Another thing worth mentioning is that Perc is a somewhat nasty, carcinogenic chemical and its use is eventually going to be banned, at least in some areas. It'll go the way of R-12 freon one day and dry cleaners will be stuck using inferior but more environmentally-safe chemicals/methods.

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Great example. I mean, really, if Apple hadn't gone to the trouble of concealing their identity then ProView would have taken them to the cleaners, and no one would have blamed them one bit for doing so.

I remember looking in discount electronics catalogs when I was a kid and seeing 1000W computer speakers. These were 2-inch-driver desktop speakers, with no subwoofer and they were being marketed as 1000W (using some funky rating system they probably made up on the spot). Its funny how you can tout good-sounding…

No, traditionally the Mac OS has had a lot of features that are non-obvious or not documented. I know what you mean with the ejecting thing. Mac users would say "duh, throw it in the trash" but that is certainly not intuitive. It's just them being cute. There was also the "put away" menu item, which makes perfect…

Are they trying to get everyone to go back to cable?

Heat from LEDs will destroy them in an unventilated fixture. The incandescent lamp doesn't much care about it.

Oh, absolutely. Start with the most difficult thing and work your way down. My dad was the same way. I was fortunate to have lots of toys to mess around with. The first vehicle was a '50s Ford farm tractor - hair trigger clutch, no power steering, throttle was hand operated. Best starter vehicle I could ask for.

Indeed! I missed that.

I agree with this, however, if they did it this way, I'd hope they provided test vehicles. I would be happy to re-do my circle check and cone course every five years, but I do not want to have to go find/borrow a CDL truck every time.

While the 3G style was wobbly on a table, I'm gonna go ahead and say it was damn near impossible to accidentally drop it compared to the wet-bar-of-soap that is the 4/4S.

Do replies to replies count? If so, he's halfway there!

I suspect Comcast is in a secret competition with the DMV for most soul-crushing customer service experience.

Ah yes, the Comcast line. That brings back memories. People bringing their whole families to get the cable box replaced, including the screaming 2 year olds and poor grandma with her walker. There's 10 service windows in the place, but of course only 2 of them are manned ever. Then, you finally get up to the front and…

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Really anything from Autodesk is useless without a mouse. I would be tearing my hair out by 9am every morning if I had to use AutoCAD or Revit with a trackpad.

You could also just say 42 Gigawatt hours... either way, yeah, a bit off.

Yeah, me too... I can't decide if having this at 36"x48" is worth getting in trouble for.

Perhaps you may be aware, but there exist such things as cases not made of plastic.

Or, just thumbs up/thumbs down. Although based on the content of some app reviews, many people would still have trouble with either of those systems.