causality (777677) says: "I think a big part of the problem is that right now, most people who have any choice at all have a choice between two monopolies: telco and cable. Your idea would provide that missing "third option". An agile competitor with minimal infrastructure costs, license costs, and other barriers to entry might just provide the innovation and options that are sorely missing from the monopolies." Yeah America really fumbled the ball on that one, falling far behind due to corruption and greed. Sounds pretty bad for you guys, until you come to where I live, America's hat, Canada. There are even fewer corporations that completely dominate the phone, cell phone, satellite, cable, DSL and broadband industry are given the power to govern themselves and (cell phones in particular) contracts are outrageously expensive and restricting. You'd best make sure you're damn well financially stable before you get a cell in Canada.

Google is notorious for keeping most of it's apps in the Beta stages because if it works, it's considered a fantastic app and when some hacker finds a huge security flaw in it or something of that nature, Google can just throw up their hands and say "Hey, it's still in Beta".

Well I think that pretty much rules out that Sony and Intel will ever work on anything together, ever again. I'd be really disappointed if Sony picked up Intel though because I love Intel but I also love the 360.

It's not exactly the same. I'm more talking about the chip they put on your debt and credit cards that was supposed to eventually replace the stripe but so far even places that have a scanner for it, there doesn't seem to be any way to use it. If you stick it in, nothing happens. I've never seen one work anywhere. Useless.

It's human nature to survive. Hell it's the nature of all living things. Even if you know it's futile you'll do anything to get even just a few more hours of life even if that life was miserable after a nuclear fallout.