Alright, I'm going to go to your house, give you a dining table and chairs that you think looks ugly and force you to put it in your kitchen, ruining your decor and wasting space. And you won't have any choice but to keep it forever.
There's a difference between a gift which you are free to refuse and forcing unsolicited things on your users.
I have iTunes to automatically sync because I'm supposed to know what I'm syncing (auto-updates for apps are disabled). Apple just added an unknown 100MB+ to the list of things I knew I was downloading.
That still won't read your facial expression and that still won't solve the problem of moving around the virtual environment and interacting with the virtual objects. And all the technologies to patch these problems are only a stepping stone to a direct brain connection which will solve all those problems instantly.
- Apple pushed something on us that we did not ask for, just so that U2 could reach multi-platinum status with the latest album almost instantly.
- Apple forced the music taste of their CEO on everyone with an iTunes account. They should have set the album price to "free" and let people decide if they wanted it or not. Use their music in the iPhone 6 ads and write "U2 album available for free on iTunes until date xyz" at the end of the ad, no need for anything else.
- A lot of people have monthly data quotas, and some are always on the edge of going over it. Around 100MB might not seem like much, but on a cellphone plan of 2GB that's 5% wasted, or roughly a day and a half of data if you spread it over 30 days. Will Apple pay for the people who went over their monthly cap because of this publicity stunt? That certainly doesn't make the album "free" for those people, on the contrary.
- the iTunes algorithms make recommendations based on our purchases. Now, because of the "purchase" of this U2 album that I didn't ask for, I'll get recommendation for things I absolutely hate, which means Apple just destroyed their own recommendation system, which means I'll be ignoring recommendations from now on, which means less profits for Apple. How stupid is that.
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Yeah, I guess I should ask Slashdot if anyone knows what happened to Konashion because SuperDeepthroat hasn't been updated in a hwile.
Better to keep a backup on Earth and on Mars, just in case.
No, but both groups can walk and shit at the same time.
Forget single digits, in Canada the temperature gets into negative numbers. We use the metric system.
Alright, I'm going to go to your house, give you a dining table and chairs that you think looks ugly and force you to put it in your kitchen, ruining your decor and wasting space. And you won't have any choice but to keep it forever.
There's a difference between a gift which you are free to refuse and forcing unsolicited things on your users.
I have iTunes to automatically sync because I'm supposed to know what I'm syncing (auto-updates for apps are disabled). Apple just added an unknown 100MB+ to the list of things I knew I was downloading.
That still won't read your facial expression and that still won't solve the problem of moving around the virtual environment and interacting with the virtual objects. And all the technologies to patch these problems are only a stepping stone to a direct brain connection which will solve all those problems instantly.
Minecraft: the flamethrower. The kids love this one.
I see what you did there.
Who the heck is crazy enough to have Adobe Reader, Flash, Java and Silverlight on their computer these days?
FTFY
Click where? There's no link! I WANT FREE SHIT!
But that free music of the week isn't pushed in our libraries automatically, we have to decide to "purchase" it (for free).
At 19.95 per megabyte, a 100MB album will cost 2000 dollars.
Yeah, but deleting books frees up storage space.
Thank you Amazon!
Four things happened:
- Apple pushed something on us that we did not ask for, just so that U2 could reach multi-platinum status with the latest album almost instantly.
- Apple forced the music taste of their CEO on everyone with an iTunes account. They should have set the album price to "free" and let people decide if they wanted it or not. Use their music in the iPhone 6 ads and write "U2 album available for free on iTunes until date xyz" at the end of the ad, no need for anything else.
- A lot of people have monthly data quotas, and some are always on the edge of going over it. Around 100MB might not seem like much, but on a cellphone plan of 2GB that's 5% wasted, or roughly a day and a half of data if you spread it over 30 days. Will Apple pay for the people who went over their monthly cap because of this publicity stunt? That certainly doesn't make the album "free" for those people, on the contrary.
- the iTunes algorithms make recommendations based on our purchases. Now, because of the "purchase" of this U2 album that I didn't ask for, I'll get recommendation for things I absolutely hate, which means Apple just destroyed their own recommendation system, which means I'll be ignoring recommendations from now on, which means less profits for Apple. How stupid is that.
The oculus will not read your body language, your eyes, your stance, your arms, etc.
I agree with what Brendan is saying, however it's going to take something on the same level as the NerveGear from Sword Art Online.
Dude, 1994 wasn't 20 years... oh crap, I'm old.
Get off my lawn!
Good news everyone, the new Mac mini is almost certainly coming (and has been since december 7th, 2013).
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Is that affiliated with Stan's Previously Owned Cars?
When you buy an "entire car", they don't sell you an empty shell.
Le sigh.
I'm thinking that's because athletes are more likely to hit their watches while doing activities.
Transparent corrugated cardboard?
I'm glad at least one moderator got the joke.