Exactly. I did the same with my wrist remote in class. After the second time the TV turned off, without saying anything the teacher went to his desk, picked up a notecard, and propped it up over the remote sensor.
My favorite feature is when I try to save something in an admin restricted folder and I hadn't started it as admin. It seamlessly restarts itself as admin and restores the file I was working on. It's magic.
I believe you're right on this. The original ICQ number accounts got merged into AOL Instant Messenger, and for a while you could log into AIM with your ICQ number. I think the original ICQ died when AIM got shut down.
At my university in the late 90s, I was required to take calculus for my CS curriculum, but no statistics courses, which I always found funny because our department was "Computer Science and Statistics". With "Data Science" (i.e. statistics) and "Machine Learning" (i.e. statistics) becoming so commonplace, I sure hope that has changed.
I have an HP m377dw laser and this exact thing was happening when I printed on card stock. TIL via the comments of this video that there should be a paper thickness setting in the driver.
Where I live this is the way we give directions (e.g. 2 blocks past McDonald's take a right), so to me it feels more natural than looking for a street name.
It's not just ridiculously-sized power bricks designed this way... do a Google image search for wifi extender and be amazed! Had trouble finding one with a cord.
I had (and lost, unforunately) a pair of Sennheiser MM400 headphones... The charging jack was on the removable battery pack and you could charge it while using it (no effect at all on headphone operation)
Once I found out that you could un-follow everyone last week, I did - even without the help of a Chrome extension! Turns out I did not have to see every little thing.