So you essentially turned your $250 Dell laptop into the $500 Dell laptop you could've bought in the first place.
Microsoft doesn't want OEM's building cheap full Windows machines - i.e., the kind where the Windows license accounts for 30% of the price of the machine. They will go as far as making Windows Cloud free for OEMs in order to keep from being pressured to make full Windows 10 free for 'real' laptops.
These things are ARM based, so 'select otherwise' isn't likely to be too useful if you're trying to turn them into full-blown Windows laptops that can run X86 stuff. Then again, there are rumors that these will run X86 stuff via an ARM emulator - so maybe they're trying to get WIN32 apps bundled with emulation into the Windows store to make up for the decided lack of 'native' Metro stuff. I wonder whether that would be more or less useful than the Android phone apps you can run on a Chromebook. There are probably more Android apps in active development these days than Win32 or Metro apps - but there's no denying how big (and how robust) the existing WIN32 app base is. C'mon WINE - time to get an ARM version going. Or not - if web and Android apps are the future.
It's not about Jill Solloway - except perhaps as a model for the kids. Solloway's father came out as trans in his 70's. And, of course, in the first season, Maura was supposed to be clueless about how to live as a woman. She's more 'successful' as a transwoman in the later seasons. The truth is messy indeed - and I think the show takes that on pretty well.
Have you ever seen Cait Jenner? She's still a little clueless - as if tons of makeup is all it takes. I have a lesbian friend who is outraged at Jenner calling herself a woman ("how dare he usurp my experience"). At some point, you just have to acknowledge that everybody's experience of gender is personal - and you can't always extrapolate from yourself (or from some stereotype) to understand someone else.
Surely an 'innocent bug'. Like how the browser choice function in Windows 7 used to routinely fail to work.
I assume there's no Metro version of Chrome or Firefox (yet?... ever?). In any case, I wonder whether 'legacy' win32 apps have to jump through hoops on this version of Windows to access the screen or other system resources that Metro apps do not - and whether those hoops drain the battery. It's either that or the websites they're testing on are getting some kind of native video boost that only Edge supports - and falling back to something else on Chrome and Firefox.
If it matters, presumably Chrome will fix it - to the extent that's possible while still maintaining their cross-platform code base. If it's just some artfully chosen test scenario, well that's not surprising...
Well, I hope you are transsexual, BarbaraHudson. Otherwise, your signature would point to a really weirdly specific objection to a particular TV series.
In any case, I think "Transprent" (at least in the first season) is about the best thing on TV. And no, it's not really about the trans-parent. It's about a bunch of bratty, entitled, fucked up kids whose father transitioned in his 70's. Not sure what stereotypes you're talking about, but in any case, the show is a largely autobiographical riff about Jill Solloway's experiences growing up.
And complaining about have a man play the parent's role instead of a trans-woman, is a little odd - unless you can point to a 70+ year old transwoman who can actually act. That would, indeed, have made the show even better.
The interesting part of all this is that Bing was created not because Microsoft wanted to be in the search business - but because search was lucrative enough for Google to allow them to grow into a threat to Microsoft's core OS and Office monopolies. Bing is there to cut Google down to size more than to build up Microsoft. And, to the extent that Google actually had ambitions to take Microsoft head on, I guess they were right. Though who knows - if Microsoft hand never tried to damage Google's revenue stream, maybe Google never would've gone after Windows and Office. But the Google guys were nothing if not ambitious.
You could also make the point that Android was more an attempt to keep Microsoft from buying their way into mobile search than any kind of attempt to take on Apple. But all these companies counting on network effects to maintain near monopolies seem to have to take on all comers. Monopoly power, for all the head start it gives you, are not invincible.
Your thinking is utterly rational, but it fails to take into consideration the possibility of divorce. If your wife were left to fend for herself, then she would bear the brunt of all those logical decisions to sacrifice her earning potential in favor of your much greater income. It's not just a matter of what would happen if you were to die - though I guess your plans for a death contingency might help her some in case of a divorce. No life insurance to live on, though.
Well, their 'weird ass ambition' was to capitalize on the movement toward mobile devices and get there first with a 'Continuum-like' UI. Except that they didn't. And now that Microsoft has pretty much lost the mobile race to Android - and various desktop Android options seem inevitable, there's not much point in pursuing a new mobile platform to power a linux desktop. That doesn't mean that the Linux desktop is dead. It can still do anything a Chromebook can do (don't laugh - that meets the needs of a pretty big subset of the desktop market) - and more, which real desktop apps for most standard functions.
The Linux desktop is never going to be a replacement for Windows - for people who need some specifically native Windows apps. But it can fill in pretty nicely for a Mac in terms of functionality, and for Windows for people who don't have Windows-specific needs (and that's a growing subset). Even Windows (i.e. Windows 10/Metro) is not a replacement for Windows - in that you can't do much on a Metro-only system that you can't also do on a Chromebook or Android laptop.
But Ubuntu still serves a useful purpose. As a starting point for other distros, it has become pretty much the de-facto Linux OS that has been needed all along. If your distro is based off of a UBU LTR and uses the UBU repositories (i.e. Mint), you're users are assured that most every Linux-available app will be available for your distro - without the need for special expertise to get it to work. That's an important thing. And if the move back to GNOME restores Ubuntu to its former role as the default newbie distro, then it will continue to be around to keep all those other distros viable. Either way, the move away from Unity (and especially Mir) means all those Ubuntu forks no longer need to search for something else to re-fork off of.
In other words, it becomes a political agenda when anything is suggested that might actually work to reduce carbon emissions? I assume you would also agree that it 'becomes a political agenda' when the solution is increasing vehicle mileage standards - or tax rebates for solar installations - or...
So what if one of the things we can do to 'cool it down' is to prevent some of the warming by burning less fossil fuels? How is it then a 'political agenda' to suggest doing just that. Only in today's polarized, corporate-funded political environment is such a thing 'political' - and only then if a large willfully ignorant cohort decides to 'choose a side' and accept nonsense as valid arguments against.
At least part of the Court's job is to determine whether a badly written law, interpreted literally, infringes on the individuals rights to the point that that infringement is unconstitutional. But Gorsuch types are loath to step up to the plate in such cases - unless said individual is a corporation...
I would argue that Slashdot has gotten less civil due to the same normalization of trolling/hostility as is happening on the web at large. The Libertarian/stupid mentality on Slashdot is no dumber than it is on Breitbart - except that now it has a whole new pool of unthinking trolls to quote from;-)
That's a gross oversimplification - the kind that leads people 5-4 Supreme Court rulings on things like making it easier for big donors to influence politicians. Made, mostly by people who think the impression it leaves favors them - whether that's the 3rd party Nader/Stein set, who want to seem more viable than they are, or the Republican/Trump set, who want to distract large numbers of middle class voters with "at least they 'care' about my issue, and the rest doesn't matter" trickery.
At very least, you ought to concede that the mainstream Dems and Reps have different sets of large donors. Sure, Wall Street probably greases both sides' palms equally - but tech and the arts favor Dems and fossil fuel and big business favors Reps. There's still plenty of truth to the Republican party being of, by and for big business - and some truth about Dems being for working people. After all, mainstream or not, Republicans propose tax cuts as the solution to all problems at least as much as Democrats propose regulation and government programs to level the playing field...
Well, that brings up an obvious question. If Edge is a whole new browser - built, presumably, using the latest, 'safest' coding techniques - what does that say about the ability to make programming languages (or 'standard' techniques for coding in them) safe. After all this time, new code is still more hackable than older - but better tested - code?
What are the odds of a 4-4 split on this - and what are the implications? I assume Gorsuch would be a pro-corporate, pro-patent vote. Don't know enough about Merrick Garland to say. But, hey, Hillary had a private email server!!!
But they're not restricting it to specific hardware based on ability to run. I assume these new processors are backward compatible - and can run Windows 7 fine. And they are continuing to support Windows 7 on other, older hardware. So just refusing to allow upgrades to Win7 on new hardware is, I guess, an attempt to keep businesses from sticking with Win7. After all, who else buys a new PC and then downgrades it? Many might like to, but it's not worth the hassle - and where to get a legal copy of Win7 to install (well, I suppose there are ways to do that...).
What Microsoft seems to really want here is for new software to be written to lock businesses into the newer Metro app ecosystem, and businesses aren't having it. So they're using what power they have to force the issue. And y'know what, businesses still won't be having it, because nobody's writing new desktop software these days. Microsoft should count their blessings and accept that they can still coast along on the various bits of WIN32 code that still has their customers locked to them - and figure out how to build on that.
I suspect that's a lot like saying "Planned Parenthood hasn't been about 'birth control' or 'reproductive health' for a long time". PP was founded around those issues - and in fact had nothing to do with abortion until it eventually became legal. Now, it devotes a small percentage of its mission to providing abortions, but it's still primarily about birth control and reproductive health. Just like the EPA is still primarily about clean air and water...
That applies to those who profit from polluting industries - it doesn't apply to the hordes of (mostly Republican) voters who uncritically go along with it because they've been seduced by big money pandering on unrelated issues. It's one thing to vote for politicians that pander to you about something you care about, but must you twist yourself into knots to claim to 'believe' stuff that actually works against your interests?
And whether you believe higher fuel efficiency standards will actually help or not, the same dynamic holds in other areas. Many (quite likely a majority) of Trump voters do not want the ACA repealed - or at least they want it replaced with something that will provide them with better coverage at a lower cost to them. That's what they were promised, after all. The recent MSNBC West Virginia town hall with Chris Hayes and Bernie Sanders talking to a room full of Trump voters drew cheers for just about everything Sanders said - most of which was the polar opposite of what those Trump voters are actually going to get. And when that's explained to them by sympathetic old uncle Bernie, they get it. They even get that Obamacare itself is a net plus fror them. If only uncle Bernie had been more emphatic at the time about how that nasty Hillary Clinton was actually going to provide them policies more in line with what they want than their Trump vote crapshoot will...
I'd be surprised if more than 14% of smartphone owners are even offered the option to upgrade... Presumably the 40% that do take upgrades constitute 40% of those whose phones offer them OTA upgrades.
Because for the most part, the only time you use the fingerprint scanner is to unlock your phone. And if you keep your phone in your pocket, it's pretty easy with a rear fps, to learn how to unlock it by touch so that when you pull the phone out, it's already unlocked. You probably don't want to be trying to maneuver your fingers to activate a front-bottom FPS while you're pulling it from your pocket - unless you really trust your gorilla glass. Yes, for those times when you want to unlock your phone while it's sitting flat on a table, it sucks. Then again, I'm glad to free up the front bezel space for other things (front-facing speakers, in the case of my phone).
Presumably the Samsung 'sensor in the screen' won't be raised so that you can find and activate it by touch - so that's a disadvantage right there. And unless it's always enabled for whenever you touch that part of your screen, you might have to do something to activate it, which would make it less useful for those quick unlocks with the phone lying on a table. Then again, maybe it is always active. Still...
How about a partial solution (increased efficiency) that would be relatively painless while there are still low-hanging SUV's to be picked, and might buy us some time to figure out how to really solve the problem without bouncing us into the dark ages? Nobody's saying to simply stop using fossil fuels right now - but certainly we can use less of them - and pollute the environment less while doing it. But of course, folks like you will raise red herrings about the dark ages as an excuse to do nothing. So why would you want to do nothing, again? Is your last name Koch? Why would even Koch want to do nothing, come to think of it...
Was it simply the cheapness of netbooks that made them compelling? If so, why do we not consider Chromebooks as having filled that void. Netbooks started out cheap because they ran (stripped down) Linux distros that could run on the minimal hardware. Well, Chromebooks do that today - with fewer compromises in performance (for what they can do). And you can load a full Linux distro on them, so the hackers that loved netbooks are also satisfied.
Of course, Netbooks ultimately changed into cheap Windows PC's once Microsoft felt a threat. But they were lousy Windows PC's and limited to small screens by Microsoft's deal on the cheap OS licenses. Chromebooks are not limited in screen size, have decent keyboards and trackpads and mainly just skimp on local storage these days. So, I guess if you need lots of local storage and/or need to run Windows, then sure - the cheapest mainstream laptops will provide you with a suitably shitty Windows experience. But if you need something that fills the niche that netbooks were originally intended to fill, a Chromebook is the thing - unless, of course, you're fine with a cheap tablet...
Is there something preventing them from revealing their 'other more specific concerns'? Presumably, if they have to cloak their concerns by portraying ISP spying as 'consumer choice', whatever their concerns - they're not likely to be popular.
But it doesn't suck because of Google Docs - it sucks because it's a small touch-screen device. A Chromebook or an Android laptop would be fine for that.
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So you essentially turned your $250 Dell laptop into the $500 Dell laptop you could've bought in the first place.
Microsoft doesn't want OEM's building cheap full Windows machines - i.e., the kind where the Windows license accounts for 30% of the price of the machine. They will go as far as making Windows Cloud free for OEMs in order to keep from being pressured to make full Windows 10 free for 'real' laptops.
These things are ARM based, so 'select otherwise' isn't likely to be too useful if you're trying to turn them into full-blown Windows laptops that can run X86 stuff. Then again, there are rumors that these will run X86 stuff via an ARM emulator - so maybe they're trying to get WIN32 apps bundled with emulation into the Windows store to make up for the decided lack of 'native' Metro stuff. I wonder whether that would be more or less useful than the Android phone apps you can run on a Chromebook. There are probably more Android apps in active development these days than Win32 or Metro apps - but there's no denying how big (and how robust) the existing WIN32 app base is. C'mon WINE - time to get an ARM version going. Or not - if web and Android apps are the future.
It's not about Jill Solloway - except perhaps as a model for the kids. Solloway's father came out as trans in his 70's. And, of course, in the first season, Maura was supposed to be clueless about how to live as a woman. She's more 'successful' as a transwoman in the later seasons. The truth is messy indeed - and I think the show takes that on pretty well.
Have you ever seen Cait Jenner? She's still a little clueless - as if tons of makeup is all it takes. I have a lesbian friend who is outraged at Jenner calling herself a woman ("how dare he usurp my experience"). At some point, you just have to acknowledge that everybody's experience of gender is personal - and you can't always extrapolate from yourself (or from some stereotype) to understand someone else.
Surely an 'innocent bug'. Like how the browser choice function in Windows 7 used to routinely fail to work.
I assume there's no Metro version of Chrome or Firefox (yet?... ever?). In any case, I wonder whether 'legacy' win32 apps have to jump through hoops on this version of Windows to access the screen or other system resources that Metro apps do not - and whether those hoops drain the battery. It's either that or the websites they're testing on are getting some kind of native video boost that only Edge supports - and falling back to something else on Chrome and Firefox.
If it matters, presumably Chrome will fix it - to the extent that's possible while still maintaining their cross-platform code base. If it's just some artfully chosen test scenario, well that's not surprising...
Well, I hope you are transsexual, BarbaraHudson. Otherwise, your signature would point to a really weirdly specific objection to a particular TV series.
In any case, I think "Transprent" (at least in the first season) is about the best thing on TV. And no, it's not really about the trans-parent. It's about a bunch of bratty, entitled, fucked up kids whose father transitioned in his 70's. Not sure what stereotypes you're talking about, but in any case, the show is a largely autobiographical riff about Jill Solloway's experiences growing up.
And complaining about have a man play the parent's role instead of a trans-woman, is a little odd - unless you can point to a 70+ year old transwoman who can actually act. That would, indeed, have made the show even better.
Now, about Chromebooks...
The interesting part of all this is that Bing was created not because Microsoft wanted to be in the search business - but because search was lucrative enough for Google to allow them to grow into a threat to Microsoft's core OS and Office monopolies. Bing is there to cut Google down to size more than to build up Microsoft. And, to the extent that Google actually had ambitions to take Microsoft head on, I guess they were right. Though who knows - if Microsoft hand never tried to damage Google's revenue stream, maybe Google never would've gone after Windows and Office. But the Google guys were nothing if not ambitious.
You could also make the point that Android was more an attempt to keep Microsoft from buying their way into mobile search than any kind of attempt to take on Apple. But all these companies counting on network effects to maintain near monopolies seem to have to take on all comers. Monopoly power, for all the head start it gives you, are not invincible.
Your thinking is utterly rational, but it fails to take into consideration the possibility of divorce. If your wife were left to fend for herself, then she would bear the brunt of all those logical decisions to sacrifice her earning potential in favor of your much greater income. It's not just a matter of what would happen if you were to die - though I guess your plans for a death contingency might help her some in case of a divorce. No life insurance to live on, though.
Well, their 'weird ass ambition' was to capitalize on the movement toward mobile devices and get there first with a 'Continuum-like' UI. Except that they didn't. And now that Microsoft has pretty much lost the mobile race to Android - and various desktop Android options seem inevitable, there's not much point in pursuing a new mobile platform to power a linux desktop. That doesn't mean that the Linux desktop is dead. It can still do anything a Chromebook can do (don't laugh - that meets the needs of a pretty big subset of the desktop market) - and more, which real desktop apps for most standard functions.
The Linux desktop is never going to be a replacement for Windows - for people who need some specifically native Windows apps. But it can fill in pretty nicely for a Mac in terms of functionality, and for Windows for people who don't have Windows-specific needs (and that's a growing subset). Even Windows (i.e. Windows 10/Metro) is not a replacement for Windows - in that you can't do much on a Metro-only system that you can't also do on a Chromebook or Android laptop.
But Ubuntu still serves a useful purpose. As a starting point for other distros, it has become pretty much the de-facto Linux OS that has been needed all along. If your distro is based off of a UBU LTR and uses the UBU repositories (i.e. Mint), you're users are assured that most every Linux-available app will be available for your distro - without the need for special expertise to get it to work. That's an important thing. And if the move back to GNOME restores Ubuntu to its former role as the default newbie distro, then it will continue to be around to keep all those other distros viable. Either way, the move away from Unity (and especially Mir) means all those Ubuntu forks no longer need to search for something else to re-fork off of.
In other words, it becomes a political agenda when anything is suggested that might actually work to reduce carbon emissions? I assume you would also agree that it 'becomes a political agenda' when the solution is increasing vehicle mileage standards - or tax rebates for solar installations - or...
So what if one of the things we can do to 'cool it down' is to prevent some of the warming by burning less fossil fuels? How is it then a 'political agenda' to suggest doing just that. Only in today's polarized, corporate-funded political environment is such a thing 'political' - and only then if a large willfully ignorant cohort decides to 'choose a side' and accept nonsense as valid arguments against.
At least part of the Court's job is to determine whether a badly written law, interpreted literally, infringes on the individuals rights to the point that that infringement is unconstitutional. But Gorsuch types are loath to step up to the plate in such cases - unless said individual is a corporation...
I would argue that Slashdot has gotten less civil due to the same normalization of trolling/hostility as is happening on the web at large. The Libertarian/stupid mentality on Slashdot is no dumber than it is on Breitbart - except that now it has a whole new pool of unthinking trolls to quote from ;-)
That's a gross oversimplification - the kind that leads people 5-4 Supreme Court rulings on things like making it easier for big donors to influence politicians. Made, mostly by people who think the impression it leaves favors them - whether that's the 3rd party Nader/Stein set, who want to seem more viable than they are, or the Republican/Trump set, who want to distract large numbers of middle class voters with "at least they 'care' about my issue, and the rest doesn't matter" trickery.
At very least, you ought to concede that the mainstream Dems and Reps have different sets of large donors. Sure, Wall Street probably greases both sides' palms equally - but tech and the arts favor Dems and fossil fuel and big business favors Reps. There's still plenty of truth to the Republican party being of, by and for big business - and some truth about Dems being for working people. After all, mainstream or not, Republicans propose tax cuts as the solution to all problems at least as much as Democrats propose regulation and government programs to level the playing field...
Well, that brings up an obvious question. If Edge is a whole new browser - built, presumably, using the latest, 'safest' coding techniques - what does that say about the ability to make programming languages (or 'standard' techniques for coding in them) safe. After all this time, new code is still more hackable than older - but better tested - code?
What are the odds of a 4-4 split on this - and what are the implications? I assume Gorsuch would be a pro-corporate, pro-patent vote. Don't know enough about Merrick Garland to say. But, hey, Hillary had a private email server!!!
But they're not restricting it to specific hardware based on ability to run. I assume these new processors are backward compatible - and can run Windows 7 fine. And they are continuing to support Windows 7 on other, older hardware. So just refusing to allow upgrades to Win7 on new hardware is, I guess, an attempt to keep businesses from sticking with Win7. After all, who else buys a new PC and then downgrades it? Many might like to, but it's not worth the hassle - and where to get a legal copy of Win7 to install (well, I suppose there are ways to do that...).
What Microsoft seems to really want here is for new software to be written to lock businesses into the newer Metro app ecosystem, and businesses aren't having it. So they're using what power they have to force the issue. And y'know what, businesses still won't be having it, because nobody's writing new desktop software these days. Microsoft should count their blessings and accept that they can still coast along on the various bits of WIN32 code that still has their customers locked to them - and figure out how to build on that.
I suspect that's a lot like saying "Planned Parenthood hasn't been about 'birth control' or 'reproductive health' for a long time". PP was founded around those issues - and in fact had nothing to do with abortion until it eventually became legal. Now, it devotes a small percentage of its mission to providing abortions, but it's still primarily about birth control and reproductive health. Just like the EPA is still primarily about clean air and water...
The word 'average' actually has a meaning. Hint, the Electoral College skew toward low-population states is not part of that meaning.
That applies to those who profit from polluting industries - it doesn't apply to the hordes of (mostly Republican) voters who uncritically go along with it because they've been seduced by big money pandering on unrelated issues. It's one thing to vote for politicians that pander to you about something you care about, but must you twist yourself into knots to claim to 'believe' stuff that actually works against your interests?
And whether you believe higher fuel efficiency standards will actually help or not, the same dynamic holds in other areas. Many (quite likely a majority) of Trump voters do not want the ACA repealed - or at least they want it replaced with something that will provide them with better coverage at a lower cost to them. That's what they were promised, after all. The recent MSNBC West Virginia town hall with Chris Hayes and Bernie Sanders talking to a room full of Trump voters drew cheers for just about everything Sanders said - most of which was the polar opposite of what those Trump voters are actually going to get. And when that's explained to them by sympathetic old uncle Bernie, they get it. They even get that Obamacare itself is a net plus fror them. If only uncle Bernie had been more emphatic at the time about how that nasty Hillary Clinton was actually going to provide them policies more in line with what they want than their Trump vote crapshoot will...
I'd be surprised if more than 14% of smartphone owners are even offered the option to upgrade... Presumably the 40% that do take upgrades constitute 40% of those whose phones offer them OTA upgrades.
Because for the most part, the only time you use the fingerprint scanner is to unlock your phone. And if you keep your phone in your pocket, it's pretty easy with a rear fps, to learn how to unlock it by touch so that when you pull the phone out, it's already unlocked. You probably don't want to be trying to maneuver your fingers to activate a front-bottom FPS while you're pulling it from your pocket - unless you really trust your gorilla glass. Yes, for those times when you want to unlock your phone while it's sitting flat on a table, it sucks. Then again, I'm glad to free up the front bezel space for other things (front-facing speakers, in the case of my phone).
Presumably the Samsung 'sensor in the screen' won't be raised so that you can find and activate it by touch - so that's a disadvantage right there. And unless it's always enabled for whenever you touch that part of your screen, you might have to do something to activate it, which would make it less useful for those quick unlocks with the phone lying on a table. Then again, maybe it is always active. Still...
How about a partial solution (increased efficiency) that would be relatively painless while there are still low-hanging SUV's to be picked, and might buy us some time to figure out how to really solve the problem without bouncing us into the dark ages? Nobody's saying to simply stop using fossil fuels right now - but certainly we can use less of them - and pollute the environment less while doing it. But of course, folks like you will raise red herrings about the dark ages as an excuse to do nothing. So why would you want to do nothing, again? Is your last name Koch? Why would even Koch want to do nothing, come to think of it...
Was it simply the cheapness of netbooks that made them compelling? If so, why do we not consider Chromebooks as having filled that void. Netbooks started out cheap because they ran (stripped down) Linux distros that could run on the minimal hardware. Well, Chromebooks do that today - with fewer compromises in performance (for what they can do). And you can load a full Linux distro on them, so the hackers that loved netbooks are also satisfied.
Of course, Netbooks ultimately changed into cheap Windows PC's once Microsoft felt a threat. But they were lousy Windows PC's and limited to small screens by Microsoft's deal on the cheap OS licenses. Chromebooks are not limited in screen size, have decent keyboards and trackpads and mainly just skimp on local storage these days. So, I guess if you need lots of local storage and/or need to run Windows, then sure - the cheapest mainstream laptops will provide you with a suitably shitty Windows experience. But if you need something that fills the niche that netbooks were originally intended to fill, a Chromebook is the thing - unless, of course, you're fine with a cheap tablet...
Is there something preventing them from revealing their 'other more specific concerns'? Presumably, if they have to cloak their concerns by portraying ISP spying as 'consumer choice', whatever their concerns - they're not likely to be popular.
But it doesn't suck because of Google Docs - it sucks because it's a small touch-screen device. A Chromebook or an Android laptop would be fine for that.