I have the exact opposite experience. I live in a 60 year old house with various electrical oddities and several fixtures that would blow out incandescent bulbs after about 2 months. Replaced them with CFLs and they've lasted years.

My gripe with CFLs are that some have this odd delay when first turning on that drives me crazy, or some turn on dim and then gradually get to full brightness, and then *a few* work perfectly. And it's really hard to find those ones that work well.

They've stated in the terms that you can suggest a price, but ultimately Amazon decides what to charge for your app. I can't imagine any developer actually being happy with this arrangement.

I don't know, I could see the eventual scenario where the launcher checks to see if an executable is signed before it is permitted to run. We won't wake up one day to find out OS X has been restricted like this. We'll wake up one day and realize OS X hasn't been updated in years and has been replaced by iOS which has these restrictions built in.

In the realm of Linux I can easily say with 100% certainty there will never come a time when all apps have to come through one official "app store." But Mac... I just honestly can't be sure of that. It seems like all roads are pointing to there.

People are arguing about a 30% cut being a big deal, but it's really not. The big deal will be when their app gets rejected from the store because it "duplicates system functionality" or is sexually explicit or some other such bs.

Unfortunately these are Western Digital "Green" drives. Speaking as someone who works at a company that sells RAID devices, their Green drives suck for RAID. They're slow (they're usually not even 5400 rpm), and they like to timeout and drop out of the RAID frequently. We saw this same scenario when 2TB drives were released and only the low-speed/low-power drives were available at the beginning. We'll have to wait a few months before proper 3 TB drives are out there.

+1 I can listen to Groove Salad for hours.

Does AOL still own Nullsoft / Winamp? That project has been floundering for years. I haven't used Winamp in a long time but I'd love to see someone else give it some attention and bring it back.

So if Apple claims the "pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels" ... does that mean the iPhones v5, 6, 7, etc will continue to use the same resolution display since nothing higher will be noticeable by humans? Or is it obviously more likely that displays will continue to improve for the foreseeable future. Coming in 2011: iPhone featuring the revolutionary Retina Display HD!

Example case - trailers from trailers.apple.com - the ones hosted at apple typically demand that you have Quicktime installed (obviously since Quicktime is their technology). Quicktime might be dandy on the Mac but is most definitely god awful on the PC - much worse than Flash, in fact I'd put it in the same category as Adobe Reader or Real Player plugins.

Further more, Quicktime's browser plugin assigns itself as the default player for many types of media - including mp3 files. So every time I click on an .mp3 link in Firefox, the Quicktime plugin fires up and starts playing it - and its player sucks. Also, since it's impossible to install iTunes without Quicktime, every time I install or upgrade iTunes I have to go through and decrap-ify all the mime associations for Quicktime.

Yes I will be happy when Quicktime dies.

Unfortunately that method opens up the secondary mailbox in the same context as the primary account - same server, same login credentials.

However... I've been using the Office 2010 beta and FYI they finally added true multiple-exchange account support.

Could this be it?

By the way, looks like all of the Popular Mechanics issues are on Google Books, too. I had no idea, looks like I'll be killing a few weekends digging through all this great stuff :)