In the depths of winter we get ~9 hours of daylight.

Major Commuting starts are 7AM in the morning. Major Commuting ends after 6 PM in the evening. That's 11 hours.

No matter how you fiddle with it, most people are going to commute in the dark in the morning, or the evening, or BOTH.

I wouldn't care if it is DST all year or Standard time all year, but the switch really should go.

The Switch is definitely killing people pointlessly (Increased heart attacks and fatal accidents).

I get the idea of more evening sun in the summer, but once you recognize that, what is the benefit of switching it back in winter.

In the winter I end up going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark anyway and when the day is long enough for it to matter, I would still prefer to go to work in the dark and come home in light.

Figure out the summer optimum, set it an leave it. The winter setting is nearly irrelevant.

What's to stop it? He has a majority and he has a an iron Hand with his MPs. None of them will vote against it unless he declares it a free vote, which he won't.

Let's revisit after they have a port for their own mobile GUI, before we start thinking they are going to port to Apple (or are holding back doing so).

Such a port to a radically different GUI paradigms is going to be a major re-write. It will take years. It isn't simple a case of recompile for new architecture.

Some have commented on the temperature difference or the fact that Broder did an overnight, stop with the car unplugged.

But the real difference is that Broder who was ostensibly testing the supercharging network, short charged it the Milford Supercharger.

The CNN folks fully charged theirs.

Broder has given multiple questionable excuses for that short charge, so it is looking more and more like it was setting the Tesla up for failure to drama up his story.

There seems to be a misconception on the temperature difference.

Go Read Broders piece, He said he recieved the car on a Sunny 30F day. He mentioned the temperature while driving was in 30's on day 1.

It only hit 10F overnight while the car was parked. This was the major difference. He parked the car overnight, CNN kept going.

There are a lot of responses here that say "All tablets are like that".

First, Many of those tablets cost $200 (Nexus). It is a lot more acceptable to have a sealed $200 device than a sealed $1000 device, regardless of form factor.

Second, Almost no other computing device is sealed to this extent with an inch wide strip of tar like adhesive that needs a heat-gun to pry apart (who knows how well it will go back together). I take nearly everything apart, but I would mess with this kind of extreme adhesive job, especially on a $1000 device.

Third. It isn't even about repairs. If this was pure reliable solid state, it wouldn't be a big deal, those parts could run for decades. But this has two fans, meaning they will accumulate dust/have bearing failures, and in few years need replacing/cleaning, it has batteries with short finite life that will fail in few years, the SSD is small size and has an OS with propensity to write a lot to it (swap files) etc, and has a significant chance of failure. These should be considered serviceable components, because chances are significant that one or more of them will need service in a few years. Having them sealed, non-serviceable in $1000 device is unacceptable (IMO).

Less money, higher screen resolution, Micro-SD memory slot, no adware.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/nook-hd-plus-barnes-noble/1110060512

Workarounds for side-loading apps:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/nook-hd-plus-barnes-noble/1110060512

Root:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/permanent-root-for-the-nook-hd-and-hd-unofficial-cm10-for-the-hd/

The point is that applies to playing normal games, going for a jog, having beers with your buddies.

Almost anything you do that engages in life will have a positive effect on the brain.

There is no evidence that brain games are any better than other activities for brain health.

In fact simple exercise, and socializing are likely better.

Brain training games are basically Snake Oil.

They don't improve intelligence.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708717

There is also no evidence they will keep your brain healthy in old age or anything else they are claiming they will do.

Playing any game, will improve your ability to play that game. That is about it.

Yeah I am sure that is real usable.

Personally I can barely stand the latency of using Linux in a VM on my 3.2GHz quad core desktop.

Don't reward Trolls like this guy.

He is clearly posting outrageous nonsense for page hits, and the /. just gave it to him (I did not follow the link, but many will).

Remember when I wrote this:

"This kind of TV resolution is irrelevant in a normal home setup."

What part of your post refers to TV in a normal home setup?

Computer monitors are a separate issue.

I agree. That is why I said almost everyone. But even for Home Theater with a projector, the viewing distance increases with screen size, essentially making 1080p just as viable there. You really have to get to the people that like to sit much closer than most people.

Monitors are different. We tend to sit closer to those and 4K 27" (I expect a Retina iMac like this soon) would be a reasonable DPI to banish pixels completely for most people. Though you would need some scaling mechanism to make fonts bigger since interfaces for PCs/Macs were really designed with 90-100 dpi monitors in mind. There is teething issues going on right now as Macs/PCs try to work with higher DPI displays now.

TV makers are mostly losing massive amounts of money, so they are desperate for the next big thing, 3D wasn't it, and likely this won't be it either.

Remember when Blu Ray came out and a number of people were claiming they couldn't see much difference.

Well this time it will actually be true for almost everyone.

Most people don't even have their TV's close enough to visually discern 1080p.

This kind of TV resolution is irrelevant in a normal home setup.