Wait, it's 20012? Damn you NyQuil, you're too fucking effective.

That's a pretty sad straw man argument when most of these are no-bid contracts, and no one has a competing bid (because there are only three parent companies, and they're not all offering a competing technology. Because why would they, it's not as if the need for these are coming from military request.) But I guess…

And that changes the fact of who assigns the contracts and why how? No, I'm sure the people who assign the contracts, the lobbyists that push for the adoption of these system, and the interlocking board of directors are all completely separate, and don't collude in the slightest to get a slice of the largest defense…

Or, much more likely, the reason they're adopting it is because Northrop Grumman made the right people in the Pentagon disgustingly rich. We shouldn't be so naive as to think that every contract the military awards is based on merit. Especially when so many of them are scrapped or mothballed so soon after being paid…

Thanks for that, totally made my night.

Give me one with a high res IPS screen and a Wacom digitizer and they can have as much of my money as they want. Also organs.

It's certainly a lust worthy gadget. If you're a constantly traveling photographer with a hard on for design, then this is fantastic. If you're a smart consumer, then your money would go a lot further elsewhere. If you're both, then you have a tough decision to make. I like to think I fall into the latter category,…

Actually, the hood itself is pretty cool. I could do without the rest, especially the shoulder pads and grieves, but I would totally rock that hood. I wonder if they do custom orders.

Yeah, it's this kind of defensives that I'm talking about. Shouldn't you be demanding more of them, rather than apologizing for them? Then people bored to death of this anachronistic throw back of an OS wouldn't have to jump ship to get a modern OS.

I think Apple takes its customers for granted, and offers these iterative updates because people are tied into the Apple ecosystem. They come for the hardware, they stay because they're trapped by their investment. While that works as a business model, it's hardly something consumers should rejoice in. I'm more…

All in all, pretty lame. A few extra features and apps, most of which were already done better via jailbreak or other apps. I have a hard time seeing why this got a whole numerical increase over iOS 5. Just seems like a moderate update, not a whole new version. Not even a graphical upgrade, or quick settings in…

I'll admit to being pretty excited about this, Photoshop on a Retina screen will be amazing if the glare isn't too bad, but some perspective is good. This thing is going to have some severe problems with heat, and running programs at that resolution is going to be hugely taxing. Think of the vid card it takes to run…

Except that over at Mac Rumors they said that it's non-upgradable. I hope this is wrong, or at least only applies to the 16GB modules (meaning that 16GB is the max it can take).

So I guess you can't upgrade the RAM yourself, but the big question is if you can upgrade the SSD with a third party drive? As is, the $1999 base model (after educational discount) looks pretty good, but that hard drive is just way too small.

I honestly do find Siri pretty useful in the car, especially setting reminders. But sports scores? What am I, 12? How about just making some functions available offline. As is, you go behind a big hill and Siri becomes a useless digital retard.

Not bloody likely. First off, way too expensive to use liquid fuel rockets on this scale, I'd expect some kind of mass driver. And second, I don't think 2001 Space Odyssey is our future, more like a cross between Mad Max and Idiocracy. We have way too many Tea Baggers, Creationists, and other assorted dead weight…

So, "not quite the same" in that it's even better?

It's not about the future, it's realizing that perfection isnt always the goal, people tend to respond to things because of their imperfections. I'm not being a Luddite, I love my Mamiya with the p65+ back, I'm just pointing out that all this bickering over MPs is stupid, because it's the person holding it that…

Of course, who needs a TV when you're these people. Jetting off to the south of France on a whim is crazy expensive, and you need to consolidate a lot of wealth from a lot of now very poverty stricken people to afford it. And for those people, there's TVs to watch stories about people who live a life that doesn't…

I am a professional photographer, and I'm completely serious. I've had pictures published taken with my iPhone, a self made POS tintype, and everything from the Mk III to an H4D. The point is that any of these cameras can do the job, it's the artist that matters. And your comparison isn't exactly apt, because the…