Or combine the two. Parking meters with an option for recharge (or chargers with an option for just parking if you prefer).
You could even use the car as a battery and sell power you harvested overnight back into the grid during the day in exchange for parking costs.

Very nice. Don't forget also that once introduced, each iteration is then actually hailed as something revolutionary rather than something missing and that was solved/commonplace years ago.

Spot on. What many managers see is people working long hours because they're excited and motivated about what they do. This in turn gets things done. That somehow translates as "working long hours is what gets things done". They completely overlook the true reason for the productivity.

Price of electricity matters. If your total electricity cost is $1000 per month you'd almost certainly find something else to concentrate on. If the same data centre costs $100,000 to run you'd be stupid not to look at it. Agreed the PUE doesn't change with cost, but the relevance does.

I always maintained that if I could persuade our testers to learn programming, we'd have much better software. In my experience, testers think about requirements, products, edge cases and scenarios a lot deeper than the devs. They also learn more about the business and how the product might be used.
In fact, now I think about it, many developers barely know the minimum tech to get an end-to-end application up & running, let alone all the stuff testers do. How many devs choose not to even learn about basic security, databases, algorithms (hash tables or unique dictionaries instead of generic lists) . These devs just know C#, HTML & CSS , jQuery (or whatever) and think it's enough.
Give me a good tester with an interest in programming any time.

That's pretty much true of every computer. Just because someone only ever uses Outlook, Word, Excel & IE doesn't mean it's not a computer (or a consumer device for that matter).

Both park assist and adaptive cruise control have been around for many years (2003 and 1995 respectively) in one form or another. Maybe not in Fords and maybe not in the US and maybe not very refined, but neither is particularly new.

Actually, in my driving lifetime there's been a significant shift towards moving many if not all of these things to controls on the steering wheel. You would presume that's because it's safer. Not because to do otherwise is illegal, but it's obviously regarded by many as a good enough idea to spend quite a bit of money doing so.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Immaculate_Backup_.aspx
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sorry - gave you an off-topic instead of interesting.

Don't most people find their way to a site from a search engine or links off another page? Quite frankly, to me urls are like phone numbers or email addresses - they can be important but once they're in the system I let that take care of them. I can honestly say I do not know any of my friends' phone number or email address or any URLs of note - why would I?
One world, one internet, one stupid bit of identification that gets abstracted away within seconds. Why make the distinction at all?

How is this easier than assuming that everyone who takes delivery of said package just rejects it at the acceptance stage if the shock detector has gone off? No need for anything fancy like USBs/wireless data connections to databases etc (see below). "It's broken - I don't sign for it". Done.

Very true, but I am sure deep down you know what I mean. They sell it hard enough internationally though. I get at least an email a week and a letter every fortnight asking me to renew and I'm not in the USA.