@TheAncient: And then there's the itty bitty fact that most other countries use 24-hour time, so this post at 15:46 would've been several hours late...

Please make fun of me wildly if this sounds stupid, but something about the movement of the machine made me genuinely sympathetic for it. I swear I don't usually get emotional for machines...

Hmmm, that retina display concept is wrong...unless the intention is to project the image out of the eye and onto something else. The projector should be aimed at the retina, not reflecting its light out of the pupil...

@Ducttape-Guru: In addition to what a bunch of these other folks have said, this ROW (right of way) can be used to haul passengers and freight quickly and efficiently. Since these are modern concrete ties being put in, I'd bet these tracks are capable of high speed traffic.

@shooga: Youtube: Discovery Channel special 'Building the Biggest Railway' [www.youtube.com]

@mr_mr: While this thread is long since expired, I still feel it necessary to express to you that durability tests of consumer products are still quite useful and necessary. Your attempted use of reductio ad absurdum is a logical fallacy - a child is not a consumer product; high-use consumer products are what I was…

We use work trains like this in the States, people just don't notice them because they either run on weekends when trains are less frequent or at night - also because we don't invest nearly enough in our rail infrastructure to have recently seen machines like these refurbishing our tracks.

@mr_mr: As dangerous as driving an auto is, I'd imagine casual drops of ones' phone are more commonplace than auto accidents. Others also make great note that there are whole federal processes dedicated to securing accurate crash test data for autos, especially after the Ford Pinto crap. [en.wikipedia.org]

At least it didn't die on the first drop. Too bad, too, since this was the first iPhone that I'd feel comfortable with leaving out of a case - the design is so...beautiful. That old white plastic crap never quite sat well with me.

Can anyone say 'rudimentary, paper-based Courier'? It has the same workflow in mind and I love the idea of taking notes and reading side-by-side. This is how ebook covers should've been from the start.

@eatamez2: This comment made my day. You're absolutely right about American sports.

'...enjoying some FOOTBALL...' is what that should have said.

@TonyRockyHorror: You hit the nail right on the head and I must agree that the two contexts lend themselves to very different types of conversations.

CLEARLY, this is the USAF's Resurrection Building in disguise. I mean, look at the resemblance to the pre-historic Resurrection Building of the ancient Cylon race...

@pouncep: It looks like the article references a different method than what I use at home - soapy sponge followed by non-soapy moist sponge. Take the non-soapy moist sponge and wipe it down in two strokes at a time, one stroke each side, then rinse. Then go at it until you're done.

@bsr123: The other problem with pray and wipe solutions is that when the solution eventually evaporates, it still leaves the rest of the chemical behind that you haven't wiped up. When I clean laptops at work using a spray solution, I find the surface becomes slick with the solution if I wipe it down with a moist…

Funny, my mom taught me to always do this - it saves money on cleaning solution and excessive use of paper towels, the bane of my existence. For that reason, we (and myself now) have two sponges: the soapy sponge with the scrubbers on once side and the non-soapy, wipe-down non-scrubby sponge. Sud and scrub the…

What with how it looks like the building is exploding, I don't suppose we'll be doing anything like this with 1 World Trade Center whenever they get around to finishing it...might rouse the natives...

I remember noting to the Apple employee how ironic it was when I bought my iPhone 3G to replace my old WinMo phone and I was being rung up and registered on a Symbol WinMo POS. Guess it won't be so ironic when I go to buy my 3GS soon...

I've been forced to use OS X for months at a time and picked up a good number of the keyboard shortcuts...but I do believe this certainly makes Win7 more productive than any previous version of Windows or Mac OS X.