I became a Mac convert (from Windows XP) in the mid 2000s, especially since I use several Linux machines throughout the day also. I did a lot of video editing on my MacBook Pro but by 2013 it was a bit sluggish so I thought I would pay the large chunk of money and get a nice machine to edit video on. Lo and behold what did they have?...a stupid cylinder that I couldn't put my five hard drives of video files into.

Yes it looked cool and sleek, unless you actually wanted to use the thing. The last thing I wanted on my desk was a rat's nest of external enclosures for hard drives, cables, and power supplies. I had enough of that in dealing with my laptop setup. Bump a cable, oops, there goes the whole chain.

The most obnoxious part was people actually defending this "radical new design" and that people like me who didn't like it were "afraid of change". Or even, "Who needs so many hard drives, just use the cloud, that is the future!" (yeah, try and edit HD video files that are being served off the cloud, heh).

So for about $1500 I bought a PC with Windows 7 and haven't looked back. Bye bye Apple.

My wife and I were driving across the USA in late 2006 (the last day of 2006 even). I accidentally/intentionally routed us about 400 miles out of our way to pay a visit to the landfill. I had found the address on the net. We got there and I couldn't quite find it, then realized all the suburban build up was probably blocking it. Sure enough, behind the Sonic was the remains of the landfill. My (patient) wife stayed at the Sonic while I spent a couple hours wandering around the landfill site. She didn't have the same level of excitement about it that I did.

I found bits of trash, but no Atari cartridges. I took a lot of photos and video that I need to get online. (now 7 years later). I have one there though:
http://www.humanclock.com/news...

After we got back home to Portland I put up a blurb about it on my website. The very next day I received an email from a guy in Brazil who excitedly wrote: "WOW! YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE!" I showed the email to my wife and said: "Look honey, I am not alone!"

In its time the ET Landfill was an urban legend simply because the Internet wasn't commonplace. The "abundance of documentation" was hard to come by for a kid in rural Washington in the late 80s. Because of this, I had to stick to my sources that were available to me, that being the cousin of a friend of a best friend's older cousin who lived in the southwest somewhere a few years ago.

I second this! I can't believe it took this long in the comments for someone to mention it. This is what many of the AP photographers use. It is very well thought out and it is amazing how much you can customize it with their "code replacement" feature. It is well worth the $150, not just for the program but for the level of support. Their support forums are really good and the camerabits.com staff are very active in them, plus you can call them up on the phone and talk with one of the programmers or someone very close to the development of the program. I've seen a lot of comments from them where they say "no...it won't do that, but that is a really good idea and we will put it into the next release".

If you live on the West Coast of the USA (good point @Korbeau, I thought of that after I posted), news reports are incredibly annoying to listen to when they say things like "A major fire occurred today in Washington". You have to listen to the report for awhile to figure out that they are not talking about something in Seattle, but something on the other side of the USA. The national news will freely interchange things like "Today Washington Governor Chris Gregoire enacted...", then a few minutes later, "Debate in Washington erupted over..."

Argh! for the 8^56th time!

- "Washington" is a US State founded in 1889.
- "Washington D.C." is the Capital of the United States.

This article was obviously not written by anyone on the west coast.

Really? I mean, when was the last time something labeled as a "killer" actually was? It is about as exciting as calling the next singer "The Next Hannah Montana". I'm tired of companies and media calling things "The iPod Killer, The Facebook Killer". It makes the product sound like more work was put into PR than actual product development.

Yeah, was just gonna post the exact same thing. I saw it in about 1985/1986 on Ripley's Believe it Or Not. Anyway, not a new idea....then again maybe this is the same company that was doing it 20+ years ago.

I find it really funny how all the news media (especially NPR) goes out of their way to pronounce things correctly, yet they freely interchange the use of "Washington" and "Washington, DC". These are not the same place!

I liked how on NPR they were pointing out a factual error in Obama's speech, yet the host kept jumping between "Washington DC" and "Washington"

It isn't just the US where people have to think of public liability lawsuits...

When I was in Australia a few years ago, talk of the cost of public liability insurance was big. I don't know if they sorted it out but many common events were being canceled because they couldn't afford liability insurance.

This reflects what I would hear on the radio:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/stories/s484976.htm