I think you overestimate the average human. For example, please tell me exactly how far it would take your vehicle to stop from 60mph in current weather conditions with the current brake wear? Don't know? A computer would, and it could adjust speed accordingly, given condition of the brakes, weather, road conditions, even traffic information, because if all vehicles are reporting their gps location then your vehicle knows if there is another vehicle close by or not.
Your theory isn't holding up in the face of the data. Googles Cars have logged hundreds of thousands of miles and have one accident caused by human error.
Slow vehicle driving significantly black the prevailing speed cause accidents for other vehicles, while seldom getting hit themselves. They cause chain reaction fender benders two or three cars back, which they are seldom even aware of, and drive away, never to show up in accident statistics.
At least that's the theory put forth by those who perpetually drive over the speed limit.
Awww that's sucks! Then the drivers who are speeding are blamed! And the people driving the speed limit aren't even given a ticket. I'll remember this next time im driving, that speeding saves lives
Your theory isn't holding up in the face of the data. Googles Cars have logged hundreds of thousands of miles and have one accident caused by human error.
Hundreds of thousands of miles? That's nothing, Americans drive billions of miles each year, and I don't even need a source since that's pretty obvious, with 310+ million Americans each would only need to drive 3 miles a year to reach a billion.
agreed. And this is why I've never played a mmorpg more than a few hours. I'm scared to death I'm going to invest some real time in it and then have someone kill it someday and watch everything I enjoyed die in front of me. That's scary, watching a life I created and nurtured be killed with nothing to show for it.
It doesn't matter, what matters is that Apple is hurting all customers including their own, in the long run, by instigating spurious patent battles based on a rotten patent system. Whether it is an iphone, a Samsung phone or whatever else, you pay a hefty fee to lawyers anytime you buy a new phone.
Apple did change things a lot, or do you not remember what was considered a smartphone in 2005? iPhone came out and EVERYONE copied it. I don't blame them for being mad! Samsung didn't have to rip off apple, they could have little nubby antennas and a stylus aka 2005 smartphone, but no they copied exactly then cried when apple sued.
Now Samsung is being absurd and threatening to sue if apple makes a iPhone that works on 4G LTE? That's ridiculous, that's like suing ford for making vehicles that drive on the road.
I hate samsung for threatening with a ridiculous lawsuit over a patent that no one should have. Samsung = troll
There are quite a number of people out there that would sooner die then choose Apple because of their shiny retarded walled garden approach to computing.
In fact, I know quite a few people that won't choose Apple because of their walled garden, but don't even know what that is, or that the iStuff have one.
People just try both phones, and one you can configure, add all kinds of different things, and have a lot of similar apps to choose from, in the other you just can't, can't and don't. People don't need even knowledge of IT or business practices to notice that.
Now that I've tought about it, that's how Apple lost in the PC too.
That's ironic, because I actually like the walled garden. On the consumer side I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware or other garbage android has been known for, and on the developer side I rest easy knowing most people are not stealing my apps. It's a win-win.
Ya know what? Nothing wrong with cheap and "good enough" the problem has been their new designs are cheap and shitty thanks to that lame "half core" they went for.
You take a good 85%+ of the people out there and a MOR AMD Deneb quad will frankly be twiddling its thumbs because it will blow through any jobs that they have, even gaming, even more so for Thuban. And their Brazos chips were fricking great, an APU designed for mobile video and basic tasks that got great battery life while often being cheaper than an Atom+ION setup.
I've sold many an Athlon II and Phenom II and the people are damned happy with them, they just blast through everything they want to do with plenty of cycles left over. I even put my money where my mouth is with regards to my family, me and the oldest are gaming on Thubans while the youngest took my Deneb, and they blow through any game we throw at 'em.
I see from TFA they've partially dropped the "half core" design but I can only hope that with Piledriver they'll drive a stake through it, as most of the people I've talked to Win 8 is a DO NOT WANT yet the half core scheduler bug is only fixed in Win 8. Meh, hopefully I'll still be able to get enough Thuban, Deneb, and Liano chips to get me through the whole BD/SR phase and the new Apple chip designer they hired will give us another Athlon64. One can hope after all.
This. I have a six-core 1055T. Bought it to overclock and it does hit 4ghz stable on air but guess what? I run it at stock 2.8ghz. Why? Because 99.9% of the time six cores at 2.8ghz is more than enough. Even games run perfectly. CPUs have finally reached the point where faster isn't better anymore, its power usage and heat output. Rather have it run cool using little power at stock then run it full blast all the time sucking watts and heating the room at 4ghz I'm not even using.
When I bought this intel didn't have anything close in price that performed as well. Sure I could have spent double and bought a faster intel chip, but why? What was the point of spending more on something I wouldn't use? Rather spend the $ on a ssd for real performance gains then extra ghz I'd never use. So I bought AMD and I'll probably do it again next year if the price is reasonable and the speed is "good enough"
I'm wondering... why him? There's tons of crazies on the internet.... what made him so special? Did he say something that was correct? This sounds exactly like the Conspiracy Theory movie where Mel Gibon plays a crazy guy that self-publishes a little newsletter full of crazy conspiracies that everyone ignores until one of his conspiracies ends up being the truth and suddenly the FBI arrests him and put him in a mental institute... actually, this is exactly that, replace newsletter with Facebook and it's the movie. Who plays Julia Roberts in the real-life version?
Get both. I bought a first gen nook for $40 on ebay buy it now. There's tons on there at that price and it's a great reader. I wouldn't try surfing with it, it works but it's strange using the small touchscreen to navigate, but it's great as a ebook reader, and the battery lasts practically forever, I think I've charged it twice since March. I like that the large screen is not a touchscreen because I'll often rest my thumb on the screen while holding it.
At that price there's still plenty left over for a 16gb Google Nexus 7. Quad core tegra 3 and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with 16gb for $249.
Under $300 he'll have a great ebook reader and a great tablet.
I only live with my partner & there's many circumstances where I'm copying to/from my server while she's watching a video & vice versa. Then there's downloading a torrent on the server while both of us are accessing it. Even if it's one person, if you're watching a movie & even refresh the directory listing your movie would stop. This is probably the worst "Ask Slashdot" I've ever seen.
Written by someone with no grasp of technology & approved by someone with even less of a grasp on reality.
This.
When I read the question my first immediate thought was "how did this question ever get posted on/.?"
It doesn't matter if a tape drive has a 1000 megabyte per second transfer rate, you can't save one file at the beginning of the tape and play another file to the end at the same time.
Whoever wrote this and whoever approved it apparently doesn't know what a tape is. Hard drives are like CDs, you can be playing the first song and skip to the last song instantly. But tapes are tapes, if you are playing the first song or file and want to play the last song or file, you have to fast forward through the entire tape to get to that last file.
That is why tapes are used for storage, because you can not access two files at once. Even if you only want one file you have to wait a long time for the tape to find that file. Try waiting many seconds or minutes to find a movie on a tape to play, instead of a hard drive that can seek right to the file and play within milliseconds.
PayPal does not pay for hosting or customer service. Considering the cost of developing games for ps3, wii or xbox, the iPhone is extremely cheap at only $100 a year
I submit that this sort of story is overblown.Yes, this is one out of hundreds of characteristics on a list. Just having one or even fifty from the list doesn't mean any individual has crossed the threshold of "suspicious". Everyone on/. should be familiar with this sort of thing from spam filters.
Agreed - sort of. This is just one out of hundreds of characteristics, but the title is correct: Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious.
And it makes sense, why would someone not want to join a site where all your friends are? It's 2012 equivalent to a shut-in or recluse. People are naturally suspicious of someone that chooses not to join normal society.
And it's going to get worse before it gets better, even if Facebook is replaced, there will be another website most people join. Facebook has been popular for what, 6, 7 years? There are teenagers today that don't remember life without Facebook, and as those teens become adults it's going to sound more perverse to hear someone say "I do not have a Facebook account"
Even now, I know people who have been denied jobs, apartments and loans because they do not have a Facebook account, because Facebook is a great tool to contact everyone you "know" to check background and try and reach you if something happens i.e. steal and skip town, etc
That's a good point, if someone did get, say 90% of the sites out there to offer a single sign on, what's to stop them from charging the websites a huge fee? Or the users? Pay us or else! If Facebook charged I could leave, if gmail charged I could stop using email, but what if I used my Facebook login to login the slashdot and other websites? What then? Lose all my accounts? What a nightmare! No thanks, I'll remember a few passwords instead.
People must be F'in cheap if they aren't willing to spend 99 cents. If I see a Kindle book for 99 cents I just grab it; I'm not wasting time trying to find a free pirate version. (shrug). So much for the "We would buy your product if it were cheap enough" excuse. It's been officially debunked.
article says iOS selling well at 99 cents, much less piracy.
Problem with Android is they make it far too easy to steal. I've had an iPhone for years and I've never bothered to jailbreak it because it's just not worth saving the 99 cents some app costs. If I could just go to some website and steal iOS games like you can with Android I probably would.
Doesn't matter if you have the best selling phone, if 90% of your customers steal apps, you won't have developers making apps, and who wants a smartphone just to make phone calls on?
"Free game!" might sound great for Android, but really this is great for iOS, means developers will flock to iOS to make $$$$, leading to more quality games on iOS.
This is why I do not have a google+ account or android phone.... because next thing you know they'll want you to post your GPS location next to your comment and maybe even a "call now" button.
How far does google have to go before we can start calling them evil?
Get a container which is airtight and watertight. Pump it full of nitrogen.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
Cheaper, better option: any container, filled with large ziplock bags. I have bought 2.5 gallon bags at Walmart so they're easy to find, and they're very cheap, pennies per bag. I bought some to hold a 1 gallon gas can where I did not want the gas to possibly leak out and was hoping to prevent any gas fumes. It worked, the bags are completely air-tight. And you can always double or triple bag your items. However ziplock bags are not puncture proof, so you will want a container outside the bags if you're concerned about something possibly cutting through the bag.
But I would recommend you include whatever player you need within the chest along with an AC charger. US AC plugs have not changed since electricity became standard. Media player does not need to be high-tech, any old laptop will do as long as you can remove the battery and store it separately or remove from chest completely so if it does corrode or possibly explode it won't damage the laptop. I would put the data on the laptop hard drive and also on SD cards or thumbdrives since they should be fine with no moving parts and costing about 50 cents a gigabyte they're very cheap.
Best to remove the battery now - if you can't figure out how to do that, buy something that can be serviced instead.
why not use a device with a removable battery and include a charger? I'm sure we'll still be using the same power outlets in 2037, US AC plugs have not changed since electricity became common. At least if the battery explodes or leaks it doesn't corrupt the device and the charger should provide power even with a completely dead or missing battery.
If including a charger is not possible, use any device that uses AA batteries. AA batteries have gone unchanged since they became a standard in 1947 and they were in use long before becoming a standard. The also account for half of all battery sales, and with that many devices using AA batteries you can be sure standard AA batteries will be around for a long, long time.
Once again, An innaccurate headline fools most of the slashdot readers. Seriously folks, click on the article and just scroll down to the full McDonald's letter. It is seven sentences long and says essentially that the employees deny Dr. Mann's account but that McDonald's is still investigating. Dr. Mann has not yet responded to their queries. Nowhere is it even implied that they are denying Dr. Mann's claims.
wrong. There are no modern android phones that offer a 3.5" screen or smaller. There are a few off brands or import models, but that is it and they do not offer the modern specs the new 4"+ models offer. And if you don't agree with his blog, don't read it, you don't have to agree with everything on the internet
This is their astroturf, like that asinine "Google doesn't get packaging" Slashvertisement earlier.
Oh so if someone doesn't like something it's automatically astroturf by competitors?
I see what you did there.... hey I don't like my truck getting 16mpg, guess I must be working for Toyota trying to sell prius?
But last I checked Toyota doesn't need help selling Pruis, just like Apple doesn't really need help selling iPhones. I don't think they're the top selling anymore but they're still doing very well.
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That's why Windows Phones don't look like iPhones, and it's why Microsoft is losing in mobile.
And here we thought it was because the inertia of the poor history of Microsoft phones in general.
Or it could be Microsoft was late to the finger touchscreen game and held on to styluses for far too long.
I think you overestimate the average human. For example, please tell me exactly how far it would take your vehicle to stop from 60mph in current weather conditions with the current brake wear? Don't know? A computer would, and it could adjust speed accordingly, given condition of the brakes, weather, road conditions, even traffic information, because if all vehicles are reporting their gps location then your vehicle knows if there is another vehicle close by or not.
Your theory isn't holding up in the face of the data. Googles Cars have logged hundreds of thousands of miles and have one accident caused by human error.
Slow vehicle driving significantly black the prevailing speed cause accidents for other vehicles, while seldom getting hit themselves. They cause chain reaction fender benders two or three cars back, which they are seldom even aware of, and drive away, never to show up in accident statistics.
At least that's the theory put forth by those who perpetually drive over the speed limit.
Awww that's sucks! Then the drivers who are speeding are blamed! And the people driving the speed limit aren't even given a ticket. I'll remember this next time im driving, that speeding saves lives
Your theory isn't holding up in the face of the data. Googles Cars have logged hundreds of thousands of miles and have one accident caused by human error.
Hundreds of thousands of miles? That's nothing, Americans drive billions of miles each year, and I don't even need a source since that's pretty obvious, with 310+ million Americans each would only need to drive 3 miles a year to reach a billion.
agreed. And this is why I've never played a mmorpg more than a few hours. I'm scared to death I'm going to invest some real time in it and then have someone kill it someday and watch everything I enjoyed die in front of me. That's scary, watching a life I created and nurtured be killed with nothing to show for it.
It doesn't matter, what matters is that Apple is hurting all customers including their own, in the long run, by instigating spurious patent battles based on a rotten patent system. Whether it is an iphone, a Samsung phone or whatever else, you pay a hefty fee to lawyers anytime you buy a new phone.
Apple did change things a lot, or do you not remember what was considered a smartphone in 2005? iPhone came out and EVERYONE copied it. I don't blame them for being mad! Samsung didn't have to rip off apple, they could have little nubby antennas and a stylus aka 2005 smartphone, but no they copied exactly then cried when apple sued.
Now Samsung is being absurd and threatening to sue if apple makes a iPhone that works on 4G LTE? That's ridiculous, that's like suing ford for making vehicles that drive on the road.
I hate samsung for threatening with a ridiculous lawsuit over a patent that no one should have. Samsung = troll
In fact, I know quite a few people that won't choose Apple because of their walled garden, but don't even know what that is, or that the iStuff have one.
People just try both phones, and one you can configure, add all kinds of different things, and have a lot of similar apps to choose from, in the other you just can't, can't and don't. People don't need even knowledge of IT or business practices to notice that.
Now that I've tought about it, that's how Apple lost in the PC too.
That's ironic, because I actually like the walled garden. On the consumer side I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware or other garbage android has been known for, and on the developer side I rest easy knowing most people are not stealing my apps. It's a win-win.
Ya know what? Nothing wrong with cheap and "good enough" the problem has been their new designs are cheap and shitty thanks to that lame "half core" they went for.
You take a good 85%+ of the people out there and a MOR AMD Deneb quad will frankly be twiddling its thumbs because it will blow through any jobs that they have, even gaming, even more so for Thuban. And their Brazos chips were fricking great, an APU designed for mobile video and basic tasks that got great battery life while often being cheaper than an Atom+ION setup.
I've sold many an Athlon II and Phenom II and the people are damned happy with them, they just blast through everything they want to do with plenty of cycles left over. I even put my money where my mouth is with regards to my family, me and the oldest are gaming on Thubans while the youngest took my Deneb, and they blow through any game we throw at 'em.
I see from TFA they've partially dropped the "half core" design but I can only hope that with Piledriver they'll drive a stake through it, as most of the people I've talked to Win 8 is a DO NOT WANT yet the half core scheduler bug is only fixed in Win 8. Meh, hopefully I'll still be able to get enough Thuban, Deneb, and Liano chips to get me through the whole BD/SR phase and the new Apple chip designer they hired will give us another Athlon64. One can hope after all.
This. I have a six-core 1055T. Bought it to overclock and it does hit 4ghz stable on air but guess what? I run it at stock 2.8ghz. Why? Because 99.9% of the time six cores at 2.8ghz is more than enough. Even games run perfectly. CPUs have finally reached the point where faster isn't better anymore, its power usage and heat output. Rather have it run cool using little power at stock then run it full blast all the time sucking watts and heating the room at 4ghz I'm not even using.
When I bought this intel didn't have anything close in price that performed as well. Sure I could have spent double and bought a faster intel chip, but why? What was the point of spending more on something I wouldn't use? Rather spend the $ on a ssd for real performance gains then extra ghz I'd never use. So I bought AMD and I'll probably do it again next year if the price is reasonable and the speed is "good enough"
There didn't need to be any monitoring, his wall was left for anyone to read.
http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall
I've seen worse posted by /. trolls.
I'm wondering... why him? There's tons of crazies on the internet.... what made him so special? Did he say something that was correct? This sounds exactly like the Conspiracy Theory movie where Mel Gibon plays a crazy guy that self-publishes a little newsletter full of crazy conspiracies that everyone ignores until one of his conspiracies ends up being the truth and suddenly the FBI arrests him and put him in a mental institute... actually, this is exactly that, replace newsletter with Facebook and it's the movie. Who plays Julia Roberts in the real-life version?
Get both. I bought a first gen nook for $40 on ebay buy it now. There's tons on there at that price and it's a great reader. I wouldn't try surfing with it, it works but it's strange using the small touchscreen to navigate, but it's great as a ebook reader, and the battery lasts practically forever, I think I've charged it twice since March. I like that the large screen is not a touchscreen because I'll often rest my thumb on the screen while holding it.
At that price there's still plenty left over for a 16gb Google Nexus 7. Quad core tegra 3 and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with 16gb for $249.
Under $300 he'll have a great ebook reader and a great tablet.
Whoever wrote this and whoever approved it apparently doesn't know what a tape is.
Or... it was approved by someone who knew exactly what a tape is, and the frenzy of yelling and yapping the topic would produce.
Good point, this would have been great if posted April 1st
I only live with my partner & there's many circumstances where I'm copying to/from my server while she's watching a video & vice versa. Then there's downloading a torrent on the server while both of us are accessing it. Even if it's one person, if you're watching a movie & even refresh the directory listing your movie would stop. This is probably the worst "Ask Slashdot" I've ever seen.
Written by someone with no grasp of technology & approved by someone with even less of a grasp on reality.
This.
/.?"
When I read the question my first immediate thought was "how did this question ever get posted on
It doesn't matter if a tape drive has a 1000 megabyte per second transfer rate, you can't save one file at the beginning of the tape and play another file to the end at the same time.
Whoever wrote this and whoever approved it apparently doesn't know what a tape is. Hard drives are like CDs, you can be playing the first song and skip to the last song instantly. But tapes are tapes, if you are playing the first song or file and want to play the last song or file, you have to fast forward through the entire tape to get to that last file.
That is why tapes are used for storage, because you can not access two files at once. Even if you only want one file you have to wait a long time for the tape to find that file. Try waiting many seconds or minutes to find a movie on a tape to play, instead of a hard drive that can seek right to the file and play within milliseconds.
PayPal does not pay for hosting or customer service. Considering the cost of developing games for ps3, wii or xbox, the iPhone is extremely cheap at only $100 a year
Sounds like officespace
Even now, I know people who have been denied jobs, apartments and loans because they do not have a Facebook account,
Sounds to me like a great case for discrimination to me.
I don't think you understand what discrimination is...
I submit that this sort of story is overblown.Yes, this is one out of hundreds of characteristics on a list. Just having one or even fifty from the list doesn't mean any individual has crossed the threshold of "suspicious". Everyone on /. should be familiar with this sort of thing from spam filters.
Agreed - sort of. This is just one out of hundreds of characteristics, but the title is correct: Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious.
And it makes sense, why would someone not want to join a site where all your friends are? It's 2012 equivalent to a shut-in or recluse. People are naturally suspicious of someone that chooses not to join normal society.
And it's going to get worse before it gets better, even if Facebook is replaced, there will be another website most people join. Facebook has been popular for what, 6, 7 years? There are teenagers today that don't remember life without Facebook, and as those teens become adults it's going to sound more perverse to hear someone say "I do not have a Facebook account"
Even now, I know people who have been denied jobs, apartments and loans because they do not have a Facebook account, because Facebook is a great tool to contact everyone you "know" to check background and try and reach you if something happens i.e. steal and skip town, etc
That's a good point, if someone did get, say 90% of the sites out there to offer a single sign on, what's to stop them from charging the websites a huge fee? Or the users? Pay us or else! If Facebook charged I could leave, if gmail charged I could stop using email, but what if I used my Facebook login to login the slashdot and other websites? What then? Lose all my accounts? What a nightmare! No thanks, I'll remember a few passwords instead.
People must be F'in cheap if they aren't willing to spend 99 cents. If I see a Kindle book for 99 cents I just grab it; I'm not wasting time trying to find a free pirate version. (shrug). So much for the "We would buy your product if it were cheap enough" excuse. It's been officially debunked.
article says iOS selling well at 99 cents, much less piracy.
Problem with Android is they make it far too easy to steal. I've had an iPhone for years and I've never bothered to jailbreak it because it's just not worth saving the 99 cents some app costs. If I could just go to some website and steal iOS games like you can with Android I probably would.
Doesn't matter if you have the best selling phone, if 90% of your customers steal apps, you won't have developers making apps, and who wants a smartphone just to make phone calls on?
"Free game!" might sound great for Android, but really this is great for iOS, means developers will flock to iOS to make $$$$, leading to more quality games on iOS.
This is why I do not have a google+ account or android phone.... because next thing you know they'll want you to post your GPS location next to your comment and maybe even a "call now" button.
How far does google have to go before we can start calling them evil?
Get a container which is airtight and watertight. Pump it full of nitrogen.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
Cheaper, better option: any container, filled with large ziplock bags. I have bought 2.5 gallon bags at Walmart so they're easy to find, and they're very cheap, pennies per bag. I bought some to hold a 1 gallon gas can where I did not want the gas to possibly leak out and was hoping to prevent any gas fumes. It worked, the bags are completely air-tight. And you can always double or triple bag your items. However ziplock bags are not puncture proof, so you will want a container outside the bags if you're concerned about something possibly cutting through the bag.
But I would recommend you include whatever player you need within the chest along with an AC charger. US AC plugs have not changed since electricity became standard. Media player does not need to be high-tech, any old laptop will do as long as you can remove the battery and store it separately or remove from chest completely so if it does corrode or possibly explode it won't damage the laptop. I would put the data on the laptop hard drive and also on SD cards or thumbdrives since they should be fine with no moving parts and costing about 50 cents a gigabyte they're very cheap.
Best to remove the battery now - if you can't figure out how to do that, buy something that can be serviced instead.
why not use a device with a removable battery and include a charger? I'm sure we'll still be using the same power outlets in 2037, US AC plugs have not changed since electricity became common. At least if the battery explodes or leaks it doesn't corrupt the device and the charger should provide power even with a completely dead or missing battery.
If including a charger is not possible, use any device that uses AA batteries. AA batteries have gone unchanged since they became a standard in 1947 and they were in use long before becoming a standard. The also account for half of all battery sales, and with that many devices using AA batteries you can be sure standard AA batteries will be around for a long, long time.
Once again, An innaccurate headline fools most of the slashdot readers. Seriously folks, click on the article and just scroll down to the full McDonald's letter. It is seven sentences long and says essentially that the employees deny Dr. Mann's account but that McDonald's is still investigating. Dr. Mann has not yet responded to their queries. Nowhere is it even implied that they are denying Dr. Mann's claims.
Forbes article confirms Mann was asked to leave
"Update: A McDonald’s spokesperson confirms that Mann was in fact asked to leave the restaurant,"
So McDonalds is confirming that they did tell Mann to leave, just like I said, now they're arguing over the manner in which he left. Mann provided this photo which confirms it was physical.
Wow... never thought I would see the day where saying a M$ product was bad would be marked a TROLL on /.
wrong. There are no modern android phones that offer a 3.5" screen or smaller. There are a few off brands or import models, but that is it and they do not offer the modern specs the new 4"+ models offer. And if you don't agree with his blog, don't read it, you don't have to agree with everything on the internet
Apple only sell one size.
This is their astroturf, like that asinine "Google doesn't get packaging" Slashvertisement earlier.
Oh so if someone doesn't like something it's automatically astroturf by competitors?
I see what you did there.... hey I don't like my truck getting 16mpg, guess I must be working for Toyota trying to sell prius?
But last I checked Toyota doesn't need help selling Pruis, just like Apple doesn't really need help selling iPhones. I don't think they're the top selling anymore but they're still doing very well.