*whoosh*

I'll buy one.

If they flip it the other way. I want a bigger screen when I choose to unfold it that way.

This ends up with the Internet being challenged by the least free nation ON ANY GIVEN SITUATION to restrict data or access based on that nation's restrictions.

And that would force less restrictive nations to comply.

Or not.

I vote not. Let nations that cannot tolerate the freedom of others to deal with the problem at their borders.

And leave the rest alone.

This is worth fighting for.

Because I have a better setup at home for watching media. She was already planning to bring her laptop and a few DVDs. I knew that the Apple TV would be easy to pack, easy to set up, and would greatly improve the viewing experience, so I tossed it in my bag and called it a day.

At home, however, messing with discs and having to use a laptop to navigate through apps and menus doesn't sound like any fun, which is why I've ripped my entire collection and am serving it up over the network to my Apple TV via iTunes Home Sharing. Simple, less complicated to use, and provides both a better image quality and better sound quality than AirPlay Mirroring does, since I'm able to get 1080p with surround sound and don't need to worry about it randomly dropping out like AirPlay Mirroring does every once in awhile.

Thanks for suggesting there will be a next honeymoon and for telling me how we should spend it. No really. I appreciate it. *eyeroll*

We spent a week up in the mountains at a resort, but the fact was that we were both dead tired after the wedding and all of the preparations leading up to it, and we knew ourselves well enough to know months in advance that that's how we'd be, so we planned accordingly. Which is to say, we got outside exactly as much as we wanted to, but we brought several seasons of TV shows with us on disc, a 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle, and made sure that we booked a really nice room since we figured we'd be spending most of the time inside. We figured right.

Plus, there's only so much sex and talking to be had. At some point, you need a break.

Mozilla is whining anyway; when they switched search providers from Google to Yahoo I had to go through and specify it on EVERY INSTANCE of Firefox I have. Since I use --no-remote and segment my web browsing this was actually a royal pain in the ass. Granted, Google was the old "default," so I had never changed it, but it was still an undesired change in behavior. If they're going to whine about Microsoft doing the same thing then they ought to look at their own behavior.

Firefox is still my browser of choice for personal use but for others I've started to recommend Chrome. It's just less hassle to support it for your luser friends. The future of Firefox and Mozilla is not an encouraging one, which is a pity.

I saw comments elsewhere that indicated Intel has denied that this is a memristor. Of course, given the description they're providing of what this thing is, it's possible they're just saying that in order to try and avoid the inevitable patent lawsuits that would result from claiming they're using a memristor.

And I have been for a few years.

I've been tired of Wired being papered over with Top Gear since before my first cup of coffee today.

I'm tired of Top Gear everywhere.

Please make it stop.

First Law.

If you think any of this is expected to be reduced to a few simple formulas, some generic algorithms, you're pretty lost on this. Such AI is both a long way from being this functional AND right around the corner.

Three Laws Safe. Only way.

It's a bit hard to get outraged at MSFT when GOOG has been doing the exact same thing for the last three or four Android versions.

VLC on Mac + Apple TV let my wife and I stream DVDs during our honeymoon without any issue. AirPlay Mirroring sends an on-the-fly re-encoded stream to the TV, so it generally doesn't matter what format your content was in originally: if it can show up on your monitor, it can show up on your TV (with a few exceptions).

That said, for the purposes of this summary's question, he'd likely be better served by something like a Steam Link, since it has wired connections for his keyboard and mouse (it can also work with Bluetooth peripherals), can operate wired or wirelessly on the network, is built on top of Valve's In-Home Streaming functionality that is already proven, and has confirmation from Valve (check near the end of the article) to be able to stream any content, not just content from within Steam. Plus, it's just $50. Chief downside: it doesn't launch until November.

Related products or ideas:
- Razer Forge TV/Android TV (seems to be limited in terms of what it can stream, may not have ports for peripherals)
- Wireless HDMI (can be expensive to get low latency, doesn't do anything for peripherals)
- Wireless USB hub (can be expensive last I checked, no clue how good it actually is)
- HDMI over Ethernet ($20ish, but doesn't help with peripherals and requires your home is wired up)

I had been planning to put my next gaming rig in my media room, but at this point I'll wait for a Steam Link and will tuck the gaming rig somewhere out of sight in a distant room (sadly, no server closet or a convenient place to put one).

" IE turns 20 in less than a month, which is ancient in internet years,"

No, IE is not 20 years old. IE 11 bears no resemblance to IE8, which bears no resemblance to IE3, which bears no resemblance to IE 1.5.

This sort of description is like declaring the 1978 Saab 900 was anything like the 1994 Saab 900.

There have been 11 major versions of IE. Better to state that the name has been around for 20 years, or a product named that, but then we have to consider that 'Windows' has been around for 29 years. Does anyone even consider 'Windows 1.0' from 1985 is anything like current Windows, and shares the name only?

Lazy writing, worse thinking.

Not only that, but if we introduce the idea of eliminating mass ownership, it also has the potential to mitigate some of the concerns regarding the range of EVs. Namely, if you don't own the EV, then "recharging" it is as simple as swapping the entire car out for a fresh one. A fresh, driverless car could even meet you en route to your destination to make things even simpler.

Granted, it doesn't cover every use case (e.g. family road trips with lots of luggage would be a hassle still, since you'd be transferring that luggage as well), but it would cover a number of them, such as overnight trips to places that are cheaper to drive to than fly to.

Yeah...the whole premise of the summary is built on a comparison between dissimilar products intended for different uses.

If what you're interested in is streaming content, including games, from a PC to the TV, then Valve lets you stream to another PC on the network for free, or else offers the Steam Link for $50 if you don't have an old PC laying around. Which, as you said, is significantly cheaper than the cost of an Xbox One. Plus, all of Valve's stuff works across platforms, rather than being locked into Microsoft's ecosystem with Windows and Xbox.

And if what you're interested in is a PC wrapped up in an appliance/console-like experience, then Valve's partners will soon be offering Steam Machines ranging in price from about the cost of an Xbox One up to the cost of a super decked out gaming rig.

You don't need a Steam Machine to stream, and if all you're interested in is streaming, then frankly you'd be better with a Steam Link anyway, since it works on platforms where the Xbox app doesn't live and works for content that's outside of the Xbox app. But for people who already run Windows at home and have an Xbox One, the addition of streaming is a nice value-add, so I don't want to ding them too much.

That's not destruction of property, that's maintenance of property. Want a better analogy than the soccer ball? If your neighbor parks in your driveway without permission you can probably have him towed. What you can't do is take a 9 Iron to his headlights.

I'm not attempting to prove you wrong. As I said, other than quibbling over some of the subjective claims, I find your objective assertions to be generally accurate, even though they're misleading in how one-sided they are, just the same as when news reporters cherry pick statistics to suit their narrative. Yes, they're factually correct, but you're using them to paint a misleading picture of reality

I've already provided specific examples of that sort of behavior in response to and in relation to you numerous times (including in the thread you just linked), and I will not be drawn into yet another worthless discussion where we rehash those same points again.