Didn't try iOS 8 on a 4s yet, or on an older iPad .... but for what it's worth, the only real "slow down" issue I observed was on the brand new iPhone 6, 128GB! This had to do with trying to view the purchased apps in need of updates. The phone seemed to be so busy actually processing/doing updates, it couldn't allocate the processor time to actually SHOW me the list properly. It acted frozen and I couldn't scroll up/down through the list of apps. (I could, however, press the home button to move back to the menu and everything else was fine.)

Overall, I've been really happy with the new OS, although battery life does seem a bit worse than before. That may just be needing to tweak some settings for when apps can use the GPS -- but I'm trying to get that optimized, and not seeing real results yet.

Pretty sure the .01 update will be along shortly and address some of this.

Of course Memedot has to trash Branson, a businessman, over Musk, a trendy-named dotcom guy with a penchant for electric cars.

No... I really can't blame this on the PA equipment. I agree that at times it's not the best (some metro cars have a blown or intermittently working speaker). But the OP is correct. The majority of metro drivers just mumble the names of the stops. It's actually almost a shocking change when I get a driver who is well spoken, who choose to speak a little bit more than just some garbled version of the name of the next stop. When that happens, you can hear them perfectly over the PA.

This is actually one of those things I thought about a lot while riding the red line metro to and from work each week.

I've noticed that among other things, there seem to be a couple of metro drivers who like to operate the trains at speeds as fast as possible between stops, rather than just pacing it more sensibly. They'll rapidly accelerate, headed westbound out of a station like the Bethesda or Friendship Heights location, only to wind up stopping in the middle of the track someplace before the White Flint stop because they have to "wait for another train directly in front of them".

I've also experienced the trains that always seem to stop short of a station and then jerkily move into position before opening the doors. I can understand the problem if all of the trains really do behave differently and drivers have to get used to differences between each one. But there are definitely other times I take the train and it's very consistent in speed and smooth at every single stop.

Another oddity I've noticed with the DC red line is the fact that only Verizon customers get cellular service while the train is in the tunnels. All other carriers lose signal until the trains get back outside. (I'm told this is due to some old, outdated exclusive contract Verizon made with them to wire up the tunnels. It was since struck down as illegal so all carriers can now add service there -- but apparently none have been interested in spending the money to do so, yet.)

And as for the people talking about thugs and crime on the metro? I have to say, I've honestly not experienced much of that. I'm sure things are a bit different if you're taking the train late at night on a weekend after hitting the bars or clubs. But at least during the rush hours for commuters, I see practically everyone using a tablet or smartphone, or even a laptop on the train -- and have yet to see one get snatched out of someone's hands.

The only crazy issue I ran into was this 20-something guy who got on a train in the morning with a radio in his shirt pocket blasting loud, annoying techno music. At first, I don't think most people pinpointed where it was coming from and patiently waited for whoever it was to realize their headphone plug came loose or what-not. Then we started figuring out the guy had no earphones and was doing this on purpose. A guy sitting beside me who was trying to read a book asked the guy, politely, if he could turn the music down -- and the guy got all aggressive, challenging us to fight with him if we didn't like it and calling us all "lemmings" and so on.

(I told him his lousy techno soundtrack wasn't even worth fighting over.) This went on for several stops until he finally ran off the train at the Medical Center stop. Like someone else posted above, it doesn't seem like the posted rules (No eating/drinking on the train, no music players without use of headsets etc.) get enforced very well.

Is your company hiring?

Apple includes such an app with iOS and calls it Safari. But Safari has what appear to be deliberate limits in the subset of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs that are supported. Apple refuses to support WebGL in web pages, and last time I checked, it was impossible to upload any data type other than photos or videos to a web form.

Free software doesn't solve everything if the software isn't free in the first place. Mobile SoC drivers are rarely entirely free software, often for regulatory reasons (to comply with national RF emission requirements on the cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth radios) or because GPUs are still a patent and trade secret minefield.

I annoyed my kids when they were younger - pointing out the only Pokemon with a power I admired was Snorlax.

The bastard child of a trashy hardware site (i.e. not Anandtech, maybe TH or one of the other lamer ones) and OSNews. Did they round out the article with meaningless, unlabelled graphs?

Buried lede?

Man jumps White House fence, enters building DRESSED AS PIKACHU!

If systemd has too much code, you need to use less code. Use less. Uselessd.

It already is a fortress. In time of war, nations protect their leaders. And the US has been at war for twenty years.

Open the doors of the Temple of Janus, acknowledge the truth. Every day that the US drops a bomb somewhere in the world is a day that the President of the United States should not sleep easy in his bed. One cannot be angry when one nation attacks another, and that other nation responds in any manner it can.

Flash memory is a form of EEPROM, or electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.

I think the TF card reader for Lightning devices can only be used to download photos, not anything else. And it appears to be only for iPad; iPhone compatibility is unconfirmed.

It's not just music. Movies take a lot more space. And you don't necessarily know days in advance which piece of music will be apropos in a particular situation.