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I just wonder why they put out that joke of a controller for Google TV, when they could have made a PS Move-like controller with a slide-out keyboard or similar.

Exactly.

automatic trading based on Black-Scholes acerbated the crash != the Black Scholes model contributed to the crash Unrelatedly, is there anything wrong with, say, a mortgage-backed s…

I really wouldn't take an article seriously if it partially blames the '87 stock market crash on Black-Scholes (basic model for pricing European options). That makes literally zero…

Also, rumors that Gingerbread will launch by December, and 4.0 towards the end of next year: http://phandroid.com/2010/10/19/android-3-0-should-be-ready-...

What leads you to believe that Verizon or any other carrier wants to become a dumb pipe?? A decade of contrary statements to the press suggests otherwise.

Original source: http://phandroid.com/2010/10/18/exclusive-first-android-ging... Remember that Google recently hired Matias Duarte from Palm, who headed the UI design of webOS. The…

Yes, but they're pushing this as an open browser standard for all web app stores. It'll be interesting to see Google's response to this, as well as how DRM potentially works in bot…

I generally find anything like this to be very cheesy, but that genuinely moved me. Thanks for sharing.

If you want to sell a Windows Phone 7 handset, you have to pay Microsoft. If you want to sell an Android handset... you have to pay Microsoft. They're pretty direct about their leg…

Oh, really? You're actually making the opposite argument: divided technical leadership is what drove most progress in personal computing. Unless you yearn for the days of the IBM m…

You can blame people like Larry Summers, who advocated shock therapy when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank, devastating the economic potential of the former Soviet bloc.

This is basically correct, but it still depends on one's values. Who do you value more, the current generation or future generations? Essentially the perpetual argument over the st…

And convicted monopolist. Not all good, not all bad.

I used to be big on microcredit, until I realized it isn't actually profitable (as is claimed). The vast majority of funding for microcredit organizations comes from government. It…

Microsoft brazenly, fiercely ignored antitrust law. There's endless evidence in court on their attempts to illegally block the adoption of Java and Netscape Navigator. They were fo…

The best comment is definitely: "What about the Newton?? I actually bought one. I still can’t believe that I did."

Well they do praise it, albeit it in an odd way. I know several developers who frequently complain about Android fragmentation, but then again they might just be spoiled by iOS. WP…

Will Windows Phone 7 be anywhere near as hacker friendly? Keep in mind xda-developers originally formed as a Windows Mobile community.

Yes, thank you kindly.

Will Windows Phone 7 be anywhere near as hacker friendly? Keep in mind xda-developers originally formed as a Windows Mobile community.

Wonderfully straightforward resource for the basics.