I came here for an argument.
Ever since the Janet Jackson Super Bowl Nip Slip incident, and the subsequent crack down by the FCC on anything that might be considered offensive, radio stations have had to go through their record collections with a fine-tooth comb to make sure all of the offensive language (and ideas, apparently) has been removed from their songs.
Clothes just don’t last as long these days. They don’t make things like they used to
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Using your phone to control your home computer seems like it would be terribly useful. Recently, the place I worked started allowing the iOS and Android Citrix clients for remote access to work. The Citrix client displays the screen of the application you are interacting with, and you tap where you would normally click the mouse. As you can imagine, this works pretty poorly on a small phone screen. It was usable in a (very desperate) pinch, but it really pretty much sucked.
Like most technically savvy people, I have a number of computers that I have adopted tech support duties for. (Yeah, that sounds better than saying support of these computers was forced on me…)
No matter how much I wear this, no one takes the hint
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Steve Jobs was at least mostly, if not completely wrong about Flash on mobile devices. There. I said it.
Let me start by saying that I don’t care about Flash. I am completely indifferent about Adobe and anything they do or have done. I feel the same way about flash as I feel about HTML, High Def TV, 3D movies or speed limits on highways. They exist, they serve their purpose, and we have to live with them. Does Flash cause problems? Sure. Would the world be better off if Flash had never existed? It’s a moot point, because it does exist. Does ignoring flash make it go away? This is a resounding “no”!
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[With Apologies to Dennis Miller]
People’s lives are saved by smoke detectors every day. This is a good thing. But, how many people’s lives are inconvenienced each day because of smoke detectors?
I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but the people who design smoke detectors must be smoking something. Here’s a vital piece of your house, one that can save your life when fire threatens to destroy it, and most of them run on the same battery that powers your TV remote control. The battery powering these things has a life expectancy that is typically shorter than the people the smoke detectors are designed to protect. So, the genius engineers have worked to devise a way to warn you if your batteries are starting to die.
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