It seems to me that Intel should just license ARM's instruction set and start making ARM based SoCs. There is really no point fighting the architecture fight. However, Intel has the ability to "out-spec" any competitor out there by making ARMs chips, faster, lower-power, higher volume, and lower cost.

@Sprzout: Speaking from personal experience. ATT Uverse has been rock solid in terms of internet connection, as opposed to Comcast which is absolutely horrid. I've suffered daily outages and random latency spikes with Comcast whereas ATT Uverse outrage rate is about once a month with very consistent latency rate.…

I still think that Nationalized Broadband is the way to go. It should be governed and regulated like Public Utility.

@transitnap: Chinese has its origins in hieroglyphics, but in modern time only about 4% of Chinese characters are true picto-graphs. They are the very basic components such as the word for people (人）, day/sun （日). About 80-90% are phonetic components or semantic radicals.

@I Think We're Property: Believe it or not, it has been tried. Simplification of Chinese was step one. Eventually, the idea was to completely convert Chinese into a phonetic based system. Along with banning the use of Chopsticks in favor of forks and spoons. LOL oh, and all religion were also outlawed.

@thinkthis: Tried it! Its called the Cultural Revolution. 80 Million people died. Didn't work.

@transitnap: Strictly speaking, there are actually phonetic Chinese component to forming Chinese characters. But they are consider exceptions. The roots of those "sounds" based Chinese components are often foreign.

@floobie: True, the Chinese pictographs are harder to learn, but it is very efficient to read. Chinese character gives the ability to express very complex ideas with combination of most basic characters. Chinese grammars (at least modern Chinese) are very straightforward. I can read a Chinese prose written two…

@rewards: Yeah those are Chinese pictograph parts. The ancient forms of those pictographs looks exactly like the things they are suppose to to describe. Over thousands of years of evolution, those are the modern forms of the writing.

@KamWrex: The biggest problem between Taiwan and China is a big divide in work ethic and culture. Many Taiwanese investor noted that China after 50 years of communist-socialist rule just doesn't have the type of work ethic that the Taiwanese have. Many Chinese workers come from country sides which essentially…

@4phun: No this will destroy Java's future. Android development can simply switch to a different language. And a new byte code machine created. It will be a pain. But can be done.

Wait, one would think Google is a Java licensee already?

Any kind of bandwidth cap based on fee ultimately breeds anti-competitive practice. For this reason, net-neutrality must be preserved. Unfortunately really the only to do this is ISP and bandwidth becomes a public utility regulated by government where all citizens and business are guaranteed right to equal access.

Hahahaha! I live a block away from that restaurant. And I could get a table. Hey Steve! Trade ya reservation for a new iPhone 4?

I don't see multi-touch as the answer to a new UI interaction paradigm. There are too many funcational area such as mechanical engineering, professional graphics design, gaming, any application where you need accurate spacial translation between a devices to screen that multi-touch probably are not going to be able…

Hmm I use Wifi connection whenever I can to save some juice on my iPhone. Maybe that is that why?

I think I am in love?

The detail that this article missed (via the original Chinese news report) is that the Optimus Prime is made of junk car parts shipped in from Taiwan by a Taiwanese designer and mainland crew. Kind of a cross-strait Taiwan-China relationship building via robot statue?

Intel is pretty much clueless when it comes to mobile handset computing. Every effort they've come up with for the past 20 years has resulted in failure. XSCALE was a complete yawner. I don't think anyone would be interested in a mobile x86 nor any other architecture that Intel comes up.

O.o