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@anothernerd He was comparing the experience of using the EVO 4G with its distinguishing features to the experience of using the iPhone without them. I'm pretty sure that in a more neutral setting, most people would agree that doing something poorly is worse than not doing it at all.

Well, nothing screams "me too" like paying for ports instead of original titles.

Not surprisingly, Engadget appears to be the only site that didn't manage to figure out that this is just a minor bugfix update.

I'm pretty sure the recent influx of negative EVO 4G news is just a coincidence. A few weeks ago I was shaking my head at the sheer number of anti-iPhone articles on Engadget that were full of misquotes and faulty reasoning.

@forrealdood If that did happen, would it be considered shoplifting or kidnapping?

@CpuYoda They probably realized that if someone resets the device twice in a short period of time then something is probably wrong with it, so it performs some diagnostic checks and repairs.

@LeiTxo Safari 5 is live!
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@Information Central Wow, just the other day I was wondering if anyone out there actually thinks the Mac menu bar is worse than the way Windows does things. I didn't think it was possible.

1. The menu bar always being available makes things instantly discoverable (much to your chagrin I'm sure). On Windows, using the keyboard, how do you make a new folder on the desktop? How do you jump to the Program Files folder? How do you access the help files? How do you empty the trash? The Finder's menu bar answers all of these things: shift-command-N, shift-command-A, command-?, and shift-command-delete.

2. By the time you have more than a few programs open in Windows, there are a ton of menu bars on your screen taking up valuable space and increasing the visual clutter. And you aren't even going to use the ones that aren't in front. This became such a big issue a long time ago that to this day programs are coming up with new and confusingly non-standard ways to HIDE the menu bar until it's needed. Do you tap the alt key once? Do you click the program's name in the title bar? Is it one of the buttons in the equally non-standard toolbar? On the Mac it's always in the same spot and always looks and works exactly the same way. Ahh, standards.

3. Another benefit is that an application can stay running after you close the last document, since the menu bar will stay open. I'm I'm working on some document, then I save and close it so I can work on another document, on Windows I have to find and relaunch the program because it just quit on me (unless it's MDI; more on that below). I have to consciously remember to open the next file before closing the current one (which is also hilariously non-standard: will the open feature launch another window within the same process? Will it launch a second copy of the program? Will it open the document within the same window, overwriting what I already had open? Who knows? On the Mac it always opens a new document window within the same application).

4. If floating-window syndrome bothers you, then use Spaces. It's like MDI except more flexible. MDI is dead these days anyway since it makes poor use of space and prevents you from moving a document window to a different screen. It's kind of like how Windows 7 is starting to kill off the full-screen maximize feature since it makes horrible use of space on large/widescreen monitors. And they're killing off the old task bar design since it was unorganized and also made poor use of space.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that all of their redesigns for those features are similar to how the Mac does things.

$5 for the content, $5 for the game engine. Seems fair.

Wait, they're talking things like release date, battery life, and price for the Windows 7 tablet, but they don't even have a semi-functional unit ready? The only way the iPad is going to be killed is by choking on the vapor.