Real level 5 vegans don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

They already have one of the most open and functional peering systems for ISPs. So much so that it is your own fault if you are an ISP and netflix is taking a significant chunk of your "real" bandwidth. It costs an ISP almost nothing to deploy a netflix appliance, and there are no licensing fees. A home peering device is so impractical I don't even know where to begin... but if you are streaming more than the last ###### cable feet it is because your isp is stupid.

ISPs are insanely stupid about this, even when they sorta try to get it right... For instance: ATT UVerse DNS (which is not configurable on their provided router) bypasses the ATT hosted CDN and connects me (in Texas) up to Seattle. Switch to google DNS servers, and it will use the local ATT hosted CDN. The tech support people (who don't know what DNS is) swear that it is "optimized for digital TV viewing"

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say this is an intentional hobbling of netflix to make their shitty TV service seem better... but I just don't have that kind of confidence in their competence... since they host a Netflix CDN anyway.

I think they just have no damn idea what they are doing.

thanks.

They are the organization most likely to be able to wage war on the moon... I am pretty sure that makes 'merka the owner, and NASA the steward.

I think it is also reasonable to mention that by population most "Christians" belong to sects that admit the scientific fact that evolution is reality. Catholicism is a large group, the largest Christian group, and they have accepted evolution as fact, that isn't a recent thing. There are many many groups that worship the Abrahamic god without willful ignorance on this subject.

This isn't Christians vs Science... this is "the craziest of the Christians" vs Science

Both sides will remain unchanged by the debate; but somewhere in Ken Ham's intended audience there is a child just hungry enough to latch on to a morsel of truth and doubt. This will be the child's foundation for escape from that crippling dogmatic world.

This is those children's first and maybe only opportunity for scientific education.

I hope every new earth denialist logs in and lets their children watch as Ken Ham "wins."

no matter what happens, this is a victory for rationality

I think he is obsessing about his charity more and more, and even a ceremonial roll is too much. Also, leaving the board is like a vote of confidence in Nadalla. "See I had to babysit Steve 'developers-developers-developers' Balmer, but this new guy is totally fine."

From day 1 roku had a powerful enough SDK that I could make a "channel" to front-end my locally served content with a picture based menu so my kids could use it...

Roku has some problems (lack of DNLA support) that bug me, but has other problems that bug the wife (Hulu plus sucks on every platform, including roku, but she really believes it is possible to have a device where it works as good as hulu on a computer, I think this is a unicorn)

We are basically willing to try any streaming device that is under 100 dollars, and chromecast was no better than just HDMI-ing my laptop to the TV, since the only sensible/exclusive feature it included was the ability to make a browser window appear on screen, but if it requires a PC in order for chromecast to be worth a damn, well then it is a 50 dollar hdmi cable with added network latency.

I am excited to see the chromecast become more worthwhile.

Anyone with any lick of coding ability is passionate about programming. This is equivalent to hiring an artist to draw logos and saying they must be passionate about art, of course they are, or they wouldn't be an artist.
Compare that to other "less creative" positions... The average call-center person is probably not passionate about call centering.
Consider this:

public String getSum(int numA, int num2) {
if (numA == num2)
{
return "" + numA*2;
}
return ""+(numA + num2);
}

If that was painful for you, congratulations... you are more passionate about programming than 99% of people are about their job.

15% of my customer base uses IE6 or IE7.
not just IE but superbad IE... of course we are business oriented software, which for some reason explains it all... corporate organizations are insanely, dangerously slow at upgrading.
Sometimes our site is run on cash registers and other ancient POS systems... but our "cloud" solution is accessed by IE more than any other browser, and IE6/7 more often than you could possibly imagine.... and it is no simple matter of forcing the customer to upgrade... what are they going to do, re-flash Windows CE and somehow get a decent browser to run on 256 meg of memory?

It is actually less shocking (though still really annoying) that people still use IE6 when you realize how much "modern" stuff you can still do on it. Almost everything in jQuery works, so even fancy active ajax pages are fine, as long as you account for the lack of JSON.stringify and JSON.parse and don't try to use a decent CSS layoyt.

a bajillion mobile devices and home computers that don't make anybody any real money run the latest stuff, but a tiny and extremely profitable segment of the userbase are Microsoft for life, and often, some old and horribly dangerous incarnation of Microsoft...

j/k... please don't sue.

it uses some kind of "smart routing" I have no idea how it works, but something about peer to peer, bla bla bla... you have no lag with other people on your LAN, but you are still all connected to bnet.

People who demand offline LAN games are either
1) non-customers (people who would only play if they could pirate, so no big loss)
or
2) LAN party operators (this is an actual concern, for paying customers, and is currently hindering the ability of a "smalltime" eSports scene). I assume this has been solved at a pro level, either by holding it at high bandwidth venues, or by some blizzard local server magic not available to your average Joe-6port.

Either way, their online game not supporting offline multiplayer hardly makes them the Metallica of video games.

Ask Millionaires Gooseman (creator of the original Counterstrike mod)
or Garry Newman (Garry's Mod)
or the 2.5 billion dollar corporation: Valve if this is a viable way to do business...

Don't call it a come back, Valve/Steam has been doing it for years.

Because shaving was all but impossible before metal tools that could be sharpened enough to actually shave... copper tools were some 3000 years after this fossil.

I worked for a big corporate overlord for a long time, and for some reason every 3 years or so our cubicle walls got shorter. They started out at 6 feet high, which was great and quiet and semi-private. They got short enough so if you sat up straight and leaned forward, you could barely peak over... which was a little distracting.
The breaking point was when they got lower than the average person's stupid mouth. Then EVERY phone call was basically broadcast across the entire warehouse of an office complex. Seriously, god help you if you are within shouting distance of sales, because you are never ever ever going to get any work done.

As a final insult they shrunk our desks from U shape to L shape, then lowered the cube walls to desk height... so if something rolled off your desk, it could roll down the hall too. It was insanely stupid...

Eventually they just sent all the tech people to work from home... since they had sabotaged our work so much at the office, we might as well take the initial hit on telecommute.
I am all for ruining the office so badly that we no longer regard meat based presence as mandatory, but I wish it could happen faster, rather than the phased "lets ruin everything every 3 years" approach.