5 BEEELION DOLLARS!
Might want to take a look at that headline.
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It is not about what you "want" to do in your free time (baking bread is 100% fine), it is about being told that we "must" do things like this.
It's a matter of choice. I do not like being told that I should go back to hunting and gathering.
Specialization is the thing that allows us to have the free time in which we have the opportunity to bake our own bread (or whatever) if that is what we wish to do.
If I wish to have my own little herb garden it is BECAUSE I am free of having to worry about spending time gathering food / constructing shelter / making clothes / etc.
A lot of the modern "green" ideas seem increasingly anti-civilization.
Remember when Adobe tried to tell all of us to not say “Photoshopped”, but rather to say “The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software”.
From: http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#section-4
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
Incorrect: The image was Photoshopped.
Incorrect: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Hey Adobe? How about "no"?
If you have to tell your user base to disable features of the console that you designed and enabled by default then that shows that you have drunk the "EVERYTHING MUST BE SOCIAL! OMG!" Kool-Aid in this case.
Some people do not WANT to get mail from the entire planet, spam or not.
This is a perfect example of putting a spin on something that could be taken up in completely different ways.
You could also take that same figure and say that this is bad news for Apple because it means that users of older iPhones are hanging on to their devices and that they just do not see the need to upgrade to the latest version of the iPhone.
I just went to CNET (download.com) and download the lastest VLC and NMAP and the files downloaded directly. HOWEVER, when I went to get the lastest version of AxCrypt it downloaded the CNET Downloader that tries to install the Babylon toolbar-thing.
BTW: If you are a registered member, you can choose to download any file directly by using the tiny "Direct Download" link underneath the big green download button (which will also try to install Babylon).
I prefer to think of Babylon in this case in the Rastafarian sense of Babylon being the evils of the modern world.
To all the Linux comments who always go on about nothing like this ever happening on Linux systems:
You are not helping. You are not inspiring people to switch to Linux. You are not contributing to the discussion. You are not making Windows admins / users jealous of you. You are not clever. You are not interesting. You are not even original.
What you are achieving is reinforcing the opinion that Linux users are smug idiots. So... Mission Accomplished!