I call bullshit. This person sounds more like a bully salesperson. While I may not use *chalk* - we all use "whiteboard" markers. My children use chalk in the drive-way to express themselves - and I may, [ahem], play along. Cursive? My 4 year old has no problem reading my cursive when I draw letters in chalk on the driveway. When digital fails it is nice to have a backup plan.

Somewhere was an article that writing things down helped with retention of new concepts.

I can agree with her point that we use digital pens - when designing (software) I use a bamboo as a virtual whiteboard to collaborate with people across the globe.

Plus - she used "in the cloud" during the presentation. It was sales !! Not "research says"

Over the weekend I heard a different take on this (Reply All podcast). For Hasidic Jews - the internet contains immoral content. While they have their own websites that meet religious requirements, there is a company that builds special blocking software for accessing more public websites (Amazon was the example). For example it causes images of people to appear as blacked out - just in case it was a scantily-clad woman.

It is like net-nanny on steroids. Except steroids are immoral so it would be - not that.

> This is regulation in favor of the people. We don't see a lot of that and so it's a bit of a surprise.

Bernie for President !!!

Yes - and.... These seismic activities take place - which they measure. Are they not Forecasting which one will become an Earthquake? A tropical storm begins to form (Prediction by your definition) - and then teams begin to Forecast its path, how strong, and other damages (storm surge etc).

Does a "tropical storm" form beneath the earth - these gases, heat, micro-quakes. And from that information Forecast "this will be an earthquake, it will take place [here], and damages are likely to be [y]" ?

Scientists have been predicting a big quake in California for years. It will be an interesting future. "Make sure you have your hard hat and survival gear today, the quake outlook appears to be 70% and could reach magnitude 4.4 for those in the valley"

ah yes - I had a similar experience. Little known is the quality of the Keurig. They stop working. My previous one had to be replaced after 5 years - and the replacement is 2 years old. However my old style Filter "Mr coffee" pot still works after 15 years.

The printer ink analogy comparison isn't quite right. You can't buy ink at the store. However you can buy coffee everywhere - it existed before K-cups. It is an industry by god! While the grocery store now stock mostly K-cups -- coffee is available from plenty of shops. Their failure was attempting to DRM something regularly available from other sources. Maybe like music - you can buy CDs..but Apple made it dirt easy to buy. Did Keurig make it easy to *buy* coffee? (brew/make it --- yes). Now it is harder to buy - and more expensive. And they didn't solve the Eco problem.

But the point is...my experience around K-cup 2.0 is like yours. When I go to the store to buy cups it has become confusing. At least they gave them a different name. People buy me coffee as a present - v1.0 cups thankfully because that's all they know.

Recently we switched to a refillable K-cup and buy bulk coffee. The TCO hasn't been very good for these machines. Expensive up front purchase, expensive coffee pods, and relatively short life. Couple that with the new machine forcing you to buy the even-more expensive pods - and I just didn't see a reason to switch.

Thankfully some innovators have made a reusable coffee pod device that fits in the native hole. The one Keurig provides is a PITA to operate.

v1.0 doesn't exactly make the best tasting coffee. I heard v2.0 was better...but the cost doesn't make sense.