I like the Motorola Xoom myself, and so does Gizmodo. Engadget posted a great list of all they saw at CES, including OS, price, and availability. (If the info is available that is)

Would like to know where you got your numbers because if you had done a little more digging into U.S. sales you would have seen that most would conclude the current state of the U.S. economy is too blame. I did find the 10.4 million for 2009, but also found a 16.7 million for 2006, 3.1 million more than China in 2009. That info combined with the fact that the numbers for 2008 was 13.2 million and 2007 was 16.1 million you start see why I and many others might conclude that the Chinese economy is almost caught up to the where the U.S. economy was (and hopefully will be again..... hopefully)

If I had a login to motorintelligence.com like the forbes article above me I could probably give you an even more comprehensive picture, but this is all google could dig up for me in a few mins

Although that is the solution you would expect to work for a capitalist society, it unfortunately isn't feasible for most consumers. The problem is most of these companies have a monopoly simply because of a real lack of competition, all because there are other ISP's, doesn't mean that they can offer much better than even the lowest quality service of the larger ISP's.

Where I go to college for example has three possible ISP's, Charter (owned by comcast), which I have, AT&T, which doesn't offer service at my apartment, and the service it does its terrible at best from what i have heard, and some local company which i believe to be owned by a regional ISP, but also doesn't would not provide service at my residence. I was looking at other ISP's where i go to college because my internet would become all but unusable at the times 12pm - 10pm Sun - Sat. Charter's service was becoming so terrible that I even looked into satellite internet only give up and wait for Charter to fix the problem. Apparently one of my neighbors had something wrong with their modem (or had become part of a very active bot net) and was completely clogging up my connection. They fixed the problem about 2 months after I first started calling them multiple times a week, replaced several modems, and several visits from Techs and to the local office.

My case is just an example of a temporary issue where the idea of Capitalism would have been great had it been available to me, sure i could have switched to satellite internet, (didn't do much research on it before i ruled it out to be honest), but i highly doubt it would have hurt Charter's bottom line enough for them to actually fix anything wrong with the system.

In my opinion, the biggest flaw in Capitalism is the fact that it relies on the consumers to be proactive in order for things to be improved. In my experience most people care about few things enough to actually do anything about it and when they do, they have few to no options with which to do anything, even if it is because of deals cut with local governments. It's a pretty sad state that I hope things like net neutrality (not the Google-Verizon proposal...) and nationwide broadband access help address.

We have roundabouts here in America, just not many. I can tell you the reason Americans are unlikely to see more of them is because we have probably as many traffic lights as we do cars (I tried to find a number, came up empty), and because we have so many cars we get more congested traffic than (most) other countries do, making roundabouts more of a problem than a solution in many situations. Also the fact that in order to put in a roundabout and take out a traffic light takes completely demolishing and rebuilding the intersection, i really doubt that my government is going to jump on the idea to start spending billions on converting intersections to roundabouts any time soon, even if they save lives.

never had 7k, but i used to have a hundreds, then i found out how useless they become after a period of time. When you have that many it becomes too much to sift through, even if you have it very well organized (i can't imagine 7k, i wouldn't be surprised if you are exaggerating even a bit) After i switch from FF to chrome i now have around 50, and they are only the ones in my Bookmarks Bar, and ones that i save for reference later. i.e. i just made a bookmark yesterday of a page that i happened upon that has the extended ASCII codes for a quick future reference instead a possibly irritating google search trying to find a visually pleasing one as it is.

My point is, you guys seem to have the "it if its not broken why improve argument, which coming from slashdot is actually kinda surprising. I can't wait for this to come officially to FF, if chrome doesn't have something similar soon after its released, you may see a re-convert in the future.

Im not necessarily disputing your post, but the part about the backups and the original being indivisible i have never heard before, they way you put it makes sense logically, but i don't see it being provable in court, i.e. if my friend has a DVD, and i copy the same DVD to my hdd, then i could simply say that that copy was for my backup purposes and that i own the dvd. The same logic could be applied with torrenting, all i need to do is find someone who owns the same IP, or even buy it myself after the fact, and i should be immune from any copyright laws. Now if what others have said in this thread are true, then the only illegal act i have commited was breaking the encryption of the DVD in order to copy it making me liable under the DMCA, which if i torrented it, i would be immune from.

All above is simply my take on what the parent threads have stated as fact, and what i assume as fact, please correct me if i am wrong, because i really doubt there isn't a single lawyer who has gotten his client off on a copyright infringement due to exceptions like i have proposed, also is the act of downloading copyrighted IP's illegal if you own a legal copy of the IP?

I feel like illiteracy might be more prevalent than we think... Or maybe this is just an example of how much of a misnomer common sense can be... counting isn't that difficult. In order to get to 2, you must first have 1, and so on and so forth.

ByOhTek shouldn't have had to clarify, since his post was self explanatory. The point is Apple has to copycat before it does anything else, and this (amongst other reasons) is why I and many other people get frustrated when we try to explain to people why we don't want a Mac, and iPhone, or an iPad. Apple is a perfect example of how clever business/marketing tactics supporting products almost completely devoid of innovation can convince millions of people of your superior "innovations" and "revolutionary" ideas. Its not that their products are terrible (if you ignore the walled garden, and other short comings), and I often find their designs and commercials appealing, but the false credit they get for them.

Thank you for calling out his misuse on Catch-22, an example of such a paradox in that context would be if somehow if contracting AIDS caused you to become poor, and the only way to cure it was to not be poor. Hate when people use common phrases because it "sounds like it fits", when they either don't know what it means or don't think it through before they say (type) it. P. S. I don't like being a hypocrite, so if i misused a phrase please call me out on it. (Spelling/grammatical errors do not count!)

Well, technically its not a trumpet, its closer to a natural horn, (a cheap, uncoiled, plastic natural horn), and i think your video just proves that a musician can make music out of anything (i.e. percussionist...), and an untrained monkey can make anything produce a purely irritating noise. The vuvuzela's in the world cup are definitely an example of the latter.