@junior ghoul: The "average joe" won't start shopping for bicycles until gas costs $5/gallon and will never go down. But by that time, it will be too late to get a decent bicycle for a cheap price because of production and transportation costs.

@kake81: Front wheel drive on a bicycle is going to have the exact same problems that front wheel drive on a car has now: you can't put power and steering down at the same time, the control isn't there.

Design and art are not my line of work, so I'm an observer here, but my background is in business.

@SLC.Easy.Listening: I didn't look at the news item because the concept alone was so ridiculous.

It sounds to me like someone irrelevant is trying to prove that he isn't. Or that he's ignorant.

Where's the option for having never used Microshaft Orifice? The last "suite" of theirs I used was Works.

"I'm hosed."

@ericsprojects1: Forget that crap. Real scientists measure in Smoots or binary numbers.

An instant of ridiculousness for you:

@Xander: Anyone who has taken high school science classes can tell you the advantage of metric over linear measurement (or imperial measurement, if you're British).

@laylaholic: When the US invaded Iraq, the inferior CDMA cell phone system was forced on the country.

I have never been impressed with these sorts of efforts. They're always a short term project, a single month of pushing things to extremes, something people would never be willing to try more than once, if at all, because it's unrealistic as an everyday way to live.

If you know there are jellyfish in the water, why would you swim with anything but a full body suit, or just not swim at all?

@eien: -

The "auto complete" is damned annoying.

@Zinger314: And how does it help put internet connections on all the PCs at work?

I have no choice. Some computers at work have internet access, some don't, but they all have USB.

The biggest problem with proofreading is one we all suffer, MEGO: "my eyes glaze over". We lose the objectivity of reading unfamiliar words. Because we're reading our own, we start saying to ourselves "Well, that's right so I don't need to read it..." and can miss easily fixed mistakes.