That's like blaming FM radio for all car deaths. Just because cars have radios doesn't mean radios are responsible for car accidents. Correlation is not causation etc.

There have been deaths and damage attributable to hydro, but not much.

They were suffering from price competition, and then Snowden exposed the NSA bugging their hardware. Now they are floundering.

Sounds like a good way to ensure mediocrity and low skill levels in your workforce. Successful companies value employees and try to keep them happy and developing, to get the best from them.

Car analogy: You can get a cheap, generic, replaceable Ford or you can get a high performance model that needs a little more maintenance and care. The Ford isn't going to win any races, but you can drive it into the ground and then dispose of it for an identical replacement any time you like.

So kinda like iOS 7 or Windows 7 then.

Actually the SDK has been pretty stable for years, and the OS itself has been pretty stable since 4.0 a few years back.

Depends where you are. Many places have enough geothermal or hydro to meet their needs, e.g. parts of Africa.

The other thing you have to realize is that even if it isn't possible today, that doesn't mean people will be willing to fund the developments that FTA wants. Tens of billions of Euros and tens of years to get it off the ground, at a time when other technologies are developing rapidly and in Germany even new coal plants are looking like they will never turn a profit.

With energy you have to look at the long term. Most developed nations trying to reduce their energy consumption, and long term it's likely that provision of base load will become a lot less profitable, or even unprofitable. It's really looking likely that large scale energy production won't be a big money maker in future, due to distributed production by individual users driving prices down at the most profitable times of day. Improvements in renewables and battery technology will only make the situation better/worse, depending on your point of view.

Malware apps require you to side load and then agree to let the app rape you with permissions. Even if you are that monumentally stupid the app can still only act within the bounds of the sandbox and allowed permissions, unless you also root your device and then grant that app root permissions.

What on earth are you on about? Android apps have sandboxing and are just as safe as iOS ones, in that they can't access anything they don't have permission to, or other process' memory, or random parts of the filesystem etc. The freedom Android brings does not compromise application security.

Apple hardware is uneven too. The first generation products are kind of notorious, but even more mature ones regularly have issues. Overheating CPUs, ghosting on LCDs, failing logic boards, failing charger boards, failing optical drives, failing nVidia chipsets, failing batteries etc. Not that Apple is particularly bad or anything, other high end manufacturers have the same issues.

I'd say proper Thinkpads (not the Lenovo consumer stuff) and Panasonic Let's Note (Toughbook in some markets) are just as reliable, and definitely more repairable. I have found NEC business laptops to be extremely robust too.

HP are awful, not least because they were one of nVidia's biggest customers so were hit the hardest by chipset failures that happened around the 18 month mark. Fortunately in the EU that's still in warranty.

iPay already seems to be trademarked in many countries. Apple has probably realized that existing trademarks will be a big problem in the future as everyone from wannabe western companies to far eastern manufacturers of low quality crap is calling their stuff iStuff now, so did what most companies do and used their company name + generic verb. Generic verbs have the advantage of not being trademarkable on their own.

RAW CPU performance isn't a very interesting metric for most uses. How fast do apps open up, and how much RAM does it have to make multitasking smoother? How quickly can I go from locked to taking a video, in case my cat does something funny and I need to put it on YouTube? How fast can I get to commonly toggled settings? How long does it take to charge the battery?

Anything that can't be opened with common screwdrivers and fingernails is an automatic fail in my book. Glue, difficult to pry open clips and the like are indications of either bad design or a customer-hostile manufacturer. Aside from anything else, it tends to void your warranty.

It was never about journalist. The original claim, that a female indie developer slept with a journalist in exchange for a favourable review, has been proven to be false. The review doesn't exist. The journalist in question never reviewed any of her games. He mentioned one in a list and wrote an article that mentioned her in coverage of an event, but both those things happened before they were involved. It's all complete bullshit.

There are issues in games journalism, but GameGate has never been about any of them.

It's funny how two people can see the same events and come to the exact opposite conclusion about what happened.

Some people wrote some articles about how "gamer" culture, which is/was mainly a badge used by mostly male hard core players, is somewhat outmoded now because most people playing games do so casually. Furthermore people calling themselves gamers and claiming to speak on behalf of their community created the whole GamerGate thing, an elaborate web of lies and false accusations with a few criminal threats thrown in for good measure. At the very least, the term has now been poisoned by those people and people who really love games as entertainment or an art form should probably more on to calling themselves something else.

Naturally the GamerGate people took this as a personal attack on themselves, which I suppose it kind of is. If you are one of those angry young guys who screams profanity into his microphone during every online match, or who doesn't feel like a "real man" unless he can virtually screw a prostitute and then murder her to recover his cash you may feel personally attacked when someone suggests those things are not positive aspects of gaming culture.

I've read those articles and they are clearly not an attack on all video game players. They are trying to say that the vast majority of players are nothing like the low lifes behind GamerGate, who are calling themselves real gamers. Language and labels change meaning, and although I enjoy games I wouldn't want to be identified as a "gamer" any more.

Seems like bribery is pretty common in US politics, no? Maybe not outright "brown envelope under the table" bribery, but campaigns have to be funded somehow. When you need $100m to get into office you can't really afford to stick to principals or refuse "advice" from people writing you fat cheques.