Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for Canadian cultural film grant fodder...

Perhaps, if you sneak a peek at the number after the dollar sign, you might catch an inkling...

It's very context-dependent.

Millions of palm-sized spiders across the eastern seaboard? Not so bad.
Millions of palm-sized spiders erupting from your toilet while your pants are around your ankles? Yeah, we're gonna have some issues...

That's a funny way to spell "slashvertisement"...

Yet another in a long, long, long line of overpriced chorded keyboards which will go nowhere and amount to nothing.

Price in externalities and you've got yourself a deal.

So now a set of cheapies runs you a grand. And you've incentivized the type of people who skid around on rubber that should have been retired thousands of miles ago to try to squeeze even more blood from that stone. I'm sure this will end in no tears...

Don't penalize safety-critical maintenance.

I believe you mean "Microsoft Bob". This does not make things any better...

Admittedly, the ghost of Bob remains within Clippy...

Por qué no los dos?

undoing moderation...

The Air Force has cars, the Navy has cars, the Army has cars. Do you think we should be combining the management of these assets into one combined "Car Force"?

Adding an additional service would result in redundant organizational resources, redundant training resources, and redundant facilities. It would further divide the armed forces skilled talent pool.

And what would you do with low-skill recruits in the Space Force? There are only so many space complex front gates to stand guard at. What are they going to do; stand guard in a cleanroom and ruin a billion dollars in satellite hardware the first time they discharge their sidearm?

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I bet Car Force One would be a bitchin' ride...

...Or, it says that the company making the thing vets all potential customers to make sure that they don't torpedo their meal ticket by selling to a). criminal organizations, or b). security groups who would tattle to Apple.

Apple's probably going to have to figure this one out the old fashioned way.

When you're coming in at 700mph at an altitude of 2.5 miles, you don't have the extra ~1 second it takes to light different engines. Either it works the first time, or you're augering in.

And the LA population is 4 million, which puts it ahead of 24 States. Combine the city's budget with California's, on a per capita basis, and it wouldn't even break into the upper third of State budgets.

So, what?

Well, if you look at the article's source, you get this gem:

So, if the laptop market was ~33m units in Q1, that puts Chromebooks at ~1.5m for the quarter, which is the first thing approaching an actual number I've seen on Chromebook sales. Not sure how that spreads out between Samsung, Acer, and HP.

I'm so glad the no-motion speeding ticket warranted a full-motion video for its newscast...