A $700 smart phone is, too. Here in .us, a lot of the price is buried in your 2-year contract, so people see it as a $200 smart phone.

My phone is getting old now, and I was thinking about replacing it. I'm on an older cell phone plan that [right now] is cheap considering what I get. I found out that if I want a new phone under contract I have to go to one of the "new" plans, and if I want to keep the same service level I have now, is $50 a month more. Add to that I still have to pay $200 upfront for the phone. The terms are all 24 months now, so that means that $700 phone actually costs $1400.

When my phone finally goes I'll just buy one outright.

I was wondering if he could restore to a save point when something doesn't work...

Well, at least it has PowerShell. Heck, now it's only 23 characters to change a directory? Who wants to go back??

ChangeDirectory -Please <Directory>

Speaking of cassettes, I still remember the clunk/click when I shut my car off. My new (at the time) Pioneer cassette player in my car had a key-off pinchroller release to prevent the tape from getting frozen to the head.

My old VCR while rewinding:

*click*whirrrrrrRRRRR-squeaksqueaksqueak-whirrrr-thunk-whiRRRRRRRRRRRRRSNAP*

Lost a few tapes to that one.

Evian is a bottled water brand here. Read the word backwards, I don't think that's a coincidence...

Well, considering that this part of the thread started with me posting, and I'm replying to someone who commented on one of my posts in order to clarify my intentions, I'm not sure why you are upset.

I'd much rather take the advice of someone who knows what he's talking about, not some random person on the internet capable of posting links.

I have high blood pressure, I was told by my doctor to reduce salt to lower blood pressure. Doc figures it can be controlled without meds, and I'd much prefer that to popping pills.

Next innovation: The Google Glass Helmet! Battery problem solved, just wrap your whole head with batteries!

I've decided to do two things - one is cut most sugar and reduce salt from my diet. Second is increasing payments on my mortgage to pay it off quicker. I've actually started this middle of 2014 but I'm going to increase it yet again.

That will save me tens of thousands in interest. If I'm really careful I can be mortgage-free in eight years or so.

It's good for Microsoft, especially when they make you bend over...

why antilock braking systems controlled by computers are universally derided as dangerous,

I've driven a car that had its antilock brake system decide the car was stuck in a skid when it wasn't. Which of course greatly increases your stopping distance. I nearly hit someone else in front of me, the only reason I didn't hit them is I swerved to the shoulder and was half in the ditch. Had the antilock brakes not interfered I would've stopped safely with lots of time. I'm just glad it wasn't a pedestrian crosswalk when that happened. I've been against them since then.

Since then I've stuck with my 30 year old car. Nothing fancy, it just works. And dammit, when I step on the brakes it actually applies them!

I learned today that there was a disagreement among Christians as to when their god was born. If one group follows one calendar and the other group follows a different one, and they both say December 25th, who was right? I find that kind of amusing.

I played a game yesterday, but it wasn't on the new consoles. I played a game on my xbox 360 and it signed into live with no issues yesterday morning.

I was surprised to read the xbox live went down, as I was using it yesterday!

Sure they'll follow your "rules" when you are around.

If you put a camera up when you are not around, your cats will be going to places where you don't want them to. They're funny that way.