Huh? *tilts head, why might that be a presumption? In my case cash saves lots annually...

About 15% discount for cash at one of my car repair shops, 10% discount at the closer/less expensive one.

Discount for cash on rent.

Discount for cash with every service person I've ever had do work for me (plumbers, roofing, furnace repair, appliances, etc.) Heck, just yesterday, tow truck...who also offered a post-payment lift wherever I wanted to go afterward.

Card price is 4% more at many gas stations, although Discover gives 2% of that back to you, cash is 2% less than that (if you are at a station that doesn't charge different prices, that just means the cash buyers are subsidizing the card fees).

The only places I can think of that don't discount for cash that I regular pay for locally would be haircut, groceries and box store type purchases, but if there's still a local shop instead of Home Despot or BLowes, they are typically cheaper/better quality and discount for cash (thankfully there are still plumbing shops around here, if not general hardware stores anymore).

Heck, local property taxes are more via card, but same check/cash, so no discount truly there.

Worse, it's burying the most important/useful part of the URL, and displaying the I-already-knew-I-was-here part. I most often want to edit the end, or see the end, not caring about the domain and middle nearly as much.

Wait, so they want more of these industries to be cash based and perhaps un/under-report income tax??? I know plenty of people who have been moving more toward cash in the past several years, but it seems counter-intuitive the government would want to track less.

But seriously, how will this decrease fraud?

Yes, there are procedures in place since this happens occasionally.

If you want to invest in something, get a fireproof safe. You don't even need to lock it (since the odds of a break-in are generally lower than fire). But former tax records may be obtained from the IRS, former bank statements from the credit union, birth certificate copies from town halls, etc. The only tricky one is receipts spent on capital gains to your real estate, since municipal government only documents original purchase price, and contractors tend not to maintain such records for decades. Your insurance agent/company may be of some help here, if you send them documentation of upgrades.

But the odds of having left your wallet at home the exact day a meteor blows up your house are astronomical (pun intended). Spending on that "un-eventuality" is like paying for an electronics warranty at checkout, wasting time, money and emotional fortitude on something that is cheaper to repair in the unlikely event of it happening.

Deal in reality, instead of fantasy.

If you were interviewing for the position, would your first thought be, "I so don't want to work there as that guy is going to be second guessing my every move, countermanding my decisions, ruining my job satisfaction and making me regret ever joining there"?

It's not your baby, it's your job, let it go. Think if it like a rebellious teenager, you've invested all you can in it, you are done. Now it's time for the cruel world to influence it for better or worse (which is subjective anyway). Others have suggested you need to let it go already, so you obviously can't see your own short-coming in this regard.

If it helps, go on vacation, travel out of the country, only respond to inquiries from your replacement in that time, never check in or up on them. If it all goes south, they will fix it. If mistakes are made, they will learn and grow. You, however, need to stop looking backward, and look forward instead.

Heck no, why do you think Chrome is avoided?

No sympathy for complainers, especially those who are aware there are add-ons that do what they want, but invest energy in a complaint rather than having their customizable tools perform how they desire. That's not being lazy, that's being obstinate. Lazy is not capitalizing "Chrome" or including all the letters in the word "too". One would imagine you, of all people, would know the difference! ;-)

They should stop reading them via translate.google.com.

Most memorable games I've played? Chess. I can tell you great experiences I've had, wonderful stories. Why would I care about a fictional story someone wrote when I want to play a game? If I wanted that, I'd read a book.

I've experienced story driven games, Lord of the Rings Online, the story is by some guy named Tolkien, if you haven't heard of him, he wrote some well received books. None of the stories provided by the company that makes LoTRO are part of my gaming memories. But I can tell you about hilarious moments with friends and people, great stories.

Games need to get out of the way and stop trying to be focal points. A good example, one of the most popular games so far this year, 2048. Gamers and non-gamers alike are loving it, and it's spawned many a conversation and rivalry thread on Google+ among not just gamer circles, but others as well.

Which isn't to say there aren't gamers who enjoy passive entertainment in their games, a good friend of mine doesn't hit X or Escape the moment a loading video pops up, but will actually sit through them. Keeping the story from negatively impacting the game experience, as others have expressed here, is obviously key, but yes, I would agree too much focus is put on something that should be an aside.

This is similar to how we used to run role-playing games, or when I was on the plot committee of a LARP, provide the framework to make the player(s) the star of their own story--that is what memorable experiences are made of.

Sarcasm aside, it's obviously beneficial to both parties, the sign of a good deal, users get a tool that offers the best aspects of email, Twitter, SMS, and Flickr/Pinterest all combined in an easier to use environment, without the liabilities of each of those; the provider gets slightly improved demographics to pay for it all, as well as other services they provide, and competitive market share to bolster their declining revenues.

No button embedded on any pages I see with their .com and .net blocked by my Hosts file, slightly faster page loads without needing to wait for their servers too.

Um, the real name thing was resolved a long time ago, you can make pages with any names you want, I have several for different purposes and venues (such as one for my character in an MMO).

That is one great thing about G+ unlike Twitter or others, they actually listen to their users and design the system for users rather than solely their own whims/needs.

People order sex toys instead of going to retail stores. They prefer discrete packaging. Porn consumption took off when you didn't need to go out to an adult video store but could order at home. Digital cameras offered private erotic photos without taking them out to be developed.

I really doubt many people will want to collect their phallic shaped object from a pimply faced kid at a department store any more than they currently do free from libraries' 3D printers.

This summary just leads to an article that links to a report that they want you to buy which seems to say, "We don't know that people print sex toys." There's no indication consumers were consulted.

They need to look at the phallic shape of most Thingiverse uploads, re-write their white paper, and not charge £1750 to tell us they are ignorant of what they purport to write about.

It was said in the BBC article emulators couldn't load it, and considering GIMP loads IFF, and he had a pre-release Amiga 1000 with unreleased software, it's entirely possible it was from before the Interchange File Format was standardized.

Sure enough, turns out to be the case, paraphrased from the PDF linked above, An older format deprecated by 1990 was called PLBM (PLanar BitMap, compared to the ILBM interleaved bitmaps you might recall as typical IFF). This format is much more poorly (sic) documented. One disk contained an EA slidshow of PLBM files. A pre-release version of Graphicraft, as well as the A-squared framegrabber both produced what they dubbed a "Graphicraft format", essentially an uncompressed PLBM without an IFF header. All the files found in that format contained at most 32 colors.

Per those commenting on robustness, 40 disks, 4 had bad sectors, 9 had file system issues. Half of those impacted files/used space.

Sadly my digital alarm clock from that era just a few months ago started running fast. It was free with the digital watch I purchased back then (or vice-versa, the watch was $9 and the alarm clock was free, I don't remember which).

Longest lasting have been calculators, home stereo, and Amiga computers; but nothing is as long lasting and hard working as automotive electronics and sensors, ranging from sub-zero temperatures to hundreds of degrees (Fahrenheit), and lasting decades.

I'm surprised a Logitech mouse was listed, as any I've had, the buttons died within months.

Sounds like they undershot.