I know that 9 hours into the pre-order they still had supply. That is unusual. Either they have more supply than normal, or the sales were not happening as fast as they expected. They are already on a 3-4 week backorder now. So it's not like they didn't sell out. But I know it will be the #1 selling phone for the quarter.

Maybe. Apple sent out an email this morning letting people know that preorders were still available for next Friday delivery at 9am eastern time. So my guess is that, initially at least, their sales weren't as good as they hoped. Indeed, I ordered one just in case I decided I wanted one. If not, I'll set it for slightly above cost when it comes in.

I agree with all of your points and I like the taptic vibration on notifications too. There are times where I don't notice my phone vibrate, or times where the vibration itself is too loud or annoying. The more privacy notification on the watch is deal in those cases. Though I am not sure I would feel the taptic vibration while on a motorcycle.

I can already fire a handgun ambidextrously, with almost the exact same accuracy for any target within 10-15m. So they had better put these on both wrists.

Nearly six figures, or nearly seven? I know a place in my current locale that pays about $300,000 to experienced COBOL guys, with a history in the financial market. And let me tell you, you can live like a king around here for even $100,000.

I sometimes do some contract work for POS companies. I write little demo apps to help them sell their terminals to merchants. The cheapest stuff coming out the door right now all seems to have chip and pin built into it. So don't worry, everyone is going that way. T-Mo uses it, my Target location has switched to chip and pin capable terminals as of 3 weeks ago, too.

I may be tall, but I've decided to just roll with people sitting on my lap during flights. I now offer in flight massage services to the person in the seat in front of me, when they recline back on top of me. They get a happy ending, I get a huge tip, and everyone wins!

Hey, I haven't died yet!!!

I have an ASRock desktop board (for IvyBridge, so its older) that is great. It's very overclockable and was reasonably priced. It ran about $200 when equivalents from Gigabyte, Asus and MSI were around $300. Everything worked perfectly for it under Linux (mint 11 or 12 at the time, Ubuntu, and CentOS5), except for the USB3.0. There were absolutely no USB 3.0 drivers for it. I only use the machine for transcoding video these days, so I don't know what the USB 3.0 support is like, but I wouldn't expect you to have any problem with the mainstream components you use on a daily basis. The USB 3.0 ports worked in 2.0 mode.

Uh you don't have to be compromised initially to fall victim to a privilege escalation bug. And you should care about bugs in IE or any other piece of software that is installed (and cannot be removed) from your system. Gone are the simple days of black hats using a single bug to take control of your system. They will chain together vulnerabilities until they can get to your unimportant privilege escalation, and that could very well take advantage of some bug in IE that you neglected to patch because it is unimportant to you.

Haven't bothered. It's a somewhat common problem. I know about a half a dozen people that have rebooting iPhones. In fact, when I was at WWDC I had to manually reboot my iPhone throughout the day because it would stop working all together. It had never done that prior and has never done that since. I am assuming it was just overwhelmed by the reality distortion field at the event. No one else I know was having that problem. I'll probably just wait until the warranty is running out and just take it into the Apple store and complain.

I get more BSODs and reboots with my iPhone 5S (and kernel panics) with Apple products than I do with my two windows Machines. My iPhone 5S reboots itself about 3 times a day (blue screen and all, yes its true, you can youtube to see for yourself). I get a kernel panic on my work MacBook pro about twice a week, and have to reboot my personal MacBook pro about once every week or two. Meanwhile my two Windows 7 machines get rebooted at most once a month when patch Tuesday rolls around. So I guess it just all depends on your hardware and what you happen to be doing with those machines.

Ok here's a nice little chart from the CDCthat shows that not only is ADHD diagnosis on the rise, but its also more common in some states than others. Unless there is some environmental factor (other than poor parenting) to consider, I would say that culture and poor parenting is a strong indication of an ADHD diagnosis. In fact, if you look at the states with some of the highest diagnoses, you'll see that they're southern and midwestern states. I grew up in the West and live in the South now and I definitely believe that the parenting here in the south is sub par.

Of course, that is obviously speculation on my part, but how do you explain such differences in ADHD in the country?

Power brakes might as well be called "brake assist". You can stop just fine without power brakes unless you're driving a big truck towing a huge trailer, you should not have any serious difficulty. Well, grandma driving a huge Cadillac might kill a few pedestrians...

There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to abuse a child. Beating a child is not the only way to abuse it. There is mental abuse, neglect (which is another form of mental abuse), etc. I dated a high school ESE teacher for years and I can tell you right now that most of the parents though their precious little snowflake could do not wrong, even when the kids were being hauled off to jail for possession with intent to sell, burglary, rape, and a myriad of other crimes. Others had parents that couldn't be bothered to show up to meetings, and tried to throw money at the child's problems. I also helped raise a niece with autism and ADHD. It was only for a few years, but it was very stressful and I thought it would be the death of me.