My wife likes to sew. There are a number of programs that let her print out pattern pieces, which she then lays out on the fabric for cutting.

I have occasionally printed and framed some of my photos for gifts.

I'm in my fifties, and my vision is pretty bad. For me, anyway, most things on the 6+ are fine for reading - although the iPhone 5 and earlier screens were too small for comfortable reading.

I don't disagree with your overall point, though. But that 13" tablet certainly won't fit in my cargo pants pocket!

I was carrying my iPad Mini around with me to meetings and such - in addition to carrying my little phone. The Mini is about the perfect size gadget... but I was carrying two devices everywhere, one of which won't fit in many pockets. So... I decided to try using an iPhone 6+ as my one carry-around. It's definitely a compromise for some uses, but it's definitely good enough to replace the iPad for note taking in meetings, ssh'ing into a server in a pinch, or looking up info on the web when I'm away from my desk. I expect, going forward, I'll only have two devices - a biggish phone plus a light 12"-13" laptop (e.g. MacBook Air).

While it's true that Yahoo was the name that sprung immediately to my mind... we have to remember that, somehow, AOL is still a thing. So it seems likely the brand "Yahoo!" will still exist in ten years, even though it won't have anything to do with the current company.

Dad! You promised never to tell that story!

I hate you!!

There's no "maybe" about it!

I won't be impressed until you successfully some of the early DOS games (like Lunar Lander) where the speed of the game play was dependent on the 8086's clock frequency. I've probably even got the 5.25" installation floppies laying around somewhere...

And if you manage to install them, and can stay alive longer than 0.1 second - I'll be REALLY impressed! I remember the first time I tried one of those on a newer machine with a 20MHz 80286...

It's funny how these sorts of posts are always anonymous...

It WAS overrated. It ended up causing a lot of annoying problems - but trucks didn't stop running, and there were no food shortages.

Sure, a lot of man-hours were spent in preparation for it - otherwise it could've been really bad. But even with all the prep there were people claiming civilization was going to collapse.

Hey, you can do that up here too... as long as you don't mind freezing your balls off.

Here in Washington state, both Orion and Sirius stay below the horizon during the summer. For me, the first fall sighting of Orion - usually low in the eastern sky, often while the weather is still mild - serves as a strong affirmation that summer is truly over and winter is on the way.

There aren't equal numbers of boys and girls, period - more boys are born than girls (it's around 52% IIRC).

That's still not exactly chump change...

Actually slamming on the brakes involves sliding friction (assuming you don't have antilock brakes). However that stopping distance is even greater because rolling friction is greater than sliding friction.

Antilock brakes actually have two advantages. It's not just about maintaining steering control - if you can maximize rolling friction, you will stop in a shorter distance than if you completely lock the wheels.

Since the significant improvements listed here seem to involve hardware refits - there's no reason a gasoline-powered car couldn't do this.