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Comment Re:Go electronic! (Score 1) 441

My situation was a bit different:

I don't.

One day a fast food restaurant had problems with their network connection. Their debit and CC transactions were down for few hours. Two people in front of me paid cash. When I tried to use a card, they informed me of the network problem and I got my food for free because I didn't have cash on me.

So yes, you can carry cash. But when something happens to the network and you don't have access to your account, you might get free stuff if you don't carry it. But if you don't like getting free stuff, carry cash. Then you'll always pay for everything.

Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 507

I live in a small, brand new, "energy efficient" house in Arizona, and I'll hit $350 a month for two or three months out of the year. I imagine a larger house would have a more expensive bill if they have the same temperature preferences as I do (I like to keep the house around 78F in the summer).

Comment Re:Buncha keys should go (Score 1) 968

THANK YOU (used shift to type that, even without thinking of it... I never use caps lock for typing in all caps)... I was hoping at least one person would mention this. I use AutoHotKey at work and have many of the "useless" keys mapped to some of my scripts. For example, I use the windows key in combination with a letter (e.g. Windows + C opens "C:" in an Explorer window, Windows + Space opens Perforce, Eclipse, and Firefox, all of which I have open while developing at my job). That way, I don't interfere with built in shortcuts (I avoid useful Windows key shortcuts like Windows+R and Windows+E). Also, I have the Caps Lock key overridden to reload my autohotkey script whenever I make little changes to it, so I couldn't use it for caps if I even tried. So yea, I'm all for removing the "All Caps" functionality, but I don't want to lose a useful key on my keyboard (even if I have to manually map what I want it to do).

Comment Re:Expensive Price (Score 1) 437

Are you people not getting the point? RTFA... or even RFTS... heck, you could just read the TITLE: "Launched For Technophobes". Having no "features" (no text, no phone book) IS A FEATURE for this target audience and is therefore worth paying more for. Price is not determined by cost of manufacturing. Cost of manufacturing is usually just a lower bound on price. It's "Supply and Demand" not "Supply and How Much Did It Cost To Manufacture?"

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