But they have to compete with the Lakers for eyeballs. The Clippers happen to be at a high point and the Lakers at a low point--that's the only reason why anyone in LA has been remotely interested in the Clippers lately. I honestly don't expect their value in LA to last that much longer once this era of the team is over. Maybe they'll wait until that time to move the team, but I expect it to happen sooner or later.

Would you care to explain yourself further? I'm an open minded person and if I'm wrong, I'll admit it. But you have to actually tell me why you disagree with me if you think I should see your perspective.

Donald Sterling _is_ a piece of shit racist bigot. He has long had a history of being one prior to this whole situation. People who follow the NBA closely have known this for years. It's only now that this video has come out and gone viral that anyone feels like doing anything about it.

Jealous of his success? Where are you pulling this from? If I were jealous of his success wouldn't I be just as jealous of Ballmer? Or anyone else with money? And thus, wouldn't I agree with the article that seems to be on a crusade against people with money?

Donald Sterling is a piece of shit but he owns the team. He's spent his money investing in the team (even if he's done a crappy job of it, since, well, forever), just because he's a racist bigot doesn't mean anyone should have the right to just take the team from him after he's put very large sums of money into it.

So, the NBA did the next best thing--they're going to force his hand to sell the team. And because he's being forced to sell the team, I see nothing wrong with him getting market value for it. Los Angeles has two teams, and Ballmer really wants to put a team in Seattle since douchebag deceiver Clayton Bennett moved the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.

So,
1. The African American community can rejoice that a piece of shit racist is no longer there to profit from them, at least within the Clippers organization
2. The NBA avoids any further PR issues regarding Sterling and they can tout their commitment to diversity
3. Ballmer gets a team like he's wanted for quite some time now
4. The Seattle community will finally have a basketball team again
5. Sterling gets a good sum of money to stay the fuck away

I'm missing what exactly this guy wants to happen? What, is the NBA supposed to strip the team from him without compensation and give it to African Americans as a community-owned team or something? He was already suing for being forced to sell the team, yeah, I'm sure that'll go over well.

And if he is to be compensated, sure, the NBA could try to put a cap on the amount of money he gets paid (and this is also legally questionable), but if that's the case, how do we determine who gets the team if potential owners can't compete by being the highest bidder?

So what the fuck does this guy expect? This is the best possible legal outcome for all parties involved!

Throughout history, in many cultures the language of the masses differed from the language of the learned. Yet it is the language of the learned, despite being outnumbered, that always goes down in history as canon. It still is so today that we have these split languages in the US, although the languages of the masses are very much regional here.

Considering all the hours I got out of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for YEARS... for completely FREE... That's no big deal to me.

But, honestly, I don't care about multiplayer Wolfenstein, my copy of The New Order comes in tomorrow and I hope they really focused on a great single player experience because not many FPS games do nowadays.

Regardless, his point still stands--open source is about sharing code. Open source groups share with Apple, Apple shares back, even when they don't necessarily have to. That, to me, is a great record. While it would be nice for Apple to give some money, I don't believe Apple should be shamed for not doing so. So many people champion open source for being free (as in beer) for their own benefit, but suddenly it's bad for Apple to use things for free even though they contribute back and sometimes create new projects that are open, too? Isn't that what open source is supposed to be all about?

For quite some time now, it's been Apple's policy to support the current OS release as well as the previous OS release. That means that since the release of Mavericks, they would be supporting Mavericks (current release) and Mountain Lion (previous release). But, this is also the first generation that the new OS 1) supports every machine that the previous release supported 2) is offered for completely free. So, practically speaking, there's very little reason to not just force all Mountain Lion users to upgrade to Mavericks to have support. However, I don't see any evidence on their page that they are even instating this policy? If they did, though, it would be very aggressive, but not really unremarkable for Apple.

Yep, I can practically get through Super Mario Bros. on the NES with my eyes closed due to muscle memory--I know where everything is, what buttons need to be pressed or held and for how long, etc. because I've played it so much. I tried that with this game and I just end up dying in places I normally have no problem with. And I'm using an NES controller to play.

Third party/unauthorized cables are still working just fine, they are just popping up the warning. You can see the warning image in the article. It clearly doesn't say anything about blocking the connection, just that it may not work reliably, which is true.

This is just a crap website trying to stir up drama for hits. It goes ever farther by coming up with ridiculous speculation that Apple "may" block more stuff in the future.

If these people are still running Windows XP, do you think they have smartphones and smart TVs?

I do remote support for a fortune 500 company whose product is targeted at the general public, and every day I work on Windows XP machines with 512MB of RAM, etc. and these clients don't have any other machine in their house. In reality it's time to buy a new computer, but that's not an option for everyone sadly.

Actually, most ISPs disconnect your access when they notice your computer has become a zombie...

refusing a breathalyzer in some places, like Louisiana, carries heavy penalties in itself.

You are correct. In this video he describes how the guitar made its way to space:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMCrkdee8s

No need to be an asshole. The $15 a month accidental damage plan for cell phones absolutely does cover water damage--from spills. It does not cover full submersion. However, because it's pretty much impossible to tell the difference between full submersion and simple spill damage without disassembling the phone and analyzing it (something we never had the time or ability to do efficiently), we never denied anyone on this basis at my store.

As far as "returning" the device, it sounds like you have a different idea/expectation of what the service is. The Geek Squad Protection for mobile phones entitles you to a replacement refurbished phone. For laptops, it covers repair. It's advertised this way, so it's not like Best Buy is being dubious about it. If the device has been repaired twice (it used to be three times, but was reduced to two last year) for defects, on the third time, the "no lemon" clause kicks in and you are eligible for a replacement. This doesn't apply for accidental damage claims, where Best Buy will repair an unlimited amount of times unless the costs of repair exceed the value of the unit, in which case the unit goes "junkout" and the customer gets a replacement.

Computer models come and go so it's unlikely we would have the same model in the store if we were to replace the computer. For most customers (i.e. normal end user consumers who don't really understand computers), getting a new computer is an extremely complicated situation due to transferring data, configuration, reinstalling programs, etc. This isn't an easy situation to handle because of customers relying on bundled OEM software that isn't available on or differs on the new computer, the impossibility of transferring installed programs, they expect Best Buy to do all that for them, people have to dig through closets to find serial numbers, when they can't find them they expect Best Buy to just give them a new copy of Office, then they want Best Buy to replace incompatible accessories (spare batteries or AC adapters, etc.) etc. not to mention customers who do in-home services wanting us to come back out to their house for free to set things up again with a brand new machine, etc. It's a support nightmare whenever we replace a computer--it's usually much less headaches and frustration for all parties involved to just swap the bad motherboard and be done with it.