No, that's not what they got. The battery life isn't longer. The processor isn't faster. The graphics chip is faster, but has to push four times the pixels, so the end result is probably a wash. The screen is definitely better, but like I mentioned elsewhere, you probably can't see all those extra pixels from more…

At fifteen inches from my eyes, I can't see the difference between my retina ipod and older not-retina ipod. Most people use the ipad either on a lap or on a table, even further away from their eyes. I can't believe that the new screen is visibly different at that range.

This is why it's a lie:

Bear in mind, that's how it looks with your eye about an inch from the screen. Those sprites are small. Sit about three feet back from your monitor to get a better impression of how it would actually look for most ipad users. Can you see a difference? Sorta. Can you see it while the sprites are running around on…

It looks like (from my admittedly brief reading) they've anticipated that by never having the file requester connect directly to the file hoster. If George has a file and Tom wants it, the request is first routed through Sam and Harry and baton-passed back and forth. That way if 'George' is actually Agent George,…

Yeah. That's not a typo.

Why would anyone want to play Civ V? Upgrade to IV and you get not only a better game, but Leonard Nimoy.

Step 1: Get a cheap netbook.

Admittedly, saying that letting your girlfriend win will have her giving you a blowjob is setting the bar pretty low as far as transgressive humor goes. Gilbert Gottfried wouldn't even slow his car down if he saw the guy crossing the street. If he really wanted to impress, he should have said that letting your…

There's this thing known as transgressive humor. It may not be for everyone, but I do wish that the people who didn't get it would stop trying to ruin things for those who do. As a bit of free advice, if you go to see a comedian and they say something about selling babies to gypsies to get money to pay off jews to…

60 to 100 bucks, you say. Uh huh. So you get to walk around looking like you've got six big flash drives hanging from your neck. That's... not super-appealing. And most of those tools are hardly life-savers. One's just a batch of hex wrench holes, another just has two screwdriver heads on it. And you might…

Not all of the German troops drank the kool-aid. The leadership was batshit insane, and there was plenty of encouragement for the troops to follow their example, but most of the troops were just like everyone else who fought in that war: a kid who'd been handed a gun and told it was to protect his country. The…

I've never seen nicer than DC's in the US. Though in honesty I don't so much consider DC to be extraordinary as I consider the others to be substandard. Anyone building a subway that is not at least as nice as the DC metro needs to be fired.

I'd also add the Tines from Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. Hive mind wolfpack-things as individuals is pretty alternative!

Only honey bees, much like honey badgers, don't give a shit about people. Unless the trespassers run up to the hive and start banging on it, the odds of the bees picking a fight with them is pretty much nil.

Whitelist jest.com in your script blocker.

I took one. Sort of a prerequisite for that computer engineering degree. I don't actually know why it's a prerequisite, given that the one important thing I learned from statistics is that statistics is the language of lies and ultimately meaningless.

How is it that this guy's got a star when I've been posting for years and have nothing?

It would only be rocky for the length of time required to get production ramped back up. The US used to produce the majority of the products it consumed, it has the raw materials to do so again without expensive imports being an insurmountable barrier.

They have a few of those in the MGM Grand casino in Vegas. They're all interactive ads instead of pure art, sadly, but they're fun to play with.