And Amazon wants to make every dime possible out of Comixology. Nobody else has mentioned it here, but in parallel with the new iOS version, the new release of the Android app disables the ability to pay for purchases using a Google Play account.

15C takes the same A76 (LR44) batteries that my Minolta film SLR did. Made life easy.

Got my 15C as a Freshman in college in 1982, and it's sitting next to me right now. Just used it yesterday.

Actually, to me, most impressive of all was the fact that something *in my lifetime* actually has to account for both special and general relativity. I remember studying them in my college sophomore physics class and having the standard student complaint, "When am I ever going to need to use THIS?" (By the way Mrs Morton, I still have not diagrammed a sentence in real life).

Turtles all the way down.

Maybe they learned what they wanted to learn, and didn't "need" (in the first-world sense) the device any longer. I put a power meter on my bicycle. After about a year of riding and reading it, I could estimate from my perceived exertion just about what my power output was, so I removed the device.

The problem is the additional requirements/hardware, and the weight impacts. The 1989 Honda CRX HF had an EPA highway rating of 50 mpg. Today's CRZ is essentially that same form factor with "bugs worked out," but once you've added crumple zones, front and side impact airbags, ABS, traction control, the energy removed from the gasoline by substituting 10% ethanol, and whatever other requirements that have evolved, even a hybrid can only get 39. It would be interesting to see what a gas-only version of this car could do.

But if the car has an alarm system and it's active, this doesn't help much. If I unlock my car with a physical key, there's a three-step process I need to do in order to disable the alarm and engine kill. If your owners didn't realize their keys would work, what's the likelihood they'd then remember everything else required before driving away?

Why would Apple want Office on iOS? the iWork suite is just dandy.

...and not dystopian for some. I have a friend who lost a brother who fell asleep at the wheel, crashed and died. Fatigue (or at the least, closed eyes) should be detectable with current technology, and could save lives now.

Or two-three feet off the ground.

The way around this is to set a generic, non-discrimatory policy that they will perform marriages only for members of their own congregation. Everything else is just a money-grab. If a minister is out there in the world at large, offering to sell his or her services as a marriage officiant, then that minister has forfeited all right to pick and choose who they will marry. Similarly, if I were of a persuasion that is discriminated against, do you think I would WANT a photographer or caterer or florist who disapproved of me or my lifestyle? No way! I wouldn't try to hire that person in the first place, because they're not going to put their best effort into the product, whatever it is.

True, when the engineers are doing what they're supposed to do. Better managers are listening to the customer and re-directing the team when they either veer off course or the goal changes. And to be the buffer between the engineers who have to deal with the customer's moving target and the customer who doesn't understand the havoc he or she is wreaking.

So, that shows that there's really no difference health-wise, so both of our experiences anecdotally are skewed. I also never asserted what you said in claiming of cross-breeding as a panacea--I was just trying to make the point that "accidental" breeding can result in a dog that is just as wonderful as anything with a 200-year pedigree. AND that in the realm of pets or companion animals, making room in your heart and home for a mixed breed is of more benefit to society than going out to find the "best" in terms of bloodlines. I do see the benefit of consistency in dogs to shepherds and others whose livelihoods depend on the dog performing to a certain standard, but the rest of us shouldn't care. We'll see how the mixed breeds fare in the agility trials at Westminster this week...

Bonehead reporter couldn't even open the Macbook Air box! It shows him *tearing* one end open like it's a mailer. I would venture to say that every Apple product made in this century has pretty elegant "Frustration Free" (TM-Amazon) packaging. What an idiot.