It think y'all missed the point, Google was already collecting all that data, and it was all stored at Google. The change is that they merged databases and logins so it works and shares settings/history/etc across all their apps now instead of 2/3 of them like it was before.

It's an interesting case though, because part of the problem is that thanks to the likes of facebook, users have now adapted to this model of using the web. That means that if google doesn't adapt, they're in a position where they could lose their market very, very quickly.

Even without all the other logistics: Three letters - RSI

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I had to give up short of reading this all once I realized just how long this article was and how much time it was spending on such simple ideas, but two points:

I read that, thanks, I just think even for that it's not all that worth it. This isn't just about cooking several cakes, but cooking several cakes on a regular basis to make it worth making and storing a batch.

Seems like you'd have to be baking a lot of cakes to make this worth the time and effort. Like running a small bakery. It only takes a minute to rub butter on the inside of a pan and dust it with flour, and that doesn't involve messing up anything else in the kitchen.

More to the point the bottle could contain any of a number of airborne contagions/poisons, so no, opening the bottle is really not practical. Suspicious sealed containers are opened in isolated environments (you have to assume they were sealed for a reason), which would be more involved than a laser scanner.

$4 for a bottle of water? man, you've got a mean airport, mine (and most I've been through) has mostly normal prices (maybe $.50 overpriced) as long as you don't buy from one of those rip-off news booths.

Fair warning, the behavior is still a bit erratic even with this turned on, particularly if you are navigating folders by keyboard. There's also still a bug in win7 explorer where when you expand a folder for the first time in the navigation pane, it jumps to the bottom of the pane, which can be really annoying with…

You're right, it does kind of, though that's a side effect of how the dough cooks. In that respect a cookie actually makes more sense for the analogy, because you roll it in a ball and it cooks flat. Maybe I'm wrong and he just likes cooking jumbo cookies from big pucks, and calls them biscuits despite the American…

I think he was referring to American biscuits based on the picture, I don't usually make cookies from large pucks (though I prefer drop biscuits so I don't make biscuits from pucks either :))

I used to use codec packs, but these days MPC with a current build of FFMPEG (and some selective choices as to what you install) has covered everything I need. Much less clutter, and easy to uninstall if needed.

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude, but nothing I said implied a new sealed system - I initially said $100 to repair/replace - if Microsoft were replacing units with brand new sealed XBOXes for $100, that would have been seriously news worthy (and yes, they would have taken a huge loss, they were taking a loss on…

They don't, and they can't. You pay $100 for service, they send you a refurbished unit if they have one to get you a replacement quickly. That's not a retail sale, it's not in the same channel or budget (nor is it the same for tax purposes). Sales figures are based on units passing through retail channels, not service…

Now that you can tether all your wifi devices to a single 4G device and not pay for redundant plans? Not much point in 3G unless you're a teenager with a vita but not a smartphone (which seems an unlikely combination, but possible)

Anything the RIAA can do to make people hate them more, I'm fine with.

No, it doesn't count as another sale - it's a $100 service order with microsoft support - it's not included in sales figures.

Spot-on. The source of this info is clearly based on unfounded musings. The manufacturers could match the display/resolution/asset size if they wanted, the resources are all there.

When you can get Microsoft to replace/repair yours for $100 even if it's out of warranty? Probably not enough to make a huge difference.