What is more likely is the NSA has access to a super top secret quantum computer that can hack any publicly available cipher. They've probably had this tech since the 90's, which is why we are just hearing about the promise of quantum computing for the public sector.
Remember, they only dole out the new tech after they've 'mastered' it and have something an order of magnitude beyond, as history plainly tells us.
There's been a lot of rumors in the biz press that Ballmer will announce some big changes at MS.
As for exactly WHY he left only he knows. But if I were offered a CEO position, I'd jump on it regardless of what my current circumstance or future was at my current company.
Everyone knows why he left. He royally fucked up the Xbox One and was shitcanned for it.
Focus on TV TV TV TV during the reveal Forced Kinect that no one wants Major DRM bullshit blocking used sales and rentals, requiring a check-in every 24 hours, etc. $100 more than the competition Underpowered compared to the competition
Then came the embarrassing reversal of the major DRM bullshit. Good for gamers, bad for MS because of the PR fiasco and the existing deals they had with the 3 anuses of Satan (EA, Activision, and Gamestop).
Mattrick was fired. There's absolutely no doubt about that, though of course they'll never say it - to do so would be tantamount to admitting that the Xbox One looks like a turd compared to the competition). The fact that he weaseled his way over to Zynga isn't surprising - for some reason companies love to hire CEOs who just got finished fucking some other company.
Amazed so few people notice/care about the real issue here. It's not about UI fails and touch/mobile focus - that's a minor issue.
It's about Microsoft moving from a 'general purpose computing' model to an 'app store computing' model. Where everything has to be code-signed, approved/censored, and taxed at 30%+.
They are doing this by gradually phasing out the desktop and applying pressure to users to use Metro, by making it harder to avoid - whilst the desktop gradually has functionality stripped out (first the Start menu, now the control panel)
This is why we should absolutely reject Win8. Not because the new start screen is annoying.
Start menu is there in both 8 and 8.1. It's just different. I don't like it, but there's no real functionality lost, and I can always install a 3rd party program to pretend to be the old start menu if I wanted.
Control panel is there as well.
8.1 shows MS retracting from what they did with 8. The desktop is never going away. You can chicken little about it all day long, but it's not going away.
Windows 8.1 looks like it addresses all the major concerns (some legitimate, some not) people had with Windows 8. I'd buy Windows 8 (for the improved file copy dialog, task manager, and the return of the "up one directory button"), but it's not worth the price when 7 suits me fine. They should offer the $30 deal again when 8.1 drops (or has it already?) to spur sales. I'd buy a license. Dunno if I'd install any time soon though.
This is your LORD GOD speaking! Enjoy the fresh taste of Pepsi-Cola with none of the calories: Diet Pepsi! Remember, God loves you, so BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY and enjoy Pepsi Cola today!
My question for you, Slashdort, is will there be a.pepsi domain, and will there be a.god domain? I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD AND YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME, Slashdort! Remember that and DIE! And DRINK PEPSI!
God drinks Coke while wearing the American flag and playing the electric guitar for baby Jesus, you heathen!
Usually the rats are just stowaways who flee if the ship sinks, but Rattrick was the one who sunk the XBONE ship and now he's fleeing to another sinking ship.
Oh well, good riddance. Hope he fails at Zynga, too.
>"Like I said, it hasn't bothered me when people do it"
I don't doubt it doesn't bother you (nor perhaps many other people), but not everyone is the same. Things that bother one person might not bother someone else at all (and in reverse).
I'm so happy! Aha! happy go lucky me! I just go my way, Living everyday!
I don't worry! Worrying don't agree, Things that bother you, Never bother me!
Things that bother you, Never bother me I feel happy and fine! Aha! Living in the sunlight, Loving in the moonlight Having a wonderful time!
Haven't got a lot, I don't need a lot Coffee's only a dime Living in the sunlight, Loving in the moonlight, Having a wonderful time!
Just take it from me, I'm just as free as any daughter. I do what i like, Just what i like, And how i love it!
I'm right here to stay When i'm old and gray, I'll be right in my prime! Living in the sunlight, Loving in the moonlight, Having a wonderful time!
Just take it from me, I'm just as free as any daughter. I do what i like, Just what i like, And how i love it!
I'm right here to stay, When I'm old and gray, I'll be right in my prime, Living in the sunlight, Loving in the moonlight, Having a wonderful time!
So, after you've fired off your ElectroMagnetic Pulse Pulse and the projectionist is tearing his hair out looking at all his fried electronics, you'll be happy?
Our projectionist has a pacemaker, you insensitive clod!
No it defeats no point, and Microsoft is free to accept or deny just about anything. Properly implemented secure boot increases your security by letting you decide what the machine should boot and prevent it from booting unknown or potentially malware infected operating system. That is a good feature. It has nothing to do with preventing competition.
How is this modded troll? It's 100% correct.
What is it about Secure Boot that turns Slashdot into a rabid pile of flailing retards (more so than usual)?
UEFI is not Secure Boot. UEFI is good. Secure Boot is good. We have a working "solution" (a signed bootloader and a trusted key, just as it was intended) for Linux. The generic "solution" is for you to add keys to your devices as trusted. Desktops and laptops with the Windows 8 logo let you add your own keys. If you bought a shitty, locked-down tablet, your beef is with the device and the company that made it, not Secure Boot or MS, and certainly not UEFI.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey Gee, I wonder why they've stopped showing DirectX / OS numbers? Everything else loads fine, but anything that might indicate operating system choice is suspiciously absent. Real talk: Linux + Steam has exactly fuckall users because exactly fuckall games run on it. Gaben may have made it a personal mission to make sure all their recent and upcoming games run on Linux, but none of the other publishers ever will. It's assloads more work and they don't see any benefit.
Valve owns Steam. They lose 0% when listing a game on Steam. They lose 30% when listing a game on the Windows 8 store (or whatever they call it). Valve would rather not do that, but if consumers get used to the Windows 8 store (as they have gotten used to Apple's, Google's, and Amazon's), Valve will be seeing a hit to their bottom line if they don't.
For any other publisher who doesn't run their own store, it's 30% to be listed on Steam, the Windows 8 store, Origin, whatever, so there's nothing lost by listing everywhere. Even retail has similar margins built in when you consider all costs. Unless you run your own store, you need your shit to be listed everywhere.
But getting your shit to run on Linux (or Mac) isn't worth the cost for the vast majority of developers. The instant MS announced their own store, Valve gained a major financial interest against Windows. Their recent, half-baked Linux push is a direct result of that financial interest. The truth is, however, that Linux isn't going to bring them additional revenue. If they actually want to fight against the Windows 8 store they could, you know, compete. Take a lower percentage of all sales. Charge less for game submission and updates. Get rid of the terrible, terrible submission process for "Indie" developers (are they still calling it Greenlight?). Or they could try something more antagonistic like fucking around with access to the Steam API, charging more/less based on where you list your game, etc. But so far all they've done is say "Boo Windows 8! Yay Linux! Here are a handful of games.".
I'd certainly be pleased if there were more decent games for Linux as I would then have more options. But their recent effort in that regard is nothing than a reaction to the Windows 8 store, and it's the wrong reaction. They should be taking a much lower cut of all sales, plain and simple. It's absurd that digital stores take the same cut as retail, and only competition can fix that.
You do realize Win8 has a desktop environment and your Win7 apps will work just fine, don't you? Geez, I can't understand how much this crap gets mentioned over and over here.
Yes, because software which doesn't run on Windows 7 and only runs on Windows XP will totally work on Windows 8 because Windows 8 has more in common with XP then 7 does because that makes sense.
Maybe you should learn reading comprehension before giving MS a public blowjob.
Maybe you should learn about Windows XP Mode. You just set up a VM that runs XP, and you can even pin a program within that Windowx XP VM to your Windows 7 taskbar and set it to show only that application's window, so it's just like a natively running application to an end user.
I assume it's still around in Windows 8, though I'm not sure if the "Pro" or whatever license of 8 gives you a free XP license.
The only things that wouldn't work would be shit that depends on specific video drivers, or shit that needs to talk to external hardware that has no Windows Vista / 7 / 8 compatible x64 driver. Don't know how 16-bit programs would work.
Those are not skills for this summer, those are skills for several summers ago.
And they are skills for some monkey slave. The trick with programming is that a competent programmer with access to the internet should be able to pick up a language they've never even heard of as they go.
Need to do X in language Y? Google.com. How to do X in Y. Read. Learn. Do. Code monkeys may be able to read and do by copying, but they generally won't learn unless they spend an ungodly amount of time and effort on rote bullshit (i.e., formal certifications). It's the application and business logic, external considerations, and the people that dictate them that are hard. If you have access to the internet, the language is the least of your worries as a programmer.
Works great as long as all your cables are perfectly straight. If you want to bend the cable, you need to plug it into an angled repeater. The repeater, of course, requires an external power source.
Oh look, it's h4rrh4r being an obtuse ignoramus again. Harbors stay where they are. Morons who who choose to populate the coast in extreme density get no bailout the next time their shit is wrecked due to obvious and predictable weather. A natural disaster is only a disaster if you're a moron who doesn't pay attention or prepare. For everyone else, it's just nature.
Alternatively: Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.
How did I imply it would be free? I said I was willing to pay $2 in R&D to save $1 in oil. Obviously that means I'm expecting and willing to pay a 2x premium.
That's a 1x premium. A premium is on top of the standard price. It is the amount which is over. It is 2 - 1 = 1.
The same goes when saying shit is x times faster or x % bigger. A 10 inch cock is twice as big as a 5 inch cock. It is 2 times as big. It is 200% the size. A 10 inch cock is once bigger than a 5 inch cock. It is 1 time bigger. It is 100% bigger in size.
Gee, why didn't the stupid staff of Ecuador's London embassy think of this briliant plan? Could it be because, unlike you, they are aware of the fact that diplomatic immunity laws and customs do not mean that a host country's police are obliged to stand around while a diplomat breaks the law on that host country's territory?
Actually, those laws mean exactly that. In all but the most extreme cases they are free to flout the law.
Title: [Someone I've Never Heard Of] [Verb Phrase] [Something I've Never Heard Of] Summary: Long, incomprehensible mess peppered with links, quotes, name dropping of more people I've never heard of, actual symbols for (R) or (TM), plus a video. Analysis: Slashvertisement. Judgment: Slashdot is stagnated.
I defy anyone to dispute the facts I have presented.
No, it's not a myth. Embassies are typically considered foreign soil. Same goes for reservations in the US. If you kill someone and you're 1/8th native american you can run to the reservation and you're untouchable.
Use some sort of manacle device to secure Assange to an Ecuadorian diplomat. Something the authorities could not easily remove. A large steel box 2 feet long with two arm holes, for example. Open the box, one arm of the diplomat in, one arm of Assange in, close the box, lock it, keep the key(s) in the embassy.
They cannot force the embassy to produce the key(s). They cannot detain the diplomat long enough for them to pick the lock(s). They cannot try to break the device with cutting or burning tools due to risk of injury to the diplomat.
GTFO to Ecuador, then GTFO to the safest place (for Assange) where Ecuador has a diplomatic presence.
Send the keys over (or reproduce them, or have a second set waiting, etc.) and separate them.
Why can't they just appoint Assange a diplomat, travel to the host country, then strip him of diplomatic status?
He would have to apply for diplomatic status prior to entering the country. He can not apply after the fact, otherwise it opens the system up for abuse.
The country he is in right now is Ecuador, not the UK. It's just a matter of the UK accepting his diplomatic status.
New and improved Pepto now treats cache misses! Will be hard to work into the "Heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!" jingle, though.
Yet another self-centred American extrapolating themselves as everyman.
You're just wrong, Get used to knowing that and you'll be a nicer person.
Get over yourself. Capitalism has spoken. People buy shit they don't need, use it for 5 minutes, then toss it. You should be glad - in a few years the rivers of your shithole country will be filled with today's iPad. Maybe you can get one that's not completely ruined by sewage water damage.
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Perhaps you could launch IE 6 to refresh your memory. I think you begin to think about IE6 with nostalgia...
More like nostockholmgia.
What is more likely is the NSA has access to a super top secret quantum computer that can hack any publicly available cipher. They've probably had this tech since the 90's, which is why we are just hearing about the promise of quantum computing for the public sector.
Remember, they only dole out the new tech after they've 'mastered' it and have something an order of magnitude beyond, as history plainly tells us.
Evidence, please.
There's been a lot of rumors in the biz press that Ballmer will announce some big changes at MS.
As for exactly WHY he left only he knows. But if I were offered a CEO position, I'd jump on it regardless of what my current circumstance or future was at my current company.
Everyone knows why he left. He royally fucked up the Xbox One and was shitcanned for it.
Focus on TV TV TV TV during the reveal
Forced Kinect that no one wants
Major DRM bullshit blocking used sales and rentals, requiring a check-in every 24 hours, etc.
$100 more than the competition
Underpowered compared to the competition
Then came the embarrassing reversal of the major DRM bullshit. Good for gamers, bad for MS because of the PR fiasco and the existing deals they had with the 3 anuses of Satan (EA, Activision, and Gamestop).
Mattrick was fired. There's absolutely no doubt about that, though of course they'll never say it - to do so would be tantamount to admitting that the Xbox One looks like a turd compared to the competition). The fact that he weaseled his way over to Zynga isn't surprising - for some reason companies love to hire CEOs who just got finished fucking some other company.
Amazed so few people notice/care about the real issue here. It's not about UI fails and touch/mobile focus - that's a minor issue.
It's about Microsoft moving from a 'general purpose computing' model to an 'app store computing' model. Where everything has to be code-signed, approved/censored, and taxed at 30%+.
They are doing this by gradually phasing out the desktop and applying pressure to users to use Metro, by making it harder to avoid - whilst the desktop gradually has functionality stripped out (first the Start menu, now the control panel)
This is why we should absolutely reject Win8. Not because the new start screen is annoying.
Start menu is there in both 8 and 8.1. It's just different. I don't like it, but there's no real functionality lost, and I can always install a 3rd party program to pretend to be the old start menu if I wanted.
Control panel is there as well.
8.1 shows MS retracting from what they did with 8. The desktop is never going away. You can chicken little about it all day long, but it's not going away.
2012 R2 comes out this fall, though I think the preview is out now or will be out soon.
2012 R2 has all the same tweaks that 8.1 has.
Windows 8.1 looks like it addresses all the major concerns (some legitimate, some not) people had with Windows 8.
I'd buy Windows 8 (for the improved file copy dialog, task manager, and the return of the "up one directory button"), but it's not worth the price when 7 suits me fine.
They should offer the $30 deal again when 8.1 drops (or has it already?) to spur sales. I'd buy a license. Dunno if I'd install any time soon though.
This is your LORD GOD speaking! Enjoy the fresh taste of Pepsi-Cola with none of the calories: Diet Pepsi! Remember, God loves you, so BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY and enjoy Pepsi Cola today!
My question for you, Slashdort, is will there be a .pepsi domain, and will there be a .god domain? I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD AND YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME, Slashdort! Remember that and DIE! And DRINK PEPSI!
God drinks Coke while wearing the American flag and playing the electric guitar for baby Jesus, you heathen!
Usually the rats are just stowaways who flee if the ship sinks, but Rattrick was the one who sunk the XBONE ship and now he's fleeing to another sinking ship.
Oh well, good riddance. Hope he fails at Zynga, too.
>"Like I said, it hasn't bothered me when people do it"
I don't doubt it doesn't bother you (nor perhaps many other people), but not everyone is the same. Things that bother one person might not bother someone else at all (and in reverse).
I'm so happy!
Aha! happy go lucky me!
I just go my way,
Living everyday!
I don't worry!
Worrying don't agree,
Things that bother you,
Never bother me!
Things that bother you,
Never bother me
I feel happy and fine!
Aha!
Living in the sunlight,
Loving in the moonlight
Having a wonderful time!
Haven't got a lot,
I don't need a lot
Coffee's only a dime
Living in the sunlight,
Loving in the moonlight,
Having a wonderful time!
Just take it from me,
I'm just as free as any daughter.
I do what i like,
Just what i like,
And how i love it!
I'm right here to stay
When i'm old and gray,
I'll be right in my prime!
Living in the sunlight,
Loving in the moonlight,
Having a wonderful time!
Just take it from me,
I'm just as free as any daughter.
I do what i like,
Just what i like,
And how i love it!
I'm right here to stay,
When I'm old and gray,
I'll be right in my prime,
Living in the sunlight,
Loving in the moonlight,
Having a wonderful time!
So, after you've fired off your ElectroMagnetic Pulse Pulse and the projectionist is tearing his hair out looking at all his fried electronics, you'll be happy?
Our projectionist has a pacemaker, you insensitive clod!
No it defeats no point, and Microsoft is free to accept or deny just about anything. Properly implemented secure boot increases your security by letting you decide what the machine should boot and prevent it from booting unknown or potentially malware infected operating system. That is a good feature. It has nothing to do with preventing competition.
How is this modded troll? It's 100% correct.
What is it about Secure Boot that turns Slashdot into a rabid pile of flailing retards (more so than usual)?
UEFI is not Secure Boot. UEFI is good. Secure Boot is good. We have a working "solution" (a signed bootloader and a trusted key, just as it was intended) for Linux. The generic "solution" is for you to add keys to your devices as trusted. Desktops and laptops with the Windows 8 logo let you add your own keys.
If you bought a shitty, locked-down tablet, your beef is with the device and the company that made it, not Secure Boot or MS, and certainly not UEFI.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Gee, I wonder why they've stopped showing DirectX / OS numbers? Everything else loads fine, but anything that might indicate operating system choice is suspiciously absent. Real talk: Linux + Steam has exactly fuckall users because exactly fuckall games run on it. Gaben may have made it a personal mission to make sure all their recent and upcoming games run on Linux, but none of the other publishers ever will. It's assloads more work and they don't see any benefit.
Valve owns Steam. They lose 0% when listing a game on Steam. They lose 30% when listing a game on the Windows 8 store (or whatever they call it). Valve would rather not do that, but if consumers get used to the Windows 8 store (as they have gotten used to Apple's, Google's, and Amazon's), Valve will be seeing a hit to their bottom line if they don't.
For any other publisher who doesn't run their own store, it's 30% to be listed on Steam, the Windows 8 store, Origin, whatever, so there's nothing lost by listing everywhere. Even retail has similar margins built in when you consider all costs. Unless you run your own store, you need your shit to be listed everywhere.
But getting your shit to run on Linux (or Mac) isn't worth the cost for the vast majority of developers. The instant MS announced their own store, Valve gained a major financial interest against Windows. Their recent, half-baked Linux push is a direct result of that financial interest. The truth is, however, that Linux isn't going to bring them additional revenue. If they actually want to fight against the Windows 8 store they could, you know, compete. Take a lower percentage of all sales. Charge less for game submission and updates. Get rid of the terrible, terrible submission process for "Indie" developers (are they still calling it Greenlight?). Or they could try something more antagonistic like fucking around with access to the Steam API, charging more/less based on where you list your game, etc. But so far all they've done is say "Boo Windows 8! Yay Linux! Here are a handful of games.".
I'd certainly be pleased if there were more decent games for Linux as I would then have more options. But their recent effort in that regard is nothing than a reaction to the Windows 8 store, and it's the wrong reaction. They should be taking a much lower cut of all sales, plain and simple. It's absurd that digital stores take the same cut as retail, and only competition can fix that.
You do realize Win8 has a desktop environment and your Win7 apps will work just fine, don't you? Geez, I can't understand how much this crap gets mentioned over and over here.
Yes, because software which doesn't run on Windows 7 and only runs on Windows XP will totally work on Windows 8 because Windows 8 has more in common with XP then 7 does because that makes sense.
Maybe you should learn reading comprehension before giving MS a public blowjob.
Maybe you should learn about Windows XP Mode.
You just set up a VM that runs XP, and you can even pin a program within that Windowx XP VM to your Windows 7 taskbar and set it to show only that application's window, so it's just like a natively running application to an end user.
I assume it's still around in Windows 8, though I'm not sure if the "Pro" or whatever license of 8 gives you a free XP license.
The only things that wouldn't work would be shit that depends on specific video drivers, or shit that needs to talk to external hardware that has no Windows Vista / 7 / 8 compatible x64 driver. Don't know how 16-bit programs would work.
When you progress to parent it will.
That's not progression. Hell, even regression would be preferential to that. I guess it would be subgression.
Those are not skills for this summer, those are skills for several summers ago.
And they are skills for some monkey slave. The trick with programming is that a competent programmer with access to the internet should be able to pick up a language they've never even heard of as they go.
Need to do X in language Y? Google.com. How to do X in Y. Read. Learn. Do.
Code monkeys may be able to read and do by copying, but they generally won't learn unless they spend an ungodly amount of time and effort on rote bullshit (i.e., formal certifications).
It's the application and business logic, external considerations, and the people that dictate them that are hard. If you have access to the internet, the language is the least of your worries as a programmer.
Works great as long as all your cables are perfectly straight. If you want to bend the cable, you need to plug it into an angled repeater.
The repeater, of course, requires an external power source.
So where should be put our harbors?
Oh look, it's h4rrh4r being an obtuse ignoramus again.
Harbors stay where they are.
Morons who who choose to populate the coast in extreme density get no bailout the next time their shit is wrecked due to obvious and predictable weather.
A natural disaster is only a disaster if you're a moron who doesn't pay attention or prepare. For everyone else, it's just nature.
Alternatively:
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.
How did I imply it would be free? I said I was willing to pay $2 in R&D to save $1 in oil. Obviously that means I'm expecting and willing to pay a 2x premium.
That's a 1x premium.
A premium is on top of the standard price. It is the amount which is over. It is 2 - 1 = 1.
The same goes when saying shit is x times faster or x % bigger.
A 10 inch cock is twice as big as a 5 inch cock. It is 2 times as big. It is 200% the size.
A 10 inch cock is once bigger than a 5 inch cock. It is 1 time bigger. It is 100% bigger in size.
Gee, why didn't the stupid staff of Ecuador's London embassy think of this briliant plan? Could it be because, unlike you, they are aware of the fact that diplomatic immunity laws and customs do not mean that a host country's police are obliged to stand around while a diplomat breaks the law on that host country's territory?
Actually, those laws mean exactly that. In all but the most extreme cases they are free to flout the law.
Title: [Someone I've Never Heard Of] [Verb Phrase] [Something I've Never Heard Of]
Summary: Long, incomprehensible mess peppered with links, quotes, name dropping of more people I've never heard of, actual symbols for (R) or (TM), plus a video.
Analysis: Slashvertisement.
Judgment: Slashdot is stagnated.
I defy anyone to dispute the facts I have presented.
No, it's not a myth. Embassies are typically considered foreign soil. Same goes for reservations in the US. If you kill someone and you're 1/8th native american you can run to the reservation and you're untouchable.
Use some sort of manacle device to secure Assange to an Ecuadorian diplomat. Something the authorities could not easily remove. A large steel box 2 feet long with two arm holes, for example. Open the box, one arm of the diplomat in, one arm of Assange in, close the box, lock it, keep the key(s) in the embassy.
They cannot force the embassy to produce the key(s).
They cannot detain the diplomat long enough for them to pick the lock(s).
They cannot try to break the device with cutting or burning tools due to risk of injury to the diplomat.
GTFO to Ecuador, then GTFO to the safest place (for Assange) where Ecuador has a diplomatic presence.
Send the keys over (or reproduce them, or have a second set waiting, etc.) and separate them.
He would have to apply for diplomatic status prior to entering the country. He can not apply after the fact, otherwise it opens the system up for abuse.
The country he is in right now is Ecuador, not the UK.
It's just a matter of the UK accepting his diplomatic status.
There's no bismuth like show bismuth
New and improved Pepto now treats cache misses!
Will be hard to work into the "Heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!" jingle, though.
I sure as fuck only have 1 phone and 0 tablets,
Yet another self-centred American extrapolating themselves as everyman.
You're just wrong, Get used to knowing that and you'll be a nicer person.
Get over yourself. Capitalism has spoken. People buy shit they don't need, use it for 5 minutes, then toss it.
You should be glad - in a few years the rivers of your shithole country will be filled with today's iPad. Maybe you can get one that's not completely ruined by sewage water damage.