I consider the old payphone booths in NYC a ruin. While not NEARLY as old as the ruins archeologists dig up, both the old temples and pay phone booths are still standing structures no longer used for their original function that remind us of how past societies lived. In that frame, a pay phone booth is a ruin of past…

Still wish they named it Sea Lion though ;-)

If you want great commercials, check out these two (the latter PSA was made into a great iPad game):

If gaming's not your main obsession, there's really no contest between PS4 and the Xbox One. Over the years Microsoft has wheeled and dealed its way into a treasure trove of non-gaming content that Sony simply hasn't been able to match.

Thanks- I actually tried updating to iOS 7 and ended up rolling back because MLB App, and more importantly, Road Trip, which I use to track my car's maintenance so I NEED to have working.

Glitches are not always a bad thing though...

how does the beta feel? Is is stable? Do most apps still work?

How does the beta feel? I am thinking of upgrading now (I have dev access), but want to make sure it is stable and that most of the apps still work

hence the word "mini" :-).

Heh, that one drop looks like a mini Kingda-ka.. also in the NY area. This looks better though since there's more than that one vertical drop

I get your point... it really comes down to do you want to pay $100 every 5 years for a major Windows upgrade that is very different than the previous Windows edition with free patches vs $20 every year for an OS X version that is slightly different than the previous version.

It's a different release cycle- personally I like the fact that if I want the new features, I can update now for a somewhat low price (compared to Windows updates)... if not, wait till next year. It's not like applications will require Mavericks and nothing earlier right away.

ok fair enough about the MBPrs...

true, and they did- OS X, Mac Pro and MBA. I have a feeling other products are still moving, just slower than normal because of a lack of resources. It's the only reason I could think why the MBPr updates were not made before the back to school rush... same with Apple TV updates.

I have a feeling Apple spent so much time rewriting iOS (much needed btw!), they fell behind on other projects.. Forget the Apple TV, the fact that the Macbook Air's were updated to Haswell but not the Macbook Pro Retina is a tell-tale sign of that.

strange picture of NYC where you get all of Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens, but Manhattan is cut off and The Bronx is MIA.

That isn't the original logo... this is.

The difference is Windows NT and 2000 were client facing operating systems- end users ran Win NT and 2000. Windows Server is not. That's what the Professional version of XP, Vista, etc replaced.

There is no way I am going to spend an hour watching the whole thing, but from the scrubbing through it, it seems Windows NT and 2000 were skipped... did I just miss them?

So basically the entire Simpsons land is just a row of restaurants that looks like Springfield? Kinda lame- it would be nice to have places you can walk around and interact with, for example, the school house and to be able to write on the blackboard ala Bart, hang out in the Simpsons house and sit on the famous…