Honestly, from an ethical standpoint, the Federal Government (that is, We the People) would be fully justified in telling them "net neutrality or give us our 500 billion back now".
But from a political standpoint, doing that would be career suicide.
The most evil person in the world would theoretically be someone who was intelligent, rational, calm, and had absolutely no inherent regard for human life and no issues with causing suffering if it met his goals.
So it would be someone related to a law field, like politicians or lawyers. Several (not all) have the aptitude and attitude you describe.
As far as I am concerned, the more stuff that gets pumped out through STEAM, the better. I pretty much refuse to buy games these days unless its through STEAM, because I am afraid that I will lose the discs or CD-Keys but STEAM will likely at least outlive my game-playing days.
But if STEAM does fall you get screwed over backwards. I can't believe that people that hate drm so much love STEAM, because its still a form of drm.
Which if they did that they would lose a shitload of their customers(As long as the government hasn't stepped in and granted a monopoly) to their competition.
See. Both governments and and big business suck. The difference is I can stop paying for cable or phone service.
If I decide to quit paying for U.S. Government services they come and take me away.
You can move out of the country.
Just because options are not good doesn't mean that they do not exist.
I would say Microsoft could probably move into the gaming more than a mobile platform. Right now they could kill sony real quick if they played the cards right and Nintendo would still be in its niche market (Ok, its a large niche but it still is.)
Maybe in future versions of MacOS there will be new keyboard features, or a simpler/different keyboard communications protocol, and a firmware update will allow you to keep using your existing KB, instead of throwing it away and buying a brand new next-edition KB?
Are we thinking of the same Apple? They always want you to buy the new shiny, not upgrade the old one.
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Honestly, from an ethical standpoint, the Federal Government (that is, We the People) would be fully justified in telling them "net neutrality or give us our 500 billion back now".
But from a political standpoint, doing that would be career suicide.
You cannot unsee what has been seen.
The most evil person in the world would theoretically be someone who was intelligent, rational, calm, and had absolutely no inherent regard for human life and no issues with causing suffering if it met his goals.
So it would be someone related to a law field, like politicians or lawyers. Several (not all) have the aptitude and attitude you describe.
Given your UID I would hope you have heard of these, they are called "slashvertisements".
We have something similar to that and its called "twitter".
It used to be printed on the SS cards that you couldn't use the SSN for anything other than government uses and corporations did it anyway.
As far as I am concerned, the more stuff that gets pumped out through STEAM, the better. I pretty much refuse to buy games these days unless its through STEAM, because I am afraid that I will lose the discs or CD-Keys but STEAM will likely at least outlive my game-playing days.
But if STEAM does fall you get screwed over backwards. I can't believe that people that hate drm so much love STEAM, because its still a form of drm.
Which if they did that they would lose a shitload of their customers(As long as the government hasn't stepped in and granted a monopoly) to their competition.
See. Both governments and and big business suck. The difference is I can stop paying for cable or phone service.
If I decide to quit paying for U.S. Government services they come and take me away.
You can move out of the country.
Just because options are not good doesn't mean that they do not exist.
Is there anything it *can*?
It can be annoying.
Definitely not any faster than Google would kill off Microsoft.
They do know "OMG, This is taking forever", and "$MARKETING_BUZZWORD"
I would say Microsoft could probably move into the gaming more than a mobile platform. Right now they could kill sony real quick if they played the cards right and Nintendo would still be in its niche market (Ok, its a large niche but it still is.)
I think I saw that same comment on Facebook, except they were talking about Slashdot instead of Twitter.
I say it about the chans daily.
But that isn't news at all. They always sucked.
If we Americans go above and beyond we might question why we ever left.
At least 100, most likely more.
Where did NYCL get his law degree? I would like to know where these "good" law schools are in America.
1 word:
Transformers!
But Transformers are GM vehicles.
But I thought the Japanese invented Gundam Suits and various Mech armors like that.
Maybe in future versions of MacOS there will be new keyboard features, or a simpler/different keyboard communications protocol, and a firmware update will allow you to keep using your existing KB, instead of throwing it away and buying a brand new next-edition KB?
Are we thinking of the same Apple? They always want you to buy the new shiny, not upgrade the old one.
that this will be just about the equivalent of the virtual boy for TV sets in more ways than one.
Will it only show black and red as well?
How many female sex offenders do you think there is anyway?
So they're knowingly defrauding the buyer by intentionally selling something not fit for purpose?
I assume our wise and courageous Justice Department will hand down indictments any minute!
They would, against the consumers for bitching about it.
Unless the girl's parents flip out and force her to criminalize the guy. It happens more often than you might think.
Smart interfaces are a bad idea, because you can never be sure how they will respond.
To a degree, they can only do what they have been programmed to do.
Dumb interfaces are predictable tools so they require less brain power to use than the two-way dialog of smart interfaces.
I wouldn't say dumb interfaces require less brain power at all. In fact they might require more because you might learn something doing it.
With dumb interfaces I can fire off a long string of commands without having to stop and think between each one.
Only because you already know those commands and have them memorized.
This improves productivity more than any supposedly intelligent interface will.
After the learning curve of entry, sure.