Until you have a support case (which might not even be caused by the "unsupported" cards) while working on a big project, and the software support tells you "well, THOSE cards are not on our certified list, so first replace those, then you can come back to us with your problem". Had it happen a couple times with some departments here which used "unsupported" hardware (not graphics cards) to save money - if you give support an easy way out by letting them point at something which "clearly" could cause problems, they will take it. And the next time your boss will gladly pay the extra money just to avoid the headache.

It's not really a useful comparison if you do not go for, as far as possible, the exact same specs on the PC side. What is the point in saying "well, our PC does not have the same components and it's slower, but IT IS CHEAPER!". They wanted to find out if Apple is putting the usual "luxury tax" on the hardware and it seems that this time, they did not do that - if you choose the same or very similar PC components (e.g. THE SAME graphics cards and not "ah well, just as fast in games and who cares about certified drivers and more RAM for professional software anyway" gamer cards), the PC will be more expensive.

All the reviews so far mention that the new Mac Pro is about as loud as a Mac Mini, i.e. unless you are in a completely silent room, you will not hear it.

Well, it depends on how actual games behave. If they are programmed similarly and do not make use of the additional cores (which I guess might very well be the case, since devs usually do not spend much time on optimizing apps for hardware which is not widely in use yet), then yes - you COULD have just bought the cheapo phone and gotten the same performance in those games. Or the other phone which costs a bit more than the cheapo phone (but still less than the S4), which also has a dual-core CPU but a slightly faster GPU, which gives it a higher score in 3DMark than the S4.

Like I said, it depends. It would not surprise me at all if in actual daily use multi-core monster phones make no sense at all (yet), except for bragging rights.

Well, you have the power cable to the wireless charger :-)

I use the wireless charger for my Galaxy S4, and while it is nice to just put the phone onto the charger, I still have to plug in the CHARGER every time (since I do not want to leave the charger powered and in standby forever). So wireless charging is kinda pointless except for the "cool" factor, unless you do not mind wasting electricity.

Point is, time zones or no time zones will not change that sometimes when you're in the middle of the day at your place, somewhere else people are already asleep, but at least with time zones it's obvious that when someone says "it's 8am here right now", it is about breakfast time there and not in the middle of the day or the middle of the night. So time zones give you additional information which you would not have with only one universal time for the whole planet.

In fact, only using UTC would just lead to "unofficial time zone tables" which you'd use to look up at what UTC time that guy on the other side of the world starts work: "oh, Bob starts work at 1pm UTC, so I still have to wait 3 hours before I can phone him". So it would be exactly the same as it is right now ("oh, Bob's place is x hours behind us"), just that you'd have to keep track of the time difference in some other way, because the UTC time would not give you that information.

If it's only about things like "I want to eat lots of fat food until I die from a heart attack", you're right. It's your choice. It is a stupid choice, but it only affects your own health.

Problem is that your choice about not vaccinating your children endangers the health of OTHERS, too. And since there are more of the others than of you, you lose.

I am not an expert when it comes to vaccines, so I cannot say for sure whether there is or isn't a relationship between vaccines and autism. But everything I read so far leads me to believe that if there IS a relationship, it is very very small. And I also know that I would rather choose the very small risk of having an autistic child than the LARGE risk of having my child suffer from the serious consequences of not being vaccinated against nasty diseases. Read about the things measles can do to you and then tell me you would prefer that over autism.

I agree, real knobs and buttons in a car are a necessity. Try adjusting temperature or fan setting via a touch screen, especially a GLOSSY touch screen. Now compare to a simple illuminated button which you can ALWAYS see (and feel, and feel the feedback). It's like typing blind on a simulated keyboard on your tablet vs. on a "real" keyboard.

It's what happens when you completely run out of ideas. You take some old stuff and glue on the new "in" thing.

"Let's make a movie about vampires ... (booo!) ..... IN SPACE!!!! (yay!!!)"

And in this particular case - let's use the existing car design and old components ... PLUS HYBRID!

And yes, I have no idea either how they want to sell this car at that price. It just fails on so many levels (plus, imo, it is ugly). At that price, you could easily buy either the Tesla S for pure electric drive or for thousands less a hybrid by BMW/Mercedes or any other luxury brand with more luxury and build quality. Yes, usually they have less pure electric range, but come on - it does not matter if the range is 35 miles or maybe 10 miles, either one will not get you to work and back, and e.g. the Mercedes E-class hybrid at least has a DIESEL engine.

Yes, that is my main complaint (together with the text spacing, which also reduces the amount of text you get on screen).

Just to show an example, this is what the new design looks like on my 2560x1440 screen (screenshots of the old and the new design in Firefox):

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8241/vpnt.jpg

I already complained about that during the Alpha, because the new design looks silly on my 2560x1440 screen - it uses only a third of the available horizontal space, leaving the rest empty. But it seems that is not high on the to do list, or maybe even not intended to be fixed at all. Anyway, the current design is MUCH better on high resolution screens.

Actually true. The usual fingerprint sensors (the small sensor you swipe your finger over) were "safer" in that regard - on the iphone sensor, you can get the fingerprint you need right where you will use it: on the sensor. Still, considering you could also get the same fingerprint from all over the rest of the phone, it's not really a huge security hole.

iOS7 should be fine on an iphone 5 or 4s, but there definitely should be a noticeable slowdown on an iphone 4. That hardware is a bit old by now, and iOS7 is designed for the newer hardware. E.g. the iphone 4 still has a single core A4 CPU, while the 4s already has the dual core A5. The newer phones (5 and up) also have twice the RAM. Still, upgrading to iOS7 is a user option, and it's better to have that option than not to have it. Not many 3 year old Android phones still get OS upgrades.