Just watched the conference and, in talking about the products, it seems the Pro version has something comparable to "retina". The Pro has a "full HD" screen which they said meant the pixels were indistinguishable at less than arm's length (17 inches). The RT version has just an "HD" screen (not "full HD").

Agreed. It doesn't have to be a specific set of rules as may appear in some books, but it does need to have constraints.

My guess would be that it would definitely be WinRT. Hardware partners a'plenty are making full W8 hardware items. Where microsoft most needs to compete is with iPad and Android, which it is doing very clearly with Metro. It is very clear that Windows cannot compete as a tablet experience through its traditional…

I have been hoping this would happen for some time, but am still unsure that it will. I think a Microsoft-made tablet would be the best way for MS to place a competitively-priced, nice piece of hardware on the market—making it the best way for them to compete with the Android/iPad. That said, what of MS's hardware…

I had quite a few issues with the CP (apps crashing and such), but I didn't think much of it. The Release Preview is much more stable and, though I have had issues, recent updates seem to have fixed all problems. It isn't the final, stable release anyway.

I had a similar experience having first put it on my laptop (I put the Consumer preview on a separate partition to play with). Initially, I was somewhat underwhelmed as I found things taking more time to do than I was used to on Windows 7. After a few days, however, I came to really like it. I have yet to try it on a…

Truly. I went with the Trophy simply because I really wanted WP over Android or iOS and it has been a perfectly wonderful phone, but when I see the Lumia... I get a bit jealous. At least I will be closer to ready to pick up some new hardware not too long after WP8 phones start rolling out.

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Absolutely agreed.

All of my uncomfortable urinal experiences have been in Germany. The worst being a cleaning lady standing in the middle of the bathroom while an old man chose the urinal right beside me (with 6 other free urinals). Instant paruresis.

No. iPhone has a higher peak brightness, but loses the other tests. And in terms of how well you can see these displays outside, reflectance and contrast and likely the more important readings.

Agreed. I love having movies available to stream on Netflix, but if it is something I really care about I am going to buy it on blu-ray.

I didn't know Harry Potter worked on the Manhattan Project. Science IS magic.

Any decent web dev will use the generic css as well as the -webkit-/-moz- css if it exists. Doing otherwise is just lazy.

Agreed. IE9 usually only requires minor tweaks, but 7 and 8 are constant thorns in my side. It is still leagues behind designing for Chrome or Firefox.

Makes you wonder how many were sitting on highways with speed guns trying to pull in some revenue at the time... Not the greatest system, in my opinion.

I certainly wasn't imagining old wooden lifeboats, rather the modern kind. Not inflatable rafts though.

That was my thought... Where are they going to put the greater number of lifeboats? My guess would be, however, that the ship will have far fewer people... (turn the crappy tiny compartments into somewhat nicer ones, thus making everything much more pleasant and requiring fewer lifeboats).

My thoughts exactly. The assumptions they are talking about—that life should exist on planets like earth—don't make it any less likely that extraterrestrial life exists; rather that it is possible that it exists on even more types of planets than where we are currently looking. It is rather ridiculous, from a purely…

Indeed. My friends TV does this. He had on Return of the King one day (on TV in HD); it just looked wrong and crappy. I am getting rather worried now.