Nice writeup but I wish these folks writing these kinds of articles would at least take a look at the graphics they're putting out there. The graphs are senseless drivel and you don't know if the new card is better or worse. It's still a nice card but here's a better write up at Toms Hardware.

Well they're not censored such as "Red Hot Catholic Love" and frankly the commercials (average about 10 sec) only occur 2 to 3 times an episode. I like Hulu Plus because they also have shows out there like "The Young Ones" and others that aren't on Netflix. It beats the shit out of fucking cable where every fucking channel is full of commercials. At our house we've gotten rid of HBO/Showtime etc. and now it's Hulu Plus, Netflix and Amazon Prime.

You'll have to use Home Depot's self service lines to check out. I can't see how this is going to work for HD or MakerBot unless it starts churning out 2x4s.

Google isn't perfect and this is a press release. Give it a couple of days. There's lots of hype around the Farnborough air show this week.

From the sounds of his announcement he's been burning too much AzureGreen. Wait, Washington did legalize pot recently! That explains it!

And to the bottom of the ocean, all at the same time.

"we mean to increase the synergistic use of buzzwords to drive shareholder value and customer satisfaction."

Seriously, there's a company I saw one time that had "We strive for our customer's affection." as their mission statement on the building. Nobody really listens to this shit. Net Net, he's going to fire a few talking heads, move some departments around and if you don't like it you can leave.

But still vulnerable to a ton and a half of vulnerabilities. Sure you can cut your exposure down (like no IE) but that still doesn't mean that the OS can't be attacked in other ways. You also hit the nail on the head, obsolescence and driver support. A lot of companies want to get away from XP but that means upgrading other systems and in some cases processes because there aren't one for one analogs available. That's the bigger problem, when a company gets hemmed in by the tech they may have selected decades ago. I had to work with one customer a year ago to get rid of a couple of SCO boxes that had been running since the late 80s running inventory control. It wasn't just the OS that was the issue, it was also the inventory software that they'd been using for decades. Changing that wasn't as simple as an OS upgrade.

Newspeak.

Well most "country" wiring I've experienced has multiple problems. Mostly from old, unmaintained wiring and transformers but it sounds like you've got enough of that already. While most storms will cause havoc, just the utility not giving a shit will probably cause most of the failures inside a home.

Gotta love those LGA taxi rides, full of bumps, extras and routes to nowhere. Just like EWR. It's all a racket and Lyft along with Uber are going to erode the Taxi Commission revenues as well as those of the yellow cab consortia.

You're behind the times. In Texas we can get the mega 64oz drinks in about every gas station, 7-11 and liquor store. 40oz is so right coastal.

My data comes in on fiber optic cable, no worries there. Also I buy APC units, they're worth the investment.

That's next in the budget. I've had two neighbors with lightening strike damage and with our voltage problems, the Type 1 surge protector has done well for us.

If you haven't already bought them, buy surge protectors. After replacing the fourth dishwasher in our less than 8 year old house due to circuitry issues we installed a whole house surge protector. They work and it doesn't take a magnetic storm to cause issues, most of the grid delivery is +/- 15% on voltage just in my area normally.