I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
Every so often I trial a new release of a Linux distro. And they continue to get better.I still get annoyed at how much I have to learn the moment I want to reconfigure something but the simple horrible design aesthetics that just depress me are waning.
Kubuntu 7.04 is the latest I've been mulling over. It's not looking too bad - but it has motivated me to rant about those really annoying cursors it uses.
When I open the KDE menu a KDE icon starts bouncing up and down below my cursor. I've found what I want, I'm exploring menus for the option I'm after but my eye keeps getting distracted by an idiotic icon jumping up and down.
It's exactly the same sort of childish stupidity in design the HTML Blink icon represents. It has no purpose, it does nothing except annoy.
The lack of U.I smarts and cohesive design discipline this represents abounds on Linux desktops. It, rather than functionality such as missing games, is what ultimately destroys my enthusiasm for embracing Linux.