pointyhat

There are some seriously fucked up selfish capitalist bastards on this site who believe they are entitled to screw anyone for anything.

It's disgusting.

But when you make the most profitable way the preferred way, you shift the power from the people to a controlling party, at which point, the price goes up to suit the "investors".

It's an unfortunate part of human nature.

All the Facebook engineers on here sound like I imagine IBM executives do when asked about the involvement of IBM in the holocaust...

I'm genuinely surprised that the EU haven't stepped on Facebook yet. It's the creepiest, most invasive thing ever developed.

It's not a "product". It's a survival essential. Everyone should be entitled to clean water, not at a price.

This is such a bad idea.

a) $3 per month for a family in India is quite expensive.

b) It adds artificial scarcity and dependency on the "water dealers".

Sounds like Rango to me.

The worst thing I find is when you get a part in it which is designed to work with several different products and it has extra holes drilled in it. Rather than specialising the CAM / drilling process, they throw some little stickers in to cover up the holes.

That just stinks.

I worked at a QA-heavy financial organisation.

The only reason they needed QA is the software was a giant toilet-clogging turd. There were no formal unit or integration test cases so it was used to catch regressions against massive test plans knocked up in Excel, Word and god-knows what else.

I think they should bring back the "old" Nano. A lot of people haven't bought the new one as they still like tactile controls and want a screen large enough to watch a video. They also don't want an iPhone or to pay for the touch. They shot themselves there.

There has been a lot of innovation with the iPod but some of it hasn't always been that great. Consider the "stick" shaped shuffle which reverted back to the old design in the latest revision. I consider the touch-based iPod Nano to be the same sort of unnecessary crock.

Ha I like that :)

I did exactly the same, except to get a contract outfit off the ground. I paid off about $60k in total (in GBP) over 10 years. I worked out that in total I made about 20% more than salaried people over the time. It definitely wasn't worth it.

The irony of this is that I have just cancelled my Spotify account because tracks I have on my playlists have disappeared due to I assume various problems with record labels.

It's utterly annoying when you sit down in the office and the first track you go to is gone.