The article tries not to pick on any particular vendor too much.
There are so many items.
Poor folks who bought non upgradable Bluray players only to then ask, "what? 2.0?". LCD or Plasma screen early adopters paid 10s of thousands more for TVs that are inferior to the thinner 120hz models available just a couple of years later. How about the multi core CPU fever that had folks throwing out their respectable 3GHz procs for an inferior 1.3? Since neither their OS or the programs utilized the other cores yet (and by the time they did, the tech had more than doubled again) these poor folks paid $1,000 for the latest and greatest only to discover that their older machines were faster (many did not notice this trick this because the new machine had the advantage of a clean install on a freshly formatted drive and therefor was still snappier than their poorly maintained previous machine).

When I was a teenager with a good part time job and very little consumer sense. I believed an article for Plextor's latest and greatest ever 4X CD ROM drive that said it was the fastest that CDs could be ever read. So I emptied my savings account and paid $500+shipping to acquire the 'best' with the peace of mind that I would NEVER have to upgrade THAT component EVER again (it was a commercial piece with 150k duty cycle)...
Did the similar thing with 14 or 28k modems. Thankfully, I began to understand that these technical 'journalists' are not always experts and are paid by their magazines who are paid by their advertisers and that this 'never bite the hand that feeds you' relationship could have an effect on the integrity of the articles...

How awkward she is with that fork! My guess is this is not the eating utensil that she prefers :-)
While this fork screams a long series of connected notes for her. In Texas, where mouthes are stuffed far more efficiently, the sounds would be stacato blips and bleeps; it would be more of like the song of a 90's Nokia phone ringing...

Neat!

206? Whoa~ That's hotter than any coffee I know of. Even that expensive McDs coffee lawsuit that caused third degree burns was less than 200....

MM's correct. The perfect focus, the removal of fleating objects while making the lights POP! is amazing and would have been even more effort with a video recorder. Technically, this IS a movie and therefore... moving pictures, no?
Neat!

Thank you, Sue. I do not have a safe at my desk. Things even in drawers cannot be guaranteed as sanitary. Once my coworkers knew I had these... well, I DO know that at least one of my former pens was borrowed and used as a chew toy... Bleckh.

Eww?

There are far too many liars and I would prefer to record what you have said so that I can hold you accountable and compare our notes later. If you are not a close friend, tell me what you want in writing. If you are a bill collector, send it notorized.

A close friend of mine's youth was wasted by an overbearing mother who made sure her child would get the education she 'deserved' (or in my bitterness, an education that would bring prosperity and the ability to take care of the parents in old age). This mother invested countless hours and dollars ensuring her child had that 4.0. But like a quintesential catholic schoolgirl, once this child escaped to college and tasted the forbidden fruit of -LIFE- it was all over. She dropped school, got married to the first guy who showed interest, and moved far away to be a full time mom. Not the retirement strategy her parents had in mind.

How about spending that money on keeping the soldier's arms and legs sewn on?
What a waste of money. I don't know what would be worse: 25 lbs. of batteries or 10 lbs. of batteries and a uniform with 5 lbs. of black reflective panels glued on it.
We have a name for a soldier in broad daylight: 'target'.
There is little sunlight to be enjoyed in combat.
"We'll need to attack at 10am, from the East, while a wind is blowing West. That way our packs will have had some time to charge, sunlight will be mostly on OUR side of the barriers, and all of the smoke will be blowing away from us. If we need to enter the city, we will do so at noon so that there will be as much sunlight on every side of the buildings as possible. As long as we don't take cover, we'll be fine."

The memory erasing drug does exist. I think it was NOVA who covered its discovery. The two scientists had interesting insights into how they were unsure of its application as its scope was not selective in lab rats (no human testing was done). It simply disabled the brains ability to create long term neuron linky things (exposing my ignorance there). We americans have enough of a short term memory as it is...

I am afraid most of my complaints also apply to libraries...
Huge overhead. Limited selection. Noone pays retail anymore.
Like them or not, Amazon's model is able to address 'the long tail' that would be impossible to stock where you or I could walk in and browse.
Now if they would just get everything digitized...

I blame the parents. What kind of ego does it take to pass a name like that on? What is it like for the kids in school?

It is so lonely at the top. This hermit doesn't plan to have more than him or herself getting out of the pool, leaving a wet path clear through to the master closet... mildew indeed.