Pretty ironic that you don't know how to spell either, smartass. Who's the you?

They mean the same thing, trebleevenfall. Don't be a pedantic tool.

I've worked with a lot of chip companies over the years, and Broadcom is one of the worst when it comes to availability of collateral like datasheets and programmer manuals. To have access to anything beyond a marketing summary requires an NDA, and even then you only have access to a tiny list of things through one of the worst portals you've ever seen. As you've noted, there quite often isn't anything remarkable, but for some reason they feel it's important to lock it down. Contrast with a company like Freescale that makes all of their SoC datasheets available to anyone with a browser.

That's exactly how I'll remember him - jumping around shouting "Don't you know how fucking important I am!". Here's hoping his son isn't quite as nuts.

Do you know how fucking important this guy was?

I think I know the answer

Nice post - I wish more people held your nuanced view of the world. Wish I had mod points.

Well, in this case Amazon has pretty serious operations in California, outside of the sales affiliates. As TFA states, A9 is based in Palo Alto, and Lab126 (where Kindles are designed) is down the block from Apple in Cupertino.

One more and you'll be +1 'awesome' in my book forever! biggerbadderben@gmail.com

What energy are you going to sell back? Does the Volt come with a solar pack or something? Also, the concept of 'off-peak' power requires meters that distinguish time of day. Most of the ones out there just spin mindlessly and tally up total kWh