Browsing all of the tech sites today, I see this commercial being talked about everywhere.  It even had a spot on the Today show.  That makes this a successful commercial without hardly even mentioning the product.

Some people just need to step back and laugh once in a while and stop over analyzing everything.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034720/taiwans-ftc-investigating-samsung-for-defaming-htc-on-local-online-forums.html

Is it just me, or is Samsung turning into one big shady company?  It seems like they are using some questionable tactics to get to where they are today.  First IP theft and now astro-turfing.

The funny thing about US market share is that US people are very sheep-like when it comes to what is popular today.  First the Moto Razor, then the iPhone, and now Android.  My hope is that they move on to Windows Phone next once Android losses its newness.

I went up to the Microsoft Store in Denver about a month ago and I was surprised how busy it was.  The crowd was actually larger than the Apple store. 

http://winsource.com/2013/02/06/microsoft-surface-creator-panos-panay-hints-at-keyboard-cover-with-extended-battery/

http://www.wpcentral.com/google-clarifies-maps-position-windows-phone-will-be-able-access-soon

Unless you are talking about something else?

I switched to unsweeted vanilla almond milk for my breakfast cereal though.  It has a fraction of the calories of milk and it tastes very close to regular milk (to me anyway).

I would stay in the 1300 to 1500 calorie range as the minimum.  Starving yourself only forces your body to try and store more fat.  In that range I still had enough energy to do excercise.

Find something you enjoy doing and focus on that.  I enjoy riding bikes so I signed myself up for a tough event later in the year and used that as my motivation.  I have now been doing that ride for the last 5 years and loving it.  I have lost 50 pounds and have kept it off.

I also have an XBox with Kinect and only buy games that require me to get up and moving.  I don't buy regular games for it.  I also have the Nike+ Kinect Training game and I find that one works best for me.

Something like this perhaps?

http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx

"Most words of this kind come from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or. These words were first borrowed into English from early Old French and the ending was spelled -or or -ur. After the Norman conquest of England, the ending became -our in Anglo-French to try to represent the Old French pronunciation, though color has sometimes been used in English since the 15th century."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or

The dumbest review I have read was the Gizmodo one where they gave it a 2.  Gizmodo hasn't really had any credibility in a long time anyway.

If they price it too high then no one buys it, but on the flip-side, if they price it too cheap then no one buys it.  They ran into a similar issue with the Lumia 900.  I think because it was a cheap price, people thought it was a cheap sub-par phone.  It is the old mantra "You get what you pay for".  You pay more to get a higher quality device.  That is part of the reason Apple does so well.  People equate Apple with quality so they are willing to pay the inflated prices.

1. They have to have some level of secrecy because in this day and age, everything gets leaked on the internet.  For WP to take off they need to stay in the public eye.  They trickle out information so they always have something new and exciting to talk about.  In the past, everything was known so early that the release was a non-event because there was nothing new.  As we could see from the iPhone 5 launch, everything was already known and the release was pretty yawn inducing. 
2. Since it is so common these days to copy everyone else's features they need the secrecy to hold onto any unique features as long as possible.  They need to have some competitive advantage to get people to switch and the longer they can hold onto that the better.
3. Most apps will not have to change code much to move over to WP8.  The only big difference is going to be for game developers using native code.  My guess is that most of the SDK acceptance letters are going to game developers.

Honestly I find all of the secrecy to be exciting.  You never know what they are going to announce next.  It is refreshing to see that coming out of Microsoft because in the past there was no reason to get excited about anything they put out.  It was all an open book.  So all they need to do now is to have another big announcement after the iPhone release to get back into the spotlight.

I really would like the option to add memory, but as long as they have 32 GB I can live without it. 

The range is October 21st through early November.

http://www.wpcentral.com/att-eyes-october-21st-att-lumia-920

It will all begin in 4-5 weeks.  Not that far in the future.

It's also nice that there's a PDF reader built-in, although I switched to Adobe Reader because I don't see any reason to read PDFs full screen. The photos app is nice and I like that it can access Facebook and SkyDrive, but I still prefer Photo Gallery. I disabled the Messaging app in favour of Messenger because again, I don't see a reason to have a full screen chat window.

Don't forget that you can drag things to the side of the screen (as long as you are using a widescreen monitor).  This helps when you don't want to run an app like Music in full screen but still want to see the song list.  It should be very handy for messenger too.

Learning the new way to do things does have a learning curve but once you get used to it, it is actually pretty nice, even on a desktop.  I like the fact that my screen feels more alive because I am getting the information I am looking for all in one place.  I don't have to keep opening up seperate apps just to keep up on my email, messages, friends, news, etc.  I just glance at the screen and see it all right there.  It is the same reason I like WP7.  I like that my computer is now very responsive and fast.  It doesn't feel as laggy as it did running Windows 7. 

I think it is a good upgrade (especially considering the price) if people would be willing to give it a fair try.  Too many people don't like things because they are different and don't like change.  They also read on blogs that they shouldn't like it so their opinions get tainted.  I honestly commend Microsoft for having the balls to be bold and make huge changes to try and stay competetive.  It may or may not work, but at least they tried.

I highly doubt that Win 8 has the ability to fry a PSU.  The BIOS firmware probably could if it tried real hard but not Windows.  I have been running my older home machine that I built on Win 8 for a while now and haven't noticed anything unusual.