Joel, your argument in favor of this terrible Cash 4 Clunkers initiative is that if the gov't didn't waste the money on C4C it would have ended up wasting it on an even more ridiculous initiative? What kind of argument is that? I'm not in favor of the way this administration has been spending money, but I'd still like to cling on to a glimmer of hope that they can potentially make rational decisions.

I do agree with your other points that it is just pulling demand forward and is burying the very people that don't have to ability to take on debt under MORE debt! We've never seen that blow up in everyone's face before, have we???

Lets not get into the environmental argument. I think we can all agree that the environmental benefit played a very small role in the gov't decision to implement this program. This is just another auto bailout program.

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Nintendo needs to hire some of Apple's supply chain and manufacturing specialists. If Apple can more of less meet iPhone demand at launch, Nintendo definitely should be able to meet demand on some silly piece of plastic.

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My initial reaction as to why GenYs are more likely to use libraries is because they're more familiar with the internet and thus it's limitations. Older people who are less familiar with the internet may be more likely to be swept up by the buzz that anything can be found on the internet and therefore less likely to turn to libraries. From my experience, the internet contains a massive wealth of information and is an amazing tool to begin to research a topic, but when you really want to get into the meat and potatoes of a topic books and thus the library tend to contain more detailed information.

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I think some people are missing the point. Google's focus is to release a platform that will support great applications created by third parties. Apple's intent was to deliver a complete solution which they orginally didn't want anyone else to tamper with. To compare what you see in these videos to the Iphone doesn't make sense. The videos basically show u the equivelent of a "hello world" application just to show you the most basic app implrementation and a couple key concepts. Hence the $10 million give away... it's to encourage people to create great applications on their architecture. Give it another 2 months... people will create some very interesting applications. You'll get a better idea of how apps can link to each other and link with online data. Then you can really assess whether Andriod lives up to the hype.

wifi? gps? No mention on the Sprint PR. Also, I've yet to see what the touch keypad for text entry looks like.

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