I'd be pissed if I was put in the control group.

If you're in the market for the full, master collection creative suite, that cost 2,600$. Assuming you're a creative professional that HAS to have the latest version, that's 2,600$ per year (they moved to a yearly release cycle with CS5.5).

Charms bar > settings > power. I panicked a little when I first installed the consumer preview, it IS well hidden. My girlfriend still taunts me that I can't turn off my computer.

People forget they have a perfectly good start button on every Windows machine they use... on their keyboards. It's a hardware button and it's more convenient than the taskbar button ever was. The hover corner IS a minor annoyance, especially on multi-monitor setups.

My black Lumia 920. I have never seen a prettier phone. The HTC One comes close, but doesn't match up to the smooth curves and angles of the Lumia 920. A simply sublime design from Nokia, one that's going to be hard to beat.

On my new job I was provided a MacBook as a work computer and I have noticed a few things, having been a Windows user all my life.

NOW you can say "stripped down to its essentials". Thanks for not doing it though.

See the very enlightening comment by the respectable jollyanna-jimmy above.

Stop this "stripped down to its bare essentials" nonsense. That is a MINIMALIST DESIGN and it actually has more stuff than what is needed for it to work as a speaker, ie its essentials.

I know. It was a joke referring to the article's point that big phones are only for people with giant hands. Basically, if we accept that assumption (which is clearly incorrect), and then look at the sales numbers for the Note, we might conclude that people with giant hands like to buy a lot of phones. My goal was to…

It was a joke, referring to the quip in the article about giant hands.

People with giant hands sure do like to buy phones, though. You might not like it personally, and that's fine, but you can't deny the success of the Galaxy Note. It's not unfathomable for Nokia to entertain the idea of a Note competitor.

Will Smith: "I'll do it... long as I get to write the theme tune, sing the theme tune..."

The blockchain. Or more concretely, the people who are mining. They perform the calculation and ensure the integrity of the blockchain, which can be described quite aptly as a giant ledger holding all bitcoin transactions. In return for the processing power, they can discover new blocks of bitcoin. I don't know…

Huh, I thought it was awesome. If you have a hack to get all context menus on your computer in that style, post it! The default ones are so dreary.

They seem awesome! I'm rebuilding my Kanger EVODs and T3's, have been eyeing an AGA T2, but that's still in the future. Waiting for the ProTank, it should arrive any day now!

Right on.

A developer friend of mine. Don't know where he got it from, sorry. Probably years of experience and education :D

A Kanger clearomizer, for vaping. A clearomizer is a tank and atomizer combo that holds your eliquid and vaporizes it, and Kanger makes some of the best clearomizers around. But their quality control isn't very good. They can begin to gurgle, they can leak, they can give you juice in your mouth. But when they work,…

Don't turn off the forced reboot by Windows Update. Not rebooting after an update is what makes the infamous "Windows sluggishness after a few months" happen, which is why Microsoft enforces the reboot even more in Windows 8. Always reboot after an update, and chances are you'll never have to reinstall.