Because I for one would feel a bit silly doing it.

Because in an office full of computers you'd never be able to hear anything.

Because not everything in a sci-fi movie is a good idea.


Back on topic:
We still have http://www in the address bar because of https sites and ftp, and nobody has come up with an alternative yet.

Preeeeeecisely.

Though I have played with talking at my computer. The Mac OS has a really bad line in "knock knock" jokes.

Agreed.
I'd put Windows in there too...

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Laser printers are the way forward. Plus like he said, Asda do good cheap instant photo prints.
Car cig lighters are always in annoying places that leave cable hanging over the gear stick. Stick a USB socket somewhere else. Micro USB for everything. DRM just annoyings paying customers and does nothing to stop piracy.

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LED GU10 downlight bulbs are pants. They give off a blue white light instead of a warm yellow white and cost a fortune for anything anywhere near as powerful as the halogen ones they replace.
Rechargable batteries are often pants. They don't even last one full gaming session in a Wii remote.
QWERTY is what I'm used to. People can type fast on them. Why should I learn a whole new layout?
Try teaching old people to program several remotes into one. I provide enough tech support as it is.

I would agree almost completely I actually like car cigarette sockets. I use them for recharging USB devices and have a USB adaptor as in the article. That said I would agree with you that they could be better placed so that they do not leave wires dangling everywhere.

Also with each of them having o.4mgs of mercury in them and coupled with the ignorance of this for the general public I doub't they are very environmentally friendly.

Though they do save tonnes of electricity.

I learned a while ago that the whole QWERTY designed to slow you down thing was a myth, it's no worse or slower than any other keyboard layout.

Because the more we learn about sound recognition the more we realise that it's almost a miracle how our brains are able to process sounds, sounds are incredibly complex and that's before you take in to account accents, mumblings, slang and language differences. The truth is we don't understand how our brains do it, so how can we be expected to program a computer to do it that doesn't even have ears

Why do we have this idea of polar bears as defenseless creatures I'm pretty sure punching a polarbear in the face is a very dangerous act for your own sake.

iTunes should also be taken outside and shot. Also the developers for it, the programmers and anyone who has had any hand in the windows version. Its a bloated [LIFTED] piece of [LIFTED] [LIFTED].

Or perhaps it's Windows that should be shot?

Windows ME and Windows Vista, yes. Windows 7, XP, 2000, NT4 and 98 are/were okay.

Windows has its faults (thousands of them (in a Michael Caine voice)) but by jimmy cricket, the coders for the Windows version have excelled themselves in showing how bad you can make a front end for a company thats suppose to have products the "just work". The Windows version works but it seems to like the geological time scale!!

I thought it wasn't designed to slow you down, but designed to space out the most commonly used keys - dating back to old style "lever" typewriters' levers getting entangled.

Computers for ages IIRC could handle 250 characters per second so not an issue with typing. Was remnant of typewriters and stopping keys gettng stuck together by separating the most commonly used letters.

Anyway I disagree with almost all of that list.