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Submission + - TV isn't broken, so why fix it? (cnn.com) 3

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: The technology industry is absolutely bent on reinventing television. ccording to Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, one of his last big accomplishments was figuring out how to make a better TV. Apple isn't alone. Google just released the second version of its Internet-meets-TV software, Google TV. Microsoft is also getting into the act again, after countless failed attempts stretching back almost two decades. (Remember WebTV?)

But nobody seems to be able to answer the big question: what exactly is so broken about TV anyway?

The tech industry is filled with engineers and geeks. They naturally want to optimize the TV experience, to make it as efficient and elegant as possible, requiring the fewest number of steps to complete a particular task while offering the greatest number of amazing new features. But normal people don't think about TV that way. TV is passive. The last thing we want to do is work at it. As long as there's something on — anything — that is reasonably engaging, we're cool. Most of us are even OK spending a few minutes just shuffling through channels at random.

Comment Re:Good (Score 0) 299

by rommi04 (#37835996) Attached to: US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled

Personally I have never heard of a Tea Party Member advocate the destruction of Muslims as a whole. Also. It might make you look a little less immature if you did not reflexively call them "Teabaggers". Just because a group of people who value personal freedom over massive government makes you uncomfortable is no reason to resort to petty name calling. You can disagree. Though I doubt that if there is a winning argument, you are in possession of it.

IIRC, the tea party people were calling themselves teabaggers initially.

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