Well, given the terrorists died - it's more likely they were trained by MacGruber.

Yes, it does. However it inexplicably insists on counting its money while it's sitting at the table, even though there's time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

As I recall, that "downside" pretty much single-handedly killed the technology. It's a big deal.

If it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky!

Spot on. Consumer trade shows don't really have much to offer in today's world.

She shouldn't have dressed her computer so provocatively!

Spot-on in all regards.

- I have worn progressive lenses for about a decade now. Until monitors got big, this wasn't much of a problem. But now, my monitors are simply too large to play nicely with a pair of glasses when the close-up part of the lens is just the bottom section. At the end of the day I have a stiff neck from tilting my head back for eight hours.

- When I bought my current glasses, I went with narrow lenses. This has turned out to be a big mistake. It might not actually be as bad if they were traditional bifocals, since in that case the working area would be larger - but with my current lenses, the actual functional part of the glasses is pretty small. My vision hasn't changed much since I bought them two years ago, but I'll be replacing them this year.

- Fortunately I am able to tolerate wearing one "close-up" contact lens and one for distance, so I can work around the glasses problem. However I really don't like wearing contact lenses when I'm doing computing work, since my eyes tend to dry out in that situation (I don't blink as much when I'm staring at a screen, apparently).

Have you seen the valuations for Snapchat and WhatsApp - or Facebook for that matter? We're well into Dot Com Boom 2.0.

Just remember to get out before it all evaporates...

My wife likes to sew. There are a number of programs that let her print out pattern pieces, which she then lays out on the fabric for cutting.

I have occasionally printed and framed some of my photos for gifts.

I'm in my fifties, and my vision is pretty bad. For me, anyway, most things on the 6+ are fine for reading - although the iPhone 5 and earlier screens were too small for comfortable reading.

I don't disagree with your overall point, though. But that 13" tablet certainly won't fit in my cargo pants pocket!

I was carrying my iPad Mini around with me to meetings and such - in addition to carrying my little phone. The Mini is about the perfect size gadget... but I was carrying two devices everywhere, one of which won't fit in many pockets. So... I decided to try using an iPhone 6+ as my one carry-around. It's definitely a compromise for some uses, but it's definitely good enough to replace the iPad for note taking in meetings, ssh'ing into a server in a pinch, or looking up info on the web when I'm away from my desk. I expect, going forward, I'll only have two devices - a biggish phone plus a light 12"-13" laptop (e.g. MacBook Air).

While it's true that Yahoo was the name that sprung immediately to my mind... we have to remember that, somehow, AOL is still a thing. So it seems likely the brand "Yahoo!" will still exist in ten years, even though it won't have anything to do with the current company.

Dad! You promised never to tell that story!

I hate you!!

There's no "maybe" about it!

I won't be impressed until you successfully some of the early DOS games (like Lunar Lander) where the speed of the game play was dependent on the 8086's clock frequency. I've probably even got the 5.25" installation floppies laying around somewhere...

And if you manage to install them, and can stay alive longer than 0.1 second - I'll be REALLY impressed! I remember the first time I tried one of those on a newer machine with a 20MHz 80286...