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be it BS or not, you haven’t answered the question: what exactly needs to be improved about Vlad’s delivery? I am a native English speaker and I can find no real flaws.

Thx, jeez where did I get “Mike” from

If you were able to understand him easily, what specifically needs to be improved? You sound like some old person who hates “foreigners”. People have accents, get over it.

Seriously? This is a problem for you?

An awesome line by ISS astronaut Mike Pettit that’s all over twitter:

Houston, looks like we have a Dragon by the tail.

the Avengers of games journalism

That…is the absolute best way to concisely describe Polygon that I’ve thus far seen. Apt metaphor ^1000

lol, but they are providing wonderful free services. I don’t think that can be argued. Well, exactly how wonderful they are can be argued.

#sameboat

You are both right, you and Horowitz. Yes it’s for the money, but also it’s for a purpose that he and the Google engineers can believe in.

Look at it this way: any company wants to motivate their employees. How do you motivate them? Money, of course, but also idealism. Some companies do more of one, some more of the other. Google’s doing both by pushing ideas and products that serve a common good and that will make the company money. It’s not that they don’t care about the users, it’s that they care about the users just as much as they do the bottom line.

I’m not sure this should be in the “turmoil at HP, CEO shakeup, webos” storystream. I feel like that story has kind of tapered off. Maybe you guys should start a new one, “More Turmoil at HP: Honey I Shrunk the Corporation” or something. Or something more Hollywood, “Turmoil at HP II: Ebb Tide”

There already is a pretty large community of photographers on Google+. A lot of them probably just migrated from Picasa after it was integrated, but I’d swear there’s significant organic growth there, independent of any special incentivizing Google has in the works. Definitely a lot of pros promoting their work, and a lot more wannabe pros.

One thing is that there’s a predominance of heavily HDR’ed photos getting + ’ed hugely which I find annoying. The lowest common denominator of G+ users still seems more rational than that of the facebook collective (and obvs of the internet in the aggregate) but there’s this “ooh look shiny” thing going on on G+ that I find pretty annoying.

Oh and lastly, Dieter: a + 1 for you for

…but squaring ads with Google+ circles isn’t going to be easy.

“jury of peers” is a concept traditionally applied to criminal law, not civil law. It’s not in the Constitution or Bill of Rights and was adopted into our judicial system from English common law. “Peers” means those equal in rights under the law to the accused, which, in America, means everyone (or at least anyone not currently serving a felony sentence). It doesn’t mean the jury need to be “peers” in terms of education/experience.

imo, the problem is in the US public education system which fails to effectively teach disciplined, rational thought, but that’s just my weird reactionary libertarian streak talking and you’re welcome to ignore it.

hokay, I’m 31. & if my “attitude” bothers you perhaps you should take a linguistics class and learn a little bit about morphology and semiotics…

What does “engineering talent is uneven” mean? Is it a euphemism for they don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing? And what kind of engineering? I assume software, Motorola’s hardware engineering talent pool has got to be one of the deepest in the world.

we’re not trying to be clever or funny. The # is becoming part of the written cultural lexicon, a readily recognized symbol on the order of the smiley, or for that matter the ellipsis, or “XOXO”.

iow, the kids are on your lawn.

Although I’m not really assuming your age. Odds are I’m older than you.

Gooby pls.

Your thesis is bunk, but that’s ok.

Sigh the point is that that’s irrelevant. Android motivating the buy doesn’t mean Android incurs the cost. Google does. And Google’s getting its money’s worth just by the tax benefits, to say nothing of the patents or when Moto returns to of profitability.

come on, nothing beats a tumbler of good scotch