He definitely cares about himself first. He care about getting reelected. He wants the younger generation vote. The younger generation is more likely to use smart phones. Obama is probable thinking if I do something that the younger people like/want they will vote for me.

I doubt Obama is reading slashdot but anyway...

It is the economy! Work on that first!

It would be funny if this was the same person. They just post anti google one day anti linux, anti apple another day. All to get reactions out of other people. There are people who get great pleasure in getting negative reactions out of others. They might be the ultimate /. troll.

Going by what people are saying on how bad chrome books are selling, I think the market disagrees with you.

Like any of the "this is the greatest thing ever" devices. Some people claim that it will replace everything else. For example, the ipad and other tablets. Some people claim that they can do all of their computing needs. For some people this is true. For others it is an accessory to their computer. They still need the laptop/desktop to do most things. For others the tablet is just not going to cut it. The faster people stop buying the hype, and see as a device for what it is and how they can use it, the better.

I have seen too many people force the ipad into things that it is just not made to do. For example, They have a video conference system. Insteasd of using it, they use the ipad with skype. For a one on one call, no problem. For a room of 12 people having a conference with another room of 25 people? No, use the video conference system that is already in place. They propped up the ipad to show the room. We had a great view of the ceiling and the tops of a few people's heads. No faces. To top is off, they were showing slides. We did not see any of the slides. If they had used the video conference system, we would have seen everyone and seen the slides.

Some people have it in the head that is the answer to everything. They fail to see the device's shortcomings. This seems to be getting worse as time goes on. That or the hype is getting better.

Just remember to cancel or you could be paying the normal price. Cable + extended cable (to get sifi or is it syfy now?) initial cost me $50 a month. Now it is $95 a month. No DVR. No HBO. To get HBO now I have to get digital cable which adds another $40 a month. If I had an option that was not worse I would switch. I made a DVR. I can record 4 channels at the same time. I can record more if I add another tuner card. If I switch to digital cable, fios, or satellite I can only record 1 maybe 2 channels at the same time. For some reason the shows I like get moved all to the same night at the same time. The price has gone up and will continue to go up until the analog cable cost equals the digital cable cost. Then we will get a 'free' upgrade to digital cable. Which will allow me to do less then I can do now. For me it would be a downgrade to digital cable.

If you are looking to move, and the area is a flood zone. Look elsewhere. If you are dumb enough to move into a flood zone, why should other people pay for your foolishness. Tornado zones really can be anywhere. The state of Maryland has many tornados. Yet that state is not considered part of tornado ally.

What OS? From what I read the bulldozer line had issues that were to be addressed in the windows 8. So many on windows 7 stayed away. If your not on windows this is a non issue. Besides 8 real cores should beat the snot out of 4 real cores and 4 virtual cores every time.

I thought we were talking about laptop graphics not desktop graphics? What laptop can you put a 7970 into? The article is about a laptop CPU with build in graphics. Many laptop do have that today. They are not gaming laptops usually.

Intel does have some good day to day 1080P movie watching graphics. But for high end gaming? No, they are lacking. For a low power movie watching dvr, the Intel graphics do work fine. Well the 4000 series and later 3000 series anyway. Before that, no. Intel needed work. They finally got there.

Personally I prefer to have a separate video card in my home desktops. If it breaks I can change it. If the built into the motherboard video card breaks, swapping out the motherboard is harder and takes longer then changing the video card. The less down time the better. I usually have a spare video card just for that reason.

Maybe if we leave the brain stem (the part that is the life support in humans) alone and look at the 'higher' brain functions. It might hold some truth. Perhaps that is where the 10% part came from. There are many people who (at a young age) lost major parts of their brains. They lead active lives when they got older. The people who lost half of their brain are not 100%, but they can do most things just fine. The people who lost less do better. I am talking about young people here. Infants and people under the age of five. If an adult was to have 1/2 their brain removed, they be screwed (not in the fun way). The human brain changes over time. In the young, the brain can re-route things. In the old that does not happen. If we could figure out how and why the young brain can re-route things, we might be able to help older people with brain injuries or illness.

If people would stop expecting handouts and tried to better them selves maybe things would be different. In many places people are taught to expect the handouts. That is passed from one generation to the next. Until the handouts stop things will not change. After all if they aqre going to be paid to do nothing, why would the want to do anything but the things to get more handouts.

Well the actor governor was a RINO as they say. California has been voting blue for years. Well at least it has been shown to be blue in all the President voting that I have seen. It is usually the cities that make it vote Democratic. The rest of the state votes Republican but the greater number of votes (or more greater weighted votes) from the cities carry the state. In many states all you have to do is win these counties to carry the state. Even if you lose all the other counties. Even if the number of 'lost' counties is greater then the number of 'won' counties. Politics and voting are strange.