Translation: There will be a performance penalty for nearly everything you want to do. It won't be massive, but it will be there.

Rubbish. The only ARM native stuff most people will be using will be the OS itself, and whatever apps Microsoft forces us to accept along with it. Third-party apps will remain almost exclusively X86.

is this one: "Everybody in here was paying $7 for ESPN whether they watched or not."

And that's precisely why I will never, ever watch ESPN, nor any sport it signs a deal with -- even if they subsequently leave ESPN. I've lived in the USA for a bit over 18 years now, and paid for cable or satellite TV for all of that time. Let's assume that $7 figure applies for the whole of that time, and does so in 2017 dollars (so in then-dollars it was some much lower sum). I think that's a pretty safe assumption, and it says I've personally paid US$6,700+ into the pockets of ESPN and its affiliated sports, yet I've watched maybe between five and ten minutes of ESPN in the last couple of decades. At around US$900/minute, that's hands-down the most expensive entertainment of my life.

And it's also why I will never renew my cable or satellite TV subscription until a la carte is a thing. Nor will I sign up for any online service which doesn't either offer a la carte options, or which focuses solely on programming *I* am interested in. The likes of YouTube TV et al. which simply carry over these awful deals into the internet age hold no interest for me.

How's that solve anything if the stuff which everybody will want to use is all emulated and not native?

Unfortunately, it's running full Windows 10 which is a turn-off for many of us. Also, what's the performance like for the emulated stuff? Performance of the ARM stuff is meaningless, really. Basically all you'll be using is emulated x86 stuff because nobody is going to make ARM apps for Win10. Did we not learn anything from Windows RT???

Wait, you say Android is "so shitty", and yet also that Apple just makes "fashion statements"... Ladies and gents, over here, come quick now! We've found the rare Windows Phone user in its natural environment!! Look quickly, folks, while the looking's good. They never scuttle out from under their rock for long, for fear the sunlight will melt them!

When they say "updates are still coming", what they mean is "Yeah, we both know updates aren't coming, but we'd still rather you keep using our browser to keep our stats up for as long as possible."

No, what we actually learned is that when you ask an ignorant question and then interpret the answer out of context, you get a meaningless result. Surgery requires extreme manual dexterity, an area in which robots designed for specific tasks clearly outperform humans. Surgery doesn't provide an obvious opportunity to steal from you, however. Giving a robot access to your savings, though, gives it a very clear and obvious opportunity to quietly steal from you, using its strengths at dealing with vast volumes of information to carefully conceal the act.

All that says is pot is more commonly consumed, which it unquestionably is, probably by an order of magnitude or more.

Exactly. Maguire is either being disingenuous, or he's just exceptionally out of touch with the general public.

The "Do as we say, not as we do" party.

Yep, hence my questioning his assertion that ceiling fans "often" use 150-watt halogens. I've never seen a single ceiling fan use that type. Sadly it seems he can't be bothered to answer.

Yep. It's nice when the game is carefully rigged and gerrymandered in your favor so you can win even when you're the unpopular party, isn't it?

/sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious

Mod parent up! Where are my mod points when I need some?

Where on Earth have you seen ceiling fans using that bulb? Everything I've seen these days uses those infuriating little E12 bulbs which until recently weren't available in Cree TrueWhite series, but thankfully now are. Best LED bulbs out there hands down, although I've had about a 5-10% failure rate (two bulbs dead in total but both from the same it'll in a bathroom so probably condensation-related.) In fact I'm pretty sure I read that Bush II signed a law requiring use of E12 bulbs in ceiling fans.