That's good to hear! I do like Windows 8 overall (and I love the Desktop improvements like the ribbon in Explorer), but at the moment my like for it is soured by a few annoyances. I hope that as it matures and I find workarounds for those annoyances, I'll find it more suited to my work, too.

Seems like Microsoft is mimicking Apple in ignoring businesses in favor of the consumer market. Which means focusing on tablets. Beyond the sales force, businesses don't have much use for tablets (Blackberry Playbook or Cisco Cius, anyone?). And Windows 8 definitely is made for tablets.

I think he means the on-screen button that you touch to take a picture. As opposed to a "hardware button", which'd be an actual, physical, plastic button on the edge of the phone.

I wonder why NetMarketShare at HitsLink has such different numbers... (IE at 54%, FF 20%, Chrome under 19%)

As a rough approximation, I've heard TV-buying advice that says the average person really can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 32" TV at a "normal" viewing distance. So let's say for the moment that 1920x1080 at 32" is about the human-discernible limit for pixel density for TV watching. That's…

Perhaps Peter should try pairing the smaller monitor with a slower computer for the same reason: Running multiple apps just leads to distraction, and a slow computer lessens the temptation to multitask. As the great philosopher Homer once said, "You can't go this far and not go farther."

Trouble is, so many websites limit your password to something ridiculously short like 12 characters. I never understood the rationale behind that, with storage space being so cheap and security being such a focus these days. By the time you salt and hash the password (which you ARE doing — right, developers/DBA's?),…

Yeah, but getting a "meets expectations" on your performance review is fine, if nothing to brag about.

Impressive. But...Let's say I'm out in the woods in the winter with nothing but a knife, and I want to build a fire to keep warm, avoiding frostbite. The best way to do so is to rub a four-pound block of ice with my bare hands until it's a smooth lens?

Except lots of humans WEREN'T fine without penicillin, chemo, vaccinations, etc. Sure, there are cases when a cell phone saved a life, too. But that'd be covered by a pay-as-you-go phone, which costs about $8-10/month for me, or $2.50/month for TheFu. If, like me, you work in an office all day with Internet and…

Daniel's right; Asus had their XG Station in 2008 and AMD followed up later with their "XGP" (eXternal Graphics Processor). I didn't follow them too closely, but I don't recall them actually making it into widespread production.

Sorry, I forgot to include the smiley to indicate that humor was intended.

Ugh, yeah, Papyrus is like the Comic Sans of fonts.

It's the furthest north of the four destinations listed (depending where in TX)? I wouldn't think it'd be much cooler than Texas or parts of Florida this time of year, though.

There are two sides to every browser: the user experience and the developer experience.

I use a web app at work that's just awful. No doubt the app's developer was happy to be done, and his/her manager was pleased that this dev was so efficient. They've moved on to other projects, but I'm still stuck using it and silently cursing them and their shoddy crapplication.

Gets you thinking, anyway... What about a clamshell-type phone that'd fit nicely in your pocket, but flipped open to reveal a seamless 6" screen? Yeah, I know OLEDs can't actually crease in half. But maybe a design where the screen was on the outside of the clamshell would give enough of a bend radius.

Yes, please make sure all future airheads with cellphones are depicted as blond white women, so we can avoid stereotypes. :-)

For me the draw of the iPod touch is portability. I can throw it in a pocket and carry it with me everywhere. The Kindle Fire is 4x the size and weight. Maybe I could fit it in a jacket pocket, but I'm likely going to leave it home whenever I don't have immediate plans for it.

I agree with you — except for the price. The nano is closer in price to the iPod touch, but closer in features to the iPod Shuffle. Too limited to be an all-in-one entertainment device, but too expensive at $149-$179 (+$29 for headphones with inline volume control? Or are those included?) to be an impulse-purchase,…