A lot of Australians just tick boxes at random or worse yet in order (ballot order is randomly drawn) but you dont want someone like One Nation or the BNP getting the apathy vote
I think all ballots should include the option "None of the above" - this way you could send a clear message to the candidates that you think they all suck.
I think you've missed the point. A lot of people do apathy voting where they just walk in, label all boxes 1-7 in top down order simply because they want to avoid the fine for not voting and dont want to think about voting. Donkey voting would require them to understand what they are doing (which involves reading the instructions on how to vote) which is simply too much effort.
Currently Dell is a brand , just that, nothing more , after exporting all the know how to asia Asus took over, and now there is nothing left except the round logo. Close, move along corporation.
Currently Apple is a brand, just that, nothing more, after exporting all the know how to Asia, Asus then took over, and now there is nothing left except the apple logo. Close, move along corporation.
First off. Never put a comma in front of and.
Secondly, there is little difference in this regard between Apple and Dell. They both do a little design work out of the US and export the rest to China. They even use the same Chinese manufacturer.
The iPad completely killed the mass netbook market. Now it's little more than a niche.
LOL.
Keep telling yourself that.
Whatever you do, dont visit the local electronics retailer, you may see something that would prove your delusion very wrong, like a lot of netbooks.
The thing is, a lot of people still buy netbooks, they are for people who dont want nor need a full sized laptop. People who travel and want to run windows programs. Ipads on the other hand require computers to do nearly anything, most people I've seen travailing with an Ipad also have a laptop or netbook to run the Ipad.
Why is Dell giving up Netbooks, simple, netbooks dont fit into the Dell business model. Dell makes most of its sales online, so they have to pay for individual shipping making them uncompetitive in this market. They sell very little through retail channels, When I head to the local electronics retailer (Dick Smith, Havey Norman, Bing Lee) I see a lot of Asus, Toshiba, Emachines (Acer) and HP netbooks at half the price of an Ipad. Combine this with the falling price of full sized laptops and the fact that the business market is their core market and businesses dont buy netbooks (or tablets).
As an Australian who has worked at polling booths counting votes, I can say that the number of informal ballots (that is, ballots that don't indicate a valid choice, such as your examples above, or people who just shove the form in the box without voting at all) is a small minority. Even then, it is useful - the most recent federal election had a record number of informal votes, indicative of a populace who was deeply apathetic about both primary party candidates. The apathy was borne out by other evidence as well - we ended up with a minority government for the first time in my lifetime, due to the extreme swing away from both primary parties.
I think that apathy was expressed largely by the number of votes that went to third parties. Labor won government but they depend on the Greens and the Independents (speaking personally, I dont see an issue here as I dont trust Labor or the Coalition to do things in the best interest of Australians) even a lot of the Coalition votes came in via the Nationals.
Consciously abstaining is the stupidest fucking thing imaginable. Vote for a third party, if you must, but better yet, vote for the less bad candidate. And vote in primaries, so you get better choices. People DIED because of Bush being elected. Thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands worldwide. Trillions of dollars were wasted. It was a complete, unmitigated disaster, and it was one that was obviously coming. That was several years ago... and the Republicans got your message loud and clear. They learned their lesson: that if they make things awful enough, you'll just give up and let them take whatever they want. Great job!
LOL.
In case you haven't heard all the Obama hate, apparently he hasn't made anything better. Or so I'm told by angry Americans.
I'm Australian, not American so I'd bet the truth is infinitely stranger.
I'm Australian as I said and we have compulsory voting. I'm looking at an A$120 fine for just not turning up. It's the most retarded electoral idea ever, as the OP said in this thread, you cant force people to care. You can only force them to do "something", chances are it wont be something good. A lot of Australians just tick boxes at random or worse yet in order (ballot order is randomly drawn) but you dont want someone like One Nation or the BNP getting the apathy vote. People who vote properly but dont care who they vote for are worse then people who Donkey.
Bush could have won by a much larger majority in both elections due entirely by apathy voters. More people voting != more people caring.
We've known the UK was run by the Sith for quite a while. This is news to you?
Darth Cameron: When I left Labor I was but a learner, now I am the master. Darth Brown: Only a master of evil Darth. Darth Cameron: Well so are you. Darth Clegg: Sigh, will you two just get on with it so I can ally with and inevitably betray one of you.
Seeing as the carrier was designed in part or in full, from a Russian one they cut up I'd say they could buy that one from Russians.
then you have to be learn how to replenish at sea (*not* an easy task)
Agreed that it's a nightmare of logistics, even at the best of times the PLAN have already got a bit of practice with that on their smaller ships. Their current blue water navy isn't small.
then you need a grunch of ships and submarines to protect the carrier,
True, The PLAN already operates 6 Nuclear attack subs, 53 attack submarines, 25 destroyers and 47 frigates. I think a carrier group can be formed out of that.
pilots that can land on one,
Once again, the Russians.
I'm sure there are plenty of "experts" they could use for training and Russia would be happy to provide.
Granted, this will still take time but not a full decade. The Chinese are tenacious. But I'm of the mindset that much like Brazil, Thailand and other who have carriers without 1st world economies, they are not there for functional purposes (war, deterrent or exertion of power) like British and US carriers, rather its just to make the national penis look bigger.
WWII was started by two countries that, though historically capable of supporting strong militaries, had not taken advantage of the colonial age due to circumstances - Germany due to disunity and Japan due to a period of shutting itself off from the outside world.
Does any of this not apply to China?
Actually it doesn't. China loves selling crap to the rest of the world. Ergo they need to import a lot of resources. China is going to find it very had to get things like Oil, iron and a lot of rare elements if they go to war. Even losing what they get from Australia alone would really put the hurt on as you cant build ships without steel.. Insular and militaristic does not describe the china of the last two decades, definitely not insular. Considering that the Chinese economy depends on strong exports of manufactured goods, a war with the west will send them broke as their other trading partners (The BRI in BRIC) dont have the economies to support China's need for export income.
BTW, it was the British and French who declared war against the Germans. Only Japan declared war against the United States and Allies.
I guess countries like Spain, Italy and even Thailand are "offensive countries"? They all have aircraft carriers.
For all of 12 days a year.
The Royal Thai Navy has enough money to operate that carrier for 1 day per month. It's normally only used by the Royal Family, in essence, it's the worlds most expensive Royal Yacht.
Given that Thailand's likely enemies are Cambodia (they had to "incidents" over Preah Vihear temple last year) Myanmar and possibly Laos makes an aircraft carrier pretty useless as the entirety of Laos and Myanmar can be covered from the air wing stationed at Chang Mai and air wings based at Bangkok, U-Tapau or Nakhon Ratchasima can cover the entirety of Cambodia.
Russia operates Mig-29s and Su-33s off of carriers with ski jumps - and the Su-33 is heavier than a Superhornet.
I think he's referring to aircraft a bit larger then the Su-33. Ones with a lower thrust to weight ratio not specifically for combat roles (I.E transports like C2 Greyhounds).
Does Russia even operate carriers any more. I thought the entire Kiev class was scrapped or sold off (incl one to China to be "scrapped")
Well The Age are claiming that a whistle blower from the ALP logged them in to the database, so they didn't use stolen credentials and can't be be said to have stolen the information. I think they were pretty silly to access the database from their office systems. If they had viewed the database from the home of their informant would a case exist at all?
Just as illegal as if they actually gained the credentials illegally in Oz.
Unauthorised access is still unauthorised access regardless of if the person who gained the credentials gained them via legal means, they were still used illegally.
Now if they had of been given the information, not the credentials by the alleged "whistle blower" (sarcastic air quotes) they might have a leg to stand on. Even in the home of the informant, they are still expected to do the right thing and not rifle through someone else's database looking for dirt.
Nokia, RIM, Samsung, and Sony do not have a chance unless they undertake some serious R&D and make something equally revolutionary.
Otherwise Apple wont have anything to copy for Next years Iphone.
Seriously, if you think Iphones are ahead of Android, you haven't used both. I use a HTC Desire Z for personal use and 1 week out of every 3 I have to carry an Iphone for work. It was bought with the best of intentions, a one stop shop for the on call guy (me) in reality it's anything but. Getting Nagios to work in the browser is a pain, the SMS clients makes notifications difficult to read. Half the time I forward the SMS to my Desire Z just to make it readable. I cant tether because it doesn't work with Linux or any of my Windows Boxen (cant even use Cygwin). I cant do anything to fix problems using the phone, cant ping or telnet, cant even suppress an alert.
All it does is SMS, a job my Nokia 6500 non-smart phone can do better. Receiving an alert on an Iphone is an indication to get up and turn my computer on.
Now the boss has a Galaxy S II and has discovered Nagios works, tethering works with all computers, that Iphone is going when the contract is up, the USB stick we bought because the Iphone couldn't tether is going too, we are all looking forward to being able to suppress alerts and even fix minor problems from the on call phone, negating the need to rise from our comfortable beds in the wee hours of the morning, disturbing our partners in the process.
Iphones are way behind Android. Look at IOS 5, they've implemented the same notification system Android users have enjoyed since 2008.
It's not pure profit. England has the third highest population density for major counties in the world. The US has lower density overall, and a lot more rural areas.
Australia has a population density of 2.8/km square, the us has a population density of 33.7/km square.
Australia's most expensive telco, is selling it for A$0 on a two year A$79 contract (A$1896 in total).
So you were saying something about population densities.
The reasons why the US version is more expensive are
1. Telco's put in artificial barriers to competition.
2. Verizon is a CDMA carrier, thus requires a special version manufactured just for them.
3. The coverage of US carriers is crap. None of them can guarantee nation wide coverage.
4. There is no consumer protection agencies in the US, so telco's can have their wicked way with their customers.
Besides this, ultra dense areas actually need more cellular transmitters as well as more backhaul otherwise they get too congested to be used. central London would be as bad as central New York and the UK has more of "central London" type areas.
Firefox mobile can spoof User agent as a desktop to avoid the crippled mobile versions of sites.
User agent proves nothing.
TTL can be tricky though.
So can the default browser in Cyanogen mod. I can spoof Iphone, Ipad, Desktop Chrome and a few others.
But proof is not a requirement, it's not like they have a consumer protection agency to be afraid of. If they simply suspect you are tethering, they'll punish.
I've been hearing for a while now about the upcoming release of the first phone running ICS, *in the US*.
Europe, Canada, and Australia have already had it.
Blame Verizon and your crappy telco rackets.
Verizon, being a CDMA carrier requires a special version for them where as Australia, Europe and Canada use GSM, some variant of the four bands the phoneis capable of using (830/900/1900/2100) so the same version can be shipped to all both continents and the mooseheads
there's standards for loudness in most countries, but they're completely ignored by the broadcasters. they take an ad that's the correct standard volume and go ahead and turn it up anyway.
They do abide by the decibel level, but advertisers tend to use dirty tricks such as audio compression to make sounds appear louder whilst staying within the permissible range. Most countries only measure volume by the peak wave, not the overall composition of the wave so advertisers use things like audio compression and emphasising frequencies that humans are more attuned to in order to change the perceived loudness without actually increasing the dB level.
They aren't ignoring the volume constraints, quite the contrary, they are hugely aware of it as they keep finding methods to avoid it.
Not that long ago, no one thought notebooks could replace a desktop computer. I believe it will be possible for tablets to replace most of systems - Apple and Google certainly want to redefine computing.
Laptops and Desktops are functionally similar, unlike tablets and computers. It was a simple matter of miniaturising components. The only people who didn't see it coming were the people who didn't notice parts miniaturising..
They said for years, that phones will replace computers. That is yet to happen. Every 5 years some clueless analyst comes out from under his bridge and says $PHONE_OF_THE_DAY will make computers obsolete in 5 years. They said this about PalmOS, WinMo, Blackberry, Iphone, Android. In 15 years since I started paying attention, not one of these predictions has come true. In 1995, the first time I read an article like that, they said PIM's would take over, PIM's have largely disappeared.
They said the same thing about computers. They said that computers would make pen and paper obsolete. Mitsubishi pencil, Reflex and 3M disagrees with this statement. In the 20 odd years since they started talking about the "paperless office" all that has been generated is more paper in the office.
The point of this is to never take what "they" say as being remotely accurate or even researched. "They" are more often wrong then right.
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A lot of Australians just tick boxes at random or worse yet in order (ballot order is randomly drawn) but you dont want someone like One Nation or the BNP getting the apathy vote
I think all ballots should include the option "None of the above" - this way you could send a clear message to the candidates that you think they all suck.
I think you've missed the point. A lot of people do apathy voting where they just walk in, label all boxes 1-7 in top down order simply because they want to avoid the fine for not voting and dont want to think about voting. Donkey voting would require them to understand what they are doing (which involves reading the instructions on how to vote) which is simply too much effort.
Currently Dell is a brand , just that, nothing more , after exporting all the know how to asia Asus took over, and now there is nothing left except the round logo. Close, move along corporation.
Currently Apple is a brand, just that, nothing more, after exporting all the know how to Asia, Asus then took over, and now there is nothing left except the apple logo. Close, move along corporation.
First off. Never put a comma in front of and.
Secondly, there is little difference in this regard between Apple and Dell. They both do a little design work out of the US and export the rest to China. They even use the same Chinese manufacturer.
LOL.
Keep telling yourself that.
Whatever you do, dont visit the local electronics retailer, you may see something that would prove your delusion very wrong, like a lot of netbooks.
The thing is, a lot of people still buy netbooks, they are for people who dont want nor need a full sized laptop. People who travel and want to run windows programs. Ipads on the other hand require computers to do nearly anything, most people I've seen travailing with an Ipad also have a laptop or netbook to run the Ipad.
Why is Dell giving up Netbooks, simple, netbooks dont fit into the Dell business model. Dell makes most of its sales online, so they have to pay for individual shipping making them uncompetitive in this market. They sell very little through retail channels, When I head to the local electronics retailer (Dick Smith, Havey Norman, Bing Lee) I see a lot of Asus, Toshiba, Emachines (Acer) and HP netbooks at half the price of an Ipad. Combine this with the falling price of full sized laptops and the fact that the business market is their core market and businesses dont buy netbooks (or tablets).
As an Australian who has worked at polling booths counting votes, I can say that the number of informal ballots (that is, ballots that don't indicate a valid choice, such as your examples above, or people who just shove the form in the box without voting at all) is a small minority. Even then, it is useful - the most recent federal election had a record number of informal votes, indicative of a populace who was deeply apathetic about both primary party candidates. The apathy was borne out by other evidence as well - we ended up with a minority government for the first time in my lifetime, due to the extreme swing away from both primary parties.
I think that apathy was expressed largely by the number of votes that went to third parties. Labor won government but they depend on the Greens and the Independents (speaking personally, I dont see an issue here as I dont trust Labor or the Coalition to do things in the best interest of Australians) even a lot of the Coalition votes came in via the Nationals.
Consciously abstaining is the stupidest fucking thing imaginable. Vote for a third party, if you must, but better yet, vote for the less bad candidate. And vote in primaries, so you get better choices. People DIED because of Bush being elected. Thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands worldwide. Trillions of dollars were wasted. It was a complete, unmitigated disaster, and it was one that was obviously coming. That was several years ago... and the Republicans got your message loud and clear. They learned their lesson: that if they make things awful enough, you'll just give up and let them take whatever they want. Great job!
LOL.
In case you haven't heard all the Obama hate, apparently he hasn't made anything better. Or so I'm told by angry Americans.
I'm Australian, not American so I'd bet the truth is infinitely stranger.
I'm Australian as I said and we have compulsory voting. I'm looking at an A$120 fine for just not turning up. It's the most retarded electoral idea ever, as the OP said in this thread, you cant force people to care. You can only force them to do "something", chances are it wont be something good. A lot of Australians just tick boxes at random or worse yet in order (ballot order is randomly drawn) but you dont want someone like One Nation or the BNP getting the apathy vote. People who vote properly but dont care who they vote for are worse then people who Donkey.
Bush could have won by a much larger majority in both elections due entirely by apathy voters. More people voting != more people caring.
We've known the UK was run by the Sith for quite a while. This is news to you?
Darth Cameron: When I left Labor I was but a learner, now I am the master.
Darth Brown: Only a master of evil Darth.
Darth Cameron: Well so are you.
Darth Clegg: Sigh, will you two just get on with it so I can ally with and inevitably betray one of you.
You would? Really? Force Sensitive sounds like a marketing slogan for a condom. That was badly translated from Chinese.
More like a brand of razor thought up by an imagination-less western marketing department.
Introducing the new 16 blade Force Sensitive.
How is it any less real than any other?
/waves hand
Jediism is a real religion.
Have you ever pissed off a Sikh?
We are not liking your attitude very much sir, we request that you are changing it sir.
To think, not so long ago, my siblings and I were all lobbing lawn darts at each other, yet we all lived and didn't even lose an eye.
I used to be an adventurous kid until I caught a lawn dart in the knee.
First you need to have planes
Seeing as the carrier was designed in part or in full, from a Russian one they cut up I'd say they could buy that one from Russians.
then you have to be learn how to replenish at sea (*not* an easy task)
Agreed that it's a nightmare of logistics, even at the best of times the PLAN have already got a bit of practice with that on their smaller ships. Their current blue water navy isn't small.
then you need a grunch of ships and submarines to protect the carrier,
True, The PLAN already operates 6 Nuclear attack subs, 53 attack submarines, 25 destroyers and 47 frigates. I think a carrier group can be formed out of that.
pilots that can land on one,
Once again, the Russians.
I'm sure there are plenty of "experts" they could use for training and Russia would be happy to provide.
Granted, this will still take time but not a full decade. The Chinese are tenacious. But I'm of the mindset that much like Brazil, Thailand and other who have carriers without 1st world economies, they are not there for functional purposes (war, deterrent or exertion of power) like British and US carriers, rather its just to make the national penis look bigger.
WWII was started by two countries that, though historically capable of supporting strong militaries, had not taken advantage of the colonial age due to circumstances - Germany due to disunity and Japan due to a period of shutting itself off from the outside world.
Does any of this not apply to China?
Actually it doesn't. China loves selling crap to the rest of the world. Ergo they need to import a lot of resources. China is going to find it very had to get things like Oil, iron and a lot of rare elements if they go to war. Even losing what they get from Australia alone would really put the hurt on as you cant build ships without steel.. Insular and militaristic does not describe the china of the last two decades, definitely not insular. Considering that the Chinese economy depends on strong exports of manufactured goods, a war with the west will send them broke as their other trading partners (The BRI in BRIC) dont have the economies to support China's need for export income.
BTW, it was the British and French who declared war against the Germans. Only Japan declared war against the United States and Allies.
I guess countries like Spain, Italy and even Thailand are "offensive countries"? They all have aircraft carriers.
For all of 12 days a year.
The Royal Thai Navy has enough money to operate that carrier for 1 day per month. It's normally only used by the Royal Family, in essence, it's the worlds most expensive Royal Yacht.
Given that Thailand's likely enemies are Cambodia (they had to "incidents" over Preah Vihear temple last year) Myanmar and possibly Laos makes an aircraft carrier pretty useless as the entirety of Laos and Myanmar can be covered from the air wing stationed at Chang Mai and air wings based at Bangkok, U-Tapau or Nakhon Ratchasima can cover the entirety of Cambodia.
Russia operates Mig-29s and Su-33s off of carriers with ski jumps - and the Su-33 is heavier than a Superhornet.
I think he's referring to aircraft a bit larger then the Su-33. Ones with a lower thrust to weight ratio not specifically for combat roles (I.E transports like C2 Greyhounds).
Does Russia even operate carriers any more. I thought the entire Kiev class was scrapped or sold off (incl one to China to be "scrapped")
almost hitting water if you don't have enough speed. Ski-jump gives you much more vertical speed on take off.
With flat launch, you do hit the water in high seas if they don't time the catapult launch correctly.
Which is why CDO's (Catapult Duty Officer) exist. To make sure you launch at the right time and the pilot is ready for launch.
CDO is from British CAM's in WWII, not sure what the US Navy calls them but I'd be surprised if the role did not exist.
Well The Age are claiming that a whistle blower from the ALP logged them in to the database , so they didn't use stolen credentials and can't be be said to have stolen the information. I think they were pretty silly to access the database from their office systems. If they had viewed the database from the home of their informant would a case exist at all?
Just as illegal as if they actually gained the credentials illegally in Oz.
Unauthorised access is still unauthorised access regardless of if the person who gained the credentials gained them via legal means, they were still used illegally.
Now if they had of been given the information, not the credentials by the alleged "whistle blower" (sarcastic air quotes) they might have a leg to stand on. Even in the home of the informant, they are still expected to do the right thing and not rifle through someone else's database looking for dirt.
I don't normally bribe officials, but when I do, I keep my press card on me.
Stay corrupt, my friends.
Otherwise Apple wont have anything to copy for Next years Iphone.
Seriously, if you think Iphones are ahead of Android, you haven't used both. I use a HTC Desire Z for personal use and 1 week out of every 3 I have to carry an Iphone for work. It was bought with the best of intentions, a one stop shop for the on call guy (me) in reality it's anything but. Getting Nagios to work in the browser is a pain, the SMS clients makes notifications difficult to read. Half the time I forward the SMS to my Desire Z just to make it readable. I cant tether because it doesn't work with Linux or any of my Windows Boxen (cant even use Cygwin). I cant do anything to fix problems using the phone, cant ping or telnet, cant even suppress an alert.
All it does is SMS, a job my Nokia 6500 non-smart phone can do better. Receiving an alert on an Iphone is an indication to get up and turn my computer on.
Now the boss has a Galaxy S II and has discovered Nagios works, tethering works with all computers, that Iphone is going when the contract is up, the USB stick we bought because the Iphone couldn't tether is going too, we are all looking forward to being able to suppress alerts and even fix minor problems from the on call phone, negating the need to rise from our comfortable beds in the wee hours of the morning, disturbing our partners in the process.
Iphones are way behind Android. Look at IOS 5, they've implemented the same notification system Android users have enjoyed since 2008.
#1 - US - 743 per 100K pop.
#65 - New Zealand - 199 per 100K pop.
#87 - England and Wales - 156 per 100K pop.
#111 - Australia - 133 per 100K pop.
Yeah bitches, now who's full of criminals.
Signed,
Australia.
It's not pure profit. England has the third highest population density for major counties in the world. The US has lower density overall, and a lot more rural areas.
Australia has a population density of 2.8/km square, the us has a population density of 33.7/km square.
Australia's most expensive telco, is selling it for A$0 on a two year A$79 contract (A$1896 in total).
So you were saying something about population densities.
The reasons why the US version is more expensive are
1. Telco's put in artificial barriers to competition.
2. Verizon is a CDMA carrier, thus requires a special version manufactured just for them.
3. The coverage of US carriers is crap. None of them can guarantee nation wide coverage.
4. There is no consumer protection agencies in the US, so telco's can have their wicked way with their customers.
Besides this, ultra dense areas actually need more cellular transmitters as well as more backhaul otherwise they get too congested to be used. central London would be as bad as central New York and the UK has more of "central London" type areas.
Firefox mobile can spoof User agent as a desktop to avoid the crippled mobile versions of sites. User agent proves nothing. TTL can be tricky though.
So can the default browser in Cyanogen mod. I can spoof Iphone, Ipad, Desktop Chrome and a few others.
But proof is not a requirement, it's not like they have a consumer protection agency to be afraid of. If they simply suspect you are tethering, they'll punish.
Well, let me correct that...this IS /.
I've been hearing for a while now about the upcoming release of the first phone running ICS, *in the US*.
Europe, Canada, and Australia have already had it.
Blame Verizon and your crappy telco rackets.
Verizon, being a CDMA carrier requires a special version for them where as Australia, Europe and Canada use GSM, some variant of the four bands the phoneis capable of using (830/900/1900/2100) so the same version can be shipped to all both continents and the mooseheads
there's standards for loudness in most countries, but they're completely ignored by the broadcasters. they take an ad that's the correct standard volume and go ahead and turn it up anyway.
They do abide by the decibel level, but advertisers tend to use dirty tricks such as audio compression to make sounds appear louder whilst staying within the permissible range. Most countries only measure volume by the peak wave, not the overall composition of the wave so advertisers use things like audio compression and emphasising frequencies that humans are more attuned to in order to change the perceived loudness without actually increasing the dB level.
They aren't ignoring the volume constraints, quite the contrary, they are hugely aware of it as they keep finding methods to avoid it.
Not that long ago, no one thought notebooks could replace a desktop computer. I believe it will be possible for tablets to replace most of systems - Apple and Google certainly want to redefine computing.
Laptops and Desktops are functionally similar, unlike tablets and computers. It was a simple matter of miniaturising components. The only people who didn't see it coming were the people who didn't notice parts miniaturising..
They said for years, that phones will replace computers. That is yet to happen. Every 5 years some clueless analyst comes out from under his bridge and says $PHONE_OF_THE_DAY will make computers obsolete in 5 years. They said this about PalmOS, WinMo, Blackberry, Iphone, Android. In 15 years since I started paying attention, not one of these predictions has come true. In 1995, the first time I read an article like that, they said PIM's would take over, PIM's have largely disappeared.
They said the same thing about computers. They said that computers would make pen and paper obsolete. Mitsubishi pencil, Reflex and 3M disagrees with this statement. In the 20 odd years since they started talking about the "paperless office" all that has been generated is more paper in the office.
The point of this is to never take what "they" say as being remotely accurate or even researched. "They" are more often wrong then right.
Hmm. I wonder can you get fudge sticks to work in a glue gun? Maybe Cadbury's Finger of Fudge bars would do. Eat your heart out, Martha Stewart...
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