When you have to install a lot of shit on the computer
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Intel Gives Up On TV
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Most companies never try to make something great (Apple being one exception, at least they try), most companies wants to make it as cheaply and as crappily as they can get away with. ie, getting away with = what people will still pay for.
Whilst calling Intel's offering crap might be too harsh, it was never promising or exciting, just their own little closed eco system. If we could get TV's running Honeycomb where you could sideload Apk's - you'd see such a TV system take of quickly, because all of the things they can't be bothered to add, or don't have the vision to add will be added by the army of dedicated manics out there programming freeware.
The whole point of the WWW was that it was supposed to be resolution independent - I know a lot of people have forgotten that, alas, since it makes the web more accessible for everybody if you can adjust font sizes.
My eyes aren't what they used to be and I would like a bigger font (and even if you can't imagine it YOU will also be in that situation sooner than you think) - if they lock down font size to get pages that would be bad for accessibility.
But you say, they could reflow and recalculate it. Yes, the could, but then what is the point of "pages" it would still be a long page with artificial breaks.
Plus there is nothing more annoying on the new 'generate as we fly using javascript' pages that you can't search for content.
Online shops already have a lot fewer expenses, if they don't have to pay sales tax like brick and mortar stores have to, those stores close. Less tax is paid, there is less money to run a decent human society and you are fucked (unless you are one of the rich who doesn't give a crap about ordinary people)
Oh, and clearly Amazon is not in favor of this, evidently they are in favor of paying no taxes anywhere, because they don't care that much about supporting society, beyond selling people crap they probably don't need.
"So now that global warming has been exposed as a fraud"
It hasn't.
"...we're supposed to be scared of the Sun as well?"
There are many ways the Sun is harmful to us, it has always been this way.
"Leave it to tree huggers to care more about ozone, which is poisonous, than human life."
Ozone preserves human life, if you remove it millions will die.
"I don't know about you but I'm perfectly capable of purchasing sunscreen. For the amount of money I'd save with the tried-and-true inhalers I could probably buy enough sunscreen to protect myself from this so-called "ultraviolet" light for a decade or more."
Just because you are unfortunate enough to live in a greedy country where most doesn't care about human life doesn't mean you have a right to side with them (those who don't care)
Except it all contributes. It like when you say "its only 50 cents" and then spend that on 5000 different things.
A cow burping sounds harmless enough, but the fact is its a problem for the planet because there are so many millions of cows who do it. You think too small in your little ego trip.
"The chances of an alcoholic with Asberger's being a master cyber-criminal are approximately zero, especially as he had been suspected of being a long-term troll elsewhere http://forums.readingfestival.com/m995896-print.aspx. "
Being a troll is not illegal, nor should it be - he is an asshole, but the world is full of them and strictly speaking he should be allowed to be a jerk - others will punishing by not caring about his company.
"There was a recent case in which a very stupid woman decided that shouting "bang! bang!" to a policeman who had been blinded in a high-profile shoot-out was amusing. She was extremely lucky not to get a substantial jail sentence...."
That too is a sick society, she shouldn't get a jail sentence for doing that - its stupid, she is an insensitive bitch, but not a jail sentence.
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In this day and age, why do they always upload this in some shitty lowres version recorded on someones Nokia phone from 1998?
1080p people!
Oh well.
What part of "8 hours" didn't you understand?
This information brought to you by the tobacco industry!
Forget about this + nonsense.
Just act like a decent moral human being. If you do "because" someone is going to blow the whistle on you.
if they change their opinion hence forth.
After all the are in it to make money, not to give you an open source orgasm.
Besides its early days yet, and that guy could just be a typical American idiot who can't string two coherent sentences together.
When you have to install a lot of shit on the computer
Most companies never try to make something great (Apple being one exception, at least they try), most companies wants to make it as cheaply and as crappily as they can get away with. ie, getting away with = what people will still pay for.
Whilst calling Intel's offering crap might be too harsh, it was never promising or exciting, just their own little closed eco system. If we could get TV's running Honeycomb where you could sideload Apk's - you'd see such a TV system take of quickly, because all of the things they can't be bothered to add, or don't have the vision to add will be added by the army of dedicated manics out there programming freeware.
The whole point of the WWW was that it was supposed to be resolution independent - I know a lot of people have forgotten that, alas, since it makes the web more accessible for everybody if you can adjust font sizes.
My eyes aren't what they used to be and I would like a bigger font (and even if you can't imagine it YOU will also be in that situation sooner than you think) - if they lock down font size to get pages that would be bad for accessibility.
But you say, they could reflow and recalculate it. Yes, the could, but then what is the point of "pages" it would still be a long page with artificial breaks.
Plus there is nothing more annoying on the new 'generate as we fly using javascript' pages that you can't search for content.
This is a bad idea.
Actually make that police world, you have no freedoms, if you think you do you are mistaken.
tl;dr, version:
Online shops already have a lot fewer expenses, if they don't have to pay sales tax like brick and mortar stores have to, those stores close. Less tax is paid, there is less money to run a decent human society and you are fucked (unless you are one of the rich who doesn't give a crap about ordinary people)
Oh, and clearly Amazon is not in favor of this, evidently they are in favor of paying no taxes anywhere, because they don't care that much about supporting society, beyond selling people crap they probably don't need.
Which is of course bullshit, because most of the time when they fight you they kill you or put you in jail.
It was all the freaks who worshiped him a like a god.
I use it daily!
This law was the best they could do with the obstruction from the republicans who don't care if their fellow Americans die.
Except your examples are not relevant.
They could have chosen other solutions.
Statistically most people end up paying a lot more on the microtransaction ones.
No? Not trying that then.
"So now that global warming has been exposed as a fraud"
It hasn't.
"...we're supposed to be scared of the Sun as well?"
There are many ways the Sun is harmful to us, it has always been this way.
"Leave it to tree huggers to care more about ozone, which is poisonous, than human life."
Ozone preserves human life, if you remove it millions will die.
"I don't know about you but I'm perfectly capable of purchasing sunscreen. For the amount of money I'd save with the tried-and-true inhalers I could probably buy enough sunscreen to protect myself from this so-called "ultraviolet" light for a decade or more."
Just because you are unfortunate enough to live in a greedy country where most doesn't care about human life doesn't mean you have a right to side with them (those who don't care)
Except it all contributes. It like when you say "its only 50 cents" and then spend that on 5000 different things.
A cow burping sounds harmless enough, but the fact is its a problem for the planet because there are so many millions of cows who do it. You think too small in your little ego trip.
Its ruining the planet, that's why people who like to preserve the planet would like idiots like you to stop using it.
"The chances of an alcoholic with Asberger's being a master cyber-criminal are approximately zero, especially as he had been suspected of being a long-term troll elsewhere http://forums.readingfestival.com/m995896-print.aspx. "
Being a troll is not illegal, nor should it be - he is an asshole, but the world is full of them and strictly speaking he should be allowed to be a jerk - others will punishing by not caring about his company.
"There was a recent case in which a very stupid woman decided that shouting "bang! bang!" to a policeman who had been blinded in a high-profile shoot-out was amusing. She was extremely lucky not to get a substantial jail sentence...."
That too is a sick society, she shouldn't get a jail sentence for doing that - its stupid, she is an insensitive bitch, but not a jail sentence.
Speak up son!
So Google sold them to HTC - now HTC has them and can start fighting others - that they fight Apple might be good, but who's next? Samsung?