ditto, the average person wants something that he can poke at and make work. If it's as simple as the interface that biologists provide monkeys in research cells, all the better. He wants to poke at the red square and get a treat, or when he wants other treat, poke at the blue one. Uneducated users are afraid of the unknown, and software that they would have to test and use themselves to determine the quality of is well beyond their knowledge base (unknown = bad). Unless something has been vetted through nerds (us) who have the knowledge and expertise to know quality, OR everybody and their mother uses it, it's unknown and only potentially not ungood.

Unfortunately, until some manufacturer comes out with something that is simple (red square = treat) and as good (face it, the iphone/ipad is quality-ish hardware and its interface does work), the apple products will continue. Just because it lacks a few features that 75% of the population doesn't use (only we wish that we could hook up a keyboard or mouse, everyone will continue to be happy jabbing at the screen instead of jabbing at a keyboard), doesn't mean that something that you can be more productive on will dethrone it.

Lawyer: "I Have created this airtight and brilliant brief! It is Irrefutable and right! All of society will benefit from my genius! I am sure to win Lawyer of the year for this awesome brief!"

Judge:"That's nice, any who, back to what I was saying..."

I'm glad you mentioned comcrap, even my grandparents call it comcrap, that has filtered down from the nerds down to EVERYBODY and they realized that the brand was... soiled.

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

So how can we integrate some sort of fecal synonym into xfinity... I wonder if part of the market testing was bringing a bunch of teenage nerds into a room and they were like "come up with a catchy insult name for this" after three weeks, they couldn't get any results.

Yes

I still think its awesome, but let's keep this next celebrity rivalry off of slashdot. Slashdot didn't cover trump vs o'donnel, and it doesn't cover paris hilton, so while Kevin Smith is a nerd celeb, let's not report on every twitter update in this matter? Mmmkay?

Ok, here goes: {entity} assumes it owns all of {video, music, or other media} and issues a {DMCA or Copyright notice} takedown that hits someone who actually owns {video, music, or other media} outside of the {entity}'s control, thus furthering its own goals two-fold, by removing competition and by "reducing piracy". News at 11

I wouldn't be surprised if lenovo paid something low as in $5 per license of windows when everything was said and done, and then recouped the cost of the license with bloatware. This guy would be miffed to get a $5 check and microsoft would be miffed to have their B2B cost revealed to be a tiny tiny fraction of what they gut consumers for.

Yeah, pretty much, you can spend $40 for a 6' hdmi cable at radio shack, or you can pay $2 on amazon.com, ditto for most or all other A/V type cables. Jameco and digikey, as well as smaller mom-and-pop electronic component stores (they still exist, they're just tricky to find, simply because you don't know where it is doesn't mean that you don't have one hiding in an indstrial park somewhere) were pretty much where i went to after RS moved all of their components to the a cabinet at the back of the store and only refilled it once a year or so.

Yeah, I was expecting the more recent pierce brosnan bond type cell phone remote, not this "Oh, my car has finished charging, I can leave this god-awful mall" type app. At least give me something that will use gps that I can log into and use as a lo-jack so my iphone can point me to my car in a big big parking lot.

aliens attack, everybody dies.

Yeah, but they'd all run windows ME

reminds me of quinine. They tried that once upon a time, it worked when it was being taken and it is still around in some tonic waters (but not enough to actually DO anything about malaria nowadays, that would be too bitter), but since malaria is still a problem, one can conclude that "stopping malaria after being bitten" is not the most effective preventative measure.

The definition of insanity comes to mind.

I dunno, ask this guy what being blue does to his vision. He used colloidal silver (i.e. silver dissolved in water) as a folk medical treatment for so long that it tinted him blue.

The guy reports no side effects beyond an urge to hold concerts based on performance art. /humor...

But have you been injecting them intravenously?