If time started less than 10,000 years ago, then sure, we've existed since the beginning of time. Time periods longer than that are very difficult for people to wrap their heads around.

Tee hee. I have a fine counterexample.
About 15 years ago, my company (a producer of VMEbus and CompactPCI boards) designed a video module. We used a Trident mobile graphics chip. Unfortunately, we were attempting to use it with a PowerPC, not an x86 CPU. We had the big user manual for the chip, but when we programmed all the registers according to the published configuration info, it refused to initialize.
We then were given the BIOS object code from the factory (they wouldn't share the x86 assembly source code). We disassembled the code. It was such a tangled web of spaghetti that we never did figure out how to get the part initialized, and the factory app engineering team was unable to tell us how to do so either.
We eventually dumped the part and used an Intel part with C source code available. It worked just fine.

The other trick was that they always left the filaments burning. The filaments are most likely to fail during warm-up. The failures due to reduced emission were preventable by replacing tubes after x thousand hours.

We didn't even have to *get* anything - the pole, the base and the topper were already in the living room! Thanks, robotics club.
The pole is an old shade structure pole that we had in the living room for testing our FRC robot's hanging mechanism, the base is a barbell weight from our trebuchet, which was used to weigh down some Vex field elements when practicing for Toss Up, and the topper is a ceramic Hello Kitty statue.

The last time I went there, last week, the credit card reader machine was new. I don't know when it went in, as I hadn't been there for a month or two before that.

This must mean something, or not.

The big data center being built in Utah might provide an answer to the question of which data are being stored.

How many acres of hard drives would it take to store everyone's cellphone conversations?

MicroBlaze doesn't provide anywhere near the CPU processing power that a Raspberry Pi provides. This project looks like a fine way to get some hardware acceleration on the standard open hacker computer platforms. You know, with Linux!

I had been using the same Microsoft mouse for 5 years, then it developed an inability to right-click. I had used it so much that the pebble texture was completely worn off of the case where my fingers held it.

Fifteen years ago, when mice were expensive, I would have replaced the micro switch. Not any more. Sanitary landfill!

Yes, they were atrocious. I often found myself cleaning *other peoples' mice* just to be able to use them. Ewww!!

The historical fact that 20% per year die shrinkage was possible for 50 years running, just means that atoms are a lot smaller than the first IC features.

It was good while it lasted.

The telephone itself uses hardly any power these days. It's the Tetris and YouTube that eats up the juice.

Phones are about $100 worth of parts and the amortization of $50 billion of engineering.

My name is Scott Adams. You didn't kill my father. Prepare to die.

Those flat board feet are no match for the terrain. A few metatarsals would go a long ways toward stabilizing its stance on uneven surfaces.

I lived with a few robots built by the high school robotics team that my wife started, but we eventually found community hackerspaces to meet in, so we no longer have robots.
They did things such as throw Frisbees (FRC4183) and pick up bean bags (Vex 5485).