You must have never used a tablet for any serious amount of time...

If the bezel on the iPad was any smaller, it would border on useless due to inadvertent touches. The wide bezels gives you an area to actually grab/hold the tablet. Otherwise, you're touching the touch screen and all hell breaks loose. It's not always feasible to cradle or rest the tablet on a surface. (E.g., reading in bed)

While a narrower bezel would look "cooler", it has no basis in reality. Some concepts remain concepts for a reason.

The outcry is not in the financials or loss of revenue. Whether it's one logo at $1000, or 10 logos at $100 each, there's tons of money to be made in the design industry if you're talented. Young talented up-and-comers with less experience will always be cheaper to employ. There will always be overpaid hacks with an over-abundant feeling of self worth. The same is true in any industry.

That's not the issue. The problem designers have is that crowd-sourcing devalues their trade/skill. Design isn't easy. They went to school just like any other profession, but this is not about entitlement. It's about recognition. Design isn't just making something "pretty". It gives the impression that anyone can spend 30 minutes in Photoshop or Illustrator and come up with a good logo. Nevermind the fact that a logo is only one *small* part of a complete identity system. I've seen this crowdsourcing services. They're crap. You get what you pay for, but that's not me being bitter. (I'd be doing the same thing if I was them)

Any kid can pirate a copy of Photoshop and call themselves a designer, just like any kid can pirate a copy of Visual Studio and call themselves a developer. What makes these amateurs different from the professionals? What's the value in paying a programmer $90,000+ a year for the same service?

It has already happened! That's what Apple's iAd and AdMob's new ad platforms aim to do: replace annoying Flash banner ads with annoying HTML5 banner ads.

Exactly. People who champion HTML 5 video don't really understand the difference between FLV and h.264... FLV is just a container and can support h.264. Facebook has had h.264 video since the iPhone 3G came out.

I know it's a difficult concept for socially awkward nerds to understand, but people don't like know-it-all jerks. In the real world, where things aren't black and white or one and zero, it doesn't matter what the law says. It's one of those unspoken rules of social engagement that Terry Childs unfortunately never learned that lesson. It's why charismatic people are able to bend the rules.

That doesn't mean I agree with the verdict.

What are you talking about? Paparazzi sell info/photos to the newspapers for money all the time. It's not weird for someone to do the same thing with tech news. If it was me that found this phone, Gizmodo would be one of the first people I contacted and yes, I'd be asking for money. Gizmodo also offered money for an iPad prototype before it was announced.

The bar wouldn't have a chance to hold onto it if someone else found it first.

Why do people insist on trolling as AC? Afraid to tarnish your karma because you know how stupid your comment is?

Or did he just read some reviews about how difficult it was?

The game isn't difficult as so much as it is sadistic. No pausing at all, not even when checking inventory. On screen elements that totally block 80% of your screen during battle—effectively making you a sitting duck until it goes away. Remember, no pausing during all this. WTF?! No real story or purpose, so only the masochists will continue to play through if only to prove to themselves that they can beat it. The lack of plot elements mean you really have to rely on the PSN feature of the game whereby players on PSN leave you clues about what to do next. You can kill any NPC, including ones critical to the game such as the girl that levels up your character. It's just a poorly designed game. The whole time I was playing, I was like, "Seriously? WTF?"

However, despite all of its flaws, all the reviewers are right about the game having a strong sense of achievement. There were a lot of comparisons made to the old cartridge days when the only way to beat a game was all the way through in one go. Or where you had to collect more 1-ups to prevent death. Demon's Souls is kind of like that. No save points and if you die, you start back at the beginning of the current level and lose all your unspent money/souls.

Dying in modern games isn't as big of a deal as it used to be. You often start off right where you died with all your items and full stats. A lot of games nowadays have auto-regen health so you just wait it out and you're good as new. Demon's Souls makes player really adverse to death.

And lastly, casual doesn't mean easy or unfulfilling. A game doesn't have to be "difficult" to be challenging. For example, my favourite game is and always will be Tetris. Easy to learn, but challenging to get really good at. I can spend hours trying play the perfect game, get the highest score or see how fast I can play, etc.

Verizon hates choice, that's why they passed up on the original iPhone. For them, it's their network, their phone.

I wonder how much of this is due to lack of app discoverability? The Android Marketplace website is pretty much useless, and who wants to use their phone for shopping? I know the techies might love that you can download Android apps off the web and install them on memory cards, but the rest of society doesn't think this way. They want an Android version of iTunes to sync their phone with music, video, photos and apps. That's why the App Store for the iPhone works. That's also why Napster was so popular, despite the availability of free MP3s elsewhere like IRC and newsgroups.

There's a special place in hell for people like you. Thanks for making driving more dangerous! You are not doing anyone any "favours" or preventing any accidents. People like you cause traffic jams.

Anyone who does any amount of commuting knows this to be a law of nature. Following too closely causes traffic jams! Even in heavy traffic, if people would just leave enough room for people to merge, there would be no traffic jam at all near on-ramps.

Matching the speed of cars in the adjacent lanes also messes up the flow of traffic. I hate this. When driving, always give room for other cars to pass you or enter your lane if they need to. Never drive shoulder to shoulder with a car in the adjacent lane. It's dangerous (blind spots) and impedes the flow of traffic because people can't get around you.

It all comes down to the fact that drivers need to be more altruistic and aware of their surroundings.

Renting or buying used games is a MUCH smarter alternative. Too many games bought to only be played for 3weeks before collecting dust.

Not everyone is feeling the pinch of the recession. (I'm one of them) There are still plenty of jobs out there. Companies will always need skilled employees.

Whether manufacturers were scared of upsetting MS or whether MS actively bullied manufacturers is irrelevant. It's the same argument as the Linux desktop PC. Truth is, the only people that care about a Linux netbook are Linux fanboys. Your average Joe computer user doesn't care about your 'religious war'. He doesn't care about the OS as long as It Just Works (tm). In fact, he may even be upset if he got 'tricked' into buying a non-Windows netbook. (Why can't I view Office 2007 files? Why can't I view Silverlight websites like Netflix?)

The current strategy of "Let's put an XP theme over Linux and say it's just like Windows" used by the Linux camp is working as well as when Apple used it over a decade ago. In other words, it doesn't. Think different.