They carriers need to offer reasonable rates for data.
I would be happy to drop my cable internet for a wireless option, but it isn't economical.

The grid is fine in higher density populated area. As you go more rural it makes spence to have off grid options.
Power outages can last for days where you are waiting for help, but all the people are working to get the denser arias first.

The proof is in how many different kinds of games are being made. That we have games which are massive franchises, that have been homogenized and distilled to appeal to the masses, yet we have games that are filling niche wants for gamers of certain types. We have games for people who are extremely hard core games, and games for those that are extremely casual. We have games targeting all skill levels, all types of play, and so on.

Whatever you likes, there is probably a game being made for you.

That list of games was a list of games which were to counter the point of things just being "movies" since all were most emphatically not. If you want a list of something else, then specify what you are interested in. The whole point was the AC, like so many of the other whiners, are complaining about a very specific type of game that is popular, but hardly the only thing. I was providing a list of games that are not what they are complaining about, and were released fairly recently as a counter example.

What has happened is that various things have brought down barriers, so now small groups of people, or even single people, can create and compete in the games marketplace. The upshot is we get things for more interests, not just the mainstream.

The Chinese fab is a 65nm fab, which is for older stuff. All their 22nm fabs are in the US and Israel.

And there you go, proving his point...

Yes it will.
OK you want to encrypt a file. You find instructions and you follow each step correctly you got a encrypted system.
Now following steps is stuff a computer can do. You need humans to do things a little more creative. So it makes sense that you have a simpler process for this. That does all the non-simple things in a few commands.

Yeah, well, the cop didn't look too upset when he walked back to his squad car. The shooting happened after the 'perp' opened his door and ran.

From my own observations there is no shortage of american tech workers. However there seems a shortage of people who can write appropriate job requirements for the jobs that they are trying to fill.

Job for tech workers make a lot of huge mistakes.
1. Trying to replace the person not the position. So the guy left for bigger and better things... If you make your requirements to match the guy who left, you will not find any people... Because those who do have the requirements are looking for bigger and better things too.

2. Thinking your vendors names are bigger then the are. So you got "UltramegaSaaSEngine v.5.32 Cloud edition". It may be a great tool for your organization. But if you are trying to find people who will put it on their resume, you are out of luck. There will be some training involved, you can't expect to find someone with that experience.

3. Make sure you have the correct titles: You want a software architect, you are willing to pay an architect salary. You post position Software Developer. You get a bunch of resumes from under qualified people, because the title sounds like a good fit. People looking for Architect jobs will just glance over it, and go to the next page. Going the opposite direction too Making the job sound too high end, means you will get a lot of people who will be requesting a lot more money for the position you really need to fill.

4. Be reasonable on years of experience. 3 years experience with Windows Server 2012? That is a tough to fill position, as you expect most people not to upgrade all their servers to the new windows version overnight. Or finding someone with a decade experience in some language that just got popular a few years ago.

5. Do not be education snobs. I have seen jobs requiring a PHD for Bachelors level computer science work. Or the fact that professionally years of experience may counteract advanced degrees. Also the PHD will not take these jobs as it is beneath them. Tech in general has a lot "Street Smarts" skill, so that high school dropout may out perform that guy who just got his masters.

6. Post the position you want to fill. When you find someone who seems to fit the bill, call them and get the process going. I have had cases where I post my resume in, then a year or so later I get a call wanting to talk, by then I may have gotten my Promotion or started a new job and want to plant myself for a while.

After all what is a gun? I mean it may seem intuitive but I mean really think about how you write a formal definition that includes everything you want to regulate but isn't overreaching and hits things you don't. It's not the easiest thing in the world.

So, maybe the law needs to be changed to deal with a new development. Would hardly be the first time. Sounds like that's what they are evaluating.

For this use I'd need one with realtime video capability since it would be non-line of sight operation. Hence more cost. Since it is mostly just me wanting to check on things, not worth it.

If there is an actual problem, I have professionals look at it.

In general things involving roof inspection are well suited to be done by drone. While there still are times you'd need to put a person on the roof, a drone with a high rez camera can get you the information you need in most cases. Safer, and also faster.

If they weren't so expensive I'd love to have one for my own use for that purpose. I live in a second story condo and access to the roof is a problem (you need a really big ladder). I'd love to be able to fly a drone up to check for debris occluding vents, damage to my A/C, etc.

You are a perfect example of what I'm talking about. No perspective on modern games, just bitching. You act like CoD is all there is. Let's see, off the top of my head for modern games that are deep and involved: Kerbal Space Program, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, Frozen Cortex, Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion, Endless Space, Grey Goo, Transistor, Starpoint Gemini 2, Divinity Original Sin, and Age of Wonders 3.

That's not a list of all of them, just what I can think of easily. These are all titles that have come out in the last year or two, have real meat to the gameplay, little to no cinematics and are a hell of a lot of fun.

If you can't find games that are good, that's you being a stick in the mud and being too lazy to read anything but IGN, not because there aren't tons of releases.

There are a -LOT- of single player games these days. A lot fo multi player ones too, but that one exists doesn't get rid of the other. Whatever genre you like, you can find some of both.

Since you mention shooters, Wolfenstein the New Order is a single player only shooter acclaimed by critics and fans alike.

For whatever reason, humans (some of them at least) have this need to view the past with rose coloured glasses and then whine about everything modern. Happens with gaming just as anything else.

An objective look at gaming shows we are in an amazing golden age of gaming right now. Tons of games are being made. With that means tons of crap, of course, but plenty of good ones. What's more, basically everyone's needs are being met. Gaming isn't targeted at just one or two demographics, there is a massive variety out there. So we can have both something like Call of Duty, which is designed to appeal to a mass market, and something like Kerbal Space Program which has a much more limited audience. One does not choke out the other and everyone can find something they like.

My problem with games these days lack of time to play all the games I want. I have a big wishlist of games on Steam, and a collection of games I bought but haven't yet installed. However life intrudes and I have only so much time to spend gaming. I wish I could waste more time playing games but I can't.

Very different from my childhood where I would have to play and replay the same games over and over since I had very few.

Vs. a bunch of people afraid to apply the patch of openSSL in fear that it would break all the applications in one swoop
of having up Update Open SSL on ever virtual system that is running a different application?

Compared to a few decades ago. Package update systems have gotten much better.
So the package system will know that Application A, B, C, D use OpenSSL and there is an open SSLPatch and Application A, B, C, had verififed that it worked, so A,B,C will get the push to fix those parts.

I stated no Shared Libaries, or DLL... I didn't say we can't use libraries. They are just not shared across the entire OS.