I want that mug!

Haha I'm so glad I scrolled down to the comments. That made me laugh.

Thank you for writing this. The earlier article that you linked to (twice) in this one that was claiming the cars are destined to fail, is awful. It is a perfectly legitimate opinion to think they will fail for whatever reason, maybe the technology just isn't ready or something, but that other article was just full of…

Wow, I agree, this is not good

I'm a little disappointed to see Skype still win this. I have nothing but problems when I use Skype, and the UI is awful (though that part, I'll admit, is just my opinion). Low quality video, calls dropping out, all sorts of issues. Not to mention the fact that I couldn't even use it on Android because I use…

The whole concept of screen orientation is interesting to me. We use small devices, such as phones, generally in portrait. But larger devices, such as monitors and TVs, are generally landscape. I think this partly has to do with our vision. We seem to prefer portrait when it works, but as the screen fills up more of…

Twitter is inherently vertical yes... but what do you need all that screen space on twitter for? I never open Twitter on my computer, regardless of screen orientation. I use twitter almost exclusively on my phone.

There are so many problems with these arguments. You start by saying that the driver causes 90% of the accidents, and then say that since self driving cars can only fix the driver related problems, it won't be able to stop all the accidents, and therefore it will fail. This is true that it won't stop all the…

And that may be all well and good, but some things can't or won't be on the official store anyways for various reasons. Personally, I've never installed a Chrome extension that wasn't from the app store, and I've only ever side-loaded one or two Android apps. Honestly, for me, it's more about the idea of the freedom…

I understand the need for security, but I hope this doesn't lead to a pattern of Google locking down it's stuff in an Apple-like fashion. I hope they don't do the same thing with Android, I will be pretty annoyed if they block side-loading apps there.

That was a really interesting read, thank you!

Haha yeah I got really confused by that line too. I think, like some other people said, they meant between 10^22 and 10^24.

It is a little silly, but they're mixing the styles of Zelda and the Dynasty Warriors games, so I'm not surprised. Shia is one of the new characters though, right? At least they didn't do that with Impa's character, that would just look ridiculous.

Ignore MessiHair, he doesn't know what he's talking about. That was a valid explanation, and I'm glad you liked it :)

The host opens different doors in different scenarios, because that is how the game works. The host does not ALWAYS open door 2 or something like that. In any individual scenario, the host only opens one door.

No, my explanation is accurate. It's true that the host picks one door, but before we play the game we don't know which door he is going to pick. My scenarios go over all the possible ways that it could play out.

Correct. Although his extra scenario is a valid way that things could happen, that doesn't mean it has an equal probability as all the other scenarios. His first two scenario's both have the car behind door #1, and there is a 1/3 chance that the car is behind door 1, so their combined probability is 1/3, meaning 1/6…

The four scenario's you have listed there are all valid, however you're assuming that they all have an equal probability of occurring, which is not the case. I think you'll agree with me that there is a 1/3 chance of the car being behind any given door. This means that your first two scenarios, that both have the car…

Yeah, one of the Gawker blogs (I mostly read Gizmodo and Lifehacker so it was probably one of those two) mentioned something about someone starting a class action lawsuit against Apple for it a couple days ago. I have no idea if it's really going to go anywhere, but either way it has forced Apple to acknowledge and…

Move the decimal point. That's 10%, then to get your tip just multiply by 1.5 for 15%, multiply by 2 for 20%, or multiply by 2.5 for 25%, etc. and bam you're done. Rounding as you do this math is okay, if 20% is $4.02 and you leave $4, that's fine. This is faster than getting out your phone and opening an app.…