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Google is delivering us the technologies sci-fi was promising over 60 years ago. It's delivering them because it understands that immediate and all consuming lust for payment and profit is not always the best way to improve technology or its use.

And, ironically enough, it's making money hand over fist as a result.

But yeah, all those old "cyber-space" things have pretty much been superceded. The one thing we still don't have is faster-than-light travel and nuclear fusion. Two things: FTL travel, nuclear fusion and... Amongst the things we still don't have - I'll come in again. Nobody expects the actual future!

Agreed. I'm an amateur playwright, trying to write a musical at the moment. As I write, I hear how the songs sound in my head. Some time later, I'll be humming a tune from it to myself and then suddenly say "crap, that bit sounds one heck of a lot like this song that was sung in the 70's/80's. Damn. Now I have to go back and change it to avoid any crap I might get into on the off-chance this might get published and become successful in the future".
Think I'm willing to risk it? There was recently an idiotic court ruling in my country. I'm not taking any chances.

Ratzinger was the man who decided that one of the abusers would go back into the field and be allowed to work with kids again despite being warned against it.

You don't like reading the opponent-suggested material, do you? New York Times lied to you — by omission. In fact:

That diabolical priest, Lawrence C. Murphy, was assigned to St. John's School for the Deaf in 1950, before Joseph Ratzinger was even ordained.

Reports of his abuse of the deaf children surfaced in the 1950s. But, under three archbishops, nothing was done. Police and prosecutors were alerted by parents of the boys. Nothing was done.

Weakland, who became archbishop in 1977, did not write to Rome until 1996.

And as John Allen of National Catholic Reporter noted last week, Cardinal Ratzinger "did not have any direct responsibility for managing the overall Vatican response to the crisis until 2001. ... Prior to 2001, Ratzinger had nothing personally to do with the vast majority of sex abuse cases, even the small percentage which wound up in Rome."

By the time Cardinal Ratzinger was commissioned by John Paul II to clean out the stable, Murphy had been dead for three years. [emphasis mine -mi]

This pope is great ... to discredit religion

The abuses now coming to light have taken place under earlier pontiffs — including the Jean Paul, whom the Left were praising (for his anti-Bush stance). I think, someone has already pointed that out to you... Here is a more detailed rebuttal to the current anti-Catholicism hysteria.

I realize the Yahoo homepage is pretty cluttered (though it's better than it was before).

But Yahoo search is pretty good. In some cases it delivers more interesting results than Google. And the "more" button delivers a great subjectwise categorization of results.

Check it out:

http://search.yahoo.com/

Just what we need, more "Japanese are unique" idiocy to justify racism and discrimination in Japan. So far we've heard that "Japanese intestines are longer, so Japanese can't eat foreign beef", "Japanese brains are unique, so only Japanese people can speak the Japanese language." and so on, all of which are supported by pseudo-scientific studies such as this one.

This sort of incomplete research just feeds the view of racial uniqueness (and superiority) among Japanese and justifies their racism and discrimination against others.

Don't forget that only Japanese kids can pilot giant robots.

Just what we need, more "Japanese are unique" idiocy to justify racism and discrimination in Japan. So far we've heard that "Japanese intestines are longer, so Japanese can't eat foreign beef", "Japanese brains are unique, so only Japanese people can speak the Japanese language." and so on, all of which are supported by pseudo-scientific studies such as this one.

This sort of incomplete research just feeds the view of racial uniqueness (and superiority) among Japanese and justifies their racism and discrimination against others.

Hype is not always a useful indicator of "overvalued". Google was roundly panned as 'not worth the hype,' when it's initial offering @ $85/share happened. And it's now worth nearly $570 a share.

Considering Apple has few (if any) debts, billions of dollars in cash (as I read it on Yahoo Finance, about 28 billion), a multitude of physical assets (land, office buildings, etc), is one of the (perhaps THE now) largest music retailers in the US, and a physical product line that is the envy of the tech world... I'd say that $210 billion isn't that hard to swallow as a "corporate net worth."

You're not the only one. :)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100309181019AAw5YZ9

Yes. Even a magazine is too heavy, but usually you can rest it on your chair/lap until you need to turn the page. Now you have this gadget that needs lots of user input/interaction...hello gorilla arms. It isn't the ability to lift and hold the device or media, it is the need to continuously hold it and interact with it for long periods of time that becomes the problem.

I compiled some weights to compare items you hold in front of you (or don't in case of textbook):

Wii Remote / Nunchuk: 3.1oz / 2.6oz
1984 Paperback 248pgs: 5.6oz
Kindle: 10.2oz
People Magazine: 11.5oz
Kindle DX: 19oz
War and Peace paperback 1424pgs: 19oz
Ipad: 25oz
Average Physics Textbook: 58oz

Heparin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_heparin_adulteration

Since this "over-sulphated" variant is not naturally occurring and mimics the properties of heparin, the counterfeit is almost certainly intentional as opposed to an accidental lapse in manufacturing.[8] The heparin was cut from anywhere from 2-60% with a counterfeit substance due to cost effectiveness, and a shortage of suitable pigs in China.

Drywall: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_bi_ge/us_chinese_drywall

The drywall has been linked to corrosion of wiring, air conditioning units, computers, doorknobs and jewelry, along with possible health effects. Tenenbaum said some samples of the Chinese-made product emit 100 times as much hydrogen sulfide as drywall made elsewhere.

Pet Food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

Sometime in mid-March, an "unnamed pet food company" reported to Cornell that they had discovered an industrial chemical utilized in plastics manufacture, melamine, in internal testing of wheat gluten samples. ..... The chemical was found in the suspected wheat gluten in raw concentrations as high as 6.6 percent.

Cooking Oil: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/chinese-consumed-millions-gallons-toxic-sewage-oil-study/

Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants' waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.

Tooth Paste http://publicsafety.tufts.edu/ehs/?pid=27

In recent weeks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified a number of instances of contaminated toothpastes that have been imported and sold in the United States. The toothpaste from China and counterfeit Colgate toothpaste may contain diethylene glycol (DEG), a chemical used in antifreeze.

Two are current: cooking oil and drywall.

Yes, the US will be a much better competitor if we just give up regulation, make a few people rich and poison everyone. Actually we already have, if you consider how unregulated Toxic Assets have ruined both the domestic and world economy....

Freelance journalists would use free web based e-mail, possibly with their own domain.

Actually there was some real LHC news, unless I've been spoofed. The AP is running a story "Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning'" Some choice bits that make me wonder if they're serious:

...physicist Michio Kaku told The Associated Press "This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe."

"This is the Jurassic Park for particle physicists," said Phil Schewe, a spokesman for the American Institute of Physics. He called the collider a time machine. "Some of the particles they are making now or are about to make haven't been around for 14 billion years."

Two beams of protons were sent hurtling in opposite directions toward each other in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel below the Swiss-French border -- the coldest place in the universe at slightly above absolute zero. CERN used powerful superconducting magnets to force the two beams to cross; two of the protons collided, producing 7 trillion electron volts.

Kaku, a professor at City College of New York, described the amount of energy produced as less than the total energy made by two mosquitoes crashing.

"In the past, every time we unraveled a force (of physics) it changed human history," Kaku said. "Now we're talking about all forces."

He compared it to events such as the Industrial Revolution, the electric and the nuclear age. Such events followed breakthroughs made by Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein.

Here. Apparently the submitter wanted to provide a link to a print view, but it only works when redirected from an intermediate [Print] link in the article itself :/.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=scoxq.pk

Ouch! from .46 down to .10. While 36 cents might not sound like much, it's an 80% drop in value.

Oh my dear god no...

There is a big difference in lead with regard to radiation - the actual problem is the decay of Polonium (one of lead's daughter products). On an episode of "Treasure Quest", they made a big deal about explaining that chip manufacturers were willing to pay huge amounts of money for lead that was not contaminated with Polonium. It's called low alpha lead - here are some links:

Semiconductor International Article

mentions the show

Finacial Article

Yeah, they did that, but they used Yahoo instead of Google. Yeah, not so great.

I just ran the search through bing, and as GP suggests, the very first hit is http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212021150AAOfyNz
GP's assertion is verified by me, anyway. Maybe it makes a difference which browser you use for the search, or which operating system, or maybe even what country you are searching from?
I'm running Firefox on Ubuntu Karmic, from the United States. Maybe they force feed that specific search result to the people they think are most likely to buy a Mac? Who knows? Let's send Ballmer an email, and ask him about it.

On second thought, I don't want a chair flying through my screen - you send the email!

Lets start with a slightly more accurate link to the story http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100326/media_nm/us_venezuela_detention_3;_ylt=AukeOQVHjzcSw_2rM1SJtXf9SpZ4, briefly detained not locked up indefinitely. I really have to wonder about "pro-opposition TV station" now what exactly does that mean, I know in most of the modern western world where democracy and free speech are respected, you have 'independent' news services that report the news, not opposition TV stations or opposition news shows.

From what I have come to understand a politically biased TV or cable station stinks to high heaven of corruption, whether it be in Italy, the United States or perhaps even in Venezuela.

The whole Venezuelan political scene has that taint of corruption on one side US corporations with those Venezuelans who gained wealth and powers during colonisation days and on the other those who can trust and believe that only they have the answers and the masses who have yet to understand democracy.

A political system that still has a long way to go mature into a modern egalitarian society. One that will benefit form being left alone and not put under more pressure. Should Venezuela destabilise it will likely ignite the whole region with no winners just tens of millions of losers. Keep in mind the country that is receiving the most US aid in South America is also doing by far the worst. Ending the drug war will likely do more to stabilise South America than anything else possible.

I'm sorry, but taking over the media, rewriting the constitution to remove term limits so he can stay in power indefinitely and possibly attempting to assassinate the democratically elected president of a neighboring country (see the first link) are not the actions of a democratic leader. Combined with the allegations of vote fraud and voter suppression in opposition neighborhoods, the man has crossed that line that divides "pompous but legitimate ruler" from "dictator in all but name."

Again with the obsession with term limits. What about Uribe? Is he a dictator too?

Thursday, 29 April, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3670385.stm
Colombia's main opposition Liberal Party says it will reject a bill aimed at giving President Alvaro Uribe the chance of four more years in power.
The party said it opposed changing the law to let Mr Uribe run again in 2006.

February 26, 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100227/ts_nm/us_colombia_uribe
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A court blocked Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday from running for re-election, making his former defense minister the favorite to succeed the Washington ally in a May presidential election.

Latest Bloomberg survey about Obamacare support lists only 40% as supporting it. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a2R1ChNYjoag

38 states have pass / are in the process of passing / are talking about enacting laws to sue over the unconstitutionality of the law. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_states

I'm sorry, did it hurt when I bitchslapped you right there?

I said 38 were planning about suing, not that they had officially made a decision yet. Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_states

The "threshold" probably refers to the boundary of a dead zone that distinguishes sensor noise and vibration from intentional movements.

Sure you can! Just create a filter with yahoo pipes, or subscribe to somebody that's done the heavy lifting for you already. Have a look at, and you should be able to find something helpful there. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/search?q=idle+slashdot&x=0&y=0

I use yahoo mail classic with noscript and adblock plus in Firefox. I see no such problems. I also use RequestPolicy and CookieMonster, but for that site they happen to do nothing special. You should try again.

Firefox 3.5.2 and 3.6 confirmed. What's your environment like, and/or what Yahoo URLs are you actually ending up at when you attempt to use Yahoo mail?

Here, in about.config, javascript.enabled is false. network.cookie.cookieBehavior 0, network.cookie.alwaysAcceptSessionCookies false. network.cookie.lifetimePolicy 2. privacy.item.cookies is true.

mail.yahoo.com takes me to http://us.mc316.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1&.tm=(a timestamp)&.rand=(some random numbers). There's a brief flash about screen readers and a suggestion to go to http://us.mc316.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?noajax, but it also loops incessantly.

I use yahoo mail classic with noscript and adblock plus in Firefox. I see no such problems. I also use RequestPolicy and CookieMonster, but for that site they happen to do nothing special. You should try again.

Firefox 3.5.2 and 3.6 confirmed. What's your environment like, and/or what Yahoo URLs are you actually ending up at when you attempt to use Yahoo mail?

Here, in about.config, javascript.enabled is false. network.cookie.cookieBehavior 0, network.cookie.alwaysAcceptSessionCookies false. network.cookie.lifetimePolicy 2. privacy.item.cookies is true.

mail.yahoo.com takes me to http://us.mc316.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1&.tm=(a timestamp)&.rand=(some random numbers). There's a brief flash about screen readers and a suggestion to go to http://us.mc316.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?noajax, but it also loops incessantly.

...I see this article which says Google is attempting a sort of compromise.

Google Inc. will shift its search engine for China off the mainland but won't shut it down altogether, and it will maintain other operations in the country. It's an attempt to balance its stance against censorship with its desire to profit from an explosively growing Internet market.

On Monday afternoon, visitors to Google.cn were being redirected to Google's Chinese-language service based in Hong Kong. The page said, according to a Google translation, "Welcome to Google Search in China's new home."

Google's attempt at a compromise could resolve a 2 1/2-month impasse pitting the world's most powerful Internet company against the government of the world's most populous country.

In a strange coincidence, Google today unveiled the awesome power of the revamped Google Weather service, which delivers carefully targeted weather to their enemies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, I mean users.

even the "worst case" "victims" the administration keep bringing out to show how awful the current US healthcare system is have all been covered and receiving full treatment in their respective states public systems. Something the administration always conveniently neglect to mention.

Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy's account of his mother's death as a "sob story" exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a "kiddie shield" to defend their health care legislation.

Tifanny Owens died in June 2007 of pulmonary hypertension, which is described as high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs that can lead to heart failure. The disease is considered rare. While there's no cure, it can be treated.

The treatments can cost as much as $100,000 a year and must be "consistent and constant," said Katie Kroner , the director of advocacy and awareness for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association .

"It's extremely important to have health coverage," she said.

Owens was an assistant manager at a fast food restaurant when she became sick in September 2006 . As she became sicker, she missed work and was eventually fired, leaving her without health insurance. She was treated twice in an emergency room and died at age 27 after a week of unconsciousness. Gina Owens has custody of Marcelas and his two younger sisters.

Gina Owens said her daughter didn't qualify for Medicaid . State officials said that without knowing the details, it was impossible to speculate on whether Tifanny Owens would have qualified.

Tifanny Owens might have been eligible for Washington state's basic health care plan, which is aimed at the working poor. The plan has had a long waiting list for some time, said Sharon Michael of the Washington state Health Care Authority .

"Right now, we have 100,000 people on the wait list," Michael said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100318/pl_mcclatchy/3455226

...provided by insanely profitable corporations.

Insanely profitable corporations? The average profit margin of hospitals is around 3.4%. Health care plans ring in at a whopping 4.4%. (source: Yahoo! finance - http://biz.yahoo.com/p/sum_qpmd.html). Sure, the healthcare companies have the economies of scale on their side, but with margins that low I would rather place my investment dollars into higher margin businesses.

A competitive public option would have pushed down insurance company margins

I'm pretty sure that 4.4% isnt a large profit margin, and certainly could not be altered in any meaningful way to reduce rates. Paying $600 per month? Lets cut out the insurance companies profits.. now you save $28 per month!! woohooo!!!111oneone!!!

You have been sold a lie about where the problem is. The problem is not insurance company profits. The problem is that Americans get every possible test and procedure done, which is what makes the rates high.

The idea that this bill wont effect people that are currently happy with their insurance is nonsense. They are going to end up paying more, now that pre-existing conditions must be covered. Also, what about the people that are unhappy with their insurance coverage? How are they going to feel about higher rates?

You've been sold a lie and you will be bitching about rising insurance rates in about 2 years time, because you will not remember that you were wrong here today. The insurance companies are not raping you. The other people in your plan are.

But beware of hefty fines...

Holy crap! they offered 2 billion to buy us out? We're not even worth half that!

... almost a billion in cash in the bank and no debt. They're worth more than 2 billion.

They most definitely do have debt. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=NOVL

They don't have "long term debt" but over $800 million in liabilities, $600 million of which has to be paid within a year. So yes, a billion in cash, but plenty of debt as well.

Yes, but the sanity of our judges is canceled out by our ridiculous Human Rights Commissions. For example, it's a human right to not have to wash your hands while working at a restaurant, or get a better parking spot if you're morbidly obese.

Every company aims to make more profit. By the same logic I'd rather not let my food/car/house/life-savings/etc. be the subject of financial gambling.

Of course insurance companies don't sell health care. That is like thinking that auto-insurance companies sell mechanic services. An insurance company (of whatever sort) sells risk management. I might have a 5% chance of incurring a $100,000 medical/auto/house expense in any particular year. In its most basic form insurance is the offer that in exchange for me paying each year $100,000*5%=$5,000 plus a small (~6.7%) profit margin, I don't have to worry about the risk of me randomly getting stuck with a $100,000 bill. The expense of the $5000 premium isn't the fault of the insurance company. It is the "fault" of the $100,000 upstream cost and the 5% chance.

Sorry, but you're delusional if you tjhink the economy is going to recover. There was no surplus in the 1990s. Clinton, like the Presidents before and after him (from both sides of the aisle) simply stole the FICA tax receipts, replacing them with non-marketable bonds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_social_security_ious

I call shenanigans.

TFA says, with emphasis on the F, that such offerings exist, but are quite limited and Google will open it all up.

Uh huh. Yeah. How about this - http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/

They're called Yahoo! Widgets, they're available now on TVs and BD players from Samsung, Song, LG and Vizio - read that as Samsung and Vizio already owning over 40% of the North American LCD HDTV market already. (Sony, naturally, markets them as Bravia Widgets.)

I've got 'em on my Sammy TV - YouTube, Weather, eBay, Finance, Yahoo Video, free cartoons, Flicker, Twitter - yadda yadda yadda.

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH - bit news - based on Android.

Bigger news: Yahoo! Widgets look suspiciously the same as my Mac Dashboard Widgets - and how many of those are there? And so what codebase do you think they're based on when they look like Apple Widgets, not Yahoo's other web widgets?

How about the fact that with a Sammy TV, for example, you go into your profile, copy down your Yahoo developer ID *from* the TV, go to Yahoo, enter it, and bypass the whole SDK/setup/rigamarole? How about the fact that TVs supporting this already let you sandbox your widget before releasing it?

Not only is there nothing to see here - it's uneven, biased, slanted reporting without a shred of research into a successfully competing - or should I say, pioneering, product.

And if you own a Panasonic with connectivity, you're already using Viera widgets - those are quite rich and are independently developed.

TFA - emphasis on fucking - makes this sound like a breakthrough.

That happened in January 2009. Assholes.

Brietbart funded the videos of the two kids going into ACORN offices, and it's gotten so bad that Hawaii's considering a law to ignore the birthers.

So, yeah, totally out of the realm of possibility that crazy people would spam the government with bogus FOIA requests when the Communo-Socialist-Nazi from Kenya is in power. Should we start linking to tea party protest signs? Those are always fun ;)

It's an Associated Press story. Here's the same story hosted on Google if it makes you feel better, oh and Yahoo, too, and Salon, oh and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Gambling on exotic technologies that would only marginally increase sales is not the surest path to profitability. But hey what do I care - I'm not American

Nor are you an automobile marketing guru (nor am I), but looking at history, it should be obvious to anyone that new fangled gizoms, like FM radio, Air conditioning, cruise control; despite the sanctimonious outrage folks like yourself, DO end up helping cars sell...

If its a technology, like ABS or ESC, which, again despite the howls of protest from so-called auto aficionados , have made cars demonstrably and quantifiable safer. Well then, all the better...

GM, or any other car company, would be derelict not to at the very least, explore these kinds of technologies

Are you thinking along the lines of Yahoo Pipes?

From the Amazon.site:

Changing an Amazon Fulfilled Order Before It Ships

Most orders you place on Amazon.com enter the shipping process very quickly so we can get your items to you as soon as possible. Orders already in the shipping process cannot be modified.

You can update your unshipped orders by visiting the Order section in Your Account and then clicking the Change button next to each item you wish to modify (billing address, shipping address, payment method, gift options, etc.).

To edit an order from the Order Summary in Your Account:

1. Click the Your Account link at the top of any Amazon.com page or visit it directly at www.amazon.com/your-account.
2. Visit the Order Summary for the order you wish to change. Note: Orders that have entered the shipping process cannot be modified.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to update the desired information. Reviewing and Changing Orders

______

I was searching for Tom Clancy's HAWX on Amazon and scrolled down to the used section to check prices but misclicked and hit one click order. Now I can't cancel it because it won't show up in recent orders. What do I do now?

The payment did not clear yet.
Wait for the payment to clear and it will show up in your recent purchases where you can cancel the order. I accidentally selected "one click order" on Amazon and now can't cancel? [Yahoo Answers]

Oh, man... you will love this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100308/tc_pcworld/fourreasonstobewarefakeintelcpus

Authentic Intel Core i7 processors contain a number of innovative technologies to improve performance. Core i7 chips have an integrated triple-channel memory controller. They also replace the archaic front-side bus architecture with Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect system, and use hyperthreading to turn the Core i7's four physical processor cores into eight virtual cores.

A fake processor would most likely not have these cutting edge advantages, resulting in inferior performance compared with the authentic Intel processor.

Apparently for some people the difference between an i7 and a piece of scrap metal is some innovative technologies that improve performance!

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ibm

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=gs
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=f
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=cat

Microsoft has a very high profit margin compared to ibm and ford (about the same as goldman sachs who are doing illegal stuff (front running stocks), have access to 0% money which they use to buy 3% treasures (hey, free cash), and are legally allowed to hold worthless paper on their books at fair value.

Caterpillar and Ford.. both have 2-3% profit margins. 3-7% is a reasonable profit margin. For Microsoft to make and maintain a near 30% profit margin is a sure sign of funny business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ibm

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=gs
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=f
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=cat

Microsoft has a very high profit margin compared to ibm and ford (about the same as goldman sachs who are doing illegal stuff (front running stocks), have access to 0% money which they use to buy 3% treasures (hey, free cash), and are legally allowed to hold worthless paper on their books at fair value.

Caterpillar and Ford.. both have 2-3% profit margins. 3-7% is a reasonable profit margin. For Microsoft to make and maintain a near 30% profit margin is a sure sign of funny business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ibm

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=gs
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=f
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=cat

Microsoft has a very high profit margin compared to ibm and ford (about the same as goldman sachs who are doing illegal stuff (front running stocks), have access to 0% money which they use to buy 3% treasures (hey, free cash), and are legally allowed to hold worthless paper on their books at fair value.

Caterpillar and Ford.. both have 2-3% profit margins. 3-7% is a reasonable profit margin. For Microsoft to make and maintain a near 30% profit margin is a sure sign of funny business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ibm

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=gs
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=f
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=cat

Microsoft has a very high profit margin compared to ibm and ford (about the same as goldman sachs who are doing illegal stuff (front running stocks), have access to 0% money which they use to buy 3% treasures (hey, free cash), and are legally allowed to hold worthless paper on their books at fair value.

Caterpillar and Ford.. both have 2-3% profit margins. 3-7% is a reasonable profit margin. For Microsoft to make and maintain a near 30% profit margin is a sure sign of funny business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ibm

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=gs
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=f
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=cat

Microsoft has a very high profit margin compared to ibm and ford (about the same as goldman sachs who are doing illegal stuff (front running stocks), have access to 0% money which they use to buy 3% treasures (hey, free cash), and are legally allowed to hold worthless paper on their books at fair value.

Caterpillar and Ford.. both have 2-3% profit margins. 3-7% is a reasonable profit margin. For Microsoft to make and maintain a near 30% profit margin is a sure sign of funny business.

There are discussions and evidence that Nvidia disables multi-core PhysX processing , most likely to make its hardware-based implementation look better.

http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+disable+multi-core+physx
http://www.bing.com/search?q=nvidia+multi-core+physx
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nvidia+disable+multi-core+physx

The "official" excuse is that it's "up to the developers to enable it"... but if Nvidia is paying them... then it only makes sense they wouldn't allow multi-core software implementations as that would make their hw less desirable.

PhysX is the GLide of 21st century, except it offers much less and performs poorly (even on high end hardware).

Open standards are the way to go.