This is bad parenting and you should feel bad.

Getting into a pissing match with your child is only going to make them escalate every challenge you present until the value of the resources you're taking away exceeds the value of winning the argument.

In the end regulation of the resources you're taking away from your child will create enough work that you won't bother and your child will win the argument by default. Then you'll lose subsequent arguments because you have no power with them.

The same applies to corporations. If you set a marker for escalation of the argument the corporation will continue to do bad things only up to the level at which they have learned they will be punished to a degree that their profit margin is impacted enough to cause a shareholder uprising, which means they will continue to do wrong in metered fashion.

Likewise my experience with OCZ products is that either they work or they don't. One out of 3 OCZ products has to be returned for exchange. So I spend a little more to not have to do the returns.

Can you see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

I don't think that's obligatory and in fact it might be a little callous considering the context.

I don't really need to see TV in any higher resolution. Really it's just an incremental spec bump so Sony can release a new TV that everyone is supposed to buy, then they can release a new media standard which everyone is supposed to buy, then Sony makes a gobfuck of money and I die a little bit more inside.

They're running vxworks and they do have a backup computer. First the backup is flashed and verified, then the primary is flashed and verified.

What's next, Apple fans figuring out that if you skip the first two iterations of any Apple product you can get the final version with all the features without having to buy and throw away two devices at several hundred or thousand dollars each? Naaaah never happen.

Relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb07yVilJow

The problem I have with Netflix is that nearly every show I want to watch doesn't have all the seasons. I like to watch serial programs, so I get about half or two-thirds through the program and find that the last one or two seasons is missing, so I'm stuck with pirating the last episodes if I want to see the rest of the show.

Most digital TV's already have a DSP built in, why can't we just have them normalize the audio instead of lawyering up?

The Galaxy Note can be plugged into an HDMI port on a television or projector if you have a MHL adapter.

No matter how carefully you plan or how many safety measures are integrated, someone or something valuable will get inside.

> verified the consumer's relationship with the company

Look into the camera citizen.

I think the idea here is to give people who don't have $100,000 lying around the opportunity to hold that piece of paper in their hand so they don't get rejected for jobs by uppity hiring managers with old money degrees.

I fit into a demographic where I make too much money to get financial aid but not enough to go to school and pay all my bills. It's a paradox because I can't get promoted without a degree but I can't get a degree without making more money.