I've always heard them referred ro as PTO (Paid Time Off)...

The concept is that you don't have, say, 2 weeks of "Vacation" and 1 week of "Sick Days", you get 3 weeks of PTO. You manage it yourself. It's nice because if the powder up at Mammoth is awesome, you can call in and say, "I'm taking a PTO day!" rather than calling in and saying, "I'm *cough* *cough* really sick today..." You also don't get into the whole, "I need a sick day because my kid is sick."

Most companies will also let you accumulate PTO whereas companies with "vacation" and "sick days" don't usually let you accumulate "sick days."

Actually, the description made me think of OpenDoc.

Trust me, this existed long before YouTube/Social Media. I know plenty of people who moved to New York or Hollywood to become famous--not necessarily to become actors or dancers or whatever. That's what they wanted to be--famous. Acting and performing were the means to an end.

So, it's a watch that isn't accurate? Or did they put so much into it that there wasn't room for an accurate clock?

Hey, if they dump the Cyberster here in America, I'll be a happy camper...

As an oldster, I remember this. One entertaining thing you leave out was that the federal government had much stronger mandates for passenger safety planned. But they wrote in an escape clause, "You don't have to do this if enough states pass seatbelt laws." Thus, car companies strongly supported seatbelt laws because this way they didn't have to figure out how to keep people safe.

As a salesperson once told me, "Your computer is too small a market to provide an adequate return."

And I'm sure I can be guaranteed employment for the next 30 years while I pay off my house that I bought to be convenient to work.

Apple was obviously going to buy Disney back when Power Mac G3 came out, as shown by the hidden Mickey on the side of the computer.

(Hint: Rotate the the image 270 degrees)

Which is awesome! Where is this deployed!?

Oh. Nowhere. But they may have something next year.

I appreciate all the great technologies that we can look forward to. Personally, my favorite is geothermal--drill a hole in the middle of a coal plant and use that heat instead of the heat from the coal to boil water.. But should we not build solar energy plants because something like this could come along any day now and would make solar obsolete?

Carbon capture could very well give new life to coal/oil/natural gas plants. And if it works, I'm all for it. But while we're waiting, how about we go with solar?

I could never get a Samsung--I'm creative.

Is this the "Marshall Law" that people keep talking about?

You would listen to the music on the AM Radio...

Depends on the car...

140 kph is 87 mph. I remember driving a V8-powered car for the first time after years of small cars. I was going highway speed and thought, "What happens if I mash the gas pedal?"

I was doing 90 before I knew it. And it was still accelerating.

Not used to a car with that much power...

...I wouldn't be working for Dodge.

(rimshot)