"I don't use it so it must be worthless" is the Slashdot marching song

Yet you still all wonder why everyone hates the help desk and computer janitors in general.

If all of these decisions were made according to market realities, Little Timmy would still be putting in sixteen hours a day in the coal mine and farms would still be worked by human chattel.

People who follow this sort of hypercapitalist, "The Free Market Solves All!" mindset like to see themselves as Randesque supermen. Any sort of contact with the real world will disabuse one of that ridiculous notion in short order.

If we don't want our allies showing our technology to other nations, we probably shouldn't be using it in unsanctioned murder missions within their borders.

Just saying.

One case of a rich individual being cheated by the relatively poor, as opposed to the situation our economy is founded on, the many poor being cheated by the rich.

What a shame.

We're all worried about smartphone CPUs that can decode 1080p video when none of them have screens that can display it.

Stop and think about it for a minute.

Marketspeak has totally infiltrated discussion about display resolutions and I am branded as an idiot when I bring up that 720p involves a lot more than 720 vertical pixels, and that progressive scan doesn't mean shit on LCDs to begin with.

I would love to be proven wrong here, but I have no idea why progressive v. interlaced is even brought up anymore. It's an artifact of the CRT age of displays and needs to die. I had a look at the Wikipedia page on display resolutions the other day and it listed 230*200 and similar as "interlaced" and others as "progressive." It makes no sense anymore. Let it die.