Opera up to 12+ always passed the acid tests, even acid test #1 when they shouldn't of been prepared for it. I don't think any other browser can make this claim. Opera 26 passes #3 100/100 (no pause and one tab edit from default) but it's chrome with a different skin. While not actually Chrome they are stepping in it's foot prints. About Opera 26: made possible by http://www.chromium.org/ it will import bookmarks but not Opera's :)

Yep, my first thought:
Deer's history anyhow why take the family with it, twice I've been in a car/truck when the hood opened on us, while a sudden stop wasn't necessary, these smart brakes going to allow one?

Hell with it, I'll just play cards and have my self driving car worry about it.

Being right handed, I learned to use my left hand for the mouse due of all things - a short cord, and the comfort of sitting on the couch when computing

Now I'm stuck using right handed mice left handed

I noticed one link you posted did have a left handed version which is rare.

I use the G5 which went to become the G500, it's a gaming mouse and that dangling ring finger operates the two side buttons. Yes there are three side buttons but the third too far back to use reliably; hitting the second (middle) button first. See they changed the button locations, really going to mess me up now. http://www.newegg.com/Product/... broke the $100 mark, I go through one a year if it's built right, some get quirky quickly and need to be replaced sooner. I can count 6 I've bought by the box of weights that come with it and started stacking on top of each other.

A high DPI or low DPI on the fly (gaming, snipers) and memory chip to store your settings, so you can always have the mouse settings your comfortable with on a different computer. While storing settings doesn't sound that great, it is. If you really need to make a small adjustment or find the pointer, one just runs: Main.cpl (windows).

As for ergonomics the G500 feels made for my hand, but then I'm using it backwards.

I have many E-mail accounts as I'm sure others do, all being forwarded to my main E-mail account (Gmail). Gmail allows POP3 which lets you download your E-mail, many E-mail sites don't offer that ablity.. Web based E-mail you need to open to read (or even see) you don't know what it's going to contain or do, mostly though install beacons -the sender, if a site you subscribe to will tell you this up front in it's privacy policy.

I use Agent as my E-mail/newsgroup reader, actually I've always used Agent starting with version .98 (so know of no other similar programs); at this time Agent 6 as it has SSL. While I prefer 1.93 it hasn't SSL and the latest update to Stunnel not only didn't work, neither will the older versions now.

Agent won't load HTML, allowing you to read your E-mail as text; most HTML E-mail have two "versions" the HTML followed by text, both saying the same thing. Agent will load your E-mail in your browser if you want, but I have rarely needed to.

I can tell if an attachment has been sent with the E-mail by it's flags (status), the first item listed before the lines the message has, subject, author, and date. If I don't know the sender I just delete it by right clicking on the line of E-mail info itself. Since I've already downloaded it, if I really wanted to I could go into my incoming directory and see what it is, but if an unknown sender I couldn't care.

Charter offers access to the newsgroups (UseNet) as part of it's service (no charge) which I use Agent for as well. I've begun to notice people referring to Google Groups as the newsgroups (not even close).

Headers, while not as informative as they used to be (senders IP address no longer listed) are fully listed and an option to view along with the message. None of the E-mail programs I've seen (cell phone and such) have more than a few lines and of no real value.

I see E-mail having bounced back and forth between Google servers much like ping-pong. Servers which btw use the 10.0.0.0 ip address block Https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918, all internal to Google. I was kind of impressed, cost em nothing.

I'd post one of the headers here but it would have to be edited to senselessness as it shows the complete path the E-mail followed; being forwarded E-mail, just too much info.

The only down side of Agent I've ever encountered are the features and options one has to work with, which can be overwhelming at first, this includes the message filtering system.

Not being that bright, a filter can take me quite awhile to get it to do just what I want, whether it's to begin downloading a file showing up sight unseen, or deleting one. The last time was to keep the first .par file but delete any additional .par files (ones needed to repair) as the newsgroups are very reliable, yep it took awhile.

But don't forget web based E-mail is a threat as well.

Feel I need to add: I have nothing to do with Agent (Forte), just a user.

I agree.

Google has had no problem in the past with people rooting (jail breaking) their product, once sending dev developers a soon to be released Android phone so they could have a head start.

It's a good bet to say if you own an Android tablet/cell phone and enter "about device" clicking 7 times on say the "Kernel Number" listing or one of the info blocks you will enter Developer mode, for the Samsung S5 it's the “build number” info block.

Once your in dev mode you can run ADB:
"ADB, Android Debug Bridge, is a command-line utility included with Google’s Android SDK. ADB can control your device over USB from a computer, copy files back and forth, install and uninstall apps, run shell commands, and more."
http://www.howtogeek.com/12576...

A requirement and first step to rooting (jail breaking (owning)) a device.

Motorola said it wasn't possible for the Google Xoom tablet to use KitKat 4.4.2, a developer showed it was http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/... making the old new again.

Yes, and it's release made the Xbox relevant for the first time. I wouldn't be far off saying it saved the Xbox. Dependent upon how much money MS was willing to lose before dropping it; it's place in history listed along with the Dreamcast, and the Cube.

I played the first commercial arcade game "Space War" at a Bowling alley. It where we always went to play pinball (sigh, 3 games for 25)

I agree, PS2 owned the market, the Cube the first to go and Xbox expected to call it quits soon as they just weren't selling. Then Halo came out and everything changed.

I've never owned a Xbox but have played Halo (~2001) (Quake2 but with better graphics). I had a PC Voodoo 3Dfx graphics card (~1997), it came with a version of Quake 2 made for that graphics card, it's hard to say now which had the better graphics, the 3Dfx or Halo.

I don't think it projects anything, the power supply would be... well larger, I would think the hologram is created in the goggles which you would see as an item where it should be expected to be, on the wall, table, in the air.

I did check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... before this reply, to quote:

So knowing as much about them as you, the goggles are most likely two plates with an fluid separating them, the holograms being produced on the fly

While I choose the quotes to show how it could be done within the goggle themselves. There does remain the fact what MS calls a hologram isn't: Things often confused with holograms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... they've have pushed IE as a web browser all these years.

The first time it showed me what ActiveX could do, the second time was to download Netscape. Being a DOS user that checked out every file before it's use, then having a program start to install itself on my system; I turned off the power switch. The second use of IE was after it booted up again.

I figured it could be avoided, if I remember correctly (could be a stretch for me) the "you can not sue us" clause didn't prove of any affect and couldn't be enforced (the courts called BS). The line of jurisdiction was added to the post as it is indeed in the Privacy Policy showing more of what one is agreeing to.

To avoid tracking has gotten too hard to block, for me it was just an extension of using a HOSTS file which itself has become so large I have to disable the service "DNS Client" (Windows) to connect. Even those that don't track you for your data/info/habits use other means. /. is just about the only site I frequent, my spam has increased substantially, almost every e-mail involving jobs in some nature. It's not hard to figure out their originator. Being retired I haven't applied for a job in many years nor ever joined any job searching sites.