Look at 4:43. It is a perfect example of how I would design intentional bias.

Its a freeze frame with the apple logo and the text slowly imposed. "New, Useful, not obvious to one skilled in the field.".

The text frames the apple logo making part of the natural scan of the eyes. The word "one" hangs above the logo.

The Apple logo is the brightest item in image and placed at rule-of-thirds-intersection. No other image detail competes with the logo i.e. no human eyes, no coffee logo, no bag logo, no logo in the t-shirt, no logos in the background etc. Its form is clear despite the filter blurring out other features of the image.

Before and after the freeze-frame, the logo is shown and the direction of the inventor's gaze is always towards the apple logo.

A disgraceful infommercial.

It has been "in progress" for so long that stationary might be a better term.

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Read the chrome product support forums or comment rolls on release announcements - its pretty depressing. Countless posts referring to the same set issues crashes, scrolling bugs, inability to pick items from select boxes, flash crashes, modal dialog faults etc.

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I see. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the root of the problem. They have conflated a web-browser with an OS. No good will come from it except an unfocussed bloated browser and an anaemic OS.

From previous releases its clearly the Chrome team is being mismanaged and has lost its way.

They really cannot get the basics right. A web browser is basically text in windows that can be styled by the page author. Lets see you they are doing:

i) They don't fix the appalling font rendering issues on Windows promptly and as a priority. Most of Google's own web fonts are unusable in production because of this.

ii) They don't follow standard most-recently-used order when ctrl-tab between tabs and they don't see the problem and close any bug report as won't fix. How can Chrome be the platform for office tools and applications when you can't flick between applications?

iii) They start adding animations to html elements you can't restyle with CSS e.g. the zoom ease-in they added to select elements in a recent Chrome. What possible justification was there for that? If you need to use more than a couple select elements on a form the animation effect of using each one is terrible.

iv) They add forced behind the scenes updates (ok) but they then push poorly tested unstable releases. There were wide-spread issues on their recent releases. You can only auto-update if you are rock-solid.

v) They fork from the web-kit project, a once high-point in cross company collaboration for the betterment of the web. Now... beginning of the end.

vi) And now they are going to spend their time re-implementing a cross-platform widget toolkit. How about fixing the fucking font rendering first?

I don't know how the team is being led but it can't be right. Google, time to take an axe to your chrome team...

I'm pretty sure we are going to see techniques which will mean you can't even "not be present" for the adverts e.g. a click-through quiz question about the colour of the actors jumper in the advert before your broadcast would continue.

I have visited Beijing but also some remote Northern Chinese cities as well as Mongolia.

The haze in sky is significantly made from dust blowing in from the Gobi. The sky is hazy even in remote non-industrial areas. The truth is that Beijing is being swallowed by the desert.

Personally I consider the air better than Tokyo, Bangkok or London but this judgement may be more about sewers and transport fumes than harmful chemicals from industry.