Damn regulators.

Yea I've had iOS7 on a couple devices since WWDC; it wasn't painful on an iPhone 4S IMO... and it's no longer painful on a mini IMO... battery life was terrible; battery's better now that they've removed a lot of debugging stuff but still significantly worse than 6 on older devices.... I got a new iPhone, and the battery's better with iOS7 than my 4S was with iOS6... maybe some of the battery saving measures they took only work on the new chip.

I'm kind've a MS hater, but for some reasons I'll omit I needed a Surface Pro... I assumed it would really suck. I don't really like Windows 8 or 8.1 yet. IMO it's a nice device, and the future for some windows users. Too expensive for many today, the hardware is nice; battery life sucks, but for most executive types who use MS Office, it's pretty awesome to be able to plug it into a usb3 hub and big monitor at your office/home, and bring the thing minus the externals with you wherever.

I'm surprised Apple & Google gave them full access. I guess it's not 'direct' because it's running via fibre or ethernet :)

So here's a business plan for pandora:

- I sign up for $x/year, pay up-front
- They record many radio channels for me, and index them by song
- After a month of recording the many channels, the amount of music they have available for me is good enough and they can just plug my library into their old algorithms and everything works fine and it's a private performance so no royalties are due.
- Profit!!

I think as law currently stands they could record the broadcasts and give the users a nifty tool that skips over the commercials, and generally behaves as pandora does today. Maybe they need to make sure the song they think you want to listen to has actually been broadcasted since you subscribed to them.

mmm no... If this ruling stands, all Pandora needs to do is copy Aereo... rent antennas to pandora users for $x/year, and allow them to play live radio or previously recorded live radio, and save their massive licensing expenses.

It could make sense for Apple users (I am one).

+ Locate your other iDevices via findMyiThing and/or Low Energy Bluetooth
+ See info that you want to see on your wrist
+ Tough device (waterproof?) that can make a call or text or something

I'd buy a $100 tough watch to use as a 'backup smartphone' if it was done well.

"So, what is this watch going to *DO* that will garner more than a yawn from the general population"

It'll find your phone, dude! :) Go low energy bluetooth, go! It might find your keys and other junk too :)

"it doesn't ask you to confirm your password by typing it twice"

I like this; it irritates me when sites ask for confirmation.

This should meet your needs; just plug in a USB hub!

Social Security is fully funded and what funding problems it has are fairly easy to fix

In the SSA's 2012 Trustees report they admit at present they're 31% underfunded; it's going to get much worse quickly due to age demographics unless something significant changes.

They put a lot of effort into multithreading and caching stuff before you ask for it; I saw a cooler writeup and can't find it... but here's one from Facebook's Blog.

Amen. I totally agree; so much simpler than what we're doing.

I'm happy with my Sportwagen TDI too! I got it 6 months ago, ~8k miles so far. I'm a bit disappointed in the mileage @ interstate speeds (I need to check it without the bike rack)... I wish 6th gear was much taller.