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Adam Williamson
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I was just trusting edcharleston's claim, I didn't go and verify it. Thanks for the correction.

C'mon, that's even *easier* to understand. It's fundamentally much harder to get rich by selling paintings, because, well, it takes quite a long time to paint one good painting and then you can only sell it once. The art world's tastes and willingness to fork over large amounts of money are notoriously fickle, and

There's really not that much to get. You can be famous in any medium lots of people consume. There've been famous artists, actors and storytellers pretty much forever. There've been famous authors ever since there were printed books and a sufficient amount of literate people with time to read them. As soon as enough

For Marshalls / Ross / TJ Maxx what matters much more is where it is, and what other stores are around it. They all carry overstock, so any one of them in a mid-sized town with just standard mid-level department stores around it isn't going to have anything that great. The ones in major cities near to high-end

Well, yeah, but all those songs are from the 1990s. Have you tried listening to anything she's released *lately*?

Well, no, sorry, you're just being silly there. You're using the definition of the word in the context of chemistry and incorrectly applying it to the context of food. The concept of 'organic' as it relates to food is fairly well defined, and there are standards bodies all over the place which will certify food as

I don't think that's correct. Lots of people seem to have incorrectly got that impression from the stories about hand squeezing the bags, but I don't see any of the stories actually claiming that, and the Juicero people explicitly state very clearly that the bags contain bits of fruit, not juice. So in the absence of

The TweetPeek (or PeekTweet, I forget) was a kinda spin-off they did when it was becoming extremely clear the idea of a dedicated email device was just not working out. They thought "hey, this Twitter thing seems popular lately, maybe people will buy a dedicated Twitter device instead!"

The definition of 'failed product' seems pretty clear to me: a product that sold terribly and was quickly abandoned. It's not just a question of whether the product actually performs the function it was designed for adequately. A product which doesn't perform its intended function adequately is very likely to be a

Oh, people use them for all sorts of practical purposes now. There just isn't much hype about them any more.

Allegedly it's to check if the bags have been recalled (because, you know, a company that sells a wifi juicer *does* seem like it might manage to also sell you bags of chopped fruit that fry your organs or something).

Yeah, it's definitely a woman's fault. Must be. Men couldn't possibly screw up technology!

The staff at the place I play badminton clean the courts on hoverboards. (Those scooter things that get called hoverboards, that is, not *actual* hoverboards).

The bags contain very finely chopped bits of fruit and vegetables. It's just that they're so finely chopped you can quite easily squeeze the juice out of them with your hands.

Just think! With this thing, you can pay $6-$9 for a bag that gets you eight frickin' ounces of juice.

The gubmint!!!

Ah, but is it Fully Buzzword Compliant Juice?

Yes, there is. But the basic idea here is that 'freshly-squeezed' juice is so much more delicious (and, it is heavily implied but not stated because that'd be illegal since it's not true, healthy) than just regular old juice in a bottle you buy from the store. And more convenient than, you know, just buying some fruit

There's actually a fairly strong correlation between your understanding of technology and your desire to use it for every goddamn thing.

Yeah, that's my one beef with this story too - it seems to come with at least an implicit angle of 'hey, maybe it'd be a good idea to just buy the juice bags and squeeze them with your hands!'