It has to be my favorite. It is too bad it doesn't get updated much anymore.

http://pbfcomics.com/

>The question is, what have we learned as an industry since 1982?

Quite a bit.
I have three books on electromagnetic compatibility. The most recent, Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering (2009), is comprehensive and thick enough to stun an ox.

Crap I'm a dummy. Committed to writing no less.

I'm thinking of Farcry 3, not Crysis 3. They shared an engine (Though modified) and I mixed them in my brain.

I stand by the fact that I haven't played any of them though.

On private torrent sites at least. Can't find it on TPB.

Just download it yourself and see if you can run it.

IF I had pirated it and played about half the campaign already (which I haven't I'm too moral!), I would say it runs perfectly on my system. Quad core i5 2500k and Geforce 670, but that is fairly high end, no idea how it would run on a lower one. Or mine..since I haven't played it.

You get 100% of that from having a dog.

When I come home he SPRINTS for the door and I've never seen anyone happier to see me. When he was so sick he could barely lift his head and had to be put on an IV, he depended on us utterly and it was so sad to see.

The only thing missing from what you said is the 'brought someone into the world' stuff, which is just your biological animal side driving you to have children. But you're not an animal.

With the dog, he will never grow up and get hooked on heroin, or commit suicide, or keep me up all night wondering if he is out getting knocked up, etc etc.

I think if raising your child is the most important thing you will ever accomplish, you are just passing the buck on doing things of true importance yourself.

Imagine Tesla had married and had a child rather than fathered the electrical system we use today. Which would have been more important?

Or if Alan Turing had had children rather than fathering computer science as we know it ?

Heck Einstein had a son, but many reports show him getting ignored quite a bit along with the wife (They later divorced), and IMO Hans Einstein is hardly the most important thing Albert Einstein produced.

We can't all be Turings or Teslas, but it doesn't mean that raising a child is the most important thing anyone with children can do, there is a lot one can contribute on their own. IMO it mostly seem that those with children wanting to contribute important things often must ignore their children to do it, which in essence makes it so if you DO have children, you are stuck in making them the most important thing, rather than contributing greatly yourself.

Fine if it is your choice but it is certainly not mine, nor the choice of many if the story is accurate.

Maybe with less having children we will start having those few geniuses among us better able to exploit their brains towards science and mathematics and we could maybe see a few more large leaps in the state of the art which is so rare these days.

I owned the S3 from when it came out until last month, and I much prefer a 4S or 5 iPhone to it. Mostly a matter of preferring iOS though. I like having cloud sync for my stuff, Apple TV playing movies and music on my stereo system/TV with the touch of a button, etc. I'm probably just used to iOS, but I keep trying Android and it keeps annoying me and I end up back with iOS.

The S3 hardware is nice, but I don't see how it is six years ahead of an iPhone 5.

I'm in the same boat somewhat. I keep trying to switch, and KEEP getting burned.

Decided I want a big slunker gaming computer. Bought the Asus G73 when it came out. Was working fairly well but within about 8 months it was having some issues, trackpad, screen etc. No problem, I'm used to the Apple support, Asus has a good rep, lets call.

What a disappointment. My only option was to send the laptop in so they could diagnose and repair it at their leisure. Reports online say it often takes a month. This is my primary and sole computer. I tried explaining that but nothing they could do. I offered to buy a nicer warranty, or buy the parts myself and replace them and agree my warranty would henceforth be void. Nope! Send it in.

I sold it for a steep discount to a buddy and bought a mac.

Know what Apple does in this situation? "No problem sir, your new computer is in the mail. Simply take a time machine backup, wipe it, place old computer in the box the new one came in, rip the shipping label off, drop it off for free shipping back to us, and restore the backup. Have a nice day."

It seems you cannot even BUY that kind of warranty from most PC makers. Some even seem to try to find excuses not to fix your device. Apple has even replaced my phone after I broke the screen. They said they normally don't but just this once they would.

They may have a terrible corporate attitude but they are hard to get away from since most other aspects of owning their products is so positive.

I'm a sample size of 1, but for what it's worth, I've been using an S3 for the last few months, and will be going back to iOS in a few days.

I still find Android more frustrating to use and less streamlined in many ways than iOS. Though iOS is sure showing its age looks wise these days.

I'm on an S3 and enjoy it but even having done some minor reading you are totally incorrect on some major points.

CPU: Clock speed means shit all in desktop OR mobile CPU's and has not for a while not. The i5 is an in-house designed ARM chip which is basically A15 class, not A9. The S3 international uses Tegra 3 which is a 4 core A9 CPU, and the American version uses another in-house developed chip by Qualcomm, which is also closer to A15 class. BOTH VERSIONS are slower in every benchmark than the Apple CPU.

You mention not being able to kill processes on iOS which is totally incorrect as well. Double tapping the home button brings up a task manager to kill whatever you want. You can also kill -9 an app by holding the off button until the slider comes up, and then holding home until the process dies. Both of these have been in iOS for a long time now, the latter method in one form or another for years.

Your other points are closer to the mark, but you should do a bit more research before arguing a point. Many of the things I mentioned are easily available in Wikipedia or other google-able sources.

Putting a SSD as my OS/game drive has made by far the largest difference I've ever seen in a single upgrade.

In the past it was: "More ram..ooh yeah bit smoother...Faster CPU, bit peppier..." Etc, helped but not blow your socks off.

You put an SSD for your main apps, OS, and games, and it will astonish you how quickly things go. Firefox and other apps load instantly. When I had a macbook pro I swapped to SSD and normally the icons for my startup stuff would bounce for a bit as they loaded etc. After SSD like 5 icons would do a half bounce and bam all 5 loaded done.

So for a desktop, do what I do. Throw a big spinner in there as a drive for games you don't need a fast HDD on, media, etc. Then you will have the best of both worlds. It is by far the least buyers remorse I've ever felt on a PC upgrade.

Odd considering the dual core snapdragon S4 is faster than the quad core one in almost every single benchmark. Only the really parallel ones (Which face it, never happens on a smartphone) pull ahead, and even then, just.

Far and away now a days I read more self published books on amazon. Their editing standards are not usually up to published quality, esp for an author's first book, but I'm more and more convinced that publishers have been more harm than help in the book work anyways.

For example here is a category of books I enjoy, and the top books in it:

http://www.amazon.com/High-Tech-Science-Fiction-eBooks/b/ref=amb_link_7192512_3?ie=UTF8&node=158595011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=18Z89FBPQX256PRKTBVW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1300192942&pf_rd_i=668010011

On the first page alone I think there might be 1-2 non self published books.

SO maybe because they are so cheap, they are popular and sell a lot. Let's try by customer rating:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?qid=1347374427&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A154606011%2Cn%3A158591011%2Cn%3A158595011&sort=reviewrank_authority

STILL almost entirely self published books.

So yeah while the editing standards might not be quite up to snuff, the storytelling has been great and once the author hits with one book he gets almost all the sales money so makes much more than an author under a publisher. Then he has the cash to hire editors etc etc and the result is there have been some amazing series published on there.

Thanks to my kindle and all these 99c self published books, I read MUCH more than I would have otherwise and found some real gems. These days the publisher is just a money sucking middleman that I'm not convinced is really needed anymore.

Why don't you look at the pictures? Due to the increased contrast and much higher res, even with the 'layer' (which looks to be invisible btw) the screen is about 10x nicer than the kindle before it. Very white, nice even lighting, and the light IS coming from above the e-ink, bouncing off it, and hitting your eyes, just as if you'd used a book light or sat in the sun.

I'm sure you may be able to tell the difference but even the close up pics of it off, it looks better.

Here is a side by side comparison with all lighting off in not great lighting.

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/5336415/kindle-paperwhite-vs-79-kindle-XSC_1991-rm-verge-1020_gallery_post.jpg

Much sharper, blacker blacks, whiter whites (a bit) and no blurryness from the layer above it.

I would certainly not hesitate to call it 'e-ink'.

Inches no question.

Doesn't matter. Statements made by the jury after a trial mean nothing. They could say "neener neener we just didn't like samsung" and the verdict would stand.