Microsoft also sells Office on the Mac.

The iWork apps are surprisingly capable on iOS, even on the phone. How do they compare to other mobile offerings?

That's true. What I was trying to say was that PC games tend to drop in price faster than console games, sometimes dramatically so.

See, as crappy as EA is, I thought they were actually pretty cool with the new IPs they introduced this generation. Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Crysis, Spore, etc were all new. The problem is that EA only really releases new IPs during the beginning of a console's life cycle.

If you want creative stuff, check out The Stanley Parable.

The reason to wait is price discounts. You can find significant sales all the time for PC games, which isn't really the case with console games.

I agree that $60 is more than I'm willing to pay for most games, but let's put things into perspective. $60 is about what games have cost since the beginning, even before you take inflation into account. Here's a thread about it. No sources, but it falls in line with my memory, too.

Back in the day, some larger games cost even more than $60 (think RPGs and even Street Fighter 2). N64 games often went for more than that, too. Take inflation into account, and games are cheaper now than they were in the NES days ($50 in 1985 is $108 now). What's happened, IMO, is that there are a lot of cheaper games out now that make $60 look awful.

I wouldn't call it damning, either, but it doesn't prove that the optimizations aren't app specific. The phone might still bench faster with non-renamed tools than with renamed ones (indeed, that's what the summary seems to claim). I would argue, however, that if the Note 3 beats the G2 "naturally", then there wasn't really any need to cheat this way.

Regardless, I'm with others: it's misleading at best, false advertising at worst.

If Google can perfect it, it could be an awesome tool. I guess I'll have to keep that in mind on the occasions when it comes up with something not right. I did just notice that I no longer seem to need to specify "bicycle" instead of "bike"--a year ago, I would get a lot of results for motorcycle stuff on searches like "best bike groupset". Then again, that might be a search bubble thing.

Thanks for that suggestion. As to your not being able to see the same annoyance that I did with UITableView...

It could have been fixed. It could be the fact that I don't remember any of the exact search strings (it happened a couple of times, and not just with NSTableView). Or it could be due to Google's search bubble thing. For what it's worth, searching for "nstableview bind data" brings up an article about UITableView as the 9th result. That's not as bad as it was when I was having the problem, where it came up as the top three results unless I specifically excluded it.

Christ, and we thought Duke Nukem took forever.

Not the parent, but I feel like the quality of Google search has gone down in a few ways. For instance, I found the old '+' operator much quicker and less cumbersome than enclosing the word in quotes.

Further, I often abhor Google's "fuzzy" matching system. Sometimes it's great, like when you say "photo" and it also searches "picture", "photograph", etc. But other times, it's extremely frustrating. I was writing a Mac app a few months back, and I needed help on something specific with NSTableView. Google decided that UITableView was the same thing, and started showing results for that at the top. Incredibly annoying, and it kept showing up even if I used quotes (had to use "-uitableview" to get it to go away). Not sure if that was a bug or if Google just really thinks I should be programming for iOS.

I think I run into the latter situation more often than the former. At least, that's what it feels like.

Actually, you have been able to use the camera's LED flash for notifications for a while. It doesn't keep flashing, though (thank God, as that thing's bright).

You're silly if you think the government doesn't already have your fingerprint. Apple says that the fingerprint data is encrypted and never leaves the phone, as well, so objections about Facebook and other third-parties having the data also seem to be out.

Personally, it's a feature I've been wanting for a long time.

I have similar feelings. At present, I tend to go through 1-2 books per month, with 5 being my maximum (and a relative rarity). Even assuming 3 books/month, that means that each book is $3.33--not a bad price, but considering that it forces me to read on an iPhone/iPad instead of my Kobo, I'm still just not very interested. In fact, I'd be hard-pressed to come up with any price that would have me interested; I greatly prefer eInk to LCD and am willing to pay for it.

I do wish them well. I wish Amazon/Kobo/BN had a service like this.

It definitely is a lot of weight on the motherboard. Mine is one of Gigabyte's "ultra-durable", and it is noticeably thicker than other motherboards I have used. The bracket for the Noctua is large and does a good job of spreading the weight around. Still, I am careful, and if I were to move the system more than a few feet, I would put it on its side. If I were to move (as in houses), I would probably disconnect the HSF, just to be safe.

I had the Corsair H50. Two of them, actually. Both pumps made alarming grinding noises. The Noctua is quieter and actually does a better job of cooling--besides the CPU being slightly cooler, the giant fans move lots of air over the entire northbridge.