So you're saying I can remodel my bathroom for $30k(!), and increase the value of my home by $90k? Uhhh.... I don't think so. Your first number is about an order of magnitude too high, and your second and third numbers are flipped.

No kidding. If you're demanding that kind of speed at home, there's very few places in the US that you're going to be able to live. Even 50/5 is going to be somewhat limiting.

Self driving cars will make commutes much more tolerable, and make them faster by reducing traffic jams. Though ultimately the best thing would be to allow more telecommuting for those that have jobs that could allow it.

Well, that's how the 80% thing factored in. They had a pretty good idea what they were building, so they could start on the foundation while things like the placement of the the windows was still being worked out. As opposed to diving right and and starting to build something and then deciding later whether you're building a storage shed, an oil rig, a shopping mall, or a skyscraper.

Assuming a corporate Windows PC on a domain, he probably has no control over that. Even if he's a local admin the domain will still overwrite those settings. So he's stuck, other than going to IT and begging for an exception to the policy.

Or you could just hibernate the machine and the end of the day and resume at the start of the next day.

Or it could just be that they blast those postcards out to everyone, and they really have no idea what your mortgage is (or that you even have one). Kind of like how now that it's spring I'm getting all kind of lawncare services junkmail (I live in a condo).

As compared to the UI regressions on the Windows and Mac side over the past few years? Granted, some of the popular Linux desktops also have similar problems, but at least in the Linux world you have a choice as to what desktop you want to use.

Changing the Windows DPI setting works on Windows 2000. Some applications may or may not play nicely with it though. What are you using, Windows 95?

Sony's MiniDisc pretty much bombed in the US but was fairly popular in Asia, especially in Japan, until about the mid-2000's or so.

By definition, PC is short for IBM Compatible Personal Computer, where the defining characteristic is the BIOS that allows it to boot DOS. Without that BIOS, it's not a PC. That rules out the TI-83, anything made by Apple, and almost everything in the mobile device market (I assume you mean phones and tablets, not laptops here).

No they aren't PCs unless you can upgrade all the way to DOS.

Actually, they are most likely to be exported after the crushing stage, to places like China where the steel is recycled.

The problem is that most of the time you're simply not going to have a nice clear cut dividing line (such as the end of WWII and all the GI's coming home) so it's always going to be a bit fuzzy. Personally, I think the whole attempt to pigeonhole people into "generations" is stupid anyway.

The current Pathfinder and the one from the early 2000's are completely different vehicles. The current one is car-based and it is basically bloated, heavy, oversized Altima. The previous Pathfinders were body-on-frame trucks and handle and drive very differently.