they want to do: treat the delivery of the final product as a sale and apply sales tax to it. Open source or not wouldn't matter.

Unless you count days as number of rotations. But then I don't know that the Death Star was supposed to rotate at all.

Disclosure: I am a current Motorola Home employee, but I have no insider insights into the split planning process.

This is speculation on my part, but it seems like both halves of the company may take on new names. However, the Mobile Devices/Home company will own the Motorola brand and license it royalty-free to the Government/Enterprise/Networks half of the company. (This was included in the public announcement on Thursday.) It will be messy, but it will allow both halves to carry on for a while while (potentially) building new brands.

It will be an interesting ride. The Home and Mobile Devices units have been part of the same company for a while, but never seemed to collaborate much. I'm guessing that will be changing, along with some of the culture and organization in Home. I expect it to be somewhat painful, but worth it.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work unless you earmark all money you collect. Otherwise, the general funds that would have been spent on roads will simply be diverted to something else. Even then you end up with situations like Social Security, where excess funds are required by law to be loaned back to the government for them to spend. At the end of the day anything they get is One Big Pot of Money for them to shuffle around and spend as they please.