Looks like Beef Curtains beat me to the submit. It was Chronotron I was thinking about.

I don't recall the name, but one of the indie developers at PAX '08 showed off a game with basically the same mechanic. You'd have to solve puzzles by having your character perform a task, then go back to the time machine and work with your past self/selves to achieve a goal.

My bad. Wasn't thinking of those.

iPod isn't flash memory. iPod Touch/iPhone is, but you can't really use them like any other disk device. Or maybe you can with certain apps that I don't know about, but it's still a pretty grey area.

Lock-in: Microsoft regularly attempts to force updates on its users, by removing support for older versions of Windows and Office, and by inflating hardware requirements. For many people, this means having to throw away working computers just because they don't meet the unnecessary requirements for the new Windows versions.

At $BIG_GROCERY_CHAIN they recently changed their customer discount cards to a new style for reasons I never really questioned. The ink on the new card (keychain style) scratched off in my pocket within a week. The old card lasted nearly five years without issue. Unfortunately the old card is no longer supported.

I know it's a stretch and I'll probably get voted off-topic, but I thought it was an interesting comparison.

I can't say that my speeling has gotten any worse the more I type, but something I have noticed is I cannot for the life of me remember any of my PINs or other such codes. My fingers know where to go while I'm at the console, but the last time I was asked for the code to disable my security system I could not for the life of me remember four numbers. Had to dial the phone to figure it out.

I have an old Celeron 1.5 GHz with only half a gig RAM and, somehow, Windows 7 on that machine outboots Vista on my Core 2 Duo 2 GHz with 3 gigs. Colour me impressed.

Still not my preferred OS, but for the few tasks I still require Windows for it does the trick.