Dammit! Until I read this, I had been proud of the inch-long cockroach corpse that had been lying on the ground near my desk for months. Biggest damn roach I'd ever seen in San Francisco, and I squashed it running right across the carpet. Only it didn't take much damage, other than dying; there it lay, legs folded up in death, antenna and all. But just now I turned around and it's GONE! Some bastard has stolen my gigantic dead cockroach, and I want answers.
When he comes for you with the brown shirts, I'll make sure to make sarcastic jokes as you're thrown in the pit.
On the plus side, when Obama conjures Satan from the pit and takes dominion over Earth with his Dark Fourth Reich from his skull-bedecked throne in Kenya, my demon-possessed body will be able to rise, come back, and admit I was wrong.
I'll admit that it could be a factor of economic class, but I'm more inclined to think that it's simply a societal norm that is quickly shifting thanks to better point-of-sale systems that make it a snap for the wait staff to handle.
The POS might make it easier to itemize people's bills if people hadn't got drunk during the course of the meal and decided to debate and ask questions about everything on their bill only to decide, "Yeah, you're right, my mistake." How many times would you want to go through that a night if you were a waiter?
Also, the POS doesn't make it any easier for a waiter to have to ring up five separate credit cards for a single table. In addition, splitting the bill among five people means the tip (which is the all-important part of a waiter's wages in the US, because it accounts for the majority of his/her earnings) is divided among five people, all of whom are more likely to leave a cheap tip because the other people at the table won't know what they're leaving.
And even if we're the outliers, I still see no reason to be embarrassed, given that the wait staff are being paid to do what they do
No they're not. Not in America. It depends on state and even municipality, but in many (most?) places, waitstaff are exempt from minimum wage laws. I repeat: exempt from minimum wage laws. They are legally expected to get most of their wages from tips. And I maintain that the more you split up the check between more people, the more work you make for the server (so what you're saying is "they get paid, but I deserve a bargain"), while at the same time you have less incentive to compensate the server fairly (because nobody else knows what you're paying).
The wait staff has never batted an eye, grumbled, given us a glare, or indicated that they're displeased.
That may be because they wait until they get away from the table and do their grumbling to other servers, because if they grumbled in front of the customers and the customers complained they would quickly get fired. But call me crazy.
They do it for you in America too, at least at every place I've eaten in the last 10 years where we've needed to split the check, as far as I can remember. Saying something like, "We're splitting that appetizer between the three of us, but this one only between those two, we're each covering our own entrées, and then I'm covering the dessert," is almost always met with either a "Could you repeat that again?" or a "No problem, I'll have the checks to you in a minute" response.
Wow. Not only would I feel utterly embarrassed to do that to a waiter, but where I live a lot of restaurants won't do it. It's not uncommon to see signs saying they won't split between more than two or three credit cards, either.
Maybe it's a factor of my age, too? As in, I'm not fresh out of school and most of the people I go out to eat with are going to be from more or less the same economic class as me, so we all just split the bill, or one person picks it up because they're feeling generous.
Your method just seems so petty and trifling to me, making way more work for the waitstaff than is necessary. If everybody wants to pay their own check, you should go somewhere where everyone can order individually, too. Like McDonald's.
Do you understand what "restitution" is? It is compensation for actual harm. If he intended to kill someone, but didn't actually harm anyone, then no restitution is needed.
He paid someone $80,000 for the torture and murder of a federal witness. The government tends to frown on that sort of thing. But I supposed to you that's a "victimless crime," because the person he paid was an undercover agent and nobody was actually tortured or murdered.
Like most restaurants, one DRIVES to it.(If you'd ever been there - or bothered to look at the linked article's photo - you'd have seen that.) There's no on-site parking; parking is on the public SF streets. Yes, there's a stairway down to the beach, but the front door faces a city street.
I think you'll find I've been there more recently than you. But the fact that you drive to the Cliff House (personally, I take the bus) doesn't change the fact that every single last square foot of the restaurant is on public land, owned by the National Park Service. The restaurant operates solely under a license from the National Park Service. If you look at its website, it says quite plainly that even the prices of its food are subject to approval by the National Park Service.
It's been a while since I was there, so I don't recall if there are Federal Marshalls as lifeguards, but I suspect not.
If you don't know, why boast about your ignorance as if it helps to prove your point? The currents on the coastline near the Cliff House are very hazardous to all but the strongest swimmers, and there are strong "rip currents" in the shallow areas that can pull unaware people out into deeper waters. People drown near there every year. The Park Service does employ lifeguards, but they're not the Baywatch kind that sit in towers and watch the surf. They mostly do visitor education and respond to rescue calls. In addition, among the agencies that respond when rescues are needed in the area are the San Francisco Fire Department, the US Coast Guard, and the US Park Police. Some of these agencies are still funded, while others aren't. So you tell me -- with the government shutdown, is it better to have the parks closed, or have them open but more dangerous to visitors due to diminished patrol capacity?
There's no on-site parking; parking is on the public SF streets.
That's incorrect. Again, check the website. The restaurant offers valet parking after 5pm. There are also parking lots nearby -- which, though they may abut city streets, are also on National Park Service land. (The one up the hill from the Cliff House may be city-owned; I'm not sure.)
Barack Obama is a spiteful, insecure, NASTY little man.
Yes yes yes, and a Muslim, and a Kenyan, and he eats babies for dinner. I heard he was monitoring some woman via radio waves so he could broadcast her life on TV, too. Now you're showing your true colors.
OK, give me the name and address of a shop where I can legally buy pot and I'll go there.
OK, fine, start here. It's a list of marijuana dispensaries in the Bay Area that's maintained by the local free weekly newspaper. These are not "drug dens," they are licensed businesses, and if you're capable of a little logic, you will put two and two together and realize that you can't get a license if there is no law governing it. Since there is a law, that makes it... with me so far?
You will need a recommendation from a doctor, which might set you back a couple hundred bucks. That's between you and your doctor. To get one, you may be required to be a California resident. Once you have a medical marijuana card and a valid picture ID, you can legally -- yes, legally -- buy marijuana in various forms from any of these places. Thanks to the California Compassionate Use Act of 1996, you may also be able to grow a fairly generous amount of marijuana for your own personal use, depending on which city you live in. Exact laws regarding the amounts you are legally allowed to possess and grow vary by municipality. You're welcome.
A federal Park Service Ranger admitted being ordered to make life as difficult as possible in order to make Americans feel the most pain as a result of the partial government shutdown
The link above is to a story that largely repeats claims made by the Washington Times, a far-right newspaper run by the Reverend Moon's Unification Church (aka the Moonies).
The quote from the so-called "angry park ranger" is completely unsourced: the ranger is never named, and the paper never even establishes who supposedly told him to "make life difficult." His cousin, maybe? His wife? A real newspaper would have called up the National Park Service and asked whether this was its policy. The Washington Times, unfortunately, is not a real newspaper.
Then the Examiner, which is not a newspaper but a blogging network, comes along and basically repeats everything the Washington Times says and throws in some comments from Fox Business to spice it up. Only Fox Business never actually mentions the word "dictatorship" -- that was the Examiner reporter's own color commentary.
Show me a legitimate news source that backs up these claims and we can talk about it.
The "Cliff House" restaurant in San Francisco is a privately owned and operated restaurant which is built on Federal land. It has no Federal employees. They _PAY RENT_ to the Feds.
But it's on National Park Service land which is currently closed. The entirety of Ocean Beach, which the Cliff House overlooks, is closed to visitors. How are customers supposed to go to the restaurant when they can't even set foot on the land? Your grossly slanted article makes it sound like Barack Obama himself called up the restaurant and told all the waiters and busboys to go home. He didn't. It was the private business that did that, because it doesn't make any sense to pay service staff when there are no customers to serve.
As for the other reply to your message, anyone who cites an article from the Washington Times, a newspaper owned and operated by the Unification Church -- which you and I know as the Moonies cult -- doesn't need me to debunk their claims.
The availability of MM doesn't mean that pot is legal.
I'm serious, man. Come to California, see how we do it, or just fucking grow a brain and stop talking about things you don't understand. There are countless people who legally sell pot here. Hundreds of thousands of people in California thank them for it.
A quick search suggests that only medical maruana is legal in California, other uses of it are still illegal albeit very minor.
An even quicker search of basic common sense suggests that most of the "medical" marijuana being used did not require a legitimate medical diagnosis. But since you obviously don't live in California, please continue.
Can anyone sell pot legally yet? I know Washington is still making the rules up, so at the moment it's legal to own but not yet sell.
In California there are plenty of "pot clubs" that sell everything from buds to hashish, where you can choose your flavor of each, to "edibles" that come in wrappers like any other candy bar that you'd buy in a store. And yes, it's legal.
On my 1920x1080 LCD, it looks retarded. There's as much whitespace running down the sides as there is content running down the middle.
Even worse, try shrinking your browser window to half of the width of the screen or so, so that there isn't so much wasted space. On my Windows machine, in Chrome, the entire layout explodes. UI elements disappear, images appear distorted, etc. I guess it's trying to switch to some kind of "mobile" view, but the whole thing looks absolutely atrocious when it happens on a big screen. It looks like a child designed it.
But that would be completely disregarding the trials of the current job market. The best thing would be to get your 4-year-old's CV onto Monster.com as soon as possible.
Et-hem I think you mean Dice.com, the Number One source for career advice for engineering and technology professionals. Please turn in you/. account.
Hey, watch it. This is Dave Eggers we're talking about. Dave fucking Eggers. Every time he sets his pen to paper, the entire staff of The New Yorker looks up from their screens and stops typing, just watching in stunned awe. Scientists have shown that each David Eggers book of the last 20 years has raised the collective IQ of the entire United States by an average of 6.2 points, even among people who had their friends tell them about it but never actually read it themselves. Another study showed that just holding a Dave Eggers book in your hand so that the cover is visible makes you 14 percent more attractive than conspicuously reading The New York Times Review of Books on the subway. I did my master's thesis on the electromagnetic properties of Dave Eggers (in places with low EMF interference, people have actually reported that their fillings started picking up signals from NPR when Eggers is around) and I can assure you, this man is a blessing upon the literary world no less significant than the Christ-child, and you are not fit to shine his shoes.
I think it's still OTC, in Canada at least. but I thought the US as well. You have to ask for it
As I understand it, in the US if "you have to ask for it" then it's not OTC. The only person you can "ask for" something from is a doctor. Pharmacists can advise you on things like drug interactions, etc., but they can't actually give you drugs without a prescription, and they can't write prescriptions themselves.
PC-DOS booted faster on that 0.33 MIPS machine than Windoze 8 does on a 300,000x faster processor today.
I see your point, and as hyperbole it works, but it actually is not true. I was there, I booted PC-DOS computers, I boot computers to Windows 8 today, and while it's true that today's hardware is radically more sophisticated, your point is false. I can boot an Acer tablet running Windows 8 in about half the time it took to boot a PC-DOS computer from floppy disks.
Actually, the 2011 Steven Soderbergh movie Contagion is a fairly realistic depiction of a pandemic and the reaction in the US and around the world. Well-researched, keeps the fearmongering to a minimum while still depicting a scary scenario. Takes into account the role of fringe media in spreading panic/pseudoscientific "cures," among other clever touches. A public health organization arranged for a free screening in my area, with a Q&A period afterward, if that gives you any indication of its accuracy.
Funny you mention this. When I got my first (and last) Android phone, I was honestly expecting a somewhat functional/scriptable Linux environment with Perl, some web server, and a sane package manager I imagined that I would be able to script behaviour and set up a cron job to make a call or connect to the net......
What a strange thing to say. Do you expect that of your consumer Wi-Fi router, too? I mean, sure, there are third-party firmwares that will let you do some of that stuff, but that's true of Android, too.
When did mobile devs get the collective meme to be lazy in mobile apps?
It's the platform vendors that are encouraging it. "Come make apps over here, kids, it's a goldmine! We need tens of thousands more apps by next week to help sell the platform, so get cracking!" A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft put out a tool that was basically a wizard-based UI for generating trivial, pointless "info about my restaurant!" apps. How are customers supposed to find the signal through all the noise when that's how the app store is run?
What I don't understand about this shocking new "alignment between Intel and Google" is that all of the Chrombooks up until the second-generation Samsung have used Intel chips. The first few used Atoms, and I think Acer is using something called a Celeron (though what goes by that brand these days, I'm not sure). Samsung's newest one uses its own Exynos chip, but it's unique in that. All of the rest of them use Intel chips. So what has changed, exactly?
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Yeah, this. I've never heard it called orgo. In fact, this description of the class does't ring any bells with me at all.
Dammit! Until I read this, I had been proud of the inch-long cockroach corpse that had been lying on the ground near my desk for months. Biggest damn roach I'd ever seen in San Francisco, and I squashed it running right across the carpet. Only it didn't take much damage, other than dying; there it lay, legs folded up in death, antenna and all. But just now I turned around and it's GONE! Some bastard has stolen my gigantic dead cockroach, and I want answers.
When he comes for you with the brown shirts, I'll make sure to make sarcastic jokes as you're thrown in the pit.
On the plus side, when Obama conjures Satan from the pit and takes dominion over Earth with his Dark Fourth Reich from his skull-bedecked throne in Kenya, my demon-possessed body will be able to rise, come back, and admit I was wrong.
I'll admit that it could be a factor of economic class, but I'm more inclined to think that it's simply a societal norm that is quickly shifting thanks to better point-of-sale systems that make it a snap for the wait staff to handle.
The POS might make it easier to itemize people's bills if people hadn't got drunk during the course of the meal and decided to debate and ask questions about everything on their bill only to decide, "Yeah, you're right, my mistake." How many times would you want to go through that a night if you were a waiter?
Also, the POS doesn't make it any easier for a waiter to have to ring up five separate credit cards for a single table. In addition, splitting the bill among five people means the tip (which is the all-important part of a waiter's wages in the US, because it accounts for the majority of his/her earnings) is divided among five people, all of whom are more likely to leave a cheap tip because the other people at the table won't know what they're leaving.
And even if we're the outliers, I still see no reason to be embarrassed, given that the wait staff are being paid to do what they do
No they're not. Not in America. It depends on state and even municipality, but in many (most?) places, waitstaff are exempt from minimum wage laws. I repeat: exempt from minimum wage laws. They are legally expected to get most of their wages from tips. And I maintain that the more you split up the check between more people, the more work you make for the server (so what you're saying is "they get paid, but I deserve a bargain"), while at the same time you have less incentive to compensate the server fairly (because nobody else knows what you're paying).
The wait staff has never batted an eye, grumbled, given us a glare, or indicated that they're displeased.
That may be because they wait until they get away from the table and do their grumbling to other servers, because if they grumbled in front of the customers and the customers complained they would quickly get fired. But call me crazy.
It's pretty standard practice in the Bay Area. Any more than six people and they'll probably add the gratuity to the bill automatically, too.
They do it for you in America too, at least at every place I've eaten in the last 10 years where we've needed to split the check, as far as I can remember. Saying something like, "We're splitting that appetizer between the three of us, but this one only between those two, we're each covering our own entrées, and then I'm covering the dessert," is almost always met with either a "Could you repeat that again?" or a "No problem, I'll have the checks to you in a minute" response.
Wow. Not only would I feel utterly embarrassed to do that to a waiter, but where I live a lot of restaurants won't do it. It's not uncommon to see signs saying they won't split between more than two or three credit cards, either.
Maybe it's a factor of my age, too? As in, I'm not fresh out of school and most of the people I go out to eat with are going to be from more or less the same economic class as me, so we all just split the bill, or one person picks it up because they're feeling generous.
Your method just seems so petty and trifling to me, making way more work for the waitstaff than is necessary. If everybody wants to pay their own check, you should go somewhere where everyone can order individually, too. Like McDonald's.
Do you understand what "restitution" is? It is compensation for actual harm. If he intended to kill someone, but didn't actually harm anyone, then no restitution is needed.
He paid someone $80,000 for the torture and murder of a federal witness. The government tends to frown on that sort of thing. But I supposed to you that's a "victimless crime," because the person he paid was an undercover agent and nobody was actually tortured or murdered.
Like most restaurants, one DRIVES to it.(If you'd ever been there - or bothered to look at the linked article's photo - you'd have seen that.) There's no on-site parking; parking is on the public SF streets. Yes, there's a stairway down to the beach, but the front door faces a city street.
I think you'll find I've been there more recently than you. But the fact that you drive to the Cliff House (personally, I take the bus) doesn't change the fact that every single last square foot of the restaurant is on public land, owned by the National Park Service. The restaurant operates solely under a license from the National Park Service. If you look at its website, it says quite plainly that even the prices of its food are subject to approval by the National Park Service.
It's been a while since I was there, so I don't recall if there are Federal Marshalls as lifeguards, but I suspect not.
If you don't know, why boast about your ignorance as if it helps to prove your point? The currents on the coastline near the Cliff House are very hazardous to all but the strongest swimmers, and there are strong "rip currents" in the shallow areas that can pull unaware people out into deeper waters. People drown near there every year. The Park Service does employ lifeguards, but they're not the Baywatch kind that sit in towers and watch the surf. They mostly do visitor education and respond to rescue calls. In addition, among the agencies that respond when rescues are needed in the area are the San Francisco Fire Department, the US Coast Guard, and the US Park Police. Some of these agencies are still funded, while others aren't. So you tell me -- with the government shutdown, is it better to have the parks closed, or have them open but more dangerous to visitors due to diminished patrol capacity?
There's no on-site parking; parking is on the public SF streets.
That's incorrect. Again, check the website. The restaurant offers valet parking after 5pm. There are also parking lots nearby -- which, though they may abut city streets, are also on National Park Service land. (The one up the hill from the Cliff House may be city-owned; I'm not sure.)
Barack Obama is a spiteful, insecure, NASTY little man.
Yes yes yes, and a Muslim, and a Kenyan, and he eats babies for dinner. I heard he was monitoring some woman via radio waves so he could broadcast her life on TV, too. Now you're showing your true colors.
OK, give me the name and address of a shop where I can legally buy pot and I'll go there.
OK, fine, start here. It's a list of marijuana dispensaries in the Bay Area that's maintained by the local free weekly newspaper. These are not "drug dens," they are licensed businesses, and if you're capable of a little logic, you will put two and two together and realize that you can't get a license if there is no law governing it. Since there is a law, that makes it ... with me so far?
You will need a recommendation from a doctor, which might set you back a couple hundred bucks. That's between you and your doctor. To get one, you may be required to be a California resident. Once you have a medical marijuana card and a valid picture ID, you can legally -- yes, legally -- buy marijuana in various forms from any of these places. Thanks to the California Compassionate Use Act of 1996, you may also be able to grow a fairly generous amount of marijuana for your own personal use, depending on which city you live in. Exact laws regarding the amounts you are legally allowed to possess and grow vary by municipality. You're welcome.
A federal Park Service Ranger admitted being ordered to make life as difficult as possible in order to make Americans feel the most pain as a result of the partial government shutdown
The link above is to a story that largely repeats claims made by the Washington Times, a far-right newspaper run by the Reverend Moon's Unification Church (aka the Moonies).
The quote from the so-called "angry park ranger" is completely unsourced: the ranger is never named, and the paper never even establishes who supposedly told him to "make life difficult." His cousin, maybe? His wife? A real newspaper would have called up the National Park Service and asked whether this was its policy. The Washington Times, unfortunately, is not a real newspaper.
Then the Examiner, which is not a newspaper but a blogging network, comes along and basically repeats everything the Washington Times says and throws in some comments from Fox Business to spice it up. Only Fox Business never actually mentions the word "dictatorship" -- that was the Examiner reporter's own color commentary.
Show me a legitimate news source that backs up these claims and we can talk about it.
And the Lincoln Memorial, which again, wasn't closed in the 1980s or 90s era shutdowns
That's weird. Whats this photograph of, then?
The "Cliff House" restaurant in San Francisco is a privately owned and operated restaurant which is built on Federal land. It has no Federal employees. They _PAY RENT_ to the Feds.
But it's on National Park Service land which is currently closed. The entirety of Ocean Beach, which the Cliff House overlooks, is closed to visitors. How are customers supposed to go to the restaurant when they can't even set foot on the land? Your grossly slanted article makes it sound like Barack Obama himself called up the restaurant and told all the waiters and busboys to go home. He didn't. It was the private business that did that, because it doesn't make any sense to pay service staff when there are no customers to serve.
As for the other reply to your message, anyone who cites an article from the Washington Times, a newspaper owned and operated by the Unification Church -- which you and I know as the Moonies cult -- doesn't need me to debunk their claims.
The availability of MM doesn't mean that pot is legal.
I'm serious, man. Come to California, see how we do it, or just fucking grow a brain and stop talking about things you don't understand. There are countless people who legally sell pot here. Hundreds of thousands of people in California thank them for it.
A quick search suggests that only medical maruana is legal in California, other uses of it are still illegal albeit very minor.
An even quicker search of basic common sense suggests that most of the "medical" marijuana being used did not require a legitimate medical diagnosis. But since you obviously don't live in California, please continue.
Can anyone sell pot legally yet? I know Washington is still making the rules up, so at the moment it's legal to own but not yet sell.
In California there are plenty of "pot clubs" that sell everything from buds to hashish, where you can choose your flavor of each, to "edibles" that come in wrappers like any other candy bar that you'd buy in a store. And yes, it's legal.
On my 1920x1080 LCD, it looks retarded. There's as much whitespace running down the sides as there is content running down the middle.
Even worse, try shrinking your browser window to half of the width of the screen or so, so that there isn't so much wasted space. On my Windows machine, in Chrome, the entire layout explodes. UI elements disappear, images appear distorted, etc. I guess it's trying to switch to some kind of "mobile" view, but the whole thing looks absolutely atrocious when it happens on a big screen. It looks like a child designed it.
But that would be completely disregarding the trials of the current job market. The best thing would be to get your 4-year-old's CV onto Monster.com as soon as possible.
Et-hem I think you mean Dice.com, the Number One source for career advice for engineering and technology professionals. Please turn in you /. account.
That would still be encouraging him to the "everything is handed to you on a silver platter" thinking model.
Exactly. The best thing would be to ship him off for a job at a meat-packing plant, so he can earn the money to buy his own fucking phone.
Hey, watch it. This is Dave Eggers we're talking about. Dave fucking Eggers. Every time he sets his pen to paper, the entire staff of The New Yorker looks up from their screens and stops typing, just watching in stunned awe. Scientists have shown that each David Eggers book of the last 20 years has raised the collective IQ of the entire United States by an average of 6.2 points, even among people who had their friends tell them about it but never actually read it themselves. Another study showed that just holding a Dave Eggers book in your hand so that the cover is visible makes you 14 percent more attractive than conspicuously reading The New York Times Review of Books on the subway. I did my master's thesis on the electromagnetic properties of Dave Eggers (in places with low EMF interference, people have actually reported that their fillings started picking up signals from NPR when Eggers is around) and I can assure you, this man is a blessing upon the literary world no less significant than the Christ-child, and you are not fit to shine his shoes.
I think it's still OTC, in Canada at least. but I thought the US as well. You have to ask for it
As I understand it, in the US if "you have to ask for it" then it's not OTC. The only person you can "ask for" something from is a doctor. Pharmacists can advise you on things like drug interactions, etc., but they can't actually give you drugs without a prescription, and they can't write prescriptions themselves.
PC-DOS booted faster on that 0.33 MIPS machine than Windoze 8 does on a 300,000x faster processor today.
I see your point, and as hyperbole it works, but it actually is not true. I was there, I booted PC-DOS computers, I boot computers to Windows 8 today, and while it's true that today's hardware is radically more sophisticated, your point is false. I can boot an Acer tablet running Windows 8 in about half the time it took to boot a PC-DOS computer from floppy disks.
Actually, the 2011 Steven Soderbergh movie Contagion is a fairly realistic depiction of a pandemic and the reaction in the US and around the world. Well-researched, keeps the fearmongering to a minimum while still depicting a scary scenario. Takes into account the role of fringe media in spreading panic/pseudoscientific "cures," among other clever touches. A public health organization arranged for a free screening in my area, with a Q&A period afterward, if that gives you any indication of its accuracy.
Funny you mention this. When I got my first (and last) Android phone, I was honestly expecting a somewhat functional/scriptable Linux environment with Perl, some web server, and a sane package manager I imagined that I would be able to script behaviour and set up a cron job to make a call or connect to the net......
What a strange thing to say. Do you expect that of your consumer Wi-Fi router, too? I mean, sure, there are third-party firmwares that will let you do some of that stuff, but that's true of Android, too.
When did mobile devs get the collective meme to be lazy in mobile apps?
It's the platform vendors that are encouraging it. "Come make apps over here, kids, it's a goldmine! We need tens of thousands more apps by next week to help sell the platform, so get cracking!" A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft put out a tool that was basically a wizard-based UI for generating trivial, pointless "info about my restaurant!" apps. How are customers supposed to find the signal through all the noise when that's how the app store is run?
What I don't understand about this shocking new "alignment between Intel and Google" is that all of the Chrombooks up until the second-generation Samsung have used Intel chips. The first few used Atoms, and I think Acer is using something called a Celeron (though what goes by that brand these days, I'm not sure). Samsung's newest one uses its own Exynos chip, but it's unique in that. All of the rest of them use Intel chips. So what has changed, exactly?