I'm going to recommend you take your own advice about getting your head out of your...er...sand. Read your last post: he didn't create ANY of the things you mentioned; he just capitalized on existing technology. I owned several MP3 Players before the iPod was released. I owned an iPaq long before Apple co-opted that…

I'm still not 100% sure that it WAS snark to be honest. As mentioned above, I've been to the Mac store, this isn't out of the realm of the reasonable for Mac cultists. And as mentioned before, I am bi-digital Windows/Linux.

No it doesn't

Once again with candor bordering on trolldom:

I have nothing against Elvis; but he got famous by making African-American music palatable to the white american majority of the day. Similarly, Jobs got famous by making technology more palatable to the digital non-natives of the 80's and onward. What neither of the men…

Is it bad that I like stopping by the Apple genius bar at the mall and seeing how many of the on-staff 'geniuses' can successfully integrate a simple polynomial equation?

I can tell you that I grew up using PC's, first on DOS and later with windows. I grew up writing programs in MS Basic. I'm now a professional…

I'm going to get called a troll for this post; but here goes:

I've never seen Steve Jobs as being an important figure in the creation and ongoing development of the computer industry. He was no Allan Turing or Dennis Ritchie. He didn't so much create the personal computer industry as find a clever way to package it.…

It's still a little weird though when you consider that Google Fiber is 1 Gbps going both down AND upstream. Without running some kind of server; who could possibly use THAT much upstream bandwidth? Nobody, that's who.

I can see why Google is doing this; and it's a confluence of business and technical reasons. Right now I am paying about $38/month for my internet from Comcast at about 5 mbps, and it's more than enough bandwidth for my needs. With Google Fiber, users are paying $70/month for 1Gbps of bandwidth. That's about 200x…

Good point; could I go on a mass killing spree in Germany and still only serve 25 years? Or could I still get a 150 year sentence if I killed 6 people?

Before you go off on some self righteous rant about how enlightened and progressive you think your country's justice system is compared to ours, you might want to double-check about the barbaric punishments that still exist in your nation. Say what you will about America's prison terms; at least we don't still…

That system is a far cry from fool proof. For instance, I always make my hotel reservations with a cancelled credit card; that way if I end up not making my reservation the hotel can't charge me a no-show (pro-tip from my days managing a Hilton). Such a system could easily work here too.

Then of course, there's the…

I'm very amused by the 'it just works' argument for the Airport equipment. I've set up my fair share of wireless networks (I usually just wipe the router's factory firm-ware and install DD-WRT to keep my life easy); I've never had an Mac-only issue creep up on me, if a network I have established works for PC, it works…

Comcast charged me for $7/month for over a year of modem rental; the kicker is that I have always owned my own modem. It took over 12 hours of my time (over the course of 6 different phone calls) to finally get Comcast to refund me (most of) the money they stole. Of course, if you consider how much my time is worth…

Seriously, him and Jim Parsons from Big Bang Theory might be immortal or something....

I actually see this as playing out as it should. It looks like Manning is being charged for the crimes he knowingly committed; and not being metaphorically lynch mobbed for crimes he did not. I think the proper course is that Manning is tried, convicted, and sentenced for the crimes he committed; and then pardoned for…

And cue the 'When I was your age' techno-battle...

You've gone soft Cthulhu!

Let me know when you have a title like:
"Sim city tournament champion made ACTUAL mayor of Chicago"

When it comes to the app ecosystem, Android actually has the better system, but iOS has a bit more momentum. The biggest advantage Android has is much better developer support; and a much easier development environment. There is a reason a lot of beginning programming courses are taught in Java, and a reason that…

Hmmmm, I don't think the Wi-Fi test you did was very scientific. There are just so many factors that could have influenced the test you described: