You lost me with "The NFL Draft is exciting". It really isn't. Not unless you're being drafted. Or you're the mom of someone being drafted.

Apple didn't kill Flash. They don't support it on their mobile devices. Adobe themselves eventually decided that Flash wasn't a good technology for mobile devices.

"stole the concept"?

You are right— tablets aren't the future of computing. They are the present and future of media consumption devices. It's a different usage model.

Bluetooth keyboard. Doesn't have to be from Apple.

I'm trying to decide if that's racist, or just offensive.

They're code names, for god's sake. There's no requirement for them to be in any particular order, or for them to stick to any particular theme, for that matter.

Well, I've said *this* before: fold up a sheet of foil and stick it inside your wallet. Cost? pretty negligible if you already have a roll in your kitchen. It doesn't have to be a complete Faraday cage; it works good enough.

Even FLOPs isn't that good a measure. GPUs have a lot higher FLOPs than CPUs, but that only makes them better for certain kinds of workloads— and totally worthless in others. There are all kinds of benchmarks which may or may not be meaningful to you, depending on what you do.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I was around when the USA made a failed effort to change, and I always thought it was ridiculous when it was abandoned.

random Windows/Mac interoperability tip (not necessarily Boot Camp):

Windows 8 Developer Preview is free. Not sure how long it will be available/usable, though.

Things aren't serialized like that. At least for CPU's, it's more like: "how many transistors will I be able to put on a chip 2-3 years from now?" Then they decide how to spend them— bigger caches, more cores, other functions. The clock speed more-or-less falls out of the questions "how much power can I get into…

This is supposing that chips can be built, in quantities massive enough to be economical, using this technique before Moore's Law catches up. This looks so exotic I'm skeptical.

You're blaming America for your laziness in figuring out the conversion?

Don't care. I use it full screen. They made the 2.0 on-screen control box ginormous, which I do care about.

I just folded a sheet of aluminum foil and stuck it in with the paper money. I know it works good enough because it prevents the badge readers at work from registering.

Adam, how do you use the USB 3.0 drive with the MBAir? I don't think any Macs have USB 3.0... and then with USB 2.0 you won't be able to take advantage of the speed of an SSD.

"a little weary" could be appropriate, but yeah, giz needs proofreaders.

I dunno. At my company, a lot of the top engineers go into management, and aren't very good at it. Just because you're good at one thing doesn't automatically make you better at something else.