The area that they are talking about is very much a seasonal residence. Most people I know in those areas don't have landline service anyway. They cut the cord on that years ago. It's not worth the investment if only 30% of the residences will take up the service anyway.

I think you underestimate the desires of manufacturers to get rid of the first sale doctrine. They have pushed the courts to restrict FSD whenever possible, including potentially eliminating FSD for 'imported' goods. Considering most things we buy are made abroad, if they are successful, FSD could be all but eliminated. Omega vs. Costco

Depreciation on a car is a lot different than a video game. A car has a usable life of 10-15 years/150k miles before it becomes more expensive to maintain than replacing. If I'm buying a 5 year old car, then the price reflects that half of its life has been consumed. In buying a used game, once I've confirmed that it isn't scratched, its usable life is hardly affected from when new. That being said, I am often willing to pay $50 for a new game, knowing I can sell it for $25+ on eBay later on. When I buy downloadable games, I am generally paying a LOT less.

I guess this is why every time I pass an Apple store, it's wall-to-wall with people waiting for a genius to give them 'hip' support. It's not tech support.

Exactly this. There is a cost to handling cash. If everyone paid cash, that slows down transactions, lengthens the time required to close out a register at the end of the shift/day, and then if you are handling large amounts of it (which would happen if they start penalizing their cash customers) you have high expense for transporting/insuring. Also, credit card users usually spend more. JCR Even at a gas station- I pull up, hand my credit card, and say 'fill it up'. Cash users generally pull up, and say "Give me $40 of...." If a retailer wants to encourage cash, it's a short-term gain, long-term bad idea.

The fact that there are +/- 1 billion users would say that maybe, as a web designer, you are wrong in your assessment about what makes for a good UI.

I tried to keep them on the phone, as keeping them busy is the worst thing you can do to annoy them. I spent the entire 45 min ride home from my daughter's gymnastics on with them yesterday. She was amused by the conversations. The funny thing is, I don't know how these guys can make any money. I spend much of my day working with people with Indian accents, and I'm pretty good at understanding them. But these guys are inaudible. I have a sense of what they are trying to tell me to do, and I still can't figure it out! "Press the 4-flagged windows key on the lower left quadrant of your keyboard". Forget about when the guy was trying to tell me what URL to go to. I wanted to know what service they were using, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what URL he was trying to tell me to get to!

The first round of all the recent 802.3 standards (1000baseT, 10GbaseT) have all forgone the requirement of 8P8C, and as technologies improved, added them back in. Only recently could we do 10GbaseT over Cat6. Early implementations were over fibre, and twinax cables. 40/100Gbps ethernet is still fiber only.

argh... my brackets were removed. terroristic threats != terrorism

I live right off 280, so when I first saw that, I thought it was pretty cool that the desktop was dynamic and gave me icons specific to my location.

Yeah, I did that. Silly me, thinking I was dragging a shortcut. Pissed off our Mac admin when it turned out that by dragging the icons to groups, I was actually dragging the .app, so other users logging into the same Mac had a lot of "?" icons because they could no longer find the .app

He would explode before he hit the bottom.

American english slang? Seems to be used under the King's English as well: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/ferrari-288-gto-f40-f50-enzo-donuts-2012-03-21