I used to burn through a new keyboard pretty much every year. Similar results for the mouse, maybe 18 months on those. The new Corsair M95 I have has already outlasted any of those old ones and feels like it will last for a decade. Even if I get a sticky key, I can just replace that one key instead of tossing the whole thing in the rubbish.

Seconded this. The indestructibility is prized as much as the harshness of the key-presses. You will prise the Model-M from a fan's cold dead hands...and it will still likely work just fine ^^

I grew up on a mix of Model-M, terminal keyboards, and various budget keyboards on cheap consumer machines. I did really love the Model-M when I had young hands, but these days are far more used to a lighter touch keyboard that requires a lot less force.

I use a Cherry MX Red now. It's a nice compromise for me, since I game a fair amount (although most of that is handled by a G13 + mouse instead) and programme software as my main uses. My fingers know when to stop pressing, and I love the light yet reliable feel of the keys. I'm no longer hammering my fingers into a hard surface at the end of each stroke so my RSI and aches and pains are much relieved.

In the end, keyboard choice seems very personal to me.

All of which are completely rife with corruption and scandal.

You don't put felons in charge of highly sensitive and potentially high value data. You can talk all you like about being reformed, but there is now a massive trust issue surrounding your behaviour and anything you say.

I use Lastpass. I get it to auto-generate random 16+ character passwords with a mix of alpha, numeric, upper / lower and special chars. The passwords are totally impossible to remember. Each password is totally unique to the site. I Then let it log me into everything after I give it my very long, easy to remember pass-phrase.

XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/

Let her watch Adventure Time. Princess Bubblegum is both a princess with a castle and servants *and* a really super-smart scientist. There's your role model right there.

I swear, the "articles" are getting more idiotic every year. This stuff is of the level you'd expect on one of those 'Top x About y' sites.

Which girl was the positive portrayal? The ditsy airhead who fell in love with an obvious creep about 20 seconds after meeting him, or the ice queen bitch who shut everyone out of her life and went on to live alone in an ice castle. Lucky that ice cutter (prince) guy was there to help the ditsy one or they never would have even made it to the castle.

Sure, these princesses aren't as completely helpless as a whole bunch of other Disney princesses, but they're certainly also not empowered woman providing a good role model.

I foresee a dark future of lonely princesses spinning code in the top of a locked tower, waiting for their Prince Charming to come along and save it.

Why don't you just rotate a 16:9 monitor into portrait orientation, or better yet a 16:10 portrait would be both tall and wide, just like you asked for.

But we'll need a new shuttle design for transporting equipment back and forth, with a cool, American sounding name like....lambs, pheasants...no wait, Eagles!

It'd make a great place to dump all our old nuclear waste!

Yay, finally I can stop enjoying the 100GB of free cloud storage that Google provide me, and instead pay $40 / year for no storage at all and the need to provide my own servers :D

I suppose there'll be a free version for people who don't need the "support". I'm just wondering who the pro version is targeted at.

That might be marginally true, but only for consumers. The people who actually make the shit everyone consumes still need those tower rigs. Try running MSVC, Photoshop, Max, CRYENGINE and other DAW tools, all at once on your phone or tablet. You could run it on a beefy laptop, but that would seriously cost several times more than a standard PC and still be worse at the job.

So sure, over for the people who's only real need is a web browser...still going strong for the rest of us.

Clearly he's rescuing her from tentacle rape at the hands of a giant octopus - this is Japan after all ^^

He probably just has a chicken coop with a few hens and a rooster. Even some suburbanites do this since a back yard is plenty enough space for some chickens to run around as long as you supplement their diet.