When I lived overseas I took the subway and walked. Even though the commute was 40+ minutes and it sometimes rained quite a lot I loved it. It definitely helped that the trains were frequent and never late. I wouldn’t be so positive if I were stuck using MetroNorth.

The find cursor feature is probably the most immediately useful thing on this list. I don’t know what it is with OSX, but the cursor definitely has a penchant for disappearing.

Get a horse, because grain is a lot easier to produce than gasoline.

There’s a pretty big difference between a car that’s been tastefully and sensibly lowered and the stupid shit some people do.

I personally think the Nissan Cube is a better looking car than any generation of the xB. Unfortunately, few outside of Japan go for quirky, unconventional designs, instead gravitating for anything they perceive as “cool”.

This really highlights the efficiency of mass production. Imagine humanity having to go back to farming and producing goods on an individual level.

Reading this, you’d think we’re going to wake up 10 years from now and find ourselves knee deep in crocodiles. In the shorter term, sure, you might find crocodile populations growing, but the scenario described above would take millennia. The likely response to crocodile overpopulation would be a culling, all in the…

These comparisons tend to always rank the US pretty low. But then in practice, when I travel or correspond with friends or family overseas the reverse ends up being true. Everyone else’s performance is very inconsistent and suffers heavily during peak hours.

Although there’s a bit too much gushing in this article and the points are a bit simplistic, they’re still all valid. Amateur and indie developers stumble on so many of these and are incapable of addressing those faults because they’re too close to the game. They confuse poor gameplay for challenge and subpar artwork…

I’ve never really cared as long as I got a consistent 30fps. However, I suffer motion sickness very easily in first person games, although I never had a problem with driving games. The framerate makes a big difference for me; I tend to feel the effects far more quickly at lower framerates, typically 20-30fps. That…

Is this watch as incredibly bulky in person as it looks here?

I had the same exact feeling when I started seeing early 90’s Civics with collectors plates.

I think the new Maxima is quite attractive. It and the new Murano look quite good. I thought someone had finally found a way to make contemporary Japanese styling attractive; unlike Honda and Toyota have managed thus far.

Hopefully Microsoft has addressed the issues of sweat getting into the electronic and the rubber coating delaminating. The first gen was a great device. But I returned mine because those problems arose late in the first month of ownership.

In my experience, if an employer claims you’re being hired to change the way things work you can guarantee it’s bullshit. Even if they sincerely hope you’ll bring change there will be far too much interenal resistance. The only way it will realistically happen is if you’re building a team from scratch or have been…

Building a car and the infrastructure that comes with it is a massively expensive undertaking. Apple can certainly afford to give it a shot, but we’ll see if investors are willing to go along for the ride.

I don’t know; to me it just looks like a generic sporty SUV with the corporate Jaguar front end. I see a dozen other SUVs in that profile; everything from the Porsche Macan to the Jeep Grand Cherokee. It’s definitely not as distinctive as any of their sedans.

Maybe you need to expand your horizons. I’ve got a Lumia 920, nearing 3 years old, and a PC that’s roughly 7 years old. The phone is running the latest version of Windows Phone 8.1 and the PC is running Windows 10. Both continue to perform flawlessly and they’re as stable as they’ve ever been, which is to say very…

About a week ago, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal where some tech “expert” told readers that they had nothing to fear in upgrading to iOS 9. It was going to bring us unprecedented levels of stability and performance. And amusingly, here we are today.

If you changed the rules then you’d have people bitching that the government doesn’t care about the environment. This is one situation where the US is more stringent than Europe. With the rise of electrics and hybrids I think it’s all quickly turning into a moot point anyway.