I miss the Dockers with the almost hidden zipper on the leg to hide your phone in.

I really don't see what this has to do with Open Source though.

Exactly! There's no reason women's clothes should cover 70% of the sales floor while the 15% devoted to men (after baby items and household goods are accounted for) should happen. Just make everything kilts, togas, jeans, and T-shirts!

All of the science stuff I grew up with was pretty generic. "Rock Tumbler!" - it had a picture of the rock tumbler, which was black, gray, and red on the outside. That was it. It wasn't gender specific in any way.

My chemistry set came packaged in cardboard with a clear plastic window that let you see the contents which were about as visually exciting as a bunch of little plastic bottles, tweezers, and test tubes could be. They box was silvery gray and mostly contained a bunch of text about what was included. Again, marketed to no gender in particular.

My telescope was packaged in plain cardboard with the words "Sears" and "Telescope" stamped on it. How I miss the Sears catalog - when you ordered something it came in generic looking packaging with none of the blister-pack marketing non-sense attached.

Not marketed to girls? I would argue the stuff from my era wasn't exactly marketed to boys either, these were gifts to me growing up in the 80's and 90's. - Supposedly when things were worse than they are now.

This social-justice-warrior high-horse garbage spilling over into the day-to-day articles on Slashdot is horse crap.

Yet not doing so means we neglect them......

and a bomb lifter.

He collects weird stuff, I don't see a legal problem with it. His wife sure sees a problem with it, but that is another thing all together.

Who really remembers the 1907 Ben-Hur? No one. The 1959 version is a thing of legends.

Who remembers the 1923 The Ten Commandments? Not many. The 1956 one is the one people know.

Oceans 11 from 1960 was quite a loved classic. The 2001 one was popular enough to spawn sequels.

Gone in 60 seconds was a a cult classic, that being said most people I know personally didn't even know about the 1974 one. Same could be said about The Inglorious Bastards being the inspiration for Inglorious Basterds.

I would argue the most recent Batman franchise was the best. The 1989 Batman I used to call "Batman the good one" before the Christopher Nolan version. What generation of reboot was the most recent? 3rd based on the TV series? Fourth based on the serials? More than that based on cartoons?

I had a problem with Jurassic Park from the start. The very first movie didn't follow Michael Crichton's book quite closely enough, the first book basically started where the sequel did, with the dinosaurs being off the island. Each movie in the original series strayed further from the source, and got goofier. As far as I'm concerned a good reboot is needed, either that or a complete disavowment.

uhmm, sure, uhmmm....

I survived the bust than happened right at the end of the Clinton administration/beginning of the Bush administration by being in my field in an unrelated industry. I did I.T. work at an oil company, the burst didn't touch me at all - initially. Until the oil industry took a major hit, and the I.T. industry hadn't recovered yet, but at least I got a well past the burst before I was thrown into the fray.

Now that the I.T. industry is stronger and isn't exactly in a bubble, I'm still shielded by working for another industry. In fact a bit of an I.T. field bust can actually benefit my particular place in the industry as it forces vendors to beg for my business and cut better deals, and if I need to hire project help from the pool to select from is better stocked versus when the industry is thriving. Yes, that's cold and pragmatic, but it doesn't stop it from being a fact.

On the other hand if the I.T. industry is thriving (I really miss those days) I have an easier time jumping ship and going to something better.

That's one of the coolest old men ever! Not to mention he played Dracula in more languages that most people know how to find a bathroom in.

It wasn't in the main text field dumbass, it was in the field that displayed the text of what I said.

I tried sending a text with Google's voice engine last week just to try it out. It did a very good job of taking my dictation to text, then it asked if I wanted to send. I said yes. It spelled out yes in it's little window, then asked again, I said yes again, I tried other words, it also recognized those words, and every time asked me if I wanted to send, while recognizing the words. I finally reached over and hit the send button.

FTR: Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world

Yeah, I admit their hardware is pretty good, and it's certainly up near the top in design and reliability, but damn, saying it that way sure does look like a conflict of interest.

I must say I'm surprised and impressed.

Seriously, it exists. Not that I actually used it, I basically booted it up once after purchase to be sure it worked (I didn't go through the setup crap), turned it off, upgraded the RAM and immediately put Kubuntu on it (now replaced with Netrunner).

Starter edition - the (rightfully) forgotten Windows 7.

(I did have the hots for that redhead way back then)