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I still think that for most office uses, a mouse is better than a touch screen. If I'm spending a lot of time entering data, a all-in-one touch screen device is miles behind a moni…

I don't know if it is necessarily bad for them to do this. If they don't what is to stop someone else from filing a similar patent and suing them. It seems like this is the best wa…

Minimum speeds aren't a good idea because of adverse weather conditions.

EVERYBODY will have health problems and use their health insurance. Very few people will have their house burn down and use their fire insurance. Therefore, there is a massive diff…

You mean you get 2 hours of wifi when you buy a gift card, which you can then use to buy anything?

I had a friend in college who went everywhere with two tupperware containers. When he was asked whether or not he wanted left overs he would feign a no, but as soon as he was asked…

"An adult or a teen celebrity might twitter but most regular kids see what they are communicating as too private to share with anyone other than the person for whom it is intended,…

My understanding is that it is not supposed to be a business phone. It is supposed to be a middle-of-the-road phone, excellent for both your business life (like a black berry) and …

With utilities, you pay based on how much you use, not on how difficult it is to get them to you. So, for example, if you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, it is more expens…

I've played Catan with cards instead of dice- you have 36 cards, each with a number that can be attained by rolling two dice. How many times a number appears in the deck is its odd…

I think it is presumptuous to assume that they new they would have to adopt this business model 7 years ago.

If they are able to offer the service for free to some, why is this a bad thing again? I'm Canadian, so am a little bit sad that I won't be enjoying last.fm for free (or, in my cas…

But does the DRM really get in the way of how most people watch shows (ie: once)?

The president was already pissed at him, and he was coming down to get yelled at. I don't think the 15 minutes were all about his dress.

But won't that fan base be expanded?

That's always seemed common sense- it was the hedgehog concept which was great for me.

I could see humans taking rockets while all non-perishable cargo takes the elevator.

A sort of related anecdote: one time I was on a plane where there was some sort of medical emergency in the back, so we had to wait to let paramedics get on. Eventually they had th…

Why? I intentionally get on the plane as late as I possibly can.

One of the key reasons that the wii and the Flip are so successful is because they appeal to other generations than the tech savvy ones.

The SantaMail is in the funny one to me. In Canada, if you mail a letter to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0 then Canada Post employee volunteers send you a response in the guise o…

my wife responded with "not happening"- I've wanted separate beds (mostly jokingly) for awhile.

But IIRC, windows/IE was different: how easy was it for the typical person to run a computer without windows as their operating system? Not very, unless they bought one brand of pr…

I don't see how they have a monopoly on the search engine market. It is definitely the most popular and probably the best search engine, but there is definitely no limit on other a…