savagemike

Relies on flash.
There is no future in this in the long run.
I hope they are spending their days and nights figuring out a different core service to use to actually send the stuff.
Also I understand this is partially an interview and you need to deal with the message that subject is trying to put out as well. And I also understand there might be a bigger story or angle you are trying to get across about how this is different or whatnot.
But do remember this is a tech site.
I don’t want to read through reams of stuff about how it’s like mario and I don’t need to know anything else to dig to the actual fundamentals about what the heck it is and how it works.

Education.
It’s that simple, as an answer to your notion that government spending cannot promote wealth or the middle class.
If you need help finding proof that the middle class has taken a ‘serious hit’ then I don’t have enough time to help you.
Try referencing costs of living compered to average wages or legal minimum wages historically.

I don’t know why everyone talks about what Amazon was doing and if it was good or bad or a monopoly or not.
It has nothing to do with this.
You don’t get to break the law and fix prices just because it helps you compete in the market.
This is a bit like saying it would be OK for “toys r’ us” to go about slashing tires on Walmart delivery vehicles and such due to the way Walmart deals in the toy market.
If Amazon has a monopoly then the government should do something to squelch it.
That actually has nothing to do with this and certainly isn’t a defense for it.

most of the population is overstating my point I think.
But a large chunk of the population at any rate.

Of course there is easing out of that.
I would submit to you that most of the population holds debt in the form of a mortgage which is several times the size of their yearly income.
Is it a great situation? No.
Is it a calamity about to bring the sky down on our heads? No.
I’m fine with cutting spending if we do it smartly.
Along with that we should be increasing spending on some things – namely programs which encourage middle class growth.
The middle class has taken a serious hit over the past decades.
And that is an actual honest to goodness recipe for disaster.
Economically speaking, the middle class is everything.
It is the cash crop and the buyer all in one.

New Windows 8 Reality Game for kids --

Go to friends house and gain access to his/her computer and commence rapidly searching for and visiting as many freaky porn sites as possible.

I love how you present this as an either/or choice.
I’m already seeing the product placements and pop-up ads – so I’ll go ahead and claim the commercial skip thanks.

I’m pretty sure it was “new girl” on fox I was watching on demand a few weeks ago via my local cable oligopoly member.
They made them disable fast-forward on the show at all.
I guess this is so I must watch the ads…
It’s a great help when you’ve seen most of something already but just want to watch the end…
So what were the ads they thought it so important I see.
They showed me the same ad 3 times during the show.
The ad was for “the New Girl” – on Fox, which is what I was watching.

tl,dr: I don’t give a flying eff what the networks think about it, I’m thinking of switching to Dish for the feature.

This depends upon the problem.
If you were way out of shape and had a heart attack then it would be easy enough to say perhaps your sedentary lifestyle was a strong contributor to your problem.
So do you think the doctor would tell you start running 10 miles a day when you went home?
Erratic spending did help to land us in our recent jackpot.
To cut all spending in the face of it would have been the worst thing possible and far more costly.

I disagree.
It is the same thing.
And the reason it is the same thing is that the Siri promise is to be able to interpret general language.
Nobody is asking a piece of technology for an ‘opinion’.
When asking a technology which is supposed to understand general speech ‘what is the best’ it is no different than asking it ‘what is the highest rated’.
Of course there is no right answer to the question and everybody knows that.
But what everybody now also knows is that Apple will fix the game to point to their own products or offering when using their search products.
It might have been embarrassing for them.
I’m sure it is a bit embarrassing for Google too that Amazon is outselling them on tablets with a new face on their own system.
Being embarrassed is not a good reason to do the wrong thing.

If Google overtly altered a search result to favor its own product like this there would be an uproar about it.
What else is there that Siri will give me the company line on when I search for something?
Does it favor restaurants or other establishments that use Apple services in some way?

I agree as above that they are probably feeding the data from mission control rather than just doing it on the box.
I’m OK with that and see this as a nice feature.
Making me think even harder about trying Dish out.
I wish they would employ a similar strategy to over-record the time and then crop it back later to make sure they caught shows that potentially ran over the listed times.
I’m looking at you CBS Sunday night.
For that matter just add 30 minutes to the end anyway.
Then if something local came up on the news I could check the other stations to see if they had better coverage.

“popularity” speaks to overall appeal, while “trending” speaks to recent appeal particularly.
So Elvis was/is popular but Bieber is trending.
Of course Bieber is also ‘popular’.
Elvis, however, is probably not ‘trending’.
The one is a more informative qualification of the other with respect to time.