It's true, and the next thing in computing is cellular automation!

So you've never used video on demand?

Did they say they were going to wire your eyes open and give you the AdSence Ludovico treatment? No, they are giving people the option to reduce the price of an appliance by having ads show up on it. If there is an option to buy full price with ads disabled (like most ad revenue based apps) then what's so evil about it?

Hell yeah. Run ads on my washer and dryer too if it means they are cheap/free. Its the same idea as free apps but free appliances are actually useful.

To improve the customer experience!

It is insane how much caffeine some people run on. Seeing people drink 2 XL coffees an hour for a 12 hour shift makes my weekend pub crawl look like the church picnic.

Never! We will keep it up until every one re-buys everything they already own, THEN it will come out that they not only have a carbon foot print but it's bigger than that of the new hemp powered hot air balloons!

Everybody should RTFM.

Not changing the UI slows down cashflow in cloud/web/consumer stuff, the more they change the more money changes hands.

As a maintenance electrician at a facility that runs a blast furnace I don't work every minute of my 12hr shift but when something does come up it I have to run, coke is not a cheap fuel to waste. My employer understands this, having me in the building to fix one problem all day can save them thousands in down time and lost product. I don't think they are about to consolidate me out of a job any time soon but that doesn't mean they wont try. Service contractors of every kind are getting more popular with businesses that have frequent need for repair or troubleshooting of equipment.

Bingo, if it fails on >25% of hardware I would be happy to scream "M$" with the rest of the herd but I've seen it update fine on Lenogo, Dell, my custom build (and Surface Pro) with no problems. The hardware driver hell that comes along with some brands of laptops lately is brutally frustrating.

Much the same way that you colonize a planet, you let robots do the ground work and move in once the wifi is set up. Its not economical to make people work in any hazardous environment if the robots have free electricity a la Sol. Let Branson build a orbital skydiving resort up there if he wants, the quicker we get construction robots in space the quicker the rest of us can move up there.

Wasn't there a bit in the Hitchhiker's Guide about how its a bad idea to give personalities to infrastructure? The Guide never lies, leave the machines dumb.

The resolution at this point doesn't matter, this is a demo product that will only by bought by future investors and camera heads (quite possibly myself included). The
rest of your lens woes don't really apply with a plenopitc camera, the DOF is calculated when the image is made, if they can get DOF with unlimited depth they can
get ultra thin just the same way. They also boast that you can use lenses with no aspherical elements which means making addon lenses would be very cheap on
future versions of this camera. A tilt lens is not required with a plenoptic camera, it captures all parts in focus and then calculates the distance and angle you pick for
a plane of focus, you could even have a calculated "surface of focus" that is wavy or bent.
 
If they make enough on this one their next camera should be photographer's dream.

They go on to say that you should not set yourself on fire or enjoy a nice hot cup of bleach on a cold day.