I'm pretty sure the author was referring to firewire and thunderbolt.

It's still annoying that different phones use different orientations.

I wonder, do card simmers work on chip cards? I don't think any Canadian banks still issue cards with only magnetic stripes.

Those features would necessitate the appropriate drivers, but wouldn't need to be device-specific and are all features that could be applied to most platforms.

I feel like you could make more money this way: you target EVERY device on the market, rather than a specific one, and you can make a markup on the device, as well as on the adapters/inserts.

This bears the question, however: why are accessories designed to a specific, bound to become irrelevant, connection type at all? I would rather see accessories come with plug-and-play adapters or inserts that can be made (licensing fee and all) for any number of devices.

Maybe simply avoid doing crimes that would allow authorities to get a warrant and record your Skype calls?

I feel like leaving the trial setup to developers as on WP7 offered more flexibility. Quite a few apps operate on a free to use, but get advanced functionality once you pay.

Microsoft's financial 4th quarter doesn't coincide with what we would call a 4th quarter.

Nokia was fully aware of the decision to drop future support for WP7, and most likely was aware from the beginning. Nokia could not afford delaying by a year the release of Lumia phones waiting for W8.

Because people are used to MPH. The imperial system is a British invention, no? I think part of the reason to use it is just tradition. The engineering to produce vehicles even in the UK is most likely done in metric.

Nah, I think that rather this has everything to do with familiarity, and to our proximity to the US. In the UK for example, road signs still display speed in miles per hour. And in places like industry, it is quite impractical to migrate our mills and construction practices to metric when much of our products have to…

Logic and reason are only due to familiarity. For example, someone that grew up with only the metric system has no clue how tall 6' is, or how heavy a pound is, or how much volume is in a gallon.

Just install Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free and it works for most things (and doesn't slow their computer to a crawl)

I live in Canada. We aren't taxed much more than you guys but our post-secondary education is highly subsidised, and we have a fairly decent (though not perfect) healthcare system. Medication is also much cheaper here. I'd say you guys are getting screwed.

Well said. Even a 95% success rate on any dictation or voice commands is too low to be useful. No one likes repeating themselves. It truly has to be 100% for a user to trust it enough to use it without thinking.

Every little thing counts. Why buy a product that isn't as environmentally friendly as another? Don't we all benefit from companies trying to outdo one another by making products that are easier to recycle and have less negative impacts on the environment?

Old 386 I used when I was 3 years old up to my teens. ALL computers should have a turbo button!

Nice! To be honest, that sounds much more fun to watch (and I presume, to participate in as well!) Are these broadcasted?

I always found it odd that the Olympics competition occurs at a set distance - something that would never happen while hunting for example. Why is it setup this way, as opposed to gradually increasing the distance and eliminating competitors? Or is increasing the distance not a true measure of capabilities at your…