When you say "we" you talk like that means something.

Just an FYI jacking the thread :>

I have a Sony T1 tablet and a Sony Xperia Z - they fall in the rock solid camp.

You obviously weren't doing it right.

NoScript for Firefox and equivalent for Chrome have a site-by-site whitelist. One only enables JS as required.

I have also found it instructional as to the amount of third party access sites are willing to sell. Particularly keen seem to be online newspapers. e.g. WashingtonTimes.com has Javascript served up from 15 domains.

Combine that with other add-ons like Ghostery and Self-Destructing-Cookies and you will be unpleasantly surprised at the unnecessary crap that's thrown at your browser for the benefit of the sites you visit.

You can't say its not overpriced until people start buying the things.

If no-one's buying them, they are overpriced.

I've had a free lunch before.

How do you know it's not sustainable ?

Not knowing the future has nothing to do with sustainable agriculture.

Maybe they are just the ones you remember directly because you're not part of their target demographic and so they are jarring.

I often see products in sports that re-enforce my brand choices. Even as much as I dislike that sentence. They ride the same brand of motorbike as me, helmet, sunglasses, gloves etc. etc.

Salaries are not the issue.

We made a 1 1/2 hour feature film with *all* staff on a profit share. It still cost £50k.

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2011/02/product-placement-on-tv/

"Product placement in films and international programmes (such as US drama series) has been allowed on UK television for many years. From 28 February 2011 TV programmes made for UK audiences can contain product placement as long as they comply with Ofcomâ(TM)s rules."

UK companies have a legal duty to minimized health and safety risks to employees and the public which trumps any other laws.

> anonymized

No, that's not me,. It's just some guy that parks outside my house every night and works at the same building as me.

I use Windows because the Autodesk Software I get paid to use only runs on Windows.

I use Windows because the Eurosport TV Channel I paid for only runs on Silverlight on Windows.

I know these are choices *I* made but just saying, it's not always just "I can't be bothered to switch". I run FreeBSD and Plan 9 on the computers I don't need Win software on so it's not like it's even a hard switch for me.

ChromeOS is cheaper, Ubuntu is cheaper, an Android tablet is possibly cheaper.

You're talking shit.

I can buy from a vendor and get the source as part of the deal, no source, no deal.

If I reveal this source code to the sub-post offices and continue to buy from the vendor.

I can sell you such insurance if you like.

Top Ten Green Coffee Producers - 2009 (millions of metric tons)
  Brazil 2.44
  Vietnam 1.18
  Colombia 0.89
  Indonesia 0.70
  India 0.29
  Ethiopia 0.27
  Peru 0.26
  Mexico 0.25
  Guatemala 0.25
  Honduras 0.21
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World Total 7.80