One out of three people decided they looked like a dork with that awful thing on their wrist.
All the makings of a future collector's item! Anybody who has one and is thinking of returning it, place it back in the original box and stow it away. A whole new generation of nostalgia geeks is being born right now who will beat a path to your door about the time you need retirement money.
I would venture to say newspapers like the Telegraph are for exceptionally dull weirdos. Everyone else uses twitter & the web.
But they are on the web. That is why they posted such a silly story.
brace yourself for 1000+ angry comments
No doubt.
Thing is, everybody does not need to be taught coding, but they really should be at least shown how to use a computer. In the same manner that everybody does not need a mandatory engine building class, though driver's education would be nice along with the basics on how to maintain an automobile. Even that is not mandatory in these parts.
Banks were deregulated, and massive consolidation followed. Same with phone companies, and media companies. The less regulation, the fewer choices.
ATT was a national monopoly only until the feds allowed competition.
ATT was a competing company until the government outlawed competition. In the early 1900s, companies would have multiple phones from multiple companies because Bob might have one company and Alice a different one, and they couldn't call each other, and couldn't call a business unless that business bought lines from both companies. That silliness is why competition was outlawed. Then later mandated.
That "silliness" did not need to be "outlawed" at all any more than any other marketplace problem needs outlawing. You know, like that "silliness" between file formats, etc.
The BBC is still looking.
They are still looking for the George Orwell radio shows too. I think the scripts are out there, but the recordings seem to have vanished in a memory hole somewhere.
The same could be said about the USA, where money equals law and justice is make-believe for kids stories.
Yea, we should put government in charge of it from start to finish, That will take all of the incentive to cheat out of it. TVA never does anything like this. No, never at all.
It is South Korea. If you have a culture that will fuck up safety certificates at nuclear plants, do you think they are suddenly going to be better with natural gas plants?
Fix the fucking culture and kill the corruption. The technology was never the problem.
Do you think they have a monopoly on that culture? Witness our very own government owned and operated Tennessee Valley Authority and they falsified readings of wells around the coal slurry dam. Oh, they do it with nuclear too.
We KNOW all about the intercepts now, why is it a headline everytime The Guardian throws-out a new "discovery"?
Eyeballs.
So basically they want to introduce a Slashdot for scientists..
Prepare for a brand new style of flame-wars!
Since Popular Science dropped the ball, the government had to take over.
The point is, people are voting with their money. It may be nice to hang out at a bookstore, but the combination of lower price, vastly greater selection (as in 1000 times greater), and convenience of shopping from home obviously wins out. One justification for keeping the physical stores around Paris might be tourism but when you put it that way - i.e they are charging the taxpayers to decorate the city with bookstores - it does seem kinda silly. It's really just a preference of the ruling elite. They don't care that the books will cost more to the poor people, they are more interested in how the city looks. Just like in certain highly expensive, highly liberal, neighborhoods of San Francisco, New York etc they banned chain restaurants thereby drastically raising the average price of eating out, but it makes it nicer for the rich people to walk around without all those poor people blocking the sidewalk.
Just like "urban renewal" and its destruction of affordable housing. What you wind up with is a neighborhood full of pretentious prissies who got their condos and luxury apartments at a taxpayer provided discount. Just so happens that the discount is not big enough for the people who used to be able to live there.
More proof that the AGW movement is a cult. Real scientists would do the investigation o learn more about climate change, not shrink away from it just because it upsets their insular worldview.
I would have a lot more respect for "not wanting to be political pawns" if they had not already chosen a side of the board.
If the existing data used to base the current conclusions were open to all, you might have more independent scientists investigating this too.
When regional players cannot compete even with taxpayer support (as these french bookstores are), then they should go out of business. Who says brick and mortar bookstores need to exist and we all need to pay higher prices for books in order to keep then artificially alive?
Dirt-world stores do have an advantage that they seem to miss. One can pick up and look at a book in person before buying it, for example. The dust jacket can be a work of art, like the ones from Chip Kidd at Knopf, that you cannot get, and never will get on any existing digital device. Where they fall on their face is in some of their policies that worked fine a century ago, but are completely outdated now. Like demanding to returning unsold stock to the publishers.
On that last one, just think about it if you are a writer or publisher. If you have a choice between a sale being final and someone "buying" your product for three months, then shipping it back to you because they don't want it anymore, which do you choose? On eBooks, I believe Amazon Kindle gives that opportunity to the consumer, that few or no dirt-world bookstores offer, but the writer is not killed with storage fees or remainders. Not sure if they give it on physical books.
As a consumer, it is really none of my business what the seller's underlying costs are, I care about the quality of the product and the price. That is unless the government is giving the seller some of my tax money to pretend that his product is a little cheaper.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
