Funnily enough, in musical instrument cables, Monster are regarded as crap - their warranty is considered the only real plus to the cables. Not durability, not sound. Just the fact that you can walk to a Guitar Center and get a new one under warranty easily.

It's quite mad and would never pay that much money for one but if somebody gave it for me or it was a few hundred euros, I'd definitely get one. It's over the top and fun.

I find it truly mad that US is still using checks in the first place. Here in Europe pretty much everyone gets paid via direct deposit afaik.

The problem is that many people don't seem to be aware that you can get your suit tailored.

The width of the lapel should be in proportion with your head size and body type. A narrow lapel is generally only suited for people who are very skinny whereas they would look ridiculous on someone who has a wider body.

A real performance benefit comes from installing Nitrous. It enables other apps to use the same 2x faster Javascript engine that Apple's own apps use. By default for example Chrome's JS performance is much worse than Safari because Apple has locked the use of the faster JS engine to "trusted" apps aka their own due to…

A bit weak not to mention the better connector (smaller, easier to plug in) and the ability to output to Displayport for Thunderbolt.

I'm guessing nobody sells a discrete GPU for that.

It takes some time to work out your real sizing. Most people wear too big suits. Since few of us are the equivalent of the ideal size they use to make off the rack suits, most of us should take every suit to a tailor to get the best fit. The only thing that must fit from the start is the shoulders, most everything…

Those cheap shoes may be comfortable, may even last a good time. However, I can't think of any cheap shoe that looks great too. You really have to go over $200 to get properly good looking ones and even more if you want high quality stuff too.

Nope, it just means you're wearing ugly shoes. Square toes or too pointy shoes always look like crap. There's lots of range in between where shoes look the most elegant.

Just thought to point out that those on Windows can enable smooth scrolling for the mouse in chrome://flags . Unfortunately it's still not available on OSX.

NCSettings for easy toggling of flashlight, WLAN, Bluetooth etc from the notification bar. Nitrous to make all apps have the same 2x faster Javascript engine Safari uses. The ability to change which programs are opened by default.

Everyone else would have to stop using email. I'm all for getting rid of it. While I'm not against the concept, the execution is just terrible with the way addresses can be easily faked and spam runs rampant. It's a nightmare as a protocol and most email clients are pretty terrible.

It's a ridiculous product. Orange is known for nice tube amps, so in a stroke of genius they cram a solid state amplifier and a computer in one box and would have you playing thru a software modeler app (which are still miles from the best hardware amp modeler units). It's inconvenient and probably not very good…

"New tab page" on browsers that have it or just a blank page (IE as I don't use it unless I have to). You know, the ones where you have a grid of recently used tabs etc. Firefox's new tab page is pretty horrible though, it has severe issues with thumbnail generation on both Win7 and OSX.

To me the issue isn't so much about hand size but pocket size. I find the huge Android phones uncomfortable in trouser pockets whereas smaller phones are just fine. Somewhere around 4" screen should be quite right when it comes to average hand size and what can nicely fit in a pocket.

I doubt it. The Xbox360 can be had pretty cheap and most of the people who will buy the next Xbox will have the 360 already.

If it was replaced by something like a flatscreen TV, would it still be art? Or just a TV on a stand? If the iPad was in an Apple museum, would we view its design as a form of art?

I can't tell any audible difference between the two I have (an all-analog Cambridge Audio and a more modern Denon) so I'd pick based on features and user interface. Denon has been generally pretty crappy in the former, there's even a Denon-to-English manual on the 'net. In my experience Harman Kardon is equally bad.…