Humans seem to have about 4KB of RAM and one freaking huge hard drive.

Think about it - the access latency matches up! ;)

It should be noted that while we have a HyperThreading prefrontal cortex, we also have cores available doing background tasks, like managing movement, processing what we hear and see, alerting us to sudden movement/danger, etc.

Then again that's skewed by the sort of tasks that still get the job done when done very badly in comparison to when you concentrate.
For instance typing in some sort of online chat while doing other things - nobody expects or cares about perfect spelling (just as they shouldn't care here), so a greatly reduced level of skill gets the job done.
Driving is an incredibly bad example to choose because most driving tasks are very easy and a dangerously low level of skill for the few difficult parts is considered acceptable by most people until they have their first car accident that causes injury to themselves or someone they care about. The irony is most skilled drivers consider themselves far less skilled than those with little or no experience, compare a real race driver with the next smug idiot you see.
That makes it difficult to measure, and even under highly controlled conditions a good driver performing badly while distracted may be a better driver than an inexperienced one. One study showed that very inexperienced drivers were not distracted from upcoming hazards by mobile phones because they were not looking for potential hazards in the first place. Something like that could be misinterpreted as saying that the distraction has no effect while the reality is just that the skills are at rock bottom and can't get worse.

If you're going to go with someone in their 50s as Thor, why not Dolph Lundgren? IMHO, it was poor scripting that did the man in, not his acting. Check out "I Come in Peace" some time...

What do you mean it doesn't behave very well?

but I wasn't using m$ winblows, I was installing Ubuntu from a 16gb flash drive on to an asus eee. That might have worked if I knew what I was doing...

The MS-DOS mouse driver works in tons and tons of applications from that period. And even today. I still use an elderly version of Ghost to back up systems and create bootable 'restore' CD's. The boot image is a DOS variant and loads the Microsoft Mouse driver to run the Ghost client.

Young and beautiful in 1999, I was involved in writing a browser-based CRM frontend for an old time&billing suite which has been deployed to major accounting firms since the '70s.

Know what?

*Shrug*

No advantage.

It sold because it was new-buzzword-compliant, but, despite being my best effort at usability in the browser, it could offer nothing which couldn't be done more efficiently using the old native Windows interface. 10 years later and Javascript would, I guess, allow me to prettify (N.B.) the interface more and get rid of the ActiveX control which provided complex charting... but I'd still be offering no advantage.

Every client work PC would have the full suite installed already. Anyone else could just pop in the CD and press Next 5 times. What was the point?

Oh, GCSE. You're in the UK. Maplin is worth a look.

+1. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk by any means (although I bought a Tesla Roadster), but buying launches from SpaceX would go a long way towards lowering launch costs.

The ATM the poster refers to does not accept envelopes. In fact, it does a count of the cash right then and there and asks for approval. Then, it rights the bill count and total right into the receipt. If it's before 8pm (at least at BofA) you get immediate access to those funds.

However, I agree about depositing envelopes full of cash into the old-style ATMs. Not so much because of mechanical errors, but because of bank workers pocketing the cash and then say "Gee, the customer deposited an empty envelope!"