Or when we stop spending more money on administration and pointless toys like "Smart Boards" than on teachers.

The vast majority of sites don't offer a paid version. Anything I read that lets me subscribe gets a subscription (Ars Technica, several webcomics that have options for recurring donations, Consumer Reports, a very significant donation to Penny Arcade's ad free Kickstarter). I have no sympathy for people who can't be bothered to offer an ad-free experience, but hopefully more people using Adblock and less people clicking on ads will force content providers to start monetizing things in a way that isn't user-hostile.

I'm not sure I see the point of full sized SD cards anymore. My phone, tablet and camera all use microSD. I only have the full-sized SD card adapters to connect to my laptop. Considering micro-SD cards come in 64 GB sizes now, I'm not sure what the advantage of normal SD is.

Cleaning up the output from a WYSIWYG takes longer than just writing the page correctly the first time. In fact, making a messy page in a WYSIWYG frequently takes longer even before you take cleanup time into account.

The Nexus 7 is the first tablet that comes with a combination of features that I've wanted:

* Good screen
* 7" (notice how everyone claimed no one wanted this right up to the point where rumors started saying Apple was making one?)
* Current version of Android
* Fast enough processor/GPU (ask anyone who's compared a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet to the Nexus 7 and you'll see what I mean)

Personally, I think Google could have made it more expensive and it still would have sold.

Except that even if there was no tape on the Nexus 7's box, the cardboard box it shipped in is still sealed with packing tape, so you need a sharp object (like your keys) either way. And no, I don't think we should stop sealing cardboard boxes before shipping them.

Did you try to cut the packing tape on the UPS box with your fingers too?

I did experience it. I bought one. The steps I described are exactly how I opened it.

Yeah this story confuses me.

Step 1: Push box out of sleeve
Step 2: Cut two pieces of tape
Step 3: Open box
Step 4: Profit

There's not even a ??? step. Is cutting tape really that difficult?

Yes, our elections revolve around two people taking turns talking about position X, where they are really pro-X while the other guy is anti-X (or generally "soft on X"). When the election finishes, they basically do the same thing and fail because all they've been thinking about what they think is cool, instead of realistic ways to do it (realistic solutions are a synonym for "soft on X"). Then there's a simple rule: If you voted for him, he did absolutely nothing wrong and in fact Jesus himself said his actions were perfect, and if you didn't vote for him, he's intentionally destroying everything because he's literally Satan.

In Firefox, you can see the current memory usage of a page by going to about:memory. I'd argue that peak memory isn't that interesting, since using a huge amount for a tiny amount of time is unimportant; it's the sustained high usage which is annoying.

Uh what? I can't even figure out what you're claiming they took out.

For anyone who's actually interested, the Memshrink Blog is a fascinating account of how a team of developers have been reducing Firefox's memory usage. Interestingly, Firefox's memory usage has never been particularly bad (it just seems to be because web pages are so much more complicated), but addons have had horrible memory problems for a long time (and unfortunately, that's pretty hard to detect).

Firefox and Chrome have pretty much identical performance on the desktop. Recent updates have made Firefox's memory usage much better, and despite loud opinions, it was never actually bad. My guess is that most of the people complaining about Firefox's performance are the idiots who refuse to update after Firefox 3 ("Web browsing takes more memory now, it must be Firefox's fault, not the fact that the web is more complicated now!").

Oh look, government workers aren't magically less corrupt than everyone else..