Wow, what a zinger! Oh wait, you were being serious... Yeah, considering I've been married for almsot two decades, so probably longer than you've been alive, I'm going to have to pass on being insulted by your childish remark. But hey, good times.

My old Nexus One also has a Retina Display, since all the rules that were established about why a display is tEh Retina, were thrown out the door when Apple's marketing department decided that the iPad 3's ( Oh wait, the NEW iPad's ) lower PPI -- which is similar to my old Nexus -- also qualified for this over-hyped term.

On the other hand, Samsung makes the hype labeled Retina Display.

According to you, your computer is crapper than mine. It's even slower than my last MacBook Pro 17". You should consider upgrading your computer.

I'm sure if I booted into Windows, I'll get better performance than under OS X with the bloat that is JavaScript; but for Wolfenstein in the browser with crappy sound, it's not worth it; besides, DOSBOX handles it just fine and uses less CPU -- I double checked 32% CPU with full audio and most of the resources are just for emulation.

The browser isn't shitty, it's JavaScript. And Chrome has the best JS engine right now, at least the one that has the most hype.

I'm pretty sure that my old 386 DX 40 -- of which I played Wolfenstein 3D through several times via my gravis game pad -- can't even manage 1% of the power of my current MacBook Pro; but yet this browser based bloat really knows how to suck up my resources for something that's so simple compared to today's games.

Maybe I should be playing this on my PC instead, since JavaScript is such a resource hog? My PC is an i7 at 4Ghz with a GTX 580. Maybe it can manage better? Then again, some of my modern games use less resources than this abomination. <sarcasm>Hurray for progress.</sarcasm>

And what a load of bullshit. Stop being such a shill for corporate greed and check your history. MS is by no means a victim in this situation, it was their own actions that brought this on.

Just so you know, MS makes more money off Android phones than they do off their own phones. Why? Because they abused their position to extort money out of companies like HTC and other Android manufactures.

So now that MS is getting back what they've been dishing out, someone like you comes along and naively tries to blame Google and Moto for something that is completely MS's own decision. Oh, poor MS... Yeah RIGHT.

That lawsuit has nothing to do with MS's decision to charge for DVD playback, it's called greed; and given the mentality of the populous of our society -- especially the younger crowd -- they know they can get away with it.

But Open Street Map's founder Steve Coast works for Microsoft. Both Microsoft and "Apple" are backing OSM. Both Bing and OSM share map data. So yeah, OSM is gaining lots of momentum, because Apple and MS want it to replace Google maps and have financially motivated it.

The way I see it -- note, that this is pure conjecture on my part -- is that this is not some ideological or heroic move on Wikipedia's part to support open source on their mobile app.

I see it as either a nudged move(as in an influential "donation") by two juggernauts that want Wikipedia to move away from their competition Google on the mobile front, because Google Maps is already dominant and Android is becoming a titan in the mobile space.

Or as for compatibility it just makes sense; MS and Apple don't want Google maps on their mobile devices -- just like they don't support any 3rd party plug-ins -- but they do want OSM and have said so with their wallets. By going this route, it will probably make it easier for Wikipedia to implement their app onto these closed off devices; as in MS and Apple will give them lots of support to do it.

Anyways, was this Slashdot article just a coincidence, or is it part of some strategic FUD attack against Google, when considering the prior article below this one about them... Don't answer that, I've already assumed the answer.

I've noticed a similar pattern here in OC and LA area. Priuses that aren't being driven by older people are in general are overly aggressive from what I've observed; LA drivers being the worse offenders.

I just assume that all Prius drivers are the same, so I put up an extra layer of defense when I see them in my rear view mirror driving their slower car. I must add that I've noticed Rav 4 drivers are some what similar in their behavior.

And down here, lots of people don't use their turn signal. I'm thinking it's because most of them can't multi-task, so it's too much for them to handle while driving -- but yet they put it on when they get into the obvious turn-only-lane.

Anyways, rage, and most of it is probably just me being subjective. :)

MS gave Apple money, so that they would ship every new Mac with IE. It wasn't MS saving them, it was because at that time Netscape was the king of browsers and MS wanted to dethrone it.

Apple wasn't doing great at that time, but they had 6 billion in the bank from what I recall.

What really saved Apple, was the return of that **** Jobs. He killed the clones off ( Which would have been the death of Apple outside of software. ) and focused completely on consumers for the first few years of his return; and we can also give Adobe credit here, because without Photoshop and a few other key graphic apps, Macs would have been nothing but an overpriced PC in the nineties -- outside of the art departments(where I've always been), hardly anyone used Macs.