It seems we lack a collective vision or even general direction to make this happen, we're profoundly fucked by capitalist logic all over and all we care about is our own personal well-being.

I'm speechless, this is nothing short of awesome.

I don't understand why anyone would want to rent a computer.

This is kind of a long rant for something that shouldn't be taken for anything else than it is; QR codes are an inventory thing, not the gimmick marketing teams around the world tried to turn them into (and largely failed at).

Same reason I didn't go with Nike+ for running last year, there wasn't an Android app (there is one now, but too late for this guy).

Oh man, the Kardashians. Again.

No doubt it's more powerful, but Nvidia is always overselling these things.

LL Bean's... fond memories of summers spent in Maine, getting their catalogues in the mail and keeping my fingers crossed they'd still have my favourite red fleece sweater in stock the next time we would come down.

"for Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint (Prices Based on Eligible Upgrade or New 2-Year Contract)"

Surely those rumours should help Apple's stocks that have been declining steadily over the past couple of weeks.

Pretty sure you can now get Sparrow through the latest Gmail build, which incidentally got better and cuter than ever.

It's kind of funny to see Google trump Apple at their own UI/UX game, the basic iOS GUI looks outdated.

I don't know what you're complaining about, this is brilliant AND educational.

Having recently dealt with a company's that's a MS "partner" (read: they're a third-party app maker), app guidelines are currently way too strict and anal - MS is trying to imitate Apple when it comes to UI quality and cohesion.

Nice enough, but replacing drives might be an issue.

I admit I played the flame bait card, you're right about that.

Hopefully you can outfit this array with something faster than 5400 rpm laptop drives in each of these nodes, a Fusion drive perhaps?

Same here, in fact I got minor errors from it but nothing out of this world.

Did you even consider that I don't care either way, we just got both extremes throwing crap at each other and such; in the case of this post, Maps gets ranked as the top tech issue of the year, so I assumed we'd get apologists bitching and moaning that Giz exaggerates.

Queue in Apple apologists who will say the iOS Maps aren't that bad and it's probably 2012's most exaggerated tech issue.