Comment Rightly so... (Score 3, Informative) 183
The purpose of a museum is to showcase the exhibits of the museum, not the visitors of the museum.
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From that point of view, why should they reimage the drives of notebooks in inventory?
...Sports are merely a game....
That's like saying a war is merely a disagreement between a couple of countries.
The cars should be smart enough to stop for any object blocking the road...
A policeman in the center of an intersection is not blocking either lane of the road.
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Also, around here, there's a habit (started long, long ago, before there were cars) of putting flagpoles in the center of main intersections.
Will the Google cars be smart enough to evade the college kids crossing the street against the red light while buried in their smart phone displays?
Are google cars smart enough to stop at an intersection that has a green light, but also has a policeman with his hand up telling the car to stop?
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Did you know Google's self-driving cars can't handle 99% of roads in the US?
Firefox is still my favorite Windows browser....
A sample size of one is insignificant in the browser marketspace.
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When a larger, more representative, sample size is used, Firefox is losing marketshare. Where is Mozilla in the mobile marketspace?
Mozilla's commands of "wait for us, we're the leader" are falling on deaf ears.
Mozilla is becoming irrelevant.
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Those companies that can transition from one to the other survive.
Those companies that cannot transition from one to the other falter.
...I'm kind-of-sort-of willing to concede to the demands by that fuckstick hipster who works in marketing who thinks that aesthetically filename extensions make the product too technical for other fuckstick hipsters who are also wound up about appearances....
Hiding filename extensions predates the hipsters by decades. Don't blame the hipsters for everything you don't like...
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Of course there are going to be more people listening to the album, whether by accident or intent. The album resides on more devices. For all we know, cats could be listening to it (and if you search youtube, you'll probably find a video of a cat listening to the album).
In order to determine whether or not the stunt was actually a success, you need to look at the future U2 sales increase or decrease vs. the negative effects of the backlash.
The cited survey does none of that.
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What they did was cool, but they tremendously overstate the ramifications of their efforts.
How US pop music evolved, indeed.
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