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Comment Re: OMG (Score 1) 555

5 seconds of searching Google tells me you have to be 6 miles in the air on a clear day to see the earths curve. A feat that main kind has only been able to accomplish with basically any plane that can reach cruising altitude. Now if in the entire time this man was building his suicide machine he did not think to put in that much research time. Who are we to stop him.

Comment Of course they are. (Score 1) 366

As someone who's had to repair a couple Macs in my day I always thought that Macs we're poorly designed was one of those things that went without saying. Like water is wet or the sky is blue. Most Mac products focus more on being difficult to take apart rather than well designed and the places they cut corners are just ridiculous. Remember when they first released the aluminum body MacBooks and figured they didn't need to have a heatsync so just diffused the heat out of the bottom or the laptop. Who does that?

Comment Re: Let me guess.. (Score 1) 632

Of course this is all going by the assumption that these self service Kiosks are going to do their job better than a human ever would and that no human in the world is going to complain and cause problems. My guess is they are going to roll it out, then after a week of customers complaining their orders are wrong because they thought hitting the button that said chicken mcnugget with the picture of a chicken mcnugget on it meant double cheese burger. They are going to put one guy up front with the kiosks to help the blind, elderly, dumb and technologically stubborn . As well as cash people out if they can't use the machine. Then he's going to get so backed up during rush times they are going to have to bring a second guy out to help with the other machine and look at that your right back up to staff.

Comment Re: Doxing (Score 2) 899

Anyone brave enough to check out the porn reddits out there will know that Reddit is willing to tolerate a lot of things that normal users would find offensive. What they don't put up with is harassment which is what this doxxing crap is. Anyone who thinks this decision is motivated by anything other than protecting people from malicious trolls is very sadly misinformed on how the internet, America, and the concept of human decency work.

Comment Re: Strawmen attacks (Score 1) 726

Very true. Which is why so many companies are moving towards automation and outsourcing to increase their bottom line. Its not like they need to have their employees best interest at heart or even the customers, as long as your big enough you can guarantee a customer base in this country even if everyone hates you and you hate your customers Like Wal-Mart or the Kardashians. The only part of the US economic system that is even obligated to give a crap about the average citizen is the government. But with a republican majority and their conservative values of small government and little to no market regulation the likelihood of seeing any intervention to help Americas working poor is non exsistent. Which puts working Americans of all walks of life at risk of their positions being undercut and being replaced by someone or something willing to do the same job for pennys on the dollar. Course eventually your going to reach a point where the majority of Americans are too poor to buy any products or use any services beyond what's needed for survival. Maybe then companies will realize how dangerous it is to ignore the other half of the economic system that gives them all the money in the first place.

Comment Re: False premise (Score 1) 501

Thank you. All tablets mobile devices and game systems have done is whittled down the end user market. For the average Joe there's no reason to spend over a grand on a decent computer that won't crap out in a couple months if they just want to surf the web and play some games when they could have all for only a couple hundred. But for enthusiasts out there having a high powered easily customizable machine is a must. And as far as the "marketplace". Every online storefront I have ever seen thrives on indie developers using tools that were provided for free by major studios. If not for them we would all be playing Captn. Blands adventures in the land of excessive bloom 5.

Comment Re: More like CANABALT (Score 1) 88

So the innovation isn't so much the game concept. Its the fact that its Mario. Because we all know that Mario is a really person that needs to be poked and prodded into doing games and not just a jumble of code and a collection of sprites. Explains why they haven't made a decent 3d Mario game since galaxy. The old guy probably doesn't have it in him after doing all those handheld games.

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