Is it Geek Squad's fault if you go years and years without making the slightest effort to safeguard your data, and then you run into some catastrophic error that won't let you boot your OS anymore?

Such unwarranted hatred. Chances are, if you have so much trouble, it's because YOU don't know what you're talking about, and they aren't mind readers, so they can't decipher your uselessly vague description.

The difference, of course, is that the work done by the teenager down the street does not come with any sort of guarantee, and if he damages your computer somehow, he doesn't have insurance that'll pay for repair/replacement.

So you're a jackass? Got it.

That depends. I actually work at Best Buy, and I couldn't even count the number of people I've seen saved by accidental damage warranties. You wouldn't believe how many people manage to crack the screens on their devices (some within two days of buying it, even). And if you're not the type of…

It still has absolutely nothing to do with tilt-shift, whether it's the "opposite" or not. Tilt-shift is not about "making big things look small." It's about altering the plane that's in focus to minimize the depth of field. (Or, less known to most internet crawlers, you can actually use it to enhance depth of…

I don't believe that this has anything to do with tilt-shift. That kind of photography is about changing the angle of the plane of focus, and altering perspective. This employs neither of those. Rather, it appears that it's just making small things look big, which is more a matter of using a wide-angle lens and a…

Twitter-speak already has a replacement for th: d, as in "dis" and "dat."

I have ample imagination; it's just that there's nothing Twitter can't do that can't be done with other systems, and far better.

If you're a writer, and all your links point back to your own site where you can actually spend a decent amount of text properly discussing a topic, why even use Twitter? If your words are worth reading, people should be visiting your site regularly on their own.

On the contrary; I actually have an account on there, used almost exclusively to receive tweets and rarely to send them. Believe me, I'm well aware of how useless most posts are (and I'm not even following the hordes of idiots that most users are).

Why bother doing any research when you can just repeat what random strangers post in 140 characters or fewer?

Widescreen monitors in portrait mode can actually be really useful for coding. But Twitter? What a waste...

I haven't run the numbers for a 20-year span, but if you base it purely on the hours used of one or two LED bulbs, both LEDs and CFLs significantly beat out incandescent bulbs.

There don't need to be any serious innovations. Everything necessary has existed for years; it's just a matter of the media companies giving up their ridiculous war.

There are some minor physical modifications, like swapping at the PC sync port for a microphone connector (after all, who needs strobes when shooting video?).

In that case, you'll want to look at their C500 model, which was announced alongside the 1D C (not sure why Gizmodo didn't mention it).

Or, you know, it could be linked to the fact that this is a building for technological innovation, which means it likely has a ton of high-power computers inside which in turn require a lot of cooling, all of which takes a ton of energy—much more than you would expect out of the same square footage for a normal office…

Another way to achieve this is to take a number of normal-length exposure shots, and then use Photoshop's merge utility set to "Median" mode. That will find the commonality between pictures (the parts that stay the same over multiple pictures, despite people/cars/whatever) and will preserve just that part. As long…

Yeah, "a jack of all trades is a master of none." Zooms (and especially large-range zooms) tend to have mediocre qualities throughout the range, especially when compared to a good prime lens, which is designed around a single focal length for optimal clarity.