One thing people are missing regarding YouTube inserting ads in the middle of videos, when they try to compare it to broadcast TV.

When you watched a show on TV, and they were inserting ads in the middle, those shows would be edited with the expectation that there would be commercial breaks, and the layout of the show would account for them. On YouTube, they'll break in with a commercial whenever they feel like it. Doesn't matter if you're watching a musical performance, technical presentation, whatever. The person in the video could be in mid-sentence, mid-phrase, and YT/Google will jump in and say "fuck what you were watching, here's an ad".

You know, for the most part I was willing to tolerate reasonable advertising on YT, because I realize someone has to pay for keeping the servers running. I have some clue of the economics of it. But when they start breaking into the MIDDLE of videos, at illogical and inappropriate places, then it prompts me to find a way to block ALL advertising on YT, even the ones I was willing to tolerate. Fuck 'em.

Not to mention that now they *INSIST* upon placing thumbnails of other videos on TOP of the video even before it's done playing. Seriously? Perhaps there was something at the end of that video we wanted to see. And their jackass thumbnails ruin the viewing experience. When I complained on their so-called "support" forums, some mealy-mouthed GoogleTwit(TM) said "oh, people are supposed to add extra space at the end of the video..." Really? I don't think so. Google would like to pass off the blame to OTHERS for their own bullshit mistakes. No concept of usage cases, no thought that when they *change* their shit code, it breaks things that worked before. They expect people to have to constantly revisit everything just in case Google fucked up yet something ELSE in the interim. Can't even own up to their own fuckups (then again, there are SO many of them, it must be impossible to keep track).

Sad state that the ONLY thing Google seem capable of developing without royally fucking it up is advertising. Everything else they make may turn to shit (or just outright start out as shit from the get-go), but boy can they serve ads.

Going to have trouble streaming episodes of "The Thick Of It" then.

Actually, more likely they'd *prefer* you were looking at porn, that way you'll be too busy to notice what nasty shit *they're* up to.

Ah, you mean the StackExchange model...

Probably both. Why not make use of new legislation as a NEW excuse to be dicks.

Everyone will just start using Cockney Rhyming Slang... Oh wait, that has the word "cock" in it; guess we'll have to call it Penis-ney Rhyming Slang.

Hey, come on. ReactOS is well on it's way to full WinXP-compatibility in only 10 years time.

Although I do think it could have become a usable alternative a few years back; when all those companies were panicking about the impending demise of WinXP, they could have pumped money and resources into ROS and had a drop-in rplacement for XP that wasn't dependent on MS. But instead they acted like the cowards they are, bent over and spread them for MS once again.

Hey, if people will actually PAY for the rights to names like "Circuit City" and "Crazy Eddies", some sucker will think the Palm name is still relevant. Sure, we all miss the far-greater functionality of PalmOS over the provider-locked iOS and Android ecosystems, but I miss my 1970 Ford Maverick as well (although I'm still more likely to find parts for that than I am to find something to run on PalmOS these days).

My impression is that "handhelds" have severely degraded since the market went to "smartphones" and abandoned the vastly superior PDAs. Why should I have to squirt my data half-way around the world to some dirt-floor shack in Bangalore, just to have it returned to a device no more than three feet from the source computer? That's what USB and Bluetooth is for. We need to develop a super-set of the PalmOS sync protocol and shoehorn it into Android. Then we could start regaining some sanity and usability in handhelds.

Yeah, it severely pisses me onff on Android that the overwhelming majority of audio player apps think it's perfectly fine to KEEP playing audio even after you've closed the app. So you have audio playing, and NO UI to manage it or shut it off. You can't STOP playing audio, only pause it. And the fact that it is so pervasive throughough the entire gamut of Android apps, I can only presume it's an inherent defect in Android itself.

"teaching evolution AND creation"... But then you have to ask, *WHOSE* story of creation? The Abrahamic 6-days and whooping it up on the seventh day? Or perhaps Vishnu sprouting a flower in his navel? Or perhaps the Shinto Egg? That's just three right off the top of my head, I know there are many others, so in reality you'd have to teach ALL of them, otherwise you spend years in court because some group you forgot about got left out.

Granted, the whole "egg" story in Shinto sounds an awful like a "big bang" creation theory of the universe. Or, isolated semi-locally, a supernova spawning a stellar nursery.

Well, we probably *could* get away with slower broadbamd *IF* websites weren't loading their sites with tracking code and worthless cruft.

> ...as the movement seeks to share innovative hardware designs and drive down costs in the telecom arena...
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Is it coincidence they talk about reducing *costs*, but fail to mention reducing *prices*?

and YOUR feeble excuse that network transparency may or (more likely) may not be available as an extension does NOT help if it is not always available BY DEFAULT on any system you may need to remotely connect to. If Wayland becomes widely implemented they way *you* want to see it done, it's highly likely the overwhelming majority of systems will be forever isolated and unreachable. For all that will give us, you might as well be using the Point-and-Drool MSWindows interface you seem so hot and horny to emulate. It certainly would make my job significantly more difficult.

Wayland provides severe broken-ness and an inability to work on remote systems. It's designed to bring all the uselessness of MSWindows to the Unix world.