That's because none of that little shit matters. Nobody really cares about a bunch of guys who live in their parents' basements arguing about video games. People do care when a bunch of people threaten other people with bodily harm.

Get some perspective, moron.

Best part is when you're in a meeting and your phone buzzes, you can just check your wrist to see what it was which is far more discrete than pulling out your phone, unlocking it, and then finding the right app.

Or you can just get a Windows Phone which shows all of the message indicators on the lock screen.

You have no sense of historical context, do you?

Stupid fucking article. The exact same thing exists in the current Windows Phone 8.1. Looking at it on my phone right now. The wording is even exactly the same.

No, they love people like you. They get 2% of everything you spend!

Right. If this company's total IT budget is more than $80K, then they should be using the cloud instead of having in-house IT. $80K is about the cost of *one* decent admin. That doesn't include hardware, software, or the rest of the IT staff, either.

Unfortunately, CIOs and other execs just see the numbers on a spreadsheet and don't take the costs of outages that you can't control into account.

You're just pulling that statement out of your ass. Most people who run large companies aren't stupid, and I'm sure that many of them do take into consideration the costs of outages.

Sure, but when you have outages and stability issues which impact your business, is it really a good trade off?

It depends. Sometimes, yes.

Here we go, endless posts about how it's all down to pure willpower and entirely the fault of the individual.

Hey, if you know of an example where mass was spontaneously created without the addition of energy, it's vitally important that you tell somebody. Physicists everywhere need to know if there's a place in our universe where the law of conservation of mass doesn't apply (in general relativity, of course).

I doubt that OpenStack can handle it, but if they have the $$ for it, I'm sure that it's no big deal for Oracle.

Comparing health to the price of gas is moronic. Anybody who values a robust economy more than health can go suck on a tailpipe.

Class warfare has nothing to do with it, you thick shit. The wealthy run the large companies, which in turn own the governments (at least in the US), who make the decisions not to do anything about climate change, and also to spew utter horseshit like, "There's nothing we can do." Regular people aren't the ones clamoring to do nothing about climate change.

It's time for the alarmist side to stop pretending there are any policy choices on the table to prevent the warming they are predicting.

What the *fuck* are you talking about? There's plenty of stuff that can be done. The only reason that they're not being done is that the wealthy would have to foot the bill, and they don't want to.

Apple Pay cost them no more than a regular credit card transaction.

Right. Apple is providing Apple Pay out of the goodness of their own heart, I'm sure.

Apple doesn't get a penny from the end user or from the retailer

So they're doing this out of the goodness of their corporate heart?

If you believe this, then I have a bridge to sell ya'.