The word video didn't derive from video cassette any more that audio came from audio cassette.

People seem to say that as if it were a bad thing. Personally I'd rather have solutions to problems I've yet to have. Inversely, I wouldn't mind having all of my future problems solved using only existing solutions. A win-win in my book.

I never really understood this line of thinking, that if one is living an uninteresting, unimportant life they shouldn't care if they're being spayed upon? Privacy is only for people of interest. Everyone else is fair game? I thought it was the famous people who were exempt from having private lives. Personally I think that even if all you do is go home to an empty house and stare at the walls all day you should still do it without, frankly high-tech peeping toms. Buy you should be free to choose whatever you want.

Flash wasn't created by Macromedia either. It was created by FutureWave to complete against Macromedia's Shockwave. Macromedia bought FutureWave.

I'm guessing that this is more of a problem for skinny folks who wear tight jeans. If they put a phablet in their front pockets the sides will jut out leaving gaps between the phone and thigh. A curved phone, one that's curved side to side as opposed to top to bottom, will lay close to there thighs taking up less space than the smallest, thinnest phone. But that's just my theory. I couldn't care less about curved phone or displays.

I had an original 8GB iPhone in 2008 and it would crash, not often, but in a way where the touch wouldn't work. Everything else worked, the display, the buttons, but it didn't react to touch. Couldn't hard reset without sliding that icon on screen, unless there was some other way to do it which didn't involve going home and doing a factory reset through iTunes. Apple didn't seem to anticipate the touchscreen being unresponsive in a crash.

Can't wait for the three seashells, eh?

I never had to buy a blank floppy disk during high school in the 90s. I used to send out for them, every computer mag had at least two fill in card for them. I filled a shoe box with them and ever DOS game demos I could get through the mail. The AOL CD were junk. You couldn't reuse them.

If I was richer and didn't care about gaming I'd be on this. But it has one flaw that don't manifest until years later when you might want to upgrade. I bought a tablet PC 10 years ago andI loved it for painting in Photoshop, but as I tried to do more layered work it couldn't keep up. I really wish I could take the display off and plug it into my desktop.

Back in 2000 I had one of those AOL CD's that they liked to shove into everyone's mailbox. The would give you so many free hours, but you still needed a credit card. I remember going through the motions of signing up but stopping short of inputting my CC info, as I didn't have one at the time. There was a part of the sign up that searched for a list of local phone numbers. During that time you were connected to the net.I would switch to a real browser, Netscape at the time, and sure enough I was surfing a 56k. The connection would usually time out a about 20 to 30 minutes and I would have to try again, but it still worked.

Can someone please tell me which one of these candidates is the lesser evil?

A do have money saved up for gaming but for new GPU.

I don't consider myself the paranoid type, but you're talking about a company that goes out of its way to create a profile of people who haven't signed up. What make you think that if you do sign up and put as little information on it as possible, that they will stop collecting information about you that you haven't put on it.

In 2000 my older sister bought her first PC. She thought it was a bargin as all she had to do was sign up to some online service and get a $200 gift certificate, or something. The downside was you got a trifecta of shit. An eMachine running Win ME. And to top it off there was a persistent banner ad just below the taskbar. That was the condition of the deal. I guess she didn't mind it too much.

I had that PDA, hell i still have it and it works. I found it funny that the display on it had twice the resolution than my iPhone 1. You probably could have used it like a desktop machine as it had an optional VGA adaptor. Speaking of Photoshop there was a paint program for it called Pocket Artist which was more like Photoshop than Adobe's own Photoshop Touch for tablets.