Mostly so that you can type into a shell window without having to bring it to the front. At least that's what I miss the most. Not a deal breaker, but once you get used to it, it sucks to lose it.

I thought the same thing when I read that, what the hell?! It's ok for politicians to make policy based on morality, and they shouldn't base claims on falsifiable stamements? That's exactly the opposite of what it ought to say. Maybe the writer just got confused, because that is just wrong.

As a horny adolescent, I had the full page color ad for On-Line Systems "Softporn" featuring Roberta Williams in a hot tub, so I had no reason to actually play the game, or its follow-up, LSL.

16 bits is $2.00, was really expensive for a computer in the 70s!

Why on earth would you or anyone else give a crap who I've called? Or whose phone numbers I know? Or where I've been? At one point I wanted to sync my phone with my work exchange server. When I found out I'd have to turn on a passcode on my phone I said screw it. Seriously, WTF? Why do some people think anyone else cares about their trivial information?

Apple Disk ][ drive booting, seeking the head back to track 0, bumping up against the stop repeatedly. Favorite computer sound ever.

not a goatse, a mutant star goat! All of you, to the B ark!

We could all learn from this company. Take an existing product, put it in a new container, make it look "sexy" and sell it at an exorbitant price. Every time I see something like this, it's obvious that its a useless gimmick and I dismiss it, because of course everyone else will see through it as well. And nearly every time, I'm wrong. Another one in the insanely-expensive caffeine area is "Five Hour Energy." Just another horribly overpriced caffeinated liquid that provides the user with exactly the same drug as a pill that you can get for 1/200th the cost. WHY would anyone ever buy this? So what's next? Where can I score millions from stupid people? How about a little spring loaded canister with mini cookies that ejects one into your mouth with the push of a button? Bingo. Now I can sell $.10 worth of cookies for $3!

You're right, although it's left pretty ambiguous, it is definitely NOT inhaled. It's a fine powder that dissolves in the mouth, absorbed through digestive system. Just like every other orally consumed caffeine. Also, it costs roughly 100 times more than the exact same thing in a pill ($3/100mg aeroshot vs. 200 count 100mg caffeine pills for ~$6).

It's not "inhaled." You puff the powder into your mouth, it dissolves in the saliva in your mouth, then you essentially swallow the saliva+caffeine and it's absorbed in your digestive system. No better or faster than any other caffeine that you swallow, and I guarantee a bottle of Vivarin is going to cost a HELL of a lot less than this gimmick.

>> You can see evidence of this simply by looking up the Consumer Reports reliability scoring for This is normal in their reliability ratings though. The ratings indicate reported problems, and they always get worse as you go back in years. The one exception is redesign years. A lot of times you can tell when a model was redesigned because reliability ratings will go down in a later year, so something that was always rated good in the older years all of a sudden goes bad in a more recent year.

This doesn't make sense to me. How much manual labor is involved in manufacturing a motherboard? I would assume it's practically zero. Do chinese pick and place machines work for less than american ones? If anything, it ought to be cheaper to make in the US with sufficient automation.

i HATE it when politicians take away our pedos!

I have a couple of extra Wii's without working drives that I use (mostly) for netflix streaming. Another advantage over the other consoles is the Wii's power consumption is generally less than 1/10th of the PS3 or Xbox. Even in standby, the PS3 draws over 170 watts vs. about 15 for the Wii. Also, like others have mentioned, it's got one of the better Netflix interfaces, although I like the one on my Vizio TV as well. The Netflix interface on the TiVo Premiere is atrocious.

Thank _you_, marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.