You mean like the iPhone...Oh, wait, that was a rushed piece of [bleep] as well.

Especially if you held it "wrong".

who the heck wears a watch nowadays, other than old people...And why would I want to be constantly interrupted by stuff I don't want to do anything about?

So you can more easily press the "F off!" and/or "Get off my lawn!" reply button.

Yeah, and Microsoft...had phones YEARS before Apple did.

But people expect Microsoft to suck.

We use Microsoft because help for all the glitches and work-arounds are relatively easy to find because everybody else uses Microsoft and gijillion people already ran into and documented the issues we encounter. It's the Network Effect applied to volume suckage.

Microsoft just couldn't sell enough phones for the Volume Suckage Network Effect to kick in.

It's a new field. Vendors are going to trip and stumble until the lessons of the street straiten things out. The first PC apps sucked, the first Mac apps sucked, the first Linux apps were...all in EMACS, anyhow, you get the point.

Absolute true story I'm embarrassed to say:

My 7 year old son: "Pffft, I know how babies are made; I watch all the nature channels".

You don't see people pulling out a crossword puzzle when you are at dinner with them.

I guess you had better dates than I did.

"You've been replaced by your own robots"

I suspect Intel will find a way to keep AMD alive using pricing games to avoid both anti-trust accusations and the appearance that X86 cpu's are a dying biz. Intel and AMD need each other whether they like it or not.

why central Texas has water is because of the creation of a lake system via dams. This would be never, ever done today...

You imply it's Fate's Will and/or a "good thing" that we heavily populate arid land.

I suppose you could argue "we do it because we can", but then don't whine when Blow Back hits.

You mean Gayzilla [snicker snort giggle]

Equal Opportunity Outsourcing

You never see a cat coming from a dog, or a duck from a crocodile...

Booyah!

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/...

You're gonna raise some really screwed up kids ... but screwed up in an interesting way.

Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?

He stayed up all night wondering if there is a Dog.

Microminiature accelerometers are really cheap and very very light, and you don't have to wait for them to spin up or deal with their mechanical issues. I doubt you will see a gyro used as a sensor any longer.

Similarly, computers make good active stabilization possible and steering your engine to stabilize is a lot lighter than having to add a big rotating mass.