To be honest, you're right, I really don't expect the telephone company to compete. For the longest time(2 decades), all they could offer is ASDL if you lived within a block of them. But what I don't like is when a state municipality rolls out their own solution, and then gets sued out of oblivion. If UPS could get away with what the telecoms have gotten away with, the Post Office would get sued out of existence for competing with private entities.

Turbine did pretty well with Microsoft too. They ran one of the biggest MMORPGS in the world(made tens of millions) before they released one of the worst MMOs the world had ever seen calling it the sequel to their well performing one.(Asheron's Call 1/2). What happened is "everyone" quit Asheron's Call 1 which they were enjoying, played Asheron's Call 2, hated it and quit without returning to Asheron's Call 1. Lesson here? Maybe never make a sequel to a MMORPG that is thriving because it makes the earlier version sound inferior.

Now good old Turbine is still around, but for some strange reason, they quit trying to make original MMORPGs. Personally, I think the next big MMORPG might be an action oriented game where you need to think when you fight instead of faceroll. Will one of these new space combat and economy games be good?

There are many different places much more sparse than USA, but with faster broadband and lower prices. The reason we have it so bad in the USA is because ISPs lobby the government against competition, and ISPs avoid overlapping with competitors. In the olden days of Ma Bell, at least the government stepped in to stop monopolistic abuse. Today with legalized bribery, USA officials don't necessarily regulate the corporations anymore. In fact the corporations are influencing the government more and more. Unchecked, the buying of the government officials could do more than just let monopolies gouge us and hold back innovation.

My broadband speed is only like 25mb/s which is way faster than 56k modem, but I tried downloading a 35gB file the other day and it took me about 2 days. South Korea has been rolling out 8000mb/s (1GB/s) internet lately and they don't pay nearly as much as we do in the states. ISPs in the states are dragging their feet to gouge the consumers, paying off senators to fight Net Neutrality. My Internet speed hasn't increased in about 5-10 years. If ISPs weren't so greedy and just invested some of their profits into better infrastructure, we should be able to compete with South Korea. Faster Internet helps society in all facets like education and culture.

Then at the end of the match, he accuses you of bringing a phone in to cheat. After all, it has half the match in its cache memory.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure my friend played this guy a few years ago, and he's been toileting every turn from years ago. My friend had great satisfaction this guy got busted because my friend accused him of cheating back in the day, but the officials did nothing.

I started using a Commodore 64 when I was 7. All of our family was amazed when we realized how to do 'Load"*",8,1' and Load"*",8,1
So many good times were had with the C64 simply because the jump in technology from what we had before it was so huge. We got our C64 a little over half a year before the NES. Its hard to imagine so much technology jump in one year. If you look at video games today, not much changes(more polys) each console generation anymore since we already had enough computing power to do what we wanted last generation. But going from Atari2600 games to C64/NES games was such a jump that it is hard to put into words, and maybe no one will understand it unless they lived through it. It inspired some sort of awe that I couldn't put into words.

I had a disk drive, and it took me a long time to understand the message,"Press play on tape." Basically that was the blue screen of death for a C64. Restart the machine and try something different.

I think it may run Crysis. If you check its IP with a ping, it responds with,"Would you like to play a game?"

At first, I caused the quakes to see if I could. Next I caused the quakes to extort the government for money. But anymore, I just cause the quakes to make time with The Baroness more interesting.

It was probably way less than 1% that a manual person did the driving for. They probably only did the intersections which are barely 40 meters each, and swerving back on the road occasionally which again is less than 40 meters.

Education on Apps and Websites is the future. Right now you can do it if you're an active learner, but it will keep getting better and better. There will be a transition between active learning to spoonfed education over the next 2-6 years. There will be apps you can sit a little kid down on, and they'll learn English and Math without a teacher... In fact I believe at their own pace, kids will be able to learn better than in traditional school! And even more importantly, smart phones keep going down on prices and 3rd world countries are affording tech here and there now where education is really bad. So anything you can get in terms of education on Apps, that is the future. If we're over saturating the app stores, lets make it educational products. Education online might not be for everyone now, but every year that passes makes it better.

When will the roads be filled with self driving cars? All the self driving car research corporations want to flaunt,"We're researching the self driving cars, and it could be done as soon as real soon!" But I don't see self driving cars on the horizon for many many years. Even closed loop self driving cars might run into issues if pushed too soon.

PS: I've listened to enough propaganda pushing the reclassification of RC cars and planes as drones. And my only guess why they try and do this is to make the word drone sound more tame, instead of what everyone imagines,"Automated flying weapons of death." Does anyone know the other political reason for trying to reclassify radio controlled planes as drones?

Poor people have less nutrition for their body. Poor people have less access to toys and media which exercise the brains. Thankfully smart phone prices are coming down in price, and educational apps are popping up all the time. So in third world countries, people may be able to get education straight from a smart phone. We as app developers should have education in mind. Whether we're doing illustrated story books which the spoken word synched with highlighted words, or we're doing K-12-University lectures and workbook activities... We should focus more on education and helping out over directly our own pocketbooks to a degree.

Political nonsense can always sometimes be used as a tool to push down competitors or elevate yourself with subsidies. If one energy source gets cheap, all other energy sources will stop getting as much profits. So there is always some at least light effort gamesmanship to trip up your competitors, and sometimes it is fierce. Think: If everyone had solar installments and hybrid electric plugin cars, not as many people would need gasoline(demand goes down, gas prices go down). Is the president shutting down coal power plants? Well the gas driven power plants are applauding his action.

Anyone who remembers how badly #AskNeal went down as a hockey fan, I'm surprised anyone would ever post #AskWhatever ever again because it is basically taunting the trolls. Trolls will come, and trolls will go, but don't encourage them.