Define "profound". You make it sound like men and women's minds start from completely different places and end up converging on similarity, but that's absurd. Men and women differ statistically over populations, but individuals might fall pretty much anywhere in the spectrums of things that differ. There's no way I would be confident of identifying the gender of an individual in this sort of scenario. Statistically, I'm sure I could do a lot better than chance, but each one is pretty uncertain.

Yes, I agree. Part of what people have to realise is that they aren't going to compete as watches, they are going to compete for wrist-space as multi-function devices.

If you cant grok why people want pocket computers with GPS, network connectivity, cameras, and phones built in, then you are a complete moron who doesn't understand technology or people.

Maybe they aren't for you, fine. But not being able to "grok" such an obvious thing? That's approaching brain-damage.

But what are they going to change that will make the effort worth it? When I look at the variety of desktops, the majority (perhaps all) of them seem to be tinkering with the same basic concept. It would be much more interesting if this splitting was leading to a drastically different desktop concepts, but it's not.

The iPad Air is the fifth iPad generation - the 4th generation is confusingly called "iPad with Retina display": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes how could ever compare to groups that might have a significant amount of overlap? It can't be done! There's no branch of mathematics that would allow us to do such a thing! It's impossible.

These are nearly all civil servants, not politicians. Since the boroughs do sanitation, roads, parks, etc., I'm sure there's a lot of systems to interface with.

I would stay with them if they were relatively transparent about what went wrong, and what they are doing to prevent such occurrences in the future. Especially if we're dealing with relatively new sorts of tech services.

You sound like you're a lot of fun, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

This would be defensible if most fiction was good, but it's not. Way too much of it is stupid and predictable. It could do with a good injection of the sorts of uncertainties and unpredictability real life holds.

Or, you know, a typo. If you want to rail against 'could care less'ers, why not go find an actual example?

What the hell? There are a hell of a lot of vegetarians that don't eat meat for ethical reasons! There are also a lot of meat-eaters, like me, who have a sense of unease about eating animals but can stop because they are so delicious.

Wow, that's some ugly syntax for a modern programming language.

Okay, but seriously, you should be backed up - relying on warning from your HDD is appalling stupid if you've got stuff you really need to keep. Weekly disk image? What is this, 2002? Seriously, good hourly incremental backups are really easy now, there's no excuse for this kind of cobbled together dodgy shit.

You've missed the edict, Google is the enemy now. Larry Page is Satan.