I went to a concert lately and the 50+ year old were far worse. They were constantly snapping pictures and texting them out to there friends.

I've wondered for a while now why they often add sugar and banana flavoring to banana chips made from actual bananas, this likely explains it.

I don't know about NYC cabs specifically, but everywhere I go, traditional cabs don't use GPS. So instead of sitting back and relaxing, I have to play navigator to the guy driving the cab. This is interesting in locations I've never been. I give the address, and the drivers asks me which highway to take. How am I suppose to know? I end up using my phone's GPS just so the driver can go where I need.

Now you can run into problems with Uber when they are relying on GPS to get places somewhere like Boston, and the major roads are underground and the buildings can interfere with signal. You'd think someone driving Uber would at least know where the major sports arenas are located, but I guess not. Anyways, an experienced cab drivers, with GPS, who I could hail from my phone, would be my goto service, regardless of all but extreme pricing differences. Boston cabs wouldn't even take credit cards till Uber (and some even still use carbon paper to do so) so they still have a long ways to go to catch up.

The use of "they" as a singular pronounce dates back to the 15th century and is a generally understood convention, one which is receiving increased use due to increased need to refer to people in a way which is dignified.

Actually, the original poster is wrong, automated conversation from one platform to another has been done at least one time in the past, check out Project Odin which could on the fly automatically convert a Win32 binary into a native OS/2 binary.

I used OS/2 for a few years, from 1995 to around 2001, it was a lot of fun. A lot of the technologies were interesting, but now antiquated. If it was open source, it could be something fun to run in a VM and tinker with.

Other industries will try to push back against them such as municipalities who earn income through traffic enforcement, and insurance companies who make big money on point surcharges.

Self driving cars will likely change our relationship with our cars as much as media on demand has with our TV. When we drive somewhere in the city, the car drops as off, looks for parking on it own, and can just keep driving around if nothing is found. Heck, if are going for the day, why pay $35 when it can drive to a further cheaper lot, or even just drive back home. Instead of walking to where we park the car, we will be able to call our car to us. If we need to take something over to a friend, we can have our car bring it without us going for the ride.

What if they made our cars better designed to sleep in? Go to bed in city, wake up in another. Planes suddenly only become attractive if you need to go outside your watch your evening TV and then sleep all night radius.

> 2) Compatibility with .docx sucks. Compatibility with Excel is _terrible_.

True, although I have the same problem with Excel. Micrsoft broke excel document compatibility, and all of a sudden, all of my users could no longer open the excel generated by our local servers. I had to switch everyone to LibreOffice so people could do continue to do their jobs.

At this point, downloaders can't have confidence that any software coming from Sourceforge hasn't been tampered with and might include unwanted guests. Till they establish ethics in how they host software which conform to what most users expect from a software download site, they are a no go for me

When are customers ever happy about having their shopping experience "enhanced" especially by adware? I would suggest wiping those computers clean and putting a third party OS install on them as Lenovo has pretty much shown how it views it's customers.

It's hard to know his intentions, he does tend to be a bit smug, but I might just be reading into him. As a Christian, I think it's pretty cool Newton's birthday was on Dec 25th. I'd put a Newton ornament on my Christmas tree. He was scientists, mathematician, inventor and theologian.

I have to wonder about the logic with acquisitions of sites like Astrid, which it owned for only two months before deciding to completely shut them down. It gives the impression that Yahoo! just causes everything it touches to wilt.

There is also a movie you can watched. I chucked when they said it was impossible before VR technology.

Strange, because all the people I know who switched away from Firefox did so because of the persistent memory leak issue which has only gotten worse version after version. How can the developers not find something that is so plainly observed by so many people?

Yes, back when Universities were for the leisure class, not the poor who are taking out loans