Radio would have kept TV off the air. Movies would have kept TV off the air. No cable... Forget satellite. Toss that ebook reader.

I figure that Windows 6 was the original Longhorn that never shipped. That makes Windows 7 Windows 7.

Why do you think that the Republicans are so obsessed with regulating the sex and reproductive lives of the American people? It's because they are sexually repressed at home and out of control out of town. Personal freedom is one thing that they will never "deregulate".

Let's start by making it standard practice to check the phone record of any driver WHO IS ALONE IN HIS/HER CAR at the time of an accident that results in personal injury or damage above a specific threshold. If a driver is involved in an accident at 5:35PM and found to have been on the phone at 5:35PM and could not produce a hands-free device at the scene of the accident we have a winner. Likewise if the driver was found to be texting at the time of the accident lets see them defend themselves in court.

Granted, a texting driver or driver on the phone with a passenger is going to say that the passenger was using the phone, but in the case of a driver with no passengers we have to technology to place the blame appropriately.

Yeah. Why can't everyone be above average? /sarcasm

The Road

My understanding is that it's much more expensive than the high-end FIOS. It would seem that Comcast doesn't want to sell it, just be able to say that they have the fastest connection speeds.

Apple's look and feel suits are the ultimate insult. First they sue Microsoft for copying the very same things that Apple had lifted from Xerox PARC. Now they've taken possession of the rectangle. Imagine the same thing happening in the automotive industry. Hyundai can't sell cars because Mercedes thinks that their grills look like theirs. Someone else can't sell their cars because their headlights look like another's. No one can sell anything because their "C" pillars look like BMW's. Enough is enough.

the presence of other oxidizing agents? the possibility of explosion due to above? There are lots of compressed gasses on a sub.

But then we wouldn't have an excuse to spend bazillions of dollars. There always has to be a bogyman.

I'd pay $8. But then I'd be seeing it in a tiny theater months after release. By the time it gets into the theaters expect to pay $20 a ticket. And of course it will be in 3D. And pseudo-IMAX.

Precisely why library software (generally) deletes closed transactions automatically. You may want to verify this with your local librarian (be prepared to follow up with the software vendor). Remember that libraries require a warrant. A request by a walk-in police officer (or husband or wife) is turned away. Libraries make every effort (short of keeping no records) to protect the privacy of patrons.

Library software deletes the record of any material borrowed as soon as the material is returned. This is not the case with Amazon.

True, the automated tools can easily do as much harm as good but there are valid reasons to dive into the registry. Install half a dozen apps. Then uninstall them. The odds are that five have left something behind. In all likelihood a couple have left kernel drivers behind. This is the sort of thing that prevents in-place upgrades and forces clean installs. Uninstallers don't. Cleaning the registry can be the only solution.

One advantage of advanced age is that I remember when they used to do stuff like this. I remember disk drives the size of a dish washer that were 80MB (!) or 160 MB selectable by jumper. Imagine the hardware tech trying to talk his way out of that. I remember a line of minicomputers where lower end boxes were lower end because a no-op was inserted into the code in the firmware. Sure you're pissed off because you're having your nose rubbed in their obviously high profit margins. But it's nothing new. Next time you look at any piece of electronics think about the the fact that it's probably being sold as any number of different priced models with some features turned on or off. Intel just isn't playing the game of pretending to swap out a device when they're just switching a jumper.