@Alex Paul: I've had the same experience. I would love to hear some opinions on this...

@AmphetamineCrown: Often times you can do this with the ISP provided email accounts (AT&T will give you 25 some email accounts with your service), if you don't want to pay for and manage your own domain.

@Teknophilia: I will agree with AmphetamineCrown's reply below (and they have a star, so their advice should outrank mine) but I use a different method so I don't have to do the sys admin stuff.

@laserfox: As an owner of the past two Windows Mobile OS phones, I have to inform you that your think is not correct. I got ZERO upgrade support and actually forced obsolescence in the first example.

@AmphetamineCrown: Back then, disk space WASN'T so cheap, so a compromise was made.

When I committed to digitizing my music collection, I spent about a week listening to a broad sample of my collection in different bit-rates doing what I normally do when listening to music (exercise, yard work, driving, etc). I would play a song in lossless format, then a lossy one right after. My final conclusion,…

@djsmiley2k: You're right, sorry about that...

Agree with this article 100%. I really like the fact that an HP printer is in the photograph heading the article.

@budip: BEST GAME EVER! Still have it on a 5.25 floppy around here someplace...

@robohitler: This was the promise of PrestoPC and Slashtop, both lightweight Linux distros with "instant on" capability.

@lilkeith7: I hate to date myself, but when I entered the workforce back in the early 90's, we all worked on AS/400 machines at our desks.

@vinylrake: I may be alone on this one, but I miss my WYSE terminals. Fast, efficient and reliable. Also, easier to manage a fleet of employees with use permissions.

@dlinkwit27: I earned a living through electronics sales in college. If I could promote your comment, I would, as it is 100% accurate. Kudos!

My wife and I have "off-the-grid" locations where we don't have access to or just don't indulge any online queries.

@timgray: Mark Cuban has credit cards. Most wealthy people do. He's a billionaire based on personal wealth (aka Balance Sheet) not on the cash in his bank account.

@kettlewhistle: I use this coffee maker daily. The #2 coffee filters are available at ANY supermarket, and I've seen them at Target stores also.

@Homerjay has ABSA Fever: Totally agree.

This all seems like really obvious stuff, but I'm SO surprised how many "tech" people don't have these.

I've been looking for a reason to try Chrome, but have lagged because I have FF set up just the way I want it. However, with release 3.6.10 I'm having serious stability issues with FF (anyone else having FF 3.6.10 repeatedly freeze up on them???).

@Brad: True, the majority of companies out there use MS Office for their productivity suite. HOWEVER, there is much to LEARNING alternatives when the opportunity is available to you.