...and yes, I've downloaded both of the apps from the Windows store.

Great phone, great GPS nav, great camera. So glad I didn't wait for the iPhone 6+

I work in support, and I still find the CMD environment and batch file language to be incredibly powerful tools. I've written everything from simple one- or two-command files to long, interactive programs that interact with other batch files and, by writing to the Registry, resume after reboots.
Sometimes, in a crisis, I'm the only one who can produce a reliable solution the same morning that the crisis starts...

I bought a brand-new-in-box Western Electric 500 a few years back from oldphones dot com (great site)... it still works on Comcast, and it has the best sound of any landline phone ever made.

How do they know when it's going to rain?
They always lie down before it rains... are the cows hooked in to NOAA? Or, is that where AccuWeather gets that "probability of precipitation" number?

We live near a big oil refinery in Delaware City, where huge mile-long oil trains arrive all the time. They pass on a track that's about a mile from us. A big house fire happened between us and the tracks about a month ago... we were ready to bug out.

FWIW (not much), I've bought forty or fifty 2.5" and 3.5" drives a year for the last nine years, mostly for resale in my computer repair business; lately, I pick them up at our local Tiger Direct retail store or order them from Amazon. I have the fewest problems with Seagate drives.

Almost every time I buy another brand, the damn thing takes a crap and I get to do the job again for free. (Thank FSM Maxtor went away: they were the WORST).

Create an additional administrative account, with a complex password (but don't lose it). You will use this to effect repairs if malware infects your main profile. (Most Win6.x malware is confined to the user profile and C:\ProgramData folders to avoid the UAC prompt).

Download the Hosts file from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm, which will protect you from all kinds of threats (and it hides a buttload of advertising, too).

My roommate came home back in '93 with a bootleg copy of the original game. After we installed it, we were concerned about "going to HELL," so we called id Software.

"Hi, we're calling because someone gave us a bootleg copy of Doom...
"And...?"
"We need the address, so we can send a check... how much do we owe you?"

The person on the phone, after recovering from their shock, gave us the address, and told us to make sure to include OUR mailing address with the check.

A few weeks later, we received a boxed copy of Doom, and a bunch of other cool swag.

...bought and installed in desktops & laptops over the last decade, and what I've learned is to buy Seagate drives. I have seen way fewer defects and first-year failures on Seagate than WD, and I was happy to see Maxtor go away.

soooo glad I just ordered a new 2012 hemi Charger.

...but, if we're going to reinstall anyway, why not drop fifty bucks on a NEW drive? When I do a rebuild for a customer, they get a new drive... or I don't take the job.

I would be shocked if Cisco ever produces a Linksys router that is worth the money, IPv6 or not. The hundreds I've seen in the field are so unreliable that I'd never buy one, and I replace one or two more every week. Linksys is the reason I carry two Netgear or Dlink wireless routers in the car.
Sure, I do see other brands fail after a year or two, but I've seen more brand new defective Linksys routers than I have Netgear routers that dies of old age.

I just tried it with a Sudoku puzzle of "Evil" difficulty, and my iPhone 3gs solved it in about five seconds.
I grew up on Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, but this is truly science fiction.

I'm filling in on a Help Desk right now, so the number is probably north of 400.

"Windows/Office/IE monoculture is disappearing faster than equatorial glaciers..."
Do you actually work in corporate IT? Windows XP and IE6/7 dominate. Apple has little hope of taking hold in anything bigger than the art department at Comcast, and Linux is what the geekiest artist-type there uses at home.

I'm not advocating Windows... I'm simply pointing out that they are not going anywhere.