Alternate alternate subject line: "Young people unsurprised system is rigged against them", or "Young people decline to yell at clouds"

"they have a maze of poorly connected systems left over from the hundreds of smaller ISPs and cable providers they bought up over the last decade or two."

They may be eaten by a grue. If we're lucky.

Where I come from, ethics includes completing work for which I have been paid in advance and doing so in a timely fashion.

My favorite part where after every update it re-asks whether you want to auto-update.

Capitalism works by goods being more valuable to consumers than producers, generating productivity.

You are falsely equating cost, price, and value. If I buy something for $2 that cost $1 to make but I got $3 of value out of it, I have not lost $1 but rather I have gained $1 on top of the $1 that the producer gained.

The advantage is that I can go through voice mail asynchronously.

"For an idea of a less arbitrary scale look at the Kelvin scale. On it, "0" is the absolute lowest temperature where matter has absolutely no heat content. "

It's worse than you think. 0K is currently defined as either 273.16 or 273.15 Kelvins less than the triple point of water. Previously it was defined as a mathematical extrapolation of the ideal gas law.

"Drill down" is only effective when you know it exists and where to find it.

For discoverability you need a relatively shallow traversal graph with potentially multiple arcs to any node.

I haven't assumed all click-wheels are horrible at clicking. But no matter how good the scrolling rejection is it is not as good as a button that physically cannot scroll.

Pascal may lose as a language for in the field, but for reasons that make it useful in teaching programming. It has all the pieces you'd want in a language and you can both learn the concepts and make something with them, but in a way that is probably a pain. This leave the student open to the concept that languages have different strengths and to chose languages based on the relevance to the type of problem you are trying to solve.

If you start with a language where it is easy to get a lot of the early work done, you tend to get stuck in a rut with it and want to use it for every problem.

You must use additional software, that button does not natively produce button2 events.

Solving a middle click problem by creating a right click problem isn't much of a solution.

"why a scroll wheel will not work for you"

With a clickable scroll wheel it takes effort to avoid scrolling when trying to click

"check out the Logitech Couch Mouse M515"

'This product is no longer available. Continue shopping at Logitech.' http://reviews.logitech.com/70...

"Even if they are offered?"

There's no way to distinguish "freely offered" from "everyone knows that's what you have to do to get ahead".

Everyone loves to cry about how "she" could have said no at any time. Well then, he could have said no at any time too. The only way to win is not to play.

You are afraid of smart devices because of bad experiences with dumb devices?