Cooking a big turkey is a fine science. You need to take the size of the bird into account and figure out what you want the thing to look and taste like when you are finished.
When the variables are properly controlled, it is possible to ensure fairly uniform results. If you know the temperature of the oven and the weight of the bird, then when to baste and how long to cook the thing for are simple calculations; having an app to do all of that ta
Price: $2.99 [Geeky Gadgets]
A designer didn’t like his job at an unnamed design firm somewhere and quit in a way that had an awesome amount of flair.
According to someone who presumably worked for the company:
He believed he was in a temp-to-hire position, and after three months of extra hours and butt-kissing, turns out it’s just a temp position. He was a good worker too. I’d have recommended him. Too bad he burned his bridges.
If that didn’t sound condescending I don’t know what does.
I maintain that there are times and places that bridge burning is not only desirable, it is an obligation. Not only does it make the bridge burner feel a hell of a lot better and give them something to smile about while they are in the unemployment queue, it gives the burnee something to think about and maybe, just maybe, helps out the person who moves into their crappy job.
Chrome call the Berlin the “best professional messenger bag on the market” and while I may not be in a position to confirm or deny those claims, it looks awesome and there are plenty of people who are satisfied with theirs.
The specs are impressive and the bag is guaranteed for life:
They definitely seem to have the quality under control and the bag looks pretty cool too.
It never ceases to amaze me how far processing power has come. Back in the late nineties, 1999 to be precise, Driver was one of the better PS titles and it would put a PC through its paces – now we can get it on a phone with “the exact same physics and driving engine present in the PC original.”
Sure, you lose the replay editor, but that is neither here nor there. Gameloft does it again. [Touch Arcade]
Trust me, I get Apple. As a lifetime Windows user I readily concede that they make the best laptops on the planet. The lack of bloat in OSX makes it a damned quick OS. What I don’t get is their unrealistic expectations when it comes to the price-tags on their monitors. Take the new LED Cinema Display. It is a beautiful monitor to be sure, but there are enough buts to put all but the most rabid fanbois off the purchase.
The extra 24-inches will be a welcome addition to folks tired of squinting at their laptop screens and the 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution will make for some awesome playback. It looks great, a worthy accompaniment to any unibody MBP, it has a spare set of controls, and according to all accounts is a sweet performer; Wired even went so far as calling it unparalleled.
It acts as a dock for the MBP, with a USB hub and an onboard MagSafe charge port; very convenient and what you would expect from something that is meant to extend Apple’s flagship notebooks.
But then there are the buts, and there are a few of them before you come anywhere near to the price. No DVI or HDMI, it uses mini DisplayPort. On the one hand, that is something that you would kind of expect, but given the size you would think that Apple would have built in a little bit more interoperability. It would be nice to be able to hook it up to a BluRay player or console as I do with my Samsung monitor.
But one deal breaker for me is that it doesn’t play nicely with Windows. Wired reports that it won’t work on an MBP via Boot Camp – something that seems more of a slight than an oversight.
The other deal breaker is the cost. While it might feature an arsenic-free screen backlit with mercury-free LEDs and offer “unparalleled performance” the price is a serious issue here. The fact is that I can get two pretty good 24-inch displays from Samsung or LG for the same amount of money. If it played nicely with my other gadgets I would consider the LED Cinema Display for $600 but not $900. I don’t need all that brightness, I normally turn my monitor brightness down. What I want is interoperability and value for money.
[Wired]
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