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Weeks were originally based around market day: you'd work your fields for 6 days then go into town on the 7th to trade, socialise, etc. Basing weeks around a day of rest was a Jewi…

> Having to charge my watch every day is annoying to say the least. I used to think the same thing about smart phones when I only had little Nokia; now I don't even think about it.…

It's crazy. Why don't they differentiate themselves like in the good old days? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Internet_Explo... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

In some SE Asian countries having a long nail is used to clean yourself after going to the toilet.

I don't think it's bad, especially recently. The interface is rougher than Chrome, but it has the benefit of Sync and AdBlock.

> democratic system is better than any of the utopian non-democratic schemes Those aren't the only two choices though.

I think we'll just have to wait and see how it goes. I don't see many people becoming homeless just to get a free house, and there are ways to prevent housing projects turning into…

> I used to simply type an app name in windows 7's launcher. Me too... the process hasn't changed. Windows key -> first few letters of the app's name -> enter

From memory XP wasn't well received at first. It just hung around so long that people got really comfortable with it and didn't want to change.

I use Windows 8.1 on a desktop and it's fine even without mods. I can see how Windows 8 might have been a problem for some people, but for the most part 8.1 is 7 with a fullscreen …

>>>it was maybe not 100% of the story but at least things where mostly true and the essence of the characters right. Which is more important in my opinion. I care about the people …

Sometimes part of the fun is imagining future tech...