It's not Harvard, but has a reputation as tough if slightly unconventional college. I didn't know Jobs went there, but I'm not surprised at all. Aside from that , pretty much agree with your comparison.

...or a great distraction. Not too surprising that handing a kid a tablet and turning him loose doesn't work out too well, but what do I know, I've only work in educational IT for 20 years. A properly supported computer (don't try to make teachers into sys admins) supervised by a properly trained teacher can be very useful in a classroom setting. But training and support are expensive and unsexy, so who the hell wants that?

Cooling hi-perf components in such a small package is a nightmare. There was a review a while back of a Samsung ultra portable, the specs were pretty impressive, but performance was identical to the previous model with less powerful GPU and CPU. Because they made so much heat they had to be throttled down.

Love my 11" MacAir, but the bezel around the display is frickin huge, it's nuts. 3/4" top and bottom, 7/8" on each side. That's a lot of wasted real estate in such a small package.

"a third of 2013's police-reported car accidents were the rear-end crashes and a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) "

It's frickin tailgaters. Even if you're being very attentive, there's a delay between the time you see brake lights on the car in front of you, and the time you hit the brakes. Throw in texting and other distractions, and if you're traveling too close you're eating bumper before you can hit the brake pedal. And half the drivers on the road are following too close. I say bring on the auto-braking systems to protect me from these idiots.

I miss the days of NTSC, a standard that lasted half a lifetime. This upgrade-your-TV-every-6 months crap is getting old. And get off my lawn.

Mine's running the latest version, 8.1.2, and it works great. Sounds like you just had a borked phone, it happens.

I agree re RT, it was obvious MS was abandoning it, anyone who expected to upgrade one to Win 10 was pretty clueless.

The FedGov won't control all the pipes, Obama is proposing to strike down laws that prevent cities from building and owning internet infrastructure. Google "Chattanooga broadband" to find out how that works. You won't find any stories about Internet Morality Police, and that's in Tennessee. I'm not too worried.

My city does pretty well keeping the water flowing, I'd be happy to give them a shot at supplying my bits.

I work in educational IT, and that generally means some executive wants something shiny with no clue as to the resources needed to make it work. Hilarity ensues.

I'm not a big fan of progressives either. Got a couple pairs last year, but as I type this I'm wearing my old glasses, I find they're better for computer work.

Sure, it flies high, but according to Wikipedia top speed is about 500 mph, and it's very unstable, it would definitely not be doing any fancy twists and turns. So you're talking about a tiny object flying fairly slow and straight at 70,000 feet. I don't see it attracting a lot of attention. The whole point of the plane was that the Soviets couldn't detect it(didn't work out so well, but most civilians aren't walking around with high-powered radar arrays)

I have a 4S, 2+ years old, iOS 8, works great. I have to power cycle it once every few months, no big deal. Mine has spent its life in an Otterbox, maybe that makes the difference.

I played the Giant series of modules mentioned in the article, but never heard of Quagmire. Can't believe they couldn't come up with a better title. Still, fun to see what was going on behind the scenes at TSR.

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