Owning a 2009 Toyota Prius (wifes car), a 2006 Nissan Sentra (my car), a 2003 Ford Escape (towing / spare vehicle) and driving a model year 2000 school bus for a living, I can attest that the Toyota's gas and brake pedals are the closest together (I measured). I have, on occasion, went to press the brake on the Prius and ended up pressing both the accelerator and the brake - the brake does over-ride though. This usually occurs if I have not driven the Prius in a while (1 week +) or I drive it just after finishing driving the bus. An ideal fix, in my opinion, would be to space the brake pedal .5" - 1" further from the accelerator. This would match the Sentra or the Escape / School Bus respectively, in which I have never had this occur. Interestingly enough, all these vehicles are drive and brake by wire - including the school bus.

The advertising industry in the 2000's went through the worst recession since the great depression. Companies that specialized in print media and ones that were marginally profitable either went out of business or were purchased by other companies. Of all the clients I had, only one closed its doors (they specialized in quick turn around newspaper advertising), I did have three acquired by other companies. One of them purchased by another client of mine. One of the points that sealed the deal was compatible data structures that made the acquisition mostly seamless.

I saw this over a decade ago when I was working as an IT consultant in the advertising industry. They regularly used only 5% - 10% of their information (and that's being generous). The systems I designed included a server for active work, an archive server for information used in the last 24 months, and then an archive solution (Magneto Optical at the time) that allowed for the information to be available, just not on demand. This idea has been working since for the clients that are still in business.

And Slashdotters, Apple Critics, and Apple Fans would all complain that the height options are too low and the price too high. They would insist that to be successful the cost should be one third and the options should be the iBridge 500, iBridge 1000, and the iBridge Pro2500. That being said, the product line would still be immensely popular.

Now I can hear the artist in their original glory. Sort of like colorization for music. This will revolutionize music!

I found that the local grocery stores were union and part time workers could get full benefits. After looking at the cost of insurance for my family, I worked as a grocery cashier 15 hours a week (a fun job actually), received full benefits (taking up most of that paycheck) until my wife went back to work where she has the benefits. Otherwise, I would have never left corporate life because of that single issue.

3D porn on a large screen.