Don't forget, Intel also had better fab. I remember arguing with Intel engineers working at their plant in Oregon several years ago... We were discussing AMD's lead at the time and specifically having the memory controller in the CPU instead of having it in the north bridge. One of the Intel guys kept towing the party…

Whoa dude, slow down a minute. Here are some things you should remember:

I got out in '94, but when I was in, they would occasionally load up a bunch of cars on a USN ship in Hawaii and take them to San Diego. Of course, many of them need to move on to other destinations after arriving in San Diego but still, that first hop is a big portion of the expense. I'm sure it wasn't the only way…

If a sailor moves from Hawaii to the mainland the USN pays to have their car transported.

Yeah. Radio Shack... That's the partnership that's really going to set Beats Electronics aside as "high-quality status symbols"

I love you. It's important to get the details right...

The rebar on the outside is cosmetic. Only the rebar on the inside of the oven is connected to current. Don't stick your hand inside while the thing has power, and you'll be fine.

You misunderstood. Working trade shows is fun and I've known men and women who enjoyed it. I've even known a couple of women who had worked as booth babes who had fun doing it.

On the one hand, you make good points, but on the other hand, since it's just a AA battery, you can just pick up a new battery before you go adventuring. I, like you, think the device would have no problem surviving.

Yeah, except those girls are less likely to want to hang out in a booth at a trade show while wearing revealing clothing all day for money.

Just so long as we can both agree that it's not made of fucking tin.

Excuse me, it's ALUMINUM FOIL.

You're being a contrarian (or perhaps an objectionist.) I live in Oregon. If I had one of these phones, the lowest temp it would probably ever see is 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and that's in a record setting cold year. In the summer, I can't remember ever seeing the mercury hit 110, much less 140. Furthermore, your…

So what? If the battery doesn't work, put another one in.

They cut off my TSA lock (instead of using their key,) so that they could pry-open my "tool-less" external hard drive enclosure, (using a screwdriver, breaking it in the process,) only to find -surprise- a hard drive.

So, you're saying that we need an army of clones to fight for us? Then what would we have, some kind of Clone War?

Not quite. It was virgins only for Wednesday. These days they're pretty rare and you have to aim at the 15 and 16 year-olds.

She was saying that a violin with false provenance is not the same thing as a counterfeit violin; that any violin is a "real" violin even if someone is lying about who made it. Surely this is nothing but semantics, and should never have even been mentioned as a part of this, but the fact that she's saying doesn't make…