Mostly spot-on, except for:

I had no idea, but now that you’ve said it — a headphone jack on the TV remote is simply the most brilliant idea ever. Every TV/Settop Box/Blu-ray player/Game machine manufacturer should implement this.

This Onion article seems apropos:

I’ve been using computers since the 1970s, and been working in IT since 1986. When I first saw early betas of Windows 95, I made perhaps the worst prediction of my career. I confidently proclaimed that between Windows 95 and the Macintosh, computers would become so easy to use that within 10 years you would no longer…

Excellent point. Even if it was said by somebody and seriously so, in the context of the time it would not have been inappropriate. When Microsoft was putting together their MS-DOS (mostly acquired from Seattle Computing), it was to run on the IBM PC which used an 8088 processor. This chip could address a maximum of…

Can we also get rid of the faux Bill Gates quote “640K is enough for anybody”? He didn’t say it, it’s not funny, and you’re not clever for repeating it. We done here?

I loved this phone:

Reminds me of the biodomes in Silent Running.

Thanks for this article. Not one of those things I want to do, so I can happily stick with Windows 7 for now.

Right. Asterisk also. There’s several characters verboten in filenames.

Definitely I will. An earlier poster mentioned JFK — when I go to New York I always take the train in from JFK. Much, much cheaper and more efficient for most trips.

I see. This was my first Uber ride, so I wasn’t really sure how it was working — and since I was already committed to it I just went with it.

If my copypasta worked OK, the receipt breakdown should be below.

SEA > Downtown > SEA

SEA > Downtown > SEA

Can someone tell me the “deal” with Uber? Yesterday morning I took a taxi from the airport to the office, and it cost $48. Then that afternoon I took an Uber from the office back to the airport — and it cost $72. Same trip, opposite direction. Why do people like Uber so much?

Re the Half Dollar: Surely you don’t think that a graded collector’s coin is equivalent to a half dollar you might find in your change, do you?

No spork? Pass.

With wi-fi becoming near ubiquitous, I know people who carry an iPod Touch and a dumb phone. They get all the functionality of an iPhone for a lot less money.