Krylez

I don't think crashes per week is meaningful--especially on PCs with more than one OS. Crashes per operating hour would make more sense.

Looks like a Droid X from the front.

Interesting in that his industry veteran status gives this merit or interesting in that his employment makes him a shill?

Apparently Google took Microsoft's advice to "wake up". http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/microsoft-coll...

Yup. I suspect Biggs thought ending the title with a question mark excused his vague aspersions. It's just lazy.

The digital delay is meant to represent the time it takes to transmit data to Bean via ancible as his ship plunges deeper into space.

Web Urbanist just covered a dangerous and common Chinese demolition method. The article mentions an apartment building that was demolished the same year it was built (2011) due to poor planning. http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/08/high-anxiety-rooftop-excav...

I get your skepticism, but are your really going to give more weight to the theoretical omitted data in your mind just to quell your own cognitive dissonance?

I hope they don't follow the start-up pattern of implementing Cocoa Touch UI widgets for a 1:1 port. Even when devs iron out the inevitable bugs and crashes, those types of apps feel foreign on Android.

It's better to use native widgets in a familiar way and keep the two UIs consistent where it makes sense.

(1) America Invents improves the patent office's efficiency at awarding patents and switches the U.S. from first-to-invent to first-to-file. IMO, both will be a boon to trolls.

(2) The action item is the title of the petition.

(3) Government branches don't operate in silos. When the President demands something from congress and pushes it hard enough, he usually gets something on his desk.

It's a petition, not a bill. I want my President to act, not pretend that he can't do anything about it. He's the one who lit a fire under Congress and called out obstructing members by name to pass healthcare reform. I've relentlessly contacted all my representatives and senators, but congress does nothing without pressure.

Make that a hard 'g' and you've got a deal.

Nope. I haven't used + since Lycos and co. Now - is a different story altogether.

Very frustrating. He kicked the phony quote's legs out, then propped it up with hand-waving speculation.

Don't try to bring logic into this. The company that sells devices that I identify with is vastly superior to the company that sells devices that others identify with.

Gladwell does a tremendous job of cherry picking bits of information to form a compelling narrative. I find his constant and blatant omission of inconvenient data to be intellectually dishonest.

Wrong link? Was it supposed to be the Forbes article? http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/08/25/when-you-...

You make it sound so reasonable. There is a patent gold rush right now. The USPTO is approving thousands of patents that cover the same obvious ideas. Parties that have lost in the marketplace or haven't even participated are effectively taxing the winners by extorting patent fees. Google could pay the fees to the losers and acquire enough patents the reach an equilibrium via mutually assured destruction with their competition, but the market is effectively closed to anyone without the extremely deep pockets.

Agreed. The initial reports indicated that AirBnB was being very helpful. It looks like they backed off after the story went public. They should have taken it as an opportunity to do something good with everyone watching.

I suppose HTML 5 offline caching undercuts connectivity as well.

Yeah, but who isn't these days?