Lego City Undercover loads the entire city at one shot. It's a lot of data, but once the city loads there aren't any more loading screens until you leave the city map entirely.

No no, there would be no litigation nightmare.

It's in the TOS that you can't sue Steam, remember?

How does the disc-based version help? Most disc-based PC games these days come with a code that has to be redeemed on Steam or a similar service (Origin, uPlay, whatever) and ties it to that account forever.

All the disc does is save you some time downloading the game.

I have had drives from every manufacturer but one fail in warranty or just out of it, and I've had drives from all manufacturers last for years and years without issues.

All the hard drive companies have made some good drives and some bad ones.

(The one that never died prematurely on me was Micropolis. I had their server-grade drives.)

You know, there are cameras that can see further than humans do. Especially at night.

Since the car will be physically able to see further than you can, why couldn't it predict just as far out as you can? Or further?

I have, personally, had about eight hard drive controllers fail. In all cases, I was able to replace the controller board on the drive and recover my data. (And generally keep using the drives as scratch disks.) I'd get the boards by buying headcrashed drives.

Most of these were quite some time ago, when I was dealing with a lot of identical, fairly small hard drives. Back when SCSI controllers had an option for drives that took extra-long to spin up. (We called it 'Seacrate' mode.) I've also had my share of head crashes, stiction, and general crap-outs. (The most heartbreaking was when the Micropolis 9GB in my Amiga died. It actually died when power was lost while repartitioning it. Argh!)

I don't necessarily think hard drives have gotten more reliable since. I'm sure they have, though. It's just that I don't deal with enough of them to break a bunch any more.

My favorite is still the side-scroller where you play as Zelda trying to save Link! The cartoon cutscenes are the greatest.

This used to be true. However, with the 1.6.2 launcher update I can't play the game at all, even single player on my own machine, without logging in to Mojang's servers.

Theoretically it's supposed to have a 'play offline' button if there's no network connection, but it doesn't work for me or any of my friends.

Apparently BB devices were mostly popular with suits in the US, but overseas their low-end models were really popular with teens. Probably for the same reason the Sidekick used to be; hardware keyboard and good instant messaging software.

Okay.

'Hey, Grams! I know you're 92, but I think you should get your mail from a curbside mailbox in the winter.'

'What are you talking about? That's how I get it. We haven't had door delivery here since the '40s.'

'Okay.'

The VAST MAJORITY of postal customer don't have to-the-door delivery. It's just some select neighborhoods that do.

Article I, Section 8.

Did you not peruse your copy before posting that?

The USPS desperately wants to cut back to five day delivery. However, the United States Congress won't let them. Not even an only minorly reduced 'mail 5 days, we still deliver packages on Saturday' schedule.

The USPS likes the community boxes. Most new communities in the US seem to be getting them. What they're talking about here is requiring them for new subdivisions.

The USPS is actually fairly well run. The problem is that management goes 'We need to do this to remain profitable' and the Union and Congress go 'Fuck you.'

Not to all addresses.

Private carriers can do a better job for less money, but only because they aren't legally required to deliver mail to everyone. If you let the USPS cancel all the rural routes, their costs would go way down, too.

Break a hip delivering junk mail, hope you're not a 50-something mailman.