This just gives Apple one more reason to force all application installs via the app store in future versions of the OS. The other reason of course is money.

That is a strange argument I hear over and over again. By sales volume, Apple is something like the #3 PC manufacturer. Apple's competition is NOT the Windows platform (THAT is the platform their competition is on). If it were, Apple would sell their OS to pre-load onto any manufacturer's computer (to compete with the Windows Platform). Apple competes on hardware sales and it is pretty clear that they choose to compete ONLY where the high profit margin is. Many PC companies choose to compete where the volume is (budget, low profit margin PCs) AS WELL AS where the high margin is: lowering their overall profit margin but boosting their volume/revenue numbers. Apple may even be the #1 PC manufacturer when it comes to profit margin (per unit and quite likely as an aggregate number).

Back to cell phones... Do you think Samsung looks at its (cell phone) competitors' numbers and says "WE" (the "we" being all manufacturers selling cell phones on the Android platform, AKA, Samsung's competition) are beating iPhone? Maybe to the press, they smile and say so but where it counts they look at sales numbers (for their competing smartphones) and compare those to their own. In the only important (to a business) end-game, revenue (for the splashy numbers to show the stock market) and profit (to succeed), are the only ways to compare to competition.

HFCS is used because it is cheaper due to subsidies. I think HFCS will be removed from most sodas in the next five years because the producers know it is causing health issues. Most grocery stores in my area have Pepsi's three main products (Pepsi, Mt. Dew, and Sierra Mist) available without HFCS. Of course they are marketed as "Throwback" or "Natural" but I think they know HFCS in soda will be a PR nightmare in the next few years. In my area you can also buy Coca-Cola imported from Mexico that is HFCS free.

This has to be said. If you are driving an Aztek you are not getting laid.

What does your face need to look like to get a beer?

Calling it Oracle Solaris makes me die inside even more.

A small percentage of users will hack their device. Apple knows this and has procedures in place for denying support for modified devices. Ultimately this is free R&D for Apple. Let the hackers see what the device can do and include that capability in a future release.

I agree. The individual artist should be able to profit from their work for the rest of their life. The problem is that a copyright lasts long after the artist is gone. Why does an estate get to profit off the work of a dead individual? If the owner in question is a corporation then the copyright should be valid for a fixed period of time. I would be ok with using the figure of the life expectancy of a female child born in the year the work was created. A female child born in 2003 has a life expectancy of 80.1 years according to the US government. If the rights are sold the copyright expiration should remain the same. If the corporation goes out of business and no one buys the rights then the work should go into the public domain. Individuals and corporations should be allowed to place their works in the public domain at any time during the copyright lifetime with the understanding that the work can not be taken out of the public domain.

I want to see a red ring of death on a phone.

Here is a good video about Youtube's copyright violation detection system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoX-YihV_ew

That's what she said.

I understand organizations must protect their trademarks however there was not a violation here. The National Pork Board trademarked "The other white meat." They do not have a trademark on "The new white meat." If anything the National Pork Board should go after Thinkgeek for falsely representing their product. Any reasonable person knows that unicorn meat is not white but rather is the color of a beautiful spring rainbow. Free range unicorn meat sparkles in the early morning light. Sparkles are added to farm raised unicorn so remember to buy your unicorn meat in the afternoon. If it sparkles in the afternoon it suffered.

I heard he raped and killed a girl in 1990. That's just what I was told. Don't know if it's true.

ARM would be a great platform to run a search engine's web spider. The spider box itself doesn't do much processing. It would go out and determine of a page exists or if a page has been updated. The spider would then tell another more powerful system to analyze the contents of the page. The ARM boxes could be powered on and off as needed. I don't think Microsoft would run an entire data center on ARM. I'm guessing they are looking at ARM for an extremely specialized task in their data centers.

I feel inspired