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When’s the last time you clicked on one of those ads on Facebook?

Oh wait, I’m still wrong? That a social networking site is worth more than companies producing physical, tangible products with a clear goal? Well fuck me sideways, I guess I was completely wrong considering how high their stock price is soaring.

Absolutely agree. To put it in perspective, they valued Facebook, a social networking site with no actual source of revenue, higher than HP and Dell. Combined.

I have to admit, Mark Z seems like a pretty smart guy, otherwise he wouldn’t have made
it this far. But I seriously wonder what he and others were thinking with that initial offering.

Not really, I think. Traditional magazines, especially celebrity mags and the like, served much the same purpose as twitter and facebook. The medium has changed, the human has not.

It was pretty cool and fun the first time you saw it, but then you realised how damn distracting it was when you couldn’t read the title of documents in Microsoft Office. In the last two years I’ve always disabled Glass on my work/school/home machines.

I do hope they keep Aero Peek though, it was genuinely useful. Same with Aero Snap. Aero Shake…not so much.

Thinkpads look completely different. If they can do it, so can others. It’s easier to follow trends than to buck them or create them.

Even as a die-hard thinkpad fanboy, I’d be willing to give them a try before writing them down as a dismal failure. That said, though, I’m chuffed they got rid of the blue enter key.

Offering a really good selection of phones might lead to people signing up for it instead of Sprint proper

MVNO’s don’t work like that, though, you’re confusing them with sub-brands. MVNOs are completely independent entities that lease network use from big carriers like Sprint. It’s kinda like DelMonte making supermarket generic brand goods.

If Sprint really wanted to be evil, they could in theory block Virgin users and force Virgin to walk away from their network, but I’m pretty sure in practice that would land them a hefty lawsuit for breaking whatever agreement they have in place.

So we learned nothing at all newsworthy other than (1) Facebook has a New York office, and (2) as a social network they are trying to improve social networking.

Agreed, but finally, an article worth reading! Ars Technica used to do good articles until they decided to publish a seven-page tome reviewing Windows 7, Engadget’s format never lent itself well to full-on features, and it’s nice to see an article like this among all the entertaining-but-somewhat-usi off the internet posts and fluff pieces about useless tokyoflash kitsch, etc.

The thing is, I once thought that exact way as well. I rejected all newspapers as being too centralised and for a while read my news exclusively off aggregators. And you know what? It’s true I got the best, most comprehensive and unbiased picture of the news, but at the expense of a massive investment of time, with the quality of writing ranging from poor to what could only be described as logorrhoea.

Point is, that cynical outlook is good, and helps you approach any news source with a critical eye, but while the NYT is far from perfect, it’s one of the better ones out there, and as with all news sources, you’re fine so long as you don’t use it as your only news source.

Sparse industrial design is always a good thing. Look at iPads, Macbooks, Thinkpads, etc, etc.

But has it, though? If anything, it’s also made it easier to “troll” people. If you look into the dank underworld of the Internet, the image boards and the like, you notice trolling targets collectively branded “lolcows.” The Internet has suddenly made it easier for gullible people to be duped over and over again, and ensuring that their antics are known the world over, too.

Thing is, newspapers are wrong more often than they care to admit. Anybody who’s ever read the rubbish technology section of the otherwise stellar New York Times can attest to this.

The liberating effect of the Internet is because the Internet is, by definition, information. Someone wrote a good article somewhere that said the Internet as a whole treats obstruction of information, whether by people, lawsuits, or even governments, as the human body would an infection, eventually working around it, chipping away at it, and eventually eradicating it.

Paul, I don’t mean this in any other way except face value, but that hairstyle does not suit you very well.

(and yes I know he can’t really read this, but still.)

I also prefer a news post…people usually point out any showstopping or particularly nasty bugs in the comments string, which makes all the difference between installing and waiting until the next update.

Yknow, when I stop and think about it, I want to believe the writers here are far more clever than we give them credit for, and are just posting this kind of stuff to pit the fanboys against each other.

Past…just because nobody says anything doesn’t mean we all agree with you. I personally think Hans has got a good point with the soda analogy, but I can’t be bothered to wade through a lengthy comment string on an insignificant news article that will quickly be forgotten.

Some of you people are living in some kind of nerd parallel word. Don’t take it as an offense because I’m one of you but I knew how to break myself out of it.

Whoa, guys, we better shut up and listen, there’s an Internet tough guy on the scene.

Dear The Verge,

So Samsung didn’t release a product that met all your requirements.

Deal with it.

It’s either a slow news day, or it’s 2005 again.

Having tried out both, I have to say Flipboard is brilliant for tablets simply because of the screen real-estate available. On a phone, I’d rather stick to a straightforward RSS reader.

You’re absolutely right, but considering North Korea isn’t exporting anything to the global economy (well, officially) and the article isn’t discussing the ratcheting tensions on the Korean Peninsula, I think moat people will assume Korea in this context means the ROK.

…this is among the most retarded pissing contests I’ve ever seen on The Verge.

It kinda fit her character, though, didn’t it? Gaudy, overly heavy makeup, and incredibly ostentatious. I don’t think an iPhone for instance would’ve fit as perfectly.

I don’t quite follow how Vertu could exist without being a part of Nokia. At their very core, Vertu phones were little more than just rebranded Nokia handsets.