Nope. It's just a bad summary. TFA deals with "U.S. residential electricity consumption per capita 1990-2015," so if they mean "households," it's on a collective basis rather than per household.

However, I find it hard to believe that lighting alone is responsible for this (though I might be biased since I've long used CFLs, was an early adopter of LEDs, and would not even consider incandescents for general use). Could it also be more energy-efficient computer processors (and more laptops, tablet, etc. usage as opposed to desktops)? I don't doubt that lighting contributes to this, and I guess LEDs might matter if a lot of people are switching from incandescents, but a lot of people are already using CFLs and LEDs aren't that much more efficient. One commenter in the article notes that this could also be people intentionally trying to consume less energy due to rising rates, especially since the data don't show just wealthy areas (where appliances and the like are more likely to be replaced with newer, more efficient versions) leading the trend.

You said it should be able to support more than one display out of the box, implying it doesn't, but my apologies if I inferred too much.

No, I'm still not sure you understand Display Port chaining. There are no "dongles" involved."

I'm not a fan of the Surface myself, but you're wrong: you can hook up multiple monitors to the Surface, even with one Mini Display Port. You need to look up "Display Port chaining" before you continue spreading incorrect information.

Like what? Chrome stopped supporting NPAPI plugs (e.g., Java applets) a year and a half ago. They have a "built-in" Flash player, as well, and those are probably the most popular plugins. Basically, anything you need that is still a 32-bit plugin probably already stopped working.

Actually, you can distribute "legacy" apps (Win32 or non-Universal .NET apps, for example) through the Windows Store and, thus, presumably run them on Windows 10 S. With Windows RT, you really couldn't because both the processor and (I'd assume) most of the OS were not compatible. But of course, the key here is that the "legacy" app developer would have to repackage the app for distribution in the Store, and it will be sandboxed like Univeral/Store apps are. I doubt this would for for any kind of app. Maybe someone will develop a sort of "jailbreak" for 10 S, but if I were in this situation I'd just upgrade to Pro--or not buy this in the first place.

No. The summary says, "Verizon will charge you a $10 per month router charge unless you pay $150 for the Verizon router." So, you can pay $10/month to "rent" it indefinitely, or you can pay $150 to buy it once. This setup is pretty common for cable and DSL providers in my area and presumably througout the US, though the option to buy your own is usually not as clearly advertised (especially for cable, in my experience), probably so they can keep making money off you long after you've paid off what an outright purchase would have cost. Not sure how other fiber-optic providers work (we don't have much where I live for residential customers), but the fact that Verizon is doing this for theirs doesn't surprise me, nor does it seem particularly sketchy given that it seems to be the norm.

No, Mac App Store does system-wide installs, but the purchase and download are tied to one specific Apple ID. If that Apple ID is in use on a specific computer and there is another user on the computer tied to a different Apple ID, they can still use the app.

Yes, given that the purchase is tied to a specific Apple ID (e.g., iTunes account). I have, however, seen reports (or at least one; not sure if it was here or another forum) lately of people getting prompted if they would like to transfer the iWork/iLife suite licenses to another user, but I'm not sure what the conditions are under which it prompts. In any case, now that seems irrelevant.

Please try your arithmetic again. Apple announced the previous change in 2013, as stated in the summary. Specifically, that was October of 2013, but the iPhone 5s was released in September. Thus, early adopters could have a device that was only recently discontinued and still fully supported by the latest version of iOS that is ineligible. Additionally, since Apple did, indeed, manufacture iMacs in 2013, there is no need to go back to 2007 in order to find a Mac that would not have been eligible for this, either.

They were free to download for you because you purchased a new Mac and/or iOS device. If you have only purchased Apple devices on the used market in the last four years or so, this would have excluded you, which I think is the part you're missing (besides the fact that a 4-year-old Mac would still be pretty good at this point and a four-year-old iPhone wouldn't be the worst thing, either, so it's not necessarily the case that everyone would have purchased a new--or used, though previously ineligible--Mac or iOS device by now).

What "sort" of third-party vendor would it be that you avoid? Non-Amazon sellers can and do sell with Prime shipping via the Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) program. This is an option any seller has for each item/listing (not necessarily something they will do for all their items). The amount of protection you as a buyer receive is more or less the same under Amazon's policies. If all you're looking for is Prime, you've undoubtedly ordered from third-party sellers a lot without realizing it.

Umm, how does that help? I do have a VPN server to remote in to my home network and access services, shares, and other resources I don't make publicly visible (which is almost everything--that I don't, I mean), but you seem to be missing the part where the type of VPN this article is talking about is for people who wish to disguise their network traffic from home (and elsewhere) by sending it over a VPN to a remote server, often in another country--the problem being that it's not always apparent if you can trust that server.

Uhh, what part of the "country" do you live in where there's a CVS? As someone who grew up in the rural Midwestern US, I assure you that we had to go "to the city" for any store, so I assume you might actually be just talking about small towns (albeit, ones large enough to have something fancy like a CVS; yes, I said it).

That being said, you make an interesting point if the data hold. I'm actually starting to shop online more with Target (I never shopped at WalMart and was/am a big Amazonaholic). I can't speak for other stores, but their prices seem to be consistent online with what I can find locally--and sometimes a bit less for things like paper towels that you might reasonably want to "subscribe" to, an idea they probably hijacked from Amazon.

Look, I know you weren't necessarily striving for accuracy and were just trying to make a point, but as someone who commutes to work (and the gym, the grocery store, and almost everywhere) by bicycle, you're wrong about most of those things. It's actually easier for me to bike than drive to work because otherwise I'd have to worry about the parking nightmare that is most downtowns, and if you don't think you can do groceries you might want to look up "rear rack" (and rear panniers). Don't ever plan on having kids but it's certainly possible to transport them, as well (I see lots of dads and the occasional mom doing so here). You might be right about the oil companies to some extent, but it's certainly been noted that younger generations are less interested in car ownership than older ones were at that age, so somebody's noticing.

Umm, the Greek letter is the "symbol." The summary (or actually the Times article that the summary, as usual, plagiarizes, though this time they at least made an awkward attempt at attribution) makes it sound like the Greeks had this letter "pi" but no "symbol" to actually use to write it, which is as absurd as claiming, for example, that Gosset (aka Student) came up with the English letter and symbol "tee"/t to represent the result of his test of statistical significance.

In other news, this article can be much more succinctly summarized as follows: Greeks did not use the letter "pi" to represent this value; William Jones, obviously much later, was apparently the first to do so, and this usage was later popularized by Euler. The selection of this particular letter is likely due to it being the first letter in the Greek morpheme "peri-", 'around' (a bit more general than the article suggests as it seems to be overly simplified compared to other sources on the subject).

(Not the original poster, but...) I don't think that Prime eligibility, even when the item costs the same as a non-Prime item plus shipping (usually a fixed amount per category, not per item), is necessarily "negating the value of the service." Unlike a random shipping method a third party might choose, Prime shipping is usually two days and gives you the option to upgrade to next-day for a per-item fee. If you don't care how fast it ships, Amazon has also been doing a promotion lately where they let you choose super-slow shipping in return for a $1 digital video/music/book credit or occasionally a Prime Pantry credit that basically covers shipping, so you can build up enough of those to save on other products/services you might use. (I basically get an MP3 album or Kindle book for free every few months.)

This is saying nothing of Prime's other benefits. While there is video streaming (the topic of this article), I think many people find the free options kinda "meh." Amazon Prime Music, however, is quite nice--not as vast as Spotify (which has the same music available at all tiers; you can pay more to get more on Amazon), but convenient if you have an Echo (or access to a web browser or the Amazon Music app) and just want to stream something it has. There are Kindle things as well, but I don't think anything quite compares to the music streaming in terms of usefulness for me--besides, of course, shipping. (Now *I* probably sound like I work for Amazon. I don't, and let it be known that free RedCard shipping for items on target.com is often cheaper than Amazon these days and often just as fast if it's from a nearby warehouse.)