It's "Tasty".

Why would Toshiba having bought OCZ make me any more willing to trust them? I've been burned far worse by Toshiba (whose salespeople lied to me to make a sale and whose support people refused to honour my warranty) than by OCZ.

At least Amazon has a track record of making decent hardware. The existing Kindle products are pretty nice.

OCZ has a track record of making terrible SSDs.

Huh. Should I get LASIK to improve my depth perception, then?

Gamers use headphones.

You got modded as funny, but it's not supposed to be. The Tesla has a battery heater that will kick in to keep the battery from getting too cold, and leaving it plugged in will avoid power drain from that.

When I "Uber" a ride, I get a regular taxi. They call it "uberTAXI", and it's the only service available in the second largest city in Canada. A regular taxi shows up, and you get billed the regulated meter rate.

About the only advantage is that Uber's app is probably more reliable/better than the very similar apps used by existing taxi companies in Montreal. I've had Diamond Taxi's app crap out on me after ordering a few times, and the GPS on the taxi only updates infrequently.

There are already tons of apps that do that, they allow it.

And introduces a whole lot of new ones. People rail against Apple's control over app store listings, but it really does go a long way to significantly reducing the amount of malware users get exposed to. Not all of it, to be sure, but most of it.

They could probably allow a bit more freedom by still curating their own app store, and forbidden alternate app stores, but allowing some form of manual side-loading that is sufficiently non-automated to ensure people don't get tricked into installing malware.

It's currently blocking all downloads of software from dropbox. Which is super annoying. I kickstarted a game for the Oculus Rift, and the developer was trying to distribute the demo to his backers via dropbox, and Chrome is blocking it.

Errm, it's a dual-core chip, and there's no third core for running the optimizations. They run on the same CPU cores that everything else does.

Google and other online map-providing companies supplement satellite imagery with aerial photography, and as far as I know, there are no limits on that sort of thing.

The focal distance of the Rift's lenses are set at infinity. In effect, when you're wearing the rift, the focal target is a great distance away.

Having owned both the kindle with the keyboard, and the paperwhite, the keyboard had lots of issues. The keyboard wasted a ton of space despite being virtually never used, and the lighting solutions, while functional, could have looked better, and were not that battery efficient.

I think my ideal kindle would be the Paperwhite, but with physical page turn buttons.

I think your mass figures are off, that's above the maximum takeoff weight of a 747 (442mt), let alone the weight of the empty aircraft itself. Of course, somehow this 747 got into orbit, so the maximum takeoff weight is kind of meaningless.

An empty 747 weighs 178mt, and a submarine reactor weighs about 110mt. It's true that there are micro reactors that can produce about the same output at a fraction of the weight, but let's just say that we also need some radiators for cooling (since there's no active cooling in space) and call it as using up that extra weight. Some weight for the thrusters themselves, and perhaps 300 tons is a feasible weight for an unmanned spacefaring 747. Which is a totally insane phrase to say, I'll admit.