Nobody forced an Uber driver to start driving for Uber.

It occurs to me that /. could answer that question themselves by looking at the hits on their rss urls.

Who the hell wants to live in Seattle? I don't even like working here... You get out to the suburbs and it's nice, but expensive. You have to go either waaay out (like past North Bend or Yelm or something), settle for a crowded apartment complex / condo / townhome, or live in a rat hole in Kent. I'm at 90 minutes average right now if I carpool. The bus is two hours, and I'm still around 90-105 minutes if I try to do the Sounder and transfer to local transit when I hit the city.

I can't tolerate being in that close of a space with that many people, so I'll stick with driving.

Why reboot ST when there's a huge canon of Heinlein to pull from. How about Farnham's Freehold? Time travel is hot right now...

Because "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" is too hard to type?

OK, I'll take your consumer point... I don't really agree about 95 sucking, once they got over the birth pangs, and I'd argue that 3.1 and 3.11 both didn't suck giving you four consumer "not sucks" in a row, but I see where you're coming from.

You can't compare XP to ME like that. The fair comparison of NT Kernel based OSes breaks the every-other-OS-sucks pattern.

NT (Good) -> 2000 (Good) -> XP (Good) -> Vista (Sucks) -> Win7 (Good) -> Win8 (Sucks).

Exactly so. I think my favorite keyboard was on my T23. The T30 was weak, but the right layout at least. T40/T42/T43 were better. I still use my T60 daily. I've replaced the keyboard a few times, but that's just because of the quanitity of use I've put it through.

I could probably get over the chicklet (so-called island) style keys, but the crippled six-row layout is too much.

Of course, I'm still pining for 4:3 displays...

Or they wouldn't have articles like this: http://blog.lenovo.com/products/why-you-should-give-in-to-the-new-thinkpad-keyboard#disqus_thread

Got to agree with you there.

A tablet does not necessarily equal a pocketable computer.

I've tried using various laptops rotated 90 degrees for playing sheet music, but they don't exactly sit well on the stand. Admittedly, it's a special case, but there are lots of places where having a 1:1 replacement for a sheet of paper would come in handy.

I'd like to see a decent tablet with around a 14" screen. Something that would make reviewing documentation (or sheet music) intended for Letter/A4 sized printouts possible without shrinking it to fit a diminutive screen.

I believe he was in at least two of the "Santa Clause" movies.

Don't forget a weapons locker in the back. The accuracy of the weapons doesn't matter - just spray and pray and watch as other vehicles flip over and explode.