I'd pay $20 a bulb if they lasted as long as hyped and dimmed properly. But I keep reading that LED bulbs you can buy in a Home Depot FAIL PREMATURELY because of crap electronics driving the bulbs. And my 10 year old home has almost every fixture on a dimmer.
So until both issues are addressed reliably, I'm forced to stick with 100 year old bulb technology.
That to me is one of the most inexcusable things about Taco Bell. I usually avoid the place like the plague, but the few times I have gone there in the last several years, the shells are very often stale. I can't stand the taste of stale food.
The last time that happened, I swore I'd never go back. There are far better tacos to be had where I live. If I ever get a craving for imitation cheese sauce, I'll just go to 7-11.
I'll just leave this here.
I don't see the desktop metaphor disappearing, but I do see it shrinking to the background. Like the command prompt. The command prompt still exists in Windows 7, but most users don't even know it's there. Those that do know it's there are the only ones skilled enough to use it. The rest of us can safely ignore it.
For many people the end of the desktop metaphor will be welcome relief. Computers are just getting too damn complex. Even for power users, using the computer can quickly be a draining experience. I'm highly computer-savvy, but I get darn tired of hunting for a buried file, fixing configuration issues, managing 20 open windows, dealing with malware and viruses, and so on.
The cloud file system, sandboxing, and simplified app store in Mountain Lion strips away many of these pains, or at least provides the user the option to. That's a good thing. Though I'm glad they are phasing it in over time and not hammering it down our throats, because the transition isn't without it's challenges.
Wrong. I get a lot of work done on iOS. Though I will readily agree that you can't do everything conveniently in iOS and the lack of a file system is absolutely limiting in certain respects.
But this idea that iOS is "only a toy" is absolutely wrong.
Yes, just like they did in several scenes in the movie Avatar. It looked very slick.
I'm going to watch this this weekend, but my personal favorite western is still Young Guns.
"Did you see the size of that CHICKEN?!"
"Trinidad Moruga Scorpion"?
Anyone who reads that name ought to know better than to eat the thing.
I'm highly confident that, if this invention does take off, it will only be used by low-quality chain restaurants like Domino's. It's the sort of gimmick that a big chain would use to differentiate themselves, just like all the mainstream American breweries are using "cold activated cans" and other ridiculousness to market their beers.
All I care about is the part I'm putting in my mouth. I don't mind an innovation in the container, but only if the stuff inside is amazing.
So if my local Chicago-style pizzeria decides to adopt this, great, otherwise no thank you.
That's the most amazing video of the sun I've ever seen. Very, very cool. I mean... hot.
As they say, know your competition inside and out. It's the only way to be a serious player in the game.
Yeah, but can you smoke it?
Ok, I was on the verge of bashing this silly tablet with a stylus, but then started to realize that maybe it's different.
The PDAs of old had squishy pressure-sensitive plastic displays that REQUIRED a stylus. They sucked. This isn't one of those.
My iPad works pretty great with a Wacom capacitive stylus, but the pen tip is still fairly blunt and it's not possible to write fine cursive at normal size and make it come out as clearly as a pen-on-paper. So I use the zoom feature in note-taking apps and write larger, which works fine, but is not entirely natural.
This S-Pen seems to be different and better somehow. But Samsung marketing hasn't explained it very well yet. The tip is certainly nice and thin. Is it pressure-sensitive? How well does the "digital ink" (software algorithm) respond?
If Samsung put enough polish on this, it might be great enough for certain consumers who really want this.
I'm sure there is someone out there who has already tapped a Roomba.
So, the answer is "not very realistic".
It better not be a high-end laptop with discrete graphics. Those tend to get a little hot.
It does look nice, clean, and modern.
But so did WebOS.
In order to compete, RIM has to check every box plus have stand-out features. This includes amazing app and media stores filled with great content. Maybe they are working on that too, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Wrong. If you hold the same resolution, shrink the screen, and do not change the apps, then every button becomes something like 30% smaller. What do you think that will do to usability? There are already certain controls on the iPad (text selection, volume slider in the Music app, etc.) that are a little tricky to tap and drag if you are not paying attention.
Taking this route would certainly not meet Apple's very stringent usability standards.
Just watch out with Craigslist, sometimes you get the unexpected.
It's not too small to work out okay. But it is too small to meet Apple's very specific criteria for bringing a product to market, which includes: Control fragmentation, keep the product line simple, make products that will sell by the tens of millions, etc.
Listen here everyone, I know a lot of people are pissed about their favorite burrito being dissed. I don't think Chipotle is terrible. It's stands on its own, and they admittedly have great guac. But let me tell you. I used to live in SF. Mission Burritos are amazing! They truly do blow Chipotle out of the water. And Mat is right, Al Pastor is the meat of the gods. My personal favorite place there is El Farolito. They use a nice thick tortilla and throw it on the grill to toast it while they fill it with VERY fresh ingredients. They are open until 3 am on the weekends. Boy, I miss that place since moving away. We have something close but not the same.
Anyway, if any of you do get over to SF one day, swing through there and have a real treat. It's like getting a cheese steak when in Philly. Must do.
