Both articles linked in the TFA are pay-walled. Is everyone just going on what's in the summary?

I remember when Burnout had in-game ads. And most of the inventory was bought by CompUSA. Then CompUSA went out of business. And Burnout took more than a year to update the game so you were driving around in some sort of post-capitalist wasteland, breaking billboards of dead companies.

Kind of successful. There were a lot of consumer apps (Office, initially, and a bunch of games) that didn't work with Win2k out of the gate. MS poured engineering into getting Office up and running, naturally. A lot of game companies were stymied by the changes in permissions that came with it and didn't deploy until XP came out. There were a lot of other, smaller consumer-level apps that needed to rearchitect their apps to work with the new kernel that also didn't come out until XP did. So, Win2k was great if the apps you needed was within the subset of apps that worked well on Win2k. Otherwise, most people waited until XP.

Really? I had mod points until just now and my list goes:

Normal
Offtopic
Flamebait
Troll
Redundant
Insightful
Interesting
Informative
Funny
Overrated
Underrated

Maybe it's because those are the first two "positive" options?

Here's a classic:

Linus Torvalds telling nVidia off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

my BeBox could finally get a usable browser?

It seems like this would the perfect forum for a group of people to rise up and put the technological knowhow to good use by hacking this hardware and helping these people out. Reverse-engineer the software. Make some YouTube explainer repair videos.

Or is it just easier to just sit and complain about our medical system?

Anti-vax. Stupid auto-correct.

I dunno, there's a whole Reddit channel dedicated to chronicling the anti-tax argument and the often fatal results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Herma...

It's a shame this exists, but if it saves one life by prompting someone to get the shot, I'd almost say it's worth it.

I've done work for GM. Their mindset is to wait for the market to sort itself out a bit, and pick what they think will be a lasting technology. They were late to the market with a V8 engine, but they're still using derivations of that same design nearly 80 years later. And to good end, given the recent "Just drop an LS1 in it" trend is kind of a testament to that kind of engineering.

So, I'd expect they've made some engineering decisions that they're expecting will have a high chance of becoming a long-lasting standard between now and 50 years from now. We just may not see it.

Time will definitely tell on this one.

Gigabit down. I'm assuming this varies by provider, but Comcast only offers 35Mbps up, with a 1.2TB monthly total data cap (inclusive of up and down traffic). Which is fine for a lot of people. But if you have someone that wants to stream, or has a burgeoning YouTube presence, or any number of other things that require a lot of bandwidth, you'll hit those limits.

Fair, and I know that.

It doesn't ease the bitter irony of having Internet literally running across your front and side yards, yet not be able to get any from any provider.

And there were three subdivisions within a mile of their house, probably 1000 homes. I'm sure someone could have made it profitable.

You're assuming the data feeding that checker site is accurate.

As soon out you start to get outside the major center of most urban areas, the data starts to get seriously inaccurate. Whether its outright lies, or just bad data, it's hard to know until you actually try to get service at the address. That's why the "previous service at the address" part of that disclosure is important.

My parents moved out of their home in rural VA a few years ago. Sold it to a family with a bunch of kids ( 4 or 7, I don't remember.)

I always felt bad for those kids when they found out their internet access options were limited.

Too far from the DSLAM for DSL. Comcast refused to pay the right-of-way fees to cross a nearby bridge, so no cable. FIOS was not happening because Verizon is lazy. You could maybe do Hughes satellite, but that's a ridiculous option for a largish modern family. And... that was it. Broadband.gov said there was internet access available, but it was all lies. None of the providers listed that "offered" service at that address actually did.

Even more galling, there was a Verizon fiber optic trunk line that literally ran down the side of my parent's property (and across the whole front of the subdivision) less than 50 feet from the house with no hope of getting any access to any of the bits that lived within.

That poor family.

The Mac version of IE was a lot better than the Mac version of Netscape.

And CyberDog never really made it out of the yard.