...I thought it was seven proxies?

Not that I disagree, mostly; I've been spared the most of the horrors of the proprietary NVidia driver I keep reading about, it's been mostly fine. However, one word rebuttal to your argument: "Optimus". (yes, I know, bumblebee, have it installed. it's still a hack)

Quick googling turned up this list. A somewhat useless list though, as it doesn't specify what was different from the C64 version and whether the software was C128 only (I'm guessing very few were).

Was my first as well, and ditto, I tried CP/M a few times and that was much pretty much it, didn't really serve a purpose for my seven-year old self.

What was cool about the C128 mode was the extended basic though. I was way too young / not autistic enough for assembler back then, but the basic had features like a rudimentary sprite editor and easy access to joystick input. I was able to create some "games" with moderate ease - they were horrible, of course, but at least I didn't just spend my time playing games. That, and Ultima V had music in it instead of just sound effects when it was run from the C128 mode :)

Mitt Romney, I'm guessing you would have seen the clip if you follow US politics even cursorily.

What, like this guy?

A friend of mine just came back from a trip to Ecuador. He couldn't get a direct flight, so there was a switch at Miami. Compared to like mostly everywhere, he had to take out his luggage and re-check it in, which is quite senseless IMHO, but hey, security theater. On the way there, there was a note like you said. Coming back, there was no note, but his stuff was completely messed up and his camera missing. Needless to say, he'll try to find a direct flight next time.

Nitpicking a bit - the JS engine used in Safari has seen much improvement in the past few years. But if you make a HTML5-based app with something like Cordova, it will use the old JS engine which is markedly slower. Sure, faster processor helps, but it would be nice if Apple would enable the newer JS engine on HTML5-based apps instead of just Safari.

No, it won't.

You are aware there are waterproof phones (well, 30mins @ 1 meter anyway, see Galaxy S4 Active for example) with microUSB ports?

Protip: XBMC + projectM (Milkdrop clone/port, not sure which). Should come built-in with latest versions, requires some GPU but even a lowly ION2 handles 1080p just fine. And yes, it reduces the need for acid ;)

Thanks, that makes sense. (FWIW, sftp support is included with OpenSSH, which I guess is the most popular implementation, but there are probably some admins that disable the functionality)

Somewhat off-topic, but I figured there'd be some KDE users reading this - I've always wondered what's the difference between using fish:// and sftp://. I always use the latter, and in my experience it is somewhat reasonably fast, once it's able to negotiate a connection. Initially, when opening a remote location or doing something after a long period of inactivity, it can take some seconds.

I don't know which distribution you are using - but at least on my laptop (which runs Arch and KDE SC 4.10), I just tried to open /usr/lib (Arch recently moved everything to /usr/bin and /usr/lib, everything in the "old" locations are symlinked there) - according to Dolphin, 3491 files and 169 folders totaling 1.8GB. It opened instantly. Granted, this is on an SSD, but I've never seen Dolphin take that long (apart from opening folders via SFTP, for obvious reasons). Also granted, many distros do a really half-assed job with KDE (keep it vanilla, let the user configure it).

Uhh, what?