Any particular reason?

Wasing the talk of being!

Yes, that. And that part of the video of the presentation was pretty cool — even the sliding minivan doors used up another ~4 inches of space when opened, such that you couldn’t slide through. The double-hinged flacon doors went up, and actually left usable space to squeeze in when surrounded by cars on either side. :)

Not to be pedantic, but part of the joke about being “the best botanist on Mars!” was that he was the *only* botanist on Mars... :)

Actually, all the current systems (Apple Pay, Android Pay, etc.) are standardized, and don’t require anything from the marketplace. They all use tokenized NFC payments, and from a terminal standpoint, it’s the same as accepting the “PayPass” MasterCard, or similar payments. It’s one of the reasons that people made…

Well, at least he gets his Sept. 24 date from reputable sources:

It’s only food in the same way a McDonald’s hamburger is a hamburger, or similar things. It’s a pasta-like substance in a bright-orange goo. That being said, I do get a craving for it once in a while. When I was a teenager, I used to get home at 1am or whatever, and I’d make myself a box of it before bed. I’m not…

As an iOS developer, I’ve had pretty much every iPhone and iPad, and I’ve been using the Apple Watch since it came out.

Ah, but aside from the fact that they’re saying, “at least,” there’s the fact that many places don’t have walls ready to take this on. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, and if levels go up three feet, much of the area — including ports that handle billions of dollars of commerce for much of the…

With made up numbers:

It sounds like you’re already doing a bunch, and other folks have had good suggestions. I’d add:

I’m the dad (as opposed to a mom, so I didn’t have to go through the physical aspects) of several kids, and I have to say — the first ... oh, couple of months, probably ... after we had our first child, I just descended into a grey fog and could barely function. Everything seemed like crap, even though I was overjoyed…

Oh, it’s certainly not something that should have been that hard to fix ... but especially for Apple things, it can take a *long* time for things that just don’t have the same scale as a big iTunes bug. Ever since iOS 8, for example, I have a bug where I’ll type something, hit a number, then a space, and the keyboard…

It’s not an intentional hijacking, but rather some bad coding: on an iPhone, when you send someone a text message, it checks to see if the recipient is also an iPhone user, and if so, it sends an iMessage to them as well. Normally this is good, because you don’t pay any SMS fees, and there are no character limits, etc.

Several years ago, my friend and I were in an Apple store for some random thing, when we heard a commotion over at the bar. A woman was standing there, getting louder and louder. “I want a free phone! You gave my friend a free phone when she came in!” Each time she shouted this, she slammed her iPhone 4 down on the…

We have pictures of my son (now 9) when he was a ~10 cell “compact morela” (that’s misspelled; I can’t remember the correct spelling anymore). We haven’t shown him yet, but I enjoy looking at the photo every once in a while.

Actually, my particular complaints aren’t about surge pricing or such (which I actually feel work well to keep the system moving). Rather, it’s the way the company reacts to coverage in an attack-dog fashion ... Google (or search here on Gizmodo) for old stories about Uber and privacy issues, or dealing with…

Agreeing with some others: I love the idea of Uber, but man ... the company as a whole is a total jerk. I really want the concept to succeed, but ... it’s like the jackass bully at school is somehow also the one providing meals to undernourished kids .. it makes my brain hurt. :)

Dear tree,

I went and read a dozen of these on the site. My problem isn’t that they’re ruining some perceived untouchable classic. My problem is that ... I thought there was more than just randomness. I mean, I understand that there’s some formula at play here, but my mind can’t perceive any order, it just sees random sentences…