A 7 foot long rifle would be able to shoot lots of things other than your own foot. But you'd probably need to make the shot prone, sniper style.

What you describe sounds analogous to harbour-pilots that are used to navigate big ships in and out of port. They belong with the port, not the ship.

You could imagine that long distance truck journeys could happen without any driver on board, then they pick up a driver just on the edge of a city to take them to their final delivery.

Oops. Did you use Java to add those 3 numbers up and do the comparison?

They say inattentiveness was the problem. I expect the drivers were wearing Google Glass at the time.

You were lucky. Our schools two Commodore PETs had only cassette decks.

If you've failed to see, then you haven't looked.
Prius batteries are warrantied for 10 years. Full parts and labour if they fail. Most last longer than that.

Priuses used as taxies tend to be replaced after 300,000 miles, and they don't need a battery replacement in that time.

Basically, car batteries have roughly the lifespan of an internal combustion engine.

The used Tesla prices will respond to demand. If there's not enough demand at those prices, they lower the prices. If there's a glut of used cars to sell (like the ex-leased ones that will come along before long), then the price will be lowered. The initial high prices probably reflect the fact that there aren't many used Teslas as yet.

The three people at work that have bought Apple Watches so far are all over 50. Is there an age limit on this hipster thing? They're also married with kids. Still hipsters?

I just need to be clear on this point, so I can tell them one way or the other.

You really like showing yourself up as a fucking idiot that doesn't understand computers. Nothing in the article says they couldn't open PDF files. Nor even that they use PDF files. It says the airline's app crashed.

Given that lots of them crashed at the same time, the chances are that a web service they connect to went down, and they hadn't accounted for it in their programming. With a smaller possibility that they were doing something in the app based on the clock time. Either way absolutely nothing to do with the mobile OS.

For sure. Not to be replaced by a different email address. But because email is being replaced by a variety of better and problem specific technologies. For example once teams use Slack, they never go back to email for internal use.

Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, they all had their time at the top, before being replaced by something better.

The cloud is highly competitive, and Google is not the market leader. Amazon is.

And they're right. Sure they're still trading, but they are a shadow of the titan that used to lead the industry where-ever it wanted.

And how about Nokia. Again, still trading. But having sold off the handset business that was the only part of the company most people had heard of. Industry titan a decade ago, now nothing.

Don't think anybody's disagreeing with that. It just that it's started on a journey into irrelevance.

I see Yahoo as a closer parallel. They too were the go-to portal to the rest of the web. And everything they tried after that just made people think less of them. They still exist, but nobody cares.

That's the way it would appear if you simply strung Apple's public announcements in sequence to assemble the story. But of course what Apple are actually developing in-house is generally secret. Especially then, when SJ was alive. But from comments from various ex-Apple engineers when they talk on blogs, it seems perfectly clear that iOS was put together with an eye to internal use in order to get iPhone to ship, then work started on cleaning up the APIs and creating a public SDK straight after. The "Sweet solution" of web apps for iPhone was simply a holding position when the native SDK was too far away to announce at WWDC.

You're probably right that very few would bother to check what sweetner was used in a diet drink. But I've heard lots of people say they won't drink diet drinks because "Aspertame causes cancer" or just "Diet Pepsi is bad for you." With the implicit assumption that sugar is a natural product and therefore does you no harm. Despite the fact that sugar is actually one of the primary causes of sickness these days though complications of obesity and other effects.

No you don't. Saying silly things about Apple with no justification whatsoever is what you spend most of your time on Slashdot doing.

Do they not notice how your Moto 270 tries and yet fails to have a circular display?