Exactly.

I hope the government sees what a Frank Abagnale Jr. type situation they have here: a young, still relatively impressionable and malleable, tremendously talented kid who could make great contributions if he directed his talent toward worthwhile pursuits.

If Apple was truly clever, they would make it at least 1,000 PPI to protect the Retina Display claim once human eyes take their next evolutionary step.

So, misrepresenting and/or exaggerating reality for the sake of building hype or generating revenue? It's about on par with incessant, blatant and often unsubstantiated sensationalism for the sake of... well, building hype and generating revenue (a.k.a. the "Steve Jobs is SICK!" piece of 2009). For all your…

It sounds like we've found a good compromise for the limitations of our circumstances. I, too, shall bow right now.

If this were Facebook, I would like, then unlike and relike your reply at least 10 times to express the level of gratitude I'm feeling for it.

Maybe I don't quite understand the technology, but wouldn't it be badass if they could make one digitizer handle both screens, since it would be sandwiched between?

No, a weather station that only gives two fundamental meteorological metrics is not for "weather heads."

Fact is, commercial pilots have reported personally experiencing problems from passenger electronic devices. While a PED will likely never bring down a plane, is that extra ten minutes so important to you that you're willing to risk adding a legitimate distraction to someone who is performing the most complex and…

I couldn't agree more. Exhausting and depressing - you hit the nail on the head.

I couldn't agree more. Exhausting and depressing - you hit the nail on the head.

Joe, it's only tangentially related, but bow and arrows are cause a lot of undue pain and suffering to the animal. That's not a pro-gun statement, just a downside of that method.

It's a literary tool to underscore the significance of the second verb by placing a lesser verb before it, then immediately claiming that that lesser verb is not sufficient, thereby increasing the potency of the verb that follows.

She was nowhere close to having her life in danger; there was clearly no storm surge, no flooding and no airborne debris yet. If you want to see someone's life in danger due to proximity to extreme weather, watch what someone like Reed Timmer does.

It was chosen in 1888 to maintain the analogue to "tornado," which was derived from the Spanish words "tronado" and "tornar," meaning "turning storm." And for the record, a derecho CANNOT cause the same devastation as a powerful tornado; a derecho's winds typically max out near the upper end of the EF-1 range, which…

It would be cool if an unexpected consequence was an earlier release of iOS 6.

Although, ironically, it was one of those separators that helped bring down TWA 800, although you are absolutely right about slowing the flow.

I don't need to look it up; my degrees are in math. Mathematicians do not operate under the scientific method and are therefore not scientists; it's that simple. Yes, step 4 is "do an experiment." However, you do that experiment numerous times. There's a reason scientists always talk about sample size, repeated…

Umm, not sure where the attitude came from, but last I checked, mathematicians are not scientists. This mathematician performed an analysis of the flux on a vertical cylinder and a parallelepiped, both of which are extremely simplified three-dimensional bodies and then, like any good mathematician, recognizes that…

This same analysis came out in a math journal a couple years ago; I remember all of us in the math department scrutinizing it pretty closely and agreeing with the analysis. It was definitely a problem we liked to debate a lot.