He dreamed up the idea of hypertext as a way to link all human knowledge decades before the World Wide Web but never delivered a usable piece of software.
People will complain that it's kind of lifting the iPhone interface, but I think that's a pretty pointless criticism at this point: the iPhone's interface came early but really, it was never groundbreaking, simply usable.
But in February, a group of iOS hackers styling themselves as the Evad3rs team put out the "Evasi0n" jailbreak, which works on the majority of iOS 6.0+ devices, including, most importantly, the iPhone 5, which had never had a usable jailbreak.
And because continuous circulation is needed to keep organs healthy, deaths that occur outside a hospital are almost never a source of usable organs.
Junkyard diving to harvest the old stuff out of formerly glorious Cadillacs, Camaros and Mercedes-Benzes would never have yielded enough usable material.
Its geography makes it vulnerable to heavy seasonal rains and frequent flooding but there is never a sufficient supply of usable water, and in recent years Singapore's dependency on Malaysian water sources has led to political conflicts.
Sure, it's totally usable, but it never really feels like you're fully in control.
The job of improving security for nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear materials is never "done"—security must constantly evolve as the threat changes, technologies shift, and new vulnerabilities are revealed.
Furthermore there's only one thing worse than a bag of plastic bags under your sink, and that's a bag of re-usable bags that you never remember to take with you!
As the French investigating magistrate Eva Joly has complained, the City "has never transmitted even the smallest piece of usable evidence to a foreign magistrate".
