However, I feel that "Netflix Trash-Talks" in the summary is an exaggeration..

I don't agree with this. I don't think he is personally all that famous, rather his work is famous.. And while I am not a huge fan, I am a fan nevertheless, and personally got rather good value (enjoyment, joy) for my money... Good enough that I consider the idea that Watterson should give a little back kind of offensive towards the man himself.

Yet XKCD keeps producing great moments, which is why I keep reading it. And the wordplay and the naivety in the 1378 was at least smile worthy. (Personally I didn't enjoy the previous one.)

In Finland they check every healthy specimen over 30 moths old and sick ones that are over 24 months old at time of slaughter. Texas might have a cow or two more, but something something economics of scale might be of some help.

I honestly hope the disease rate stays low.

In my experience the AMD drivers&software have been more stable. Probably I just have bad luck, but just today I got a pop-up from the Nvidia Experience that there's an update. Clicked it and got 'cannot connect to Nvidia servers' or something similar. The last driver update failed to update one of the components. And the display adapter has crashed once (managed to recover though).

I'm currently using GTX 670 (got the Windforce model and it is really quiet) and I'm reasonably happy with it, but I had none of the update problems with my previous HD6850. Of course, my thinking may be coloured by the horrible nvidia chipset I once had. Or the lack of support for my previous laptop gpu. Compared to those, my current GPU problems are minimal at worst.

However I doubt that your point is that Seattle shouldn't do this because it isn't done in east, india or africa...?

At least the exe has the same hashes as my copy downloaded on 13.2.2014.

True, but this requires excluding the Firewire from the listing. My main complain is the inaccuracies, which I partially addressed above.

This is misleading, considering that you can indeed use a USB3 cable with a USB2 host. And as stated above, you can use the old cables with new devices, so I would not exactly call this an actual change of standard. Upgrade it is. And personally I much prefer the idea that you can use any cable, not a proprietary one.

I know, but you do realize that all those mini and micro cables can be connected to the same original usb1 port (and/or usb2 / usb3 port), as the host end has always been the same. Does the same 'of course' apply to Apple's cables? Admittedly I think the mini was a bit of a misstep, and going straight to micro would have been better.

Of course all this may change with the 3.1, but if it does, it is in my count the first major change for the cables...( And hopefully there's no 'hardware drm' in the cables to prevent unauthorized copies..)

USB B is still being used... There's one in my display (which only supports USB1-2), another in my printer (although I connect via wifi).

And yet I can take a USB1 memory stick and it works in a USB3 port.

2160x1440 resolution isn't all that bad either...

In other professions you might actually get a break or two.

While I understand your point, I still don't get what is so difficult with Outlook.com export.:

Calendar (the ics is the one you want). Access to sharing is in the top bar of the page:

The ICS is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... uri, but if you want to import your calendar somewhere that doesn't understand it (most calendars do...), you can simply replace the webcal with https and do things manually...

Mail: IMAP

People / Contacts: There's an export function directly in the top-bar of the people page, which starts a download for .csv.

And please note that I am not in the context of Google being a rotten company, just curious as I've visited the Outlook.com to see what it looks like. I only use OneDrive from there... most of my emails are in gmail..

Would you mind elaborating what you are trying to do? I've never needed to export my calendar, but the ui behind the sharing seemed to be rather simple.[*] You probably have some valid criticism, but going from 'you can only get a pst file' to imported events (imported to where?) become read only (and uneditable) sounds like a non sequitur. And I wonder where you got the 'a lot more open' claim... Sorry if trying (and managing) to export my calendar from Outlook offended you.

[*]And yet, to prevent causing further offence, exporting to files is simpler with google calendar.

And yet you can export your calendar in ics format as well from the page. Tried it myself (although I am pretty sure I have zero events nicely going along with the single welcome mail there)... The Calendar export might have been better named (share), but the contacts one was clearer.

google: outlook.com export calendar