Xbox 360 became XBox One

Coincidence, maybe, but the fact that the vaccine was ready *almost as soon* as the first american was infected proves that the vaccine was in development for a *long time* before that happened.

What? Do people actually believe the TV shows they watch? Vaccines don't actually get developed over night.

Really, the study doesn't imply that using hands-free is worse. It actually implies that bad user-interfaces are worse. How does the distraction hold up once the call has been connected and the conversation has started?

Pretty often, yes. I mean, take a look at the weather report today for the predicted weather on Thursday. Screenshot it on your spiffy phone, and compare it to a screenshot three days from now. If you live on the coasts or the northern US or Canada, then three days is all it takes for the Meteorologist to be wrong--sometimes fewer.

Since when is having a light-weight OS a bad thing? Haven't people been harping on MS enough for having bloated OSes?

Sure, make allowances for multiple-core and multiple CPUs on the not-so-low end, but making the minimum requirement a single CPU was definitely smart on their end.

Queue the many certifications that will pop up for current screens suddenly claiming they aren't affected by wifi to any meaningful degree.

Is that too cynical?

The argument was never "Use metric across the board"; it's "Follow the course of the rest of the world, you lazy, self-asorbed holdouts". Seriously, only two countries use Imperial. And it's provably been the cause of lost mars missions. While that's not a compelling reason in and of itself to convert to metric, it's a shining example of what happens when you refuse to switch away from a system that almost literally no one else uses.

Careful with that. Apparently, NASA and the military use metric already, so you shouldn't lump them in with the people who can't adapt.

My bet's on concurrent projects got rolled together, not unlike Win 98/Win NT=>WinXP

Predictability and adaptability. A backhoe is good for very few things. In the same way, the Curiosity is only good at what it was designed to do. It can't adapt.

Humans, on the other hand can take the tools provide and experiment outside of pre-planned parameters. If something unexpected comes up, we have to build a whole new machine to deal with that and then we have to send it there. IN ADDITION, we can't just send a machine that does just one thing because that's terribly expensive, so we have to wait until a variety of EXTRA test labs can be added to the machine to bring down the cost-per-experiment to reasonable levels.

Also whoosh!

How many parts are there to a slinky? Exactly.

This is actually not often true. It's not one manager reading a report that one guy makes versus one manager logging into a dashboard and sparing one guy some time. It's one guy spending time to make a report so *many* managers can read it in their inbox. It's not one manager spending 30 minutes once to set up the dashboard the way he wants, it's *many* managers having to do it.

In my case, I'm the guy that makes the report every day and sending off one email so that 6 managers above me don't have to each spend 15 minutes messing around with it because their time is better spent elsewhere.

Sword Art Online taught me that lesson.

It's a metaphor. The only people who take it literally are trolls and people who don't know what trolls are.

I doubt most people buy it because it's thin. Most people buy it because it's new, and powerful, and new. Because having the hottest new item is more important than what it looks like.

Me, personally? I buy the iPhones because they are solid and even with all the abuse I've put mine through, they haven't broken or bent except for a single crack across the top of the screen caused when I accidentally allowed it to fall face-first onto a large, sharp rock.