It's hard when adults do the same thing. I mean not just to the kids at school, but in all of life. How different in essence is using your power to artificially increase the price of healthcare, such as with insulin or in a hundred other examples, for your profit different than stealing someone's lunch money, or making jokes at their expense?
Well. Suddenly I'm hit by memories of childhood days thinking FrontPage was the best thing ever... and maybe was it Nvu before or after that? (Who remembers Nvu of all things?) And Java applets taken from a book just to have fancy rollover buttons, the obligatory tables-everywhere, soon enough the rise of Flickr, with the following trends of vowel dropping and glossy images everywhere with Trebuchet MS in hand, or maybe using Flash text replacement, and soon enough we're here.
I'm not surprised at all. If I recall correctly, there was a link posted a while back about someone breaking some condition in the Google TOS, and thus being locked out of their Google Account, and therefore all their email, documents, and so on.
And that's why I'm trying to make sure I don't become too dependent on any one "cloud" ecosystem.
But while your Macbook's battery is not dead (which I would hopefully presume is for most of the time you're using it), the magnetic connector is quite useful to have. It's got both great form and function. At least, until you come to the unfortunate side effect you've mentioned.
I broke a few DC plugs by tripping on the cable. Or stretching it to reach a power outlet and picking up the laptop still plugged in. Or getting tangled in the cable on the couch and such. These things break when you're not carful with them.
In fact I don't remember having a laptop charger break for any other reason. It's always the DC plug or cable.
Every laptop I've ever owned that wasn't a macbook (4) had complete hardware failures related to the damned DC power jack in the side of the laptop. Without fail the damn things always shorted out and/or just stopped working.
The standard DC connector also has pretty good function. Humans have been putting things into holes for a very long time and we've gotten pretty good about it. I estimate I use 0% of my mental capacity to plug in my Thinkpad.
If this is correct, then this matters much, much more than the sensationalism surrounding browsers on WoA being unable to run as desktop apps.
The entire focus of WoA is pretty much Metro-style apps, with Office on the desktop as something on the aside, so why would it matter that another browser can't place itself into the desktop? But if other browsers are actually going to be disadvantaged backend-wise, then that's something to worry about.
Incivility isn't just happening in relation to comments; I'm seeing thoughtful (or somewhat naive, but not inflammatory and certainly not with intent to mislead) comments downvoted on a somewhat regular basis now, simply because they may be wrong, or because many others don't agree with them.
I think it's more of Google practically being ingrained into people's heads as the way to get somewhere on the net. Time and time again I've seen people with MSN or Bing as their homepage, and they'll just search for "google".
Yes, I completely agree. But perhaps you could be smiling, at a nice sunny location. The human element would be there. That's not a "prison mug shot". Plenty of the photos on the site are like that.
But if you're trying to say "Look, you're going to put all these people out of work if this thing passes", i.e. you're pointing out the human element of what the bill could cause, what is an average, uninformed person ("the world", as the website says) going to think when they see a bunch of people making ridiculous poses?
But it's also because Google has been making use of its massive amount of ad space to push Chrome, and on top of that taken out ads in actual physical locations too.
In practice, zero-tolerance turned into a blanket "we don't want to put up with any disruptions" policy.
Provoking an outburst out of a target meant consequences for the victim that could be as bad or worse than the aggressor's.