The very best version of custom order is the European “Factory Delivery” programs from Porsche and Volvo. You fly out to the factory, pick up your car and drive your own car around the country on vacation. Then you return it back to the factory, they wrap it up and put it on the boat and in a month or so when you get…

Your manufacturer claims it is not compatible or not supported? These are two different terms. For not supported it might still work but they will not help you troubleshoot. You likely need to perform a clean install though. Most failures were caused by some preinstalled utility or drivers that get solved by a clean…

My local Home Depot puts the absolute dumbest new hire employees on the cash registers. Go through self checkout even if you do not want to scan your bulky things and the person there will still scan everything with their portable reader for you if you ask.

If you are Canadian you were probably thinking about Princess auto from a mere glance at the article. In fact I was subconsciously replacing whatever store they were actually talking about with "Princess Auto" the entire time.

No more bling thats for sure. The current and next versions of these systems will just be ugly looking shipping containers from the outside and bare racks of motherboards and parts on trays on the inside of the containers. If you are lucky the supplier will put a nice vinyl decal on the shipping container but it's…

Power cable spool coffee table.

In Canada Best Buy owns another store chain called Future Shop. At those stores the employees have been paid commission and they have the incentive to go around asking people if they need help.

They were task specific systems so instructions and data could be variable lengths depending on what made sense for that function. They probably just measured things based on how many functions the computer was capable of, not by the storage required to complete those specific tasks.

Some memories of the past are brought up by your post.

Atomic wedgie when you get to the bottom though.

Was there a few weekends ago and rode that slide.

I would argue that for a reasonably smart person the paper tickets are a worse risk because people who should know better actually trust them for some reason. It's not like those ticketmaster printed tickets are anything special. You can easily counterfeit them and dupe many people who think they are being careful…

30 pounds! That's crazy.

The easiest way to spoof a SMS address is to actually swap the legitimate account holders line to another device/SIM even if it's just temporary. There have been cases of people either breaking into peoples online account at the carrier and then being able to swap the line over to another SIM card, possibly even…

Lastpass has the option of using the free google authenticator which is EXACTLY like using a SecureID token. You install the token generator software on your smartphone and load it up with the unique encryption key for your account and it will pop up a new 6 digit code every 60 seconds. They also have a paper code…

Looks like the demonstration did not want to actually push the Gorilla glass to it's breaking point as he stopped at 120lbs. Trade secret or just wanted to go up to the point they guarantee and no further. And how strong is the new stuff if it was the same thickness as it used to be?

If the software was so great then why hide behind hidden processes and impossible to remove packages?

Well, at the time a Lada was half the price of just about all other "new" cars. Except as the joke goes, you always end up buying 2. Use one to drive and the other for parts.

I asked Siri on the iphone 4s.

The full priced phone is unlocked if you buy it from an Apple store.