But when the average computer illiterate consumer call me to fix their infested Microsoft machine or needs to buy a new one suddenly realizes need to buy another copy of Office, I explain the how it's understood by the "stereotypical Slashdot demographic" and they quickly understand.

Windows 8 has been great for helping me sell Macbooks and Chromebooks. The Office tax has converted quite a few people to Libre/OpenOffice and Google Docs.

And this is why Microsoft is sinking - because they've pissed of the people who do know, and now the people who do know are telling the people who don't and driving them to competitors. And as far as I'm concerned at this point - good riddance.

So actually, yes, quite a few people are making purchasing decisions based on the perceived righteousness of the company - at least those I talk to.

"a natural consequence of his general theory of relativity"

Is this to say the general theory of relativity produces a Big Bang? As in, because GR is true, BB is? What's the short explanation for that?

Nailed it. What good are twenty million sensors when you don't have a proper UI to control them? And that's just proper software to control the equipment - what about the rest of the ecosystem?

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If I take off Glass and give it to someone else - they can instantly use their own voice to issue commands without any calibration. If I or other people shout out commands while a random person is wearing them, it will respond.

The chink in his example is that the target device would have to be a contact in Glass already - and at this current time, Glass contacts are exclusive to Glass - they're not pulled from Google Contacts. As far as I know, you have to say "make a call " versus "make a call to 555-555-1234".

Yes, maybe one day we will be able to shout "ok glass allah allah jihad" for great fireworks, but that ain't even close to reality at this time. Wait, now I have an idea for an app...

Everyone should be able to have it, and eat it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HReySt8AMmI

Glad to see at least one other man reads Slashdot. ;)

I dunno, they're the ones that know everything about her, maybe she had it coming.

AMEN!!

Because he has a ton of money and incredible broadband and loves to give middle fingers too!

Uhhh, pass the needle and thread?

The more it's pirated, the more popular it becomes, the more popular it becomes, the more skus you move. But then I guess we lose the pirating is the ultimate evil of the universe message.

"God probably has life forms on every planet and star. Earth he has given to the sons of men. He wants us to stay here and don't space travel. We are to live on a perfected earth as perfect humans..God's plan for earth from the beginning..it will be done."

And get yourself hooked up.