Intercity high speed rail is a fantastic idea for cities that have excellent public transit. You take the train to a central station in the middle of the city and then walk or take local transit to all destinations in the city. No car needed. Maybe have 1 extra stop near the edge of the city at a secondary transit hub. So high speed rail is an wonderful choice for places that aren't in Texas.

My first computer was a TI99 4/A. I had a lot of fun playing games and writing basic programs on that thing. Munchman was a very good Pac-Man Clone with a twist. TI Invaders was a shameless rip-off of Space Invaders with no twist. Parsec was a fun little side scrolling shooter.

Tunnels of Doom was an incredible CRPG. It had randomly generated maps, a timer system that added some tension to the game, and used both cartridge and tape/disk. The Sold State Module (cartridge) held the core game mechanics, but the game specifics were stored on tape or disk. If it had been more successful than they could have published many different adventures to work with the core game. If only....

I was so disappointed by End Game that I just stopped caring. There was 30-45 minutes of decent movie in there somewhere, but the rest was a dreary mess.

I'd say just scrap the entire notification feature. Is it ever used for good?It sure is used for a LOT of evil.

Chromebooks work great for education. The teachers at my wife's school find them very useful, especially since our schools use google apps/google classroom. They used to use a lot of ipads, but they were really frustrating for the classroom environment. For years they were a nightmare for multi-user situations, though I understand this has improved.

For classrooms, chromebooks just work. Grab any Chromebook, log-on and have all of your work available. There are many useful extensions available too.

I admit that I only saw one episode about ten years ago, but what I saw was just plain awful. Canned laughter and tired geek stereotypes. What about this show was funny?

When I cut the cable 4 years ago, a big part of it was that there was nothing that I wanted to watch. The speciality channels that used to have interesting content were full of reality garbage. The networks were full of dreary CSI spinoffs and knockoffs. I didn't subscribe to the premium channels because cable was already expensive enough. Overall, cable just wasn't worth the money. The only thing I watched was the weather, and even that had gone from detailed forecasting to dogs playing in the snow. I'm willing to pay for quality content, but it just wasn't there. But there's always something to watch on Netflix or Crunchyroll.

It really depends where you live. I love my Roku, but here in Canada several streaming services don't support the Roku (the Canadian version of Amazon Prime, CraveTV). Here the Fire TV stick might be a better choice, even though the Canadian version doesn't support Alexa.

The AppleTV is badly over-priced, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

So I'd say you should do your research. Decide which streaming services you want to use, then find out which devices they work on in your Country.

After five years of paying 50 CAD for more data and minutes than I ever used in a month, I went to a prepaid plan with minutes and data that don't expire at the end of the month if I pay the $15 base charge (Koodo). I now average about $25 a month in cell costs without being very stingy with my data or minutes.

My wife uses her phone MUCH less than I do, so she is on a pay as you go plan and spends around $5 a month with no data (speakout7eleven).

The key is to buy phones outright and not get sucked in to contracts.

But it is still true that people in other countries with higher population densities, more competition, or more regulation still pay much less than we in Canada, especially for the heavy users.

And yet we still can't watch Amazon Prime Video on the Roku in Canada, even though the service launched about a year ago.

The author is clearly missing the point of cutting the cord. He wants to replace his huge cable bundle with an identical streaming bundle. No wonder he isn't saving any money.

Successful cord cutters look at their viewing differently. Instead of, "The entertainment giants are willing to show me these programs right now, I'd better pay for a giant bundle of channels and hope there is something that I sort of want to watch." It becomes, "What programming that I have access to do I want to watch right now." It is a subtle distinction, but it can be huge. For people like me, it becomes the difference between a $70-$100 cable bill where there was often nothing the I wanted to watch, and a $10 Netflix bill where there is always something worth watching.

Cord works well for a lot of people, though often not for sports junkies.

Crunchyroll, for the huge library of subtitled Anime.

If our sense of smell is so good, can we tell whose urine is whose by smelling it?

Since most manufacturers stop caring about their phones after a year or two, custom ROMS are great for keeping 1-4 year old phones useful. My Galaxy Note 2 is still a fantastic phone running CM. The only reason I stopped using it and gave it to my wife was that the SD slot was unreliable. She doesn't need the storage, so she does very well with it. I'll likely put a custom ROM on my Moto X Pure in a year or so when Moto stops releasing new ROMs for it.

That's because they've been married for a while, and feel like they've given up on sex already.