Touchscreens seem great from a certain perspective, but from a human factors perspective (modeling systems to best work with people's natural tendencies, rather than against them) touchscreens are awful. Mice, on the other hand, are actually pretty great because there is immediate feedback and physical controls.…

No, he didn't have a lemon. I had two Droids, my sister had one, one of my friends had two or three - they all went bad after a while. LOVED the phone to start out, but it became a giant heaping pile of crap after a while (or, rather, they did. All of them). On the plus side, it gave me a good excuse to change phones…

One of those laws (don't remember which state it was in) was recently ruled unconstitutional. Which it is. Which they all will be eventually.

Mind: blown.

I'm guessing by "first micro four thirds" you specifically mean actual "micro four thirds" and not other Mirrorless ILCs. The article doesn't really sound that way, of course, but otherwise you'd be ignoring the Sony NEX 7, which is more of a true DSLR replacement. I'm not really sure how you could call a camera…

...except a capacitive stylus is nowhere near as accurate as the stylus on the Galaxy Note. It just isn't. If you don't believe me, then try the two out. The big difference is the active digitizer, which gives you the freedom of a capacitive screen plus the precision and other added benefits of a resistive screen.

Sure. I have a capacitive stylus for my phone. It doesn't have near the precision of the stylus for the Galaxy Note or a stylus on a resistive screen. And if you wanna argue that Steve Jobs didn't say he didn't like stylii, well...then you didn't watch the unveiling of the original iPhone.

Exactly

Somewhat off-topic: a sharp knife is a safe knife. Dull knives are the dangerous ones. Just sayin'.

So I both agree and disagree with you on the Samsung commercial. I thought it was a pretty bad commercial, but not because no one cares about stylii. Because, Casey, some people DO care about stylii. Some people actually REALLY like them. Not everyone believes every word that dripped out of Steve Jobs' anus. In other…

Hm. Well then I don't agree with the FDA doing anything, it should be a problem of the larger DHHS.

I agree with the fact that the FDA should be able to regulate stem cell treatments, I disagree about their reasoning.

Positive experiences can be just as emotionally/neurologically arousing as negative experiences, so...no, saying "bad and arousing" is not redundant, as they're talking about negative experiences and sexually arousing experiences, not merely experiences that are emotionally/neurologically arousing.

Sounds like you and I are of the same mind. I'm not for people's dogs being free everywhere, but dogs being off leash is actually quite good (read: necessary) for them, and when cities take them away, it makes dogs everywhere more aggressive, and makes people more likely to let their dogs off leash elsewhere - still…

Good to know (and by good to know, I mean awful to know) that Utah isn't the only place that is retarded and getting rid of awesome dog parks instead of giving us more of them. I wrote a research/persuasive paper my freshman year of college about how dog parks are actually incredibly valuable to society and are…

Just keep drinking the ones you can barely drink, after a while you'll start to like it. I thought it sounded crazy, but one of my friends kept making me try coffee, and I kept hating it until one day I actually liked it.

So I would assume that sometime in the next few hundred to a thousand years (maybe more, it's hard to say really), we will have accidentally created sentient chimpanzees through artificial selection. My thought is, we pay more attention to the chimps who are smarter, they end up with better chances of breeding. We…

Sigh. Look. You're going to get the YECs all in a tizzy because they're going to say life didn't really take millions of years to evolve, because of the way you worded the title (and first paragraph). And there's no reason to. First off, what you called "the equivalent of natural selection" is actually called…

So some people actually do need more than that. Divers, for instance, need a watch that can actually go down below 10 feet (by the way, a watch that says it can go down 100M can really only go down about 10 feet). A lot of people use watches such as Suuntos which have altimeters, barometers, and digital compasses -…

The questions you say to ask are ones that I've actually had teachers assign me to do for numerous psych classes. And, while saying "Duh" is not ok if that's you're end-thought, it's not necessarily a bad thing if it gets you thinking about challenging preconceived notions and unproved "facts."