Minjin

Imagine if the first car maker to use the now standard wheel and pedal layout in cars (I believe it was Cadillac) had patented that way of interacting with cars. Every car we’d get in would have a different way of driving it. Some would have pedals for steering, some might even be the same but have the accelerator and brake pedals reversed. These kinds of things shouldn’t be patentable.

I’ve always been impressed with ABB’s advertising. You rarely see this kind of stuff from a B2B company. I like imagining how the first meeting must have gone between the stodgy old industrial engineers who ran the company and some young marketing guy. “You want to do WHAT?…”

I have nice IPS monitors but the white on black is still too much for me. It’s just too much contrast. Give me some grey and I’ll be happy.

It’s like homeopathy; the more you dilute the ashes, the stronger and more Scottyish they get.

I’ve always wanted something like this except more simple. Just lightly highlight anything changed in the last week and anything changed in the last 24 hours, make it even brighter. Generally, the longer something has been on Wikipedia, the more likely it is to be true. The biggest argument that people use against Wikipedia is that some troll might have changed it right before you go to look at it. My suggestion would help alleviate that.

It is unbelievable to me that in this age of the global economy, countries still think tariffs are a good idea.

There should be a tax on people with fauxhawks.

I lack tact myself but even I wouldn’t go that far.

It isn’t that difficult to hit 250gb. I have once (and received a notice about it warning that service would be canceled if it happens again) and have been close many other times. I now have a bandwidth meter on my desktop and active in my router that keeps an eye on it.

A 40gb anime torrent (unlicensed stuff) seeded to 1.5 is 100gb. It really doesn’t take much to breach the cap if you consume a decent amount of media.

Do realize how many crimes we could solve and prevent if we had a weekly search of everyone’s home? Think of all the murder weapons that would be discovered, stolen items found, illegal drug activities detected, kidnapping victims recovered, and more. It would be a small cost to government (and hence taxpayers) but that would definitely be worth the huge decrease in crime and therefore increase in security. Surely, you would be for this because you don’t have anything to hide, right?

A picture is worth a thousand words. It is the evolution of communication. What would you prefer? Talking in metaphors?

Kiteo, his eyes closed…

“The beautiful thing about the bill of rights is that it applies to everyone!”

Except for when it doesn’t. Such as people in the military.

It could have been worse. They could have called them thin-and-light-books…

All cars will be remote controlled in the future.

Anyone have any good web site design strategies to prevent this on sites you build?

And we already know what’s in your bags. It’s Christmas in May!

I can’t wait till they have a sports version and I can get a HUD that gives me speed, distance, and splits for when I bike or run. There are so many things you can do with this kind of technology; it is very exciting.

Based on how David presses that dual stage shutter button, I’m not sure I believe anything stated in the camera section.

Ever hear of sample size? A single test with a single device at a single location is useless. That’s why studies are done multiple times with multiple devices at multiple locations. But if you believe in single tests, I just did a 3g test with my Sprint phone and got 753kbps up and 415kbps down. That’s with 4/5 bars on 3g.

If we want a slightly more useful look into data speeds, we’ll do the test 10 more times:

down/up
753/415
483/431
133/419
575/353
169/441
674/586
351/501
250/446
202/400
187/473
38/438
195/445

I did an extra because I didn’t want to end on such a low spot. There’s a reason why Sprint has the slowest data speeds in studies. Because it’s true.

Lastpass is the clear winner for me. The fact that they bought Xmarks (another service that I love) and will consolidate the two services eventually is a huge plus.

Oh, and speaking of security, didn’t anyone tell you guys that someone can copy your keys from a photo of them? I hope you don’t have anything valuable in the Verge office.

Yeah, let’s not let facts get in the way of a cutesy “theory”.

So are you trying to say that anyone who walks out of the Verge office is a good target for mugging?

I think you mean:

Looks like a great phone that I would be happy to buy here in the US. The only thing I would complain about is the lack of NFC. The lack of a flash would only concern me in the fact that I often use the flash as a flashlight. I never use mobile flashes when taking a picture.