Wow, way to cherry pick your data. How about we look at 4/15/20xx over more than a year
04/15/2011 $2.98
04/15/2012 $4.96
04/15/2013 $91.79
04/15/2014 $452.14
04/15/2015 $216.95

Some IT departments automatically reboot WINDOWS PCs at a set time EVERY DAY

FIFY

What I prove is that they do serve a purpose other than a fashion accessory and a symbol of conspicuous consumption.

The original poster claimed that they had no other purpose.

I do agree but TBO, my SUV is 21 years old now so some of us keep our vehicles running for a long time.

>> They serve no other purpose than a fashion accessory and a symbol of conspicuous consumption. They're a glaring example of everything wrong with our country, and if you willingly purchase one it reflects poorly on you as a moral and thinking person.

OMG Really?

I have 12 acres that is 2 miles off the end of the last dirt road. The nearest paved road is 5 miles away. I use my 4x4 SUV getting in and out of the property. It works wonderfully getting myself + family/firends, my camping equipment, and my rifles into the property and works great getting all that plus a deer or hog out.

Besides, I guess I am now carbon negative considering I own enough land to offset my carbon usage plus that of several other families. Before anyone says anything about that, the concept of carbon credits it to balance the green land with the CO2 output. In most schemes the credit it leasing enough unoccupied green land to offset your usage.

My wife named the dog Kat.

Now when the dog gets into something and you holler at her the two cats pop there heads up and have a "What? I wasn't doing anything" look on there faces.

Thats easy, we first take a bunch of old people who still have VCR's with the clock blinking 12:00 and we ask them to evaluate the new fangled electronic voting system.

They then set the criteria of what is needed.

1) Does it power on?
2) Can I figure out how to enter my voter?
3) Can my grandson tell me how to change the votes so the "Right" people win?

The issue with this is that you are only looking at firearm death's.

First, there are close to 2.2million guns in private ownership in Australia.

The numbers you should look at are overall crime rates. Something that I cant seem to find a number on. Guns in private hands reduce overall crime, not deaths by firearm or just violent crime. From the Armed lady that stops a rape to the armed grandma that stops a robbery, all crime is effected.

There was an article a couple of years ago on /. about a company that would launch something the size of a coke can for $300.

I think there should be an open source project to design a satellite that is the size of a coke can. Could be fun, maybe some arduino's, a few solar cells, maybe a miniature ion engine that runs on a CO2 canister from a pellet gun. It could be a lot of fun to see just how much you can fit inside a coke can.

Hay, I was. I downloaded the code posted to usenet and installed Slackware 0.99b

There are a few of us old farts still around! We remember when Microsoft still produced a stable OS called DOS. lol

Commodore 64 had GEOS in 1986

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

So Apple and Commodore beat them to the punch. lol

Hmm I dont own a ford, The Edison light-bulb has been replaced by CFL's, and I quit using Microsoft back in 1995.

You have to love progress!

Wow, I still have a copy of Minix 1.5, full reference manual and the 5.25" floppies it came on. Minix was a Great OS, even on the XT's.

Windows phones and Tablets are less than 3% of the market. Why even develop for such a small market share?

Android (Which is linux) has 51% of the phone market and 61% of the tablet market.

It's not the year of the Windows Phone or Tablet, just like it is not the year of the linux desktop. :P

Ill agree with this, I am using a $9 keyboard that I have had for 7 years.

It is so well used that the following keys have no letter on them, they have rubbed off over the years.

sdfghlcnmertyo'"~123456-= (Caps Lock is now "ps lock") (Backspace is now just "Ba ")

I really don't think an expensive top of the line keyboard is needed. Grab you a cheap on that feels good to you and use it.