Thanks for taking the time to type this up, it's fascinating.

! I've never even heard of 4 dollar matinees. I pay more than that for popcorn.

According to this [www.americanmusical.com] It's 300. I don't know anything about guitar amps, but that doesn't seem that bad to me.

Interesting. Is there a difference between the results of those two processes, in practice? As Rob said, I was basically think things like General Tsao, Chop Suey, Orange Chicken, etc that are far sweeter and usually more heavily fried than their real Chinese progenitors. I know some of those, like Chop Suey, are…

Are you even the 1%? You might be. But you are not the 1% that we're all complaining about and railing against. Maybe if instead of making 350k last year you made 10 or 20m, and you weren't saddled with student debt. And instead of being penalized if you fuck up when you practice your medicine (in the analogy, a…

I feel like it'd be fascinating to compare actual asian food to heavily westernized asian food. Does it fit the western-similar flavor profile, or the asian-different flavor one? Or split the difference between them?

Woo! Repping our current or ancestral cultures! British food for the win!

Good call

Vote: Transformer Prime

I can't wait until flipboard comes to android. I just tried it for the first time on my mom's ipad, and it is so slick and gorgeous.

Honestly built quality (and to a lesser extent, the desire to get a new OS to tinker with) led me to switch. My MBP has built quality unlike any windows machine I've ever used. You read tech reviews and see specs and benchmarks, but in reality I think the quality of a touchpad and keyboard affects your day-to-day…

I agree, there's something to be said for physical stores and a forgiving warranty policy even if you're tech savvy: most major PC manufacturers phone support is hellish if you're trying to get parts replaced. A friend of mine recently had a problem with his macbook, brought it in and got it replaced the next day. …

Unless you're committed to desktop apps I find straight-up gcal and gmail (with one inbox fetching email from my GApps accounts) to be a better combination than thunderbird or windows live mail.

Email hosting questions!

Lol, my college dorm has a list-serv which hits every single person in the dorm when you email it, and people have a tendency to hit reply-all. Thousands of emails. Thousands.

It's a good article though, I enjoy when they dig up these ridiculous product ads from the past

That was the most incredible thing I've seen in a while.

You're right I should have phrased that better: they certainly have the money, but I was just thinking that there were probably better ways to spend it in terms of advertising for android and the market.

How does google afford this? If 200k people download minecraft today for 10 cents, and it normally retails for 7 dollars, are they actually going to pay mojang the extra 1.380,000 in difference? Also I know that google probably only actually pays 50% or something of the like to the developer once you subtract fees…

They're saying don't buy point and shoots because the tech itself is obsolete (debatable, but getting there), but they're saying don't get someone a smartphone not because it's obsolete but because it's both assholeish and illegal to sign someone up for a contract unless you pay that too. You're right though, I have…