Should your flashy car go kaput, where are you going to take it to get it repaired? The days of the corner garage are all but over as cars spit out special diagnostic codes that only the dealership can decipher. So, what's a consumer to do? Grab a browser, head over to this site and find out how legislation might provide you with more choice.
Well, of all the dumb things to do. These people are actually reading the gobbledygook that makes up much of today's variant of spam. But don't worry. They're not buying the snake oil products that are being offered. Instead they're culling some choice lines and assembling poetry out of this global nuisance.
I've been avoiding the water cooler lately because I'm sick of misguided, grinning Windows enthusiasts mugging for my time. They're positively giddy over the possibility of Apple's Mac OS X operating system having a fairly serious security flaw. So far the hole has yet to be exploited. What's more interesting is the way Apple has handled the whole affair. This lengthy essay does a bangup job of sifting out fact from marketing fiction.
This is a simple-to-play yet vexing Flash-based game, and you might as well kiss goodbye to your productivity today. The idea is to use your mouse to move your space-suited character through a maze while avoiding the walls, obstacles and large crushing things (hey, it's a cartoon). I tried to sneak around the outside of the maze and was warned that I was "not taking the correct route." Smart stuff.
Sony's decision to exit the personal digital assistant, or PDA, market in the United States shouldn't have been too much of a shock to anybody with a passing interest in mobile personal electronics. PDAs are under fire from smarty-pants smart phones, and the market is pretty close to saturation because the public isn't willing to upgrade anytime soon. So, while reminiscing about previous handheld disasters, I dug up this 1998 article from Pen Computing magazine on the demise of the Newton, perhaps the world's first almost usable PDA.
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