You know, I have a friend whose grandparents died while he was few months old. He turned out just fine. So, let's kill all the grandparents. What kind of idiotic logic is that? Your family has used the means available to them at the time to stay in touch. Now that there are better means of communication available, is it wrong to take advantage of them? What's with all the "new is evil" mentality?
Disclaimer: I'm not a kid, nor even a first worlder. We did not have access to a phone till I was 10 years old - so the only means of communication was letters and telegrams. It's not like I'm scarred, but I do like the fact that my parents and my kids can see each other (over skype) and talk to each other over phone.
Are you telling me that this is gonna kill Facebook and Twitter? Really? REALLY?
Naa, you're just saying it to make me happy!
But I think the more pertinent question is, why did Toshiba have to collect so much personal details just for a competition? Why do they need the date of birth? Just ask for age, that too, only if necessary for some legal / regulatory reasons.
Right on. And most of the time it is the worker bees that get canned while the actual bloat - the clueless middle management, and the incompetent first-line management are saved because they are buddies with the higher-ups. The old boys club and all... And they reward themselves with retention bonuses after throwing the hard-working folks on road.
Also, the car has much lower reaction times. So in some situations, it doen't really need to slow down, it will react immediatly if needed, whereas a human driver will need to slow down to make room for slower refelexes.
THAT to me, is a concern, because the car has to operate on the same road along with other cars driven by lower-reflexive humans. If this car reacts in a split second and switches to the lane next, and the car behind it in the next lane doesn't, that would still be a problem.
But then again, this seems such a basic usecase that may be Google has already factored in all such possibilities.
you're forgetting facebook.
Google's stock Android doesn't let you uninstall Facebook, Twitter, Amazon MP3 and even Google Books. I'm talking Ginger Bread on Nexus One - so it's not imposed by any carrier. It gets into some weird situations as well - since I'm in India and currently Google Books is not available for India, it won't let me install any updates, but it still shows me update notifications, and would not let me uninstall the app. It sucks, especially since app storage is really small and precious on these old phones.
"Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing." -- G. Steinem