It's not the Slashdot community's purpose to show you evidence for evolution. Go get an education. That's right, go to a University, take a class on evolution and engage a PhD who's life work has been tracking the genetic changes in flower species up a hillside or insects across a desert. I assure you that whatever evidence you're looking for will become stark and obvious. Then you will understand why so many people are bloody well angry with your brand of skepticism.

There's already overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution. The people who don't believe in evolution will not believe in evolution no matter what evidence you show them. They're either idiots, religious fundamentalists or those who stand to gain by deceiving the latter two groups. Move along.

You shouldn't. Join me and thousands of other 'Bogleheads' http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_Started who simply and effectively beat 90% of investors long-term by passively indexing and reaping the rewards of Capitalism without the added risks of middle-men who are there for no reason other than to take your money in both subtle and not so subtle ways. The philosophy is simple and rewarding:

1. Allocate your assets in a diversified fashion according to your need to take risk.
2. Use passive indexed investments because most major markets/stocks are highly efficient (can not be reliably predicted.)
3. Mind fees and taxes.
4. Enjoy your life with all the time you save not having to learn how to win the IPO game, pick stocks, mutual funds or their managers.

Not that this whole thing isn't absurd for the reasons already discussed above, but what no one bloody well seems to understand it that an audio stream is not a godamn bitmap picture. You can't improve audio quality of *audible frequencies* by increasing resolution of the horizontal axis (sampling frequency) beyond a rate which surpasses the Nyquist frequency for human hearing. Assuming a high quality anti-aliasing filter is used and excellent quality recording and playback equipment, audio sampled at 48kHz can be unambiguously represented up to about 24kHz. 96kHz is a waste of bits.

Vertical resolution (# of bits) is the only theoretical way to improve actual audio quality further... and beyond about 16-18 bits, it's also beyond the ability of even the most diehard audiophiles to discern (in properly conducted experiments.)

Are we reading the same bulletin?

Yeah the Bold 9000 was decent in its day because of the keyboard, but the browser was atrocious. The new Bold 9900 with OS 7.1 fixes pretty much everything that sucked on the original Bold, adds a high rez touchscreen and puts the Torch to shame. It even has a halfway decent browser that can complete the SunSpider benchmark in about 2500ms. It's no iPhone 4S, but web browsing is an 'ok' experience for the first time on a BB device.

If RIM wasn't constantly 18-24 months behind Apple with comparable generation hardware, they might have had a chance. It's gonna be a real uphill battle from here even with OS10 and their strategy to pay developers to write apps.

I recently had an opportunity to change phones from the absolutely disastrous experience I was having with my BB Torch 9800 (keyboard too small, unbalanced when slid open, crashy and laggy OS, battery sucking bugs, etc...)

My only choices at work were BB Bold 9900 or an iPhone 4S. My wife owns an iPhone 4, so I'm very familiar with both platforms. What it came down to for me was that after all the gee-whiz novelty of apps, games and fancy touch screen gestures wears off, what I need my phone to do is handle email, texts, phone calls and some light RSS news feeds without pissing me off. The iPhone blows Blackberry away in almost every way, but the physical keyboard is just that good on the Bold, so I went with (possibly my last?) Blackberry.

At this late juncture, for RIM's sake, they either better have a lot of people like me still out there or they'll need to need to play the consumer catchup game seriously, which means equaling or surpassing Apple on the hardware and OS fronts and building an ecosystem that doesn't completely suck. Microsoft looks poised to become #3 as it stands, and you don't want to know what happens to the #4 player in this space.

TSMC's yield on 28nm has been really low. They priced it sky high because they simply don't have enough chips to make many of these monsters -- supply and demand I suppose.

The real story in my mind is how the tech press will go gaga over a part that few will ever own and how that will inevitably help frame the entire nVidia 6xx product line and sell parts that are not the GTX 690. I guess it's no different than Chevrolet building a high performance sportscar to improve the perception of the bowtie logo.

Yup. For all the bluster I hear about the constitution and the institution of democracy in the US, I just can't bring myself to trust the system. The way things are going, it looks to me like in the next say 50 years we'll be essentially stuck in a 1984-style surveillance dictatorship in all but label. Kind of like China or Iran or Russia where they may let you vote in a new leader from time to time, but he's really part of the same machine that brought you the last one.

He single-handedly did the Instagram deal without outside involvement. He was 14 years old when the last bubble crashed, and he probably didn't learn a whole lot from it.

Then again, with Facebook now worth upwards of $100B, he can afford to overpay for companies by 10x and get away with it.