You don't have to use it - a perfectly normal desktop is there if you want to use it. Bitching about this is like complaining that Calculator is a piss-poor Control Panel. Technically correct, but entirely pointless.
Then that's a problem with your phone, and not the cloud. My Android works just fine when not connected to the internet. It's got a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, so it's not exactly dumb.
Well, you could go on by mentioning the countries and years in which currencies have worked well enough to provide the benefits stated, but that would blow your argument out of the water.
You are assuming you see everything near your vehicle, which is clearly impossible unless you are not driving your car. You can't look at something and look at everything else at the same time.
Hmm. How about just not living on campus? I didn't. I shared a house with a bunch of folks, and we were free to get all the unfiltered internets we could carry, and lived like normal people.
The uni IT guys have to maintain a network, and so if unrestricted access is given to all, there really is a great risk that their network will become host to all kinds of messed-up crap which stops students from actually studying. So yeah, your 10pm wank might be shelved, but your 9am lecture is actually feasible. Installing a student's own DSL line is fraught with issues regarding telephony infrastructure, and I doubt the university wants loads of telco workers traipsing around messing with wires at all hours because said 10pm wank is not working.
If there is a problem, talk to the student union. Just don't assume the university is doing the wrong thing - they probably have concerns you've not even thought of.
So you don't have a point, you're just upset with who you assume Bill Gates to be, regardless of how accurately your idea resembles the real-life Bill Gates. Muppet.
If you want to get cheaper insurance by having your car's position monitored, it's a bit stupid to then complain that your car's position is being monitored. The only slippery slope you described is people wanting stuff they don't want to pay for. And of course rental companies can give you a fine if you break the law in one of their vehicles. "Traffic management" is up to whoever owns the traffic or is responsible for its safe use.
What's baffled me is why the craft carries a component gas of air in its fuel so it can force itself through the air, instead of using oxygen from the air while it can, and using wings to make the dense atmosphere help it climb efficiently. I guess materials and manufacturing for that would have been pretty tricky back in the day.
You are confusing city pigeons and wild pigeons. Causing pain and suffering by shooting far more pigeons than you can prepare and eventually eat is hardly a paradigm of humanity, just destruction for destruction's sake.
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So let's not even try once?
And it's "Oh, brother", not "Oh, bother".
Decades of history of NK under Jong-un? Interesting.
The Metro UI is not an OS. You can still use the normal desktop UI if you want, which I'm sure most desktop computer users will.
You don't have to use it - a perfectly normal desktop is there if you want to use it. Bitching about this is like complaining that Calculator is a piss-poor Control Panel. Technically correct, but entirely pointless.
And there's a very good chance your own hardware/software would also suffer downtime in the same period.
Then that's a problem with your phone, and not the cloud. My Android works just fine when not connected to the internet. It's got a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, so it's not exactly dumb.
Except this time you can add as many mainframes you wanted, dynamically. And access them over the internet. And serve content to millions of people over said internet. That wasn't possible with this clichéd "mainframes!!!!!1" nonsense. Yes, you are using a remote computer. That's the only similarity. The current terminals are far from dumb, and the server being connected to is vastly different to the mainframes of old.
Well, you could go on by mentioning the countries and years in which currencies have worked well enough to provide the benefits stated, but that would blow your argument out of the water.
Next time you should not assume such things, as it makes you look a bit knee-jerky-fox-watchy.
So dorms shouldn't have access to the university network. Genius.
Far less than 1% isn't exactly expensive, and in 2 years it'll be even cheaper.
You are assuming you see everything near your vehicle, which is clearly impossible unless you are not driving your car. You can't look at something and look at everything else at the same time.
No-one said it was.
The facts disagree with your position.
Hmm. How about just not living on campus? I didn't. I shared a house with a bunch of folks, and we were free to get all the unfiltered internets we could carry, and lived like normal people.
The uni IT guys have to maintain a network, and so if unrestricted access is given to all, there really is a great risk that their network will become host to all kinds of messed-up crap which stops students from actually studying. So yeah, your 10pm wank might be shelved, but your 9am lecture is actually feasible. Installing a student's own DSL line is fraught with issues regarding telephony infrastructure, and I doubt the university wants loads of telco workers traipsing around messing with wires at all hours because said 10pm wank is not working.
If there is a problem, talk to the student union. Just don't assume the university is doing the wrong thing - they probably have concerns you've not even thought of.
If only motorists could bring their own lights with them when they drive. That would alleviate those issues greatly. But alas.
Anyone misusing "RSVP" so badly is a muppet.
So you don't have a point, you're just upset with who you assume Bill Gates to be, regardless of how accurately your idea resembles the real-life Bill Gates. Muppet.
If you want to get cheaper insurance by having your car's position monitored, it's a bit stupid to then complain that your car's position is being monitored. The only slippery slope you described is people wanting stuff they don't want to pay for. And of course rental companies can give you a fine if you break the law in one of their vehicles. "Traffic management" is up to whoever owns the traffic or is responsible for its safe use.
Aaah, so you're selfish. Gotcha. That explains it.
But using someone else's property against their wishes is criminality, though. Just because you agree with it doesn't instantly mean it's fine.
What's baffled me is why the craft carries a component gas of air in its fuel so it can force itself through the air, instead of using oxygen from the air while it can, and using wings to make the dense atmosphere help it climb efficiently. I guess materials and manufacturing for that would have been pretty tricky back in the day.
Tell that to the authorities who have no issue, locally or federally, with an aircraft of that type and size being where it was.
You are confusing city pigeons and wild pigeons. Causing pain and suffering by shooting far more pigeons than you can prepare and eventually eat is hardly a paradigm of humanity, just destruction for destruction's sake.
1. The drone wasn't breaking the law
2. Your logic is childish - I guess home owners are to blame for robberies by having the audacity to own stuff.