... but then my motivation to ever help Wikipedia in any way whatsoever was deleted due to "lack of notability".

Nothing we're talking about here is affecting EVERYONE. It's affecting the population as a whole, on a STATISTICAL level. That doesn't imply anything whatsoever about any given individual.

That statement is true in the most pedantic, literal way possible. It's also completely and utterly useless to someone trying to lose weight, since nobody knows what their calories burned number is or how it will change in response to a change in diet or exercise (or climate, or stress, or sleep, or illness, or monthly hormonal changes, or literally anything else).

Yes, you're correct that you can look at literally 100% of people who lost weight and say "they ate less than they burned!!", but that doesn't mean that telling a fat person to "eat less than they burn" is in any way helpful, since the only way to determine how much you burn is to keep track of your calories in and how much weight you've lost over a particular time period, then calculate your burn rate after the fact.

It's like someone asking you how they can make money, and you tell them "It's simple math, you just have to buy low and sell high, you fucking retard!"

If "sugars, fats and salt" are overused, what exactly do you think should be in processed foods? Just protein?

You can't apply laissez faire, cutthroat free market principles, such as "It's their service, they can do whatever they want" unless you're actually in a free market situation.

For internet access, you can start by eliminating all local monopolies and providing equal right-of-way to anyone who wants to lay new infrastructure, or at least requiring (and rigorously auditing (this part is important)) that infrastructure owners provide equal access and equal customer service to competitors.

It's not a free market situation unless I can choose between Comacast, TWC, AT&T, Verizon, DSL Extreme, and Jimmy-Joe's Old Fashioned Internet Access all at the same address.

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That's why you wait at least a year to buy any new console. Well, it's one reason. You also wait so you don't pay five hundred fucking dollars.

From the same article:

That's pretty clear. It seems to be stating that you can actually unplug it, and that text you're quoting is probably describing the separate ability to turn it off in software.

They'll still have DRM, just not phone-home DRM. It took a fucking long time for PS3 piracy to get off the ground; even now it's pretty hard to successfully play a pirated game; and PS3 had no net-based DRM at all.

No, that's not what this decision is at all. 100% of XBONE owners will still have a Kinect, and if you invest your money in making a game that uses kinect in an innovative, fun way you can be sure that 100% of the XBOX market will be able to potentially buy your game. There is literally no downside to this change, unless you're an NSA goon who was hoping to turn on random people's kinect cameras when people thought they were "disabled".

Actually I'd say the comparison of Jobs to Edison is pretty apt, if not for the reason Ellison intended. Both are famous as inventors and innovators, while in reality both were actually *much* better at marketing and business management, and left the actual invention/innovation to their employees.

You're right of course, but just for the record, this:

does prove that copyright is broken.

Then why have a minimum wage at all? The whole idea of minimum wage is that, minimally, you should be able to keep yourself fed, housed, and clothed by working 40 hours per week, no matter what job you're doing.

Microsoft's "loyal customers" are loyal to exactly Desktop Windows (not RT, not CE, not whateverthefuck, it has to be "real" windows that can run that one app I have from 1997) and nothing else. That loyalty does not extend to any other market, as MS is now learning through this whole Surface fiasco.

Some people are predicting that "desktop Windows and nothing else" won't be a big enough market to sustain MS's size, hence their need to develop customer loyalty in some other market.

The thing is it's not really "Windows", though. They've developed a phone OS and chosen to call it "Windows", but that doesn't make it so.

Windows is only popular on desktop computers because it's backwards compatible with the entire modern history of computing. To call RT "Windows" without that feature is like calling your new mode of transportation "AirplaneRT" even though it can't fly and you have to push pedals with your feet to make it move.