There's another piece to this too. There are people in the world that will take a halogen (either projection or non-projection setup) and retrofit an HID setup in it. This causes issues:

1. The non-projection setup has no cut-off - so the light goes everywhere, which is not how good HID setups are implemented.
2. The halogen projection setups - while similar to an HID setup (I have a halogen projection setup in my car) don't have some of the additional pieces to make the HID setup functional. For instance, factory setups for my vehicle have auto-levelling lamp housings to not blind oncoming traffic. Also, the cut-off (metal in the projection path to limit light output out of the top of the lamp) is in a different spot comparing non-HID projection to HID projection.

Ultimately, if you're being blinded by HID lamps - part of it could be caused by incorrect implementation. HID light, even in a correct implementation is harsher - and those sensitive to light are probably more affected; myself included.

Exactly. did you read what you quoted of me? Excellent idea. Poor execution. In my opinion, when the Jaz drive worked, it was a fabulous way to transfer a gig (or two, can't remember offhand) via sneakernet. Problem was - it failed more than it worked.

Again. Excellent idea. Poor execution.

Which sucked, in my opinion. Zip drives and Jaz drives (and their media) were an excellent idea, but poorly executed. My first zip drive ate a few disks before I figured out "if I use this drive, it will destroy everything." Took it apart before returning it (hey, we all want to know the "WHY") and one of the drive heads was physically disconnected from the arm.

Had a Jaz drive later in life (donated). And you're right, the disks themselves appeared to randomly either not work or lose data. Almost seemed as if the tracking mechanism in the drive couldn't follow the pre-formatted platters properly at times. And any drive that you can't lay down the track (factory formatted) sucks.

Ah, makes more sense ;)

How would a non-profit dispensary NOT be a business? Even on a small scale - the business can make 0 profit, but the owners can just pocket the money that would have gone back into the business as profit (granted, paying taxes the whole way.) Or - give proceeds to other charities, or grow the business - still no profit.

Just gear up and go to Mars, better yet concentrate and figuring out how to build the Fastest damn spaceship possible, something that can reach .5 the speed of light or faster, load some people on board for a one way trip and aim it at a nearby star. Lets stop wasting time looking at blurry pictures through telescopes and just get out there and see what we find.

Its fine for the maker to host the main servers and all, but really the door should be open for users to do thier own hosting.

...not backwards compatible with even current gen applications for Windows. The built in version of office isn't really fully baked yet by Microsoft's own admission. Not really properly supported for enterprise use yet. Surface Pro which will suck too, but at least have some measure of backward compatiblity and enterprise support will launch soon.

I can't for the life of me understand why its struggling.

Microsoft blew this one hard.

Samsung had an LED light engine for their DLP sets for a while - and I had looked at them heavily; they seemed like a really good idea. I think however there were moderate issues with light engines failing - and that probably spurred their exit.

I have a co-worker who told me mouse and keyboard in FPS games was "cheating". I laughed.

Let's also keep in mind that what one person thinks might be right and acceptable could be different to another individual.

How about I not want to share my personal information before proceeding into the site?

Oh yeah. I'll just put my neighbor's in.

That's happening less and less. United in the last couple of years has bumped their requirements to be able to do this; now since I don't fly as much they obviously will prefer the people flying a lot more to fill those seats. Not that I care too much; most of my flights are puddle jumpers (cmh to ord)

Most people driving these types of inexpensive electric vehicles don't have these kind of "toys". And if they have the money for those kind of toys, they can afford to keep a truck around (or rent one like you said; probably not a home depot beater) for those toys.

"Best selling" doesn't mean "most popular appearance." It might mean "within the reach of most people's financial ability."