I have anything to prove, nor care enough to go to the trouble. I would like to know what the difference is, though.

I hate to break it to you but for each individual boss you've had and will ever have, the odds are probably greater than 50% that they have sex. Smaller odds are that it might involve whipped cream, video equipment, or other add-ons. Your reaction to that is your problem, not theirs.

A better reason for not taking her seriously as a manager is that she's married to the CEO. Nepotism is a much more solid reason than sexual tastes.

Odd, my iPad 2 running iOS 6 doesn't show the bottom part without scrolling. No amount of pinching-to-zoom will give me the same view you posted.

I don't know how to get any better than 2560x1440 without spending a large amount of cash (and this monitor set me back enough). I still have to scroll to see the bottom.

That said, the order never said anything about no having to scroll. I'm surprised it specified such a small 11 point font.

They do in Seattle, but they don't in the suburb of Redmond even when you hit the button and there's plenty of time left on the light to cross. Annoys the hell out of me.

LED headlights in my Nissan Leaf, so they're apparently legal in the US. Though Nissan cheaped out and put halogens in for the high beams.

You're in western Washington and you think your electricity comes from coal? My Leaf runs mostly on hydroelectric here in the Seattle area.

But the ones that aren't trying to think it through are those trotting out the same tired arguments. Even if western WA was powered by coal plants, it's easier to clean up one big plant than a million individual little power generators.

What, a couple of $30US Thunderbolt->HDMI adapters were going to break the budget? I guess you'd only need the one adapter since the MBP has an HDMI port in addition to the two TB ports, meaning you could hang three monitors off the thing if you wanted to.

Any MBA with Thunderbolt can use the dongle. I've used it with my wife's 2011 MBA, and it would appear that it's gigabit speed (certainly faster than 100Mb).

I considered that when the retina MBPs were announced, and decided to just keep my MBA until the retina MBAs came out. But the retina MBP is just a a big battery with some small electronics attached. I don't how a retina MBA is going to get made without being heavier or having considerably reduced battery life. Now, Apple's engineers are smarter than I am (generally speaking) so they might pull it off sooner than later, but I just went ahead and bought a retina MBP.

Or maybe the market at large is just buying MBAs. I'll grant you that it doesn't easily fit into your fanboys/"smart people like me" dichotomy.

Do you truly think price is the only difference, or are you trying to make some point that isn't coming across clearly? Because if you think that "workstation" just means they jacked up the price, you probably lack the information needed to participate in the discussion.

The difference being that leather can take a few slides down the pavement and still be usable. Synthetics are often a one-shot deal. A horrifically bad session of pavement surfing can put a hole through synthetics when quality leather will still have some thickness left. In either case, you probably walk away with your skin intact. If replacing a $700 First Gear jacket the first time it goes down saves you a skin graft, money well spent.

That said, I like my Aerostich just fine, I just wouldn't wear it for a session of track racing.

Quality seems to vary widely these days. I've purchased CFLs since way back. As they became more popular I'd hear people complain that they were slow to put out full light and that they didn't last as long as advertised. That made no sense to me, as the ones I used were quick to warm up (almost unnoticeable) and lasted a good long while. As I bought newer ones for new fixtures, or to replace dead ones, I began to see the issues folks complained about. Some I got from Ikea recently barely light a room at start-up. I'm guessing heavy price competition has something to do with it.

Tl;dr They don't make 'me like they used to. Or you get what you pay for; take your pick.

I'm pretty sure that happens because all of the other mods marked it "insightful" and you're the lone wolf marking it "troll". The result is a lower score, but it shows the majority vote. I haven't heavily tested this, so I could be wrong.