If they lowered their rates just slightly they'd steal customers from higher-charging companies. If climate change didn't occur then they'd win out.

To be fair, the tablet / minimalist laptop is the future of computing for a large segment of society. For microsoft to simply abandon it would be foolish. Yeah, the Surface 1 tanked, but MS has the resources to keep at it until they (hopefully) get it right. I think the Surface needs more than a spec bump, so I'm not sure version 2.0 will do all that well - but I'm always in favor of more competition and more devices - it's good for consumers long term.

Also Apple isn't the sort of company that buys other large companies - would never happen.

In general I think this cop is an asshat -with one exception. People at the front of the line of a "left-only" lane. Nothing enrages me more than when someone takes 10 seconds to start driving when that left turn green arrow comes up. The thing only lasts ~10 seconds and I can't count the number of times I see only 1 or 2 cars get through it. If you're in front of the line - PAY ATTENTION!

Otherwise regular lights are long enough I don't find it that big a deal if someone slows me up a few seconds.

Every stop in a 3 point turn? That's insane!!!

So what if I was checking my Garmin GPS for directions. How is that functionally different then checking a phone? Are stand-alone GPS systems now illegal to operate in a car?

You aren't legally allowed to ram people who don't accelerate as fast as you'd like. It's 100% the rear-enders fault. Legally anyway...

Technically a 100% of the blame goes to the guy behind who did the rear-ending. I'd feel free to yell at the stationary driver, but it's not legal to just ram someone who doesn't accelerate fast enough for your liking.

I make no statement about which OS is the best, but to say Android's main competitor is the Windows Phone is just silly. Hate Apple as much as you like, but Android is Apple's main competitor - Windows and BB are distant also-rans at the point. Hopefully that changes as competition is good for us.

At $2 an episode, tv watching adds up quickly. I (and almost everyone I know) vastly prefer netflix's model. Just look at the lack of success of historic pay-per-view channels. Yeah, people will occasionally pay for it, but generally it's something people do very rarely (like once every few years).

Just last week I was sick with the flu for several days - so I loaded up the most recent seasons of Mad Men and Breaking Bad - binged on them while I was sick and couldn't really do anything else. There's no way in hell I would have done this with the pay-per-view model as I would have blown ~$20/day on it.

That's pretty much what LabView is. Downside is it really sucks to do any traditional programming in. Also it's really expensive.

I just can't believe that republicans aren't calling for impeachment. They seem to attack Obama on literally everything. There was even an article blaming him for Katrina (which happened under Bush). I don't understand why they're so silent on this.

Really? You want a stylus? What is this, 1997?

Yeah, I agree. I don't see that much differentiation between the 5S and 5C. If people want a cheap option - won't they just buy the 4S for $0 up front? What demographic is the 5C for?

I post this every time another MarsOne piece of fundraising comes up. So here goes again....

I really wish people would stop posting MarsOne propaganda. It's a scam, pure and simple. It's been pointed out time and time again that their team is primarily artists and PR people. Just look here for yourself:

http://www.mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team

Of the 7 people listed there's: an artist, an editor, a communication specialist, a communications director, and an MD. There's only 2 people who could conceivably have any expertise on getting to Mars.

They did an interview (AMA) on reddit and were torn apart:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ufb42/ama_i_am_founder_of_mars_one_sending_four_people/

They lack any coherent plan on how they're going to even test their technology, let alone actually get people to Mars. Stop looking towards entertainers to do what you know will require a massive engineering effort. These people are after free press and free money.

STOP FEEDING THESE PEOPLE FREE PRESS!

That's the point. They're NOT going to even try this. The whole organization is nothing more than an attempt to extract money from suckers. That's $7Million they can bank without barely lifting a finger.