Well, in order to come out better with the lump sum you basically have to get about 5% annualized and considering huge sums of money are usually invested very conservatively, that's not easy right now. You have to go out pretty far on maturity to get any bond that's above 5% while maintaining investment-grade only and…

Hallelujah! I preferred using Google Docs until I saw the terrible mobile spreadsheet editor from before and changed over to libre + quickoffice + dropbox for all of my stuff since it's mostly spreadsheets. Now I can move back into Drive.

No, you're lucky. In this analogy, you just nabbed a dog that doesn't want to chase cars or start fights with other dogs. Good for you!

Ditto. Nintendo basically has me for life just for Zelda. I have a warm heart right now just thinking about it.

Wow, seeing the icon for SimCity Deluxe brought back some real bitterness towards EA (they never updated it for 4.x so it works on my old 2.x stuff, but not my hawt new phone, the N4). I imagine they're not going to and will release a new game next year along with SimCity 5. Not sure if my pride will keep me from…

So were you L2 (meaning, you should have your phone right now) or L3? I was L2 and got it Tuesday morning and it's awesome. It's easily the most breakable phone I've ever had, but I like it.

It's not really automatic if I'm just going off how you responded to their arguments. And I agree with you completely on io9.

You're not going to convince him, but at least the responses from you and Rathorial raised interesting points. I'm just now realizing that Kotaku might have some of the best dialogue of any of the Gawker sites.

I think Inky69's point was that, just like there is an infinite number of points between 1 and 5 (or any two numbers), there is also an infinite number of tones between G and A.

Gamestop will go under. To sell in the big box stores, the console manufacturers will have to give them a better slice of the hardware, which they make almost nothing on now.

The same reason why people create a word-smash summation hashtag at the end of a tweet/facebook post- other people do it. Neither serve any purpose.

the glass might bust if you drop it on a hard surface, is not made with gorilla glass. I just be careful and keep it caseless. Durability is average.

and.... I still haven't received either. This is weird. I'm stuck between "if they had it to ship, why wouldn't they by now" and "BUT, if they back ordered me, my haven't they sent that email by now?"

Fellow limbo resident. I think limbo has a decent chance of shipping tonight or tomorrow. Limbo seems to be the majority group, followed by people who got back order emails (which haven't went out since mid-afternoon as far as the forums indicate) with actual shipments so far as a distant third.

I remember this one being pretty cool when it came out around the 360's launch):

What will we do when every current job is either made obsolete or replaced by technology?

Which is the telcos best argument for anti-competitive measures. Google is willing to be a loss leader in other markets like ISP in order to funnel more growth into it's money maker, destroying ISP's margins in the process.

I can only imagine what the telcos are saying privately about Google's most recent moves. My only guess is they'll lobby up even more aggressively and try to get Google on antitrust violations. But really, even if Google becomes a major player in the service provider space, would that really make them a monopoly?…

Someone who's taken the time to photoshop a star into their avatar should know the difference between Brent Rose and Jesus Diaz.

Rumors all night were 9am pst. Happen to refresh the page at about 8:35 and saw it for sale. I got the order to go through in about 3 tries of adding it the cart, but lots of people never got it to go through by the time both sold out.