Wednesday, June 25, 2014

A gaggle of Google....


That cryptic 'I/O' logo symbol: Google says it means 'Input/Output' or 'Innovation in the Open'. Wrong. It means 'Google 1, Others 0'.....

Wearables: Question Everything: "Who does the laundry?"


Let's talk Television: It's been done to death already! Television is a vast cultural wasteland designed for those with an I.Q. twice their belt size. There's been nothing really interesting on it since the 1960s, and the programming on it is just bait for the commercials that take up one-third of every hour. And stop talking about 'set top boxes' - our sets these days are flat screens that are only three and a half inches thick, and there's nowhere for a 'set top box' on top.
The top edge is only two inches wide on mine, and if you can find someone who still sells those cathode-ray tube televisions, that took up half the room and weighed a ton, I'll kiss your cute little ass until you bark like a fox!

But while I'm on flat screen TVs, I have to say these make excellent monitors for your computer, and with a click of your TV Remote, you're watching the latest TV news, sports, or whatever. And you don't have to shut down your PC while you do that. Just leave it on, and use the 'Input' button on your TV Remote to select 'VGA' instead of 'TV' to go back onto your computer again...
where you can continue wherever you left off before you switched to 'TV'. And I betcha Google didn't tell you anything about that one. 

And while Google is making noises about the bad old NSA and government snooping into our personal affairs, and holding conferences to showcase their latest brainwaves, let's not let all that distract us from the little bouncing ball which is snooping through all your emails, blogs, and other stuff on the web to find every possible means of selling you something with advertising that has made their stock worth more than anybody's. They howl about privacy, because pointing the finger at someone else is the easiest way to avoid suspicion yourself, and they're hoping you will be so enthralled with all their 'show and tell' that you won't notice they're skinning us alive and selling our hides to anyone with a buck or two to spare. Would I lie to you?

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