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Comment Re:BZZZZT! Article Suspect! (Score 1) 377

Because they were the first mainstream devices (that I'm aware of) with displays that were actually pleasant to use - because of the capacitive touch and big finger-friendly buttons. Resistive displays were pretty horrible even with a stylus. Apple forced other manufacturers to put more emphasis on their UIs (though the first generation iPhones were horrible in terms of features, and so I didn't even consider getting one). I had been using Windows Mobile custom ROMs until I switched to Android around version 2.2 I think.

Comment Re:The workers are upset (Score 1) 841

By "voice", do you mean voting? Which option should they choose, exactly, if they want the government to stop going to war? There have been protests against a lot of things recently, but they haven't had any effect.

How does that voice their opinion on any of the other thousands of issues that the government decides on?

Comment Re:Rivals? (Score 1) 189

I hadn't really thought about it before, but I just went to Amazon just now and looked at the menu. I found a "sell" option. You can choose to sell things personally (with deliveries potentially being fulfilled by Amazon, so I suppose that means that people can use the Prime service to receive items if you send them into Amazon first), or as a business. It's perhaps still a slightly different market to eBay, but it's definitely competing on some levels. Amazon do a lot more than just sell goods though..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=topnav_sell?ie=UTF8&node=2374298031

Comment Re:BZZZZT! Article Suspect! (Score 4, Insightful) 377

To be fair, he introduced a lot of innovation into the mainstream, even if the ideas already existed beforehand.

The problem is that technically innovative people often aren't talented or even interested when it comes to marketing or interface design. Steve was good at bringing new ideas to market in a way that people found attractive and easy to use, and thus the ideas became mainstream.

As I usually say in reply to comments like this: I don't want an iPhone, but I'm glad they exist.

Comment Re:Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Water (Score 2) 273

Good point. Better change his statement to:

Environmentalist over-reaction to damn near everything doesn't do them any favors. It just makes you look like reactionary nutjobs.

As for saying that "there's nowhere to go" after draining these reserves.. well, it's possible to desalinate salt water by various means.

Comment Re:It's a doomed race against time (Score 5, Informative) 370

You know what is one of the traits I like least in a person? When they assume that it's everyone else who is ignorant, rather than check their facts.

Yes, one meaning of converse - apparently the only one you know - is to take part in a conversation. However, there is another meaning which has a similar meaning to inverse and obverse.

converse
adj
(prenominal) reversed; opposite; contrary
n
something that is opposite or contrary
a categorical proposition obtained from another by the transposition of subject and predicate, as no bad man is bald from no bald man is bad
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin conversus turned around; see

So basically, your post is laden with iron. Very irony in fact. Such disdain. Wow.

Comment Re: Specific Carbohydrate Diet (Score 1) 160

It's not ignorant to think that food plays a role in bowel problems. There are many recognised conditions that are aggravated by certain foods.. so to think that simply taking a pill, but continuing to eat any old shit is a good way to treat it.. that's pretty a pretty ignorant way of looking at it.

Going on a low carbohydrate diet a few years ago (to lose weight) cleared up several other problems that I wouldn't have even related to diet at the time (such as my nose almost always being irritated and blocked).

I don't need to lose any weight right now, but after reading this thread, I'm thinking I'll go back to no carb again for a while and see how it affects me.

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