The last cube I had with a window became a oven in the afternoon as the sun shined in...during the winter. I would walk to the corner store a half mile away for a snack because I couldn't focus. It also didn't help that the sun would wash out my monitor as well.

What happens when you start hearing your neighbors music because they are trying to drown out the noise? I had this happen in cube land.

Must be a small cube. All the ones I had I could ride my bike into work and keep it in my cube. Sorry, no measurements on my current which I do ride to work. One place I couldn't do it in was because all the cubes had a large cabinet that sat next to the entrance. I don't think anybody really needed it. It was too far to ride anyways so not a big deal.

I have saw smaller cubes though.

Planners are not going for full bans. They are just trying to improve the transportation options in the city for all users while making people feel like they belong in the city. While some DIY types will transport all they need by bikes (including whole house moves, fridge and all), but nobody is calling for a complete ban of service trucks.

Just like debates we have about commuter cars and public transportation. If you need a private vehicle, or something bigger, many times it is cheaper to rent as needed than to own one full time. I'm sure taxi's will still be around as well. Congestion is the result of too many vehicles taking up space that they don't need too.

I have ridden mine several times this winter through the snow on the roads going uphill. Worked just fine with minimal wheel spin (which happens to be in the same places a car would have problems). They make studded tires for ice which do a great job as well.

The one day I had to drive my car for errands is the only day this winter I froze my butt off all the way home in it.

Like all things well engineered or not, they are likely to go off when you don't need them too. Like riding over rails in traffic. A malfunction shouldn't blind you.

Me too, I just liberated a hand-me-down XP laptop last week, and I have a unused desktop waiting for its liberation as well as soon as I find a job for it.

I still have my Intellimouse Explorer v1.0 that looks like it has been through hell and back. Well, it been to college and back a few times along with countless lan parties. The only reason I pushed it to the work bench is because the buttons where not working well in games, and the appearance was getting to the point that you wanted a shower before touching it (but it was clean). I followed up with the v3 mouse that looks just like it.

Now, at work I went through several of the v4 mice, they just wouldn't last 2 years.

It isn't hard to use 32GB between photos, home movies, and the handbrake rips of the kids favorite movies. My 32GB phone only has 15GB free (1300 photos and home videos with 1 kid movie, I don't have time I need to move the media to my fileserver). However, my 40GB mp3 player is half full with 128 bit songs and I'm in the process of flac'ing my collection. It will probably be converted to 256 bit when it is stored on my phone.

Sweet, but at what tech level?

How much spear could a spear chucker chuck....

I would like to see a followup to this one. Even if it is a "I'm alive and doing fine"

I'm one of the types that drink only soda at restaurants. I find it to be more consistent, and tastier than water. Once in a while I'll order water if I'm having a beer or I really need it, but most of the time I find it undrinkable at most places. At home, I'll drink water by the gallon, I have really good water at home, straight from the tap at that.

I can drink a 6 pack of standard Dew like it is water, but I can't drink more than 3 throw backs in a day. For some reason it is more filling to me. Now there is a difference in taste, but I preferred the green label throw backs to the white labels ones now.

I aggree, this does sound like an awesome feature. Even though I have a windows install for games, having a VM use it while I'm preping taxes would be great. Wouldn't Windows do its normal "OMG, my hardware changed, FML" freakout session though? I don't recall how much exposure the hardware gets through VM.