Exactly! How else are they going to pay for those 30,000 new drones?

Um, no. The dangers of texting, phone calls, alcohol etc is that they distract you from even recognizing that you are in a potentially dangerous situation.

Or, if you have a passive 3D TV, get multiple pairs of glasses for the price of a movie ticket.

I'll meet your (unbelievable) anecdote with an anecdote of my own:

I lived with a close friend and his father for about 5 months back in the 90's and I literally never saw the dad eat a meal or drink water. I'd estimate 90% of his calories came from beer and the rest from whisky or the occasional glass of wine. Both the father and I were jobless at the time and we shared the apartment together for the entire day, so it wasn't like he was grabbing lunch at the office.

I talked to my friend about it and he said that's just the way his dad is. He couldn't even remember the last time his dad actually ate food.

He probably had some sever deficiencies and I have no idea what his internal organs looked like, but just looking at him you'd guess he was the epitome of health... about 130lbs and could run up the 4 flights of stairs without losing his breath. So, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your particular theory.

The only cultures that still practice cannibalism today do so because of their religious beliefs...

First I would learn how to solve the problem on paper. Then I would learn how to solve the problem given a generic set of input. Then I would write a program to do it on the calculator.

Thus at 14, I learned that school was not necessarily about learning.

Seems like you did a lot of learning to me...

"A lot of times, I'll drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake."

-Mitch Hedberg

I don't think his whining is unethical at all... Win RT market penetration is already facing an uphill battle and, without developer support, it is inevitably going to fail. MS seems to have forgotten this (once again) and Rubicon is giving them the verbal kick in the pants they need to get their act together. It might sound like whining, but MS has so far given Win RT developers absolutely pathetic support.

We allow commercial exploitation of the Earth and we live here...

A single poor example is not indicative of the technology as a whole. Look at voice recognition on current Android or iPhones... compare that with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 years ago and it's stunning how far the tech has progressed.

Because for the last 20 years we've seen pretty amazing progress with speech recognition and interpretation technologies and there's no reason to think the next 20 years will be any different?

So English speakers should learn to speak another language so that they can learn what it's like to learn to speak another language... that's sound logic if I've ever heard it.

I'm just curious as to which of his many brilliant and famous feats of computer engineering or programming you are referring to as his "one item"?

Why are you replying to your own post with a counter argument? Whoops... I think you forgot to log in with your alt!