Whenever I read "more cloud integration" or some other marketing crap like that my immediate thought is "How many people am I going to have to downgrade or switch to an Open alternative?"

Office 2003 is the last Microsoft Office suite I used and I could not be happier with my choice. The writing was on the wall when they went "ribbon" crazy.

It was obviously an alien weapon and the government is trying to explain it away.

That's totally not true. Adderall can cause insomnia, uncontrollable sweating, thyroid problems, and a laundry list of other issues. Aside from that fact the main problem is that it becomes useless. Your brain doesn't rest properly but because you're on stimulants you don't recognize that you're tired and just keep going. That sounds great but it has a detrimental effect where the benefits are eliminated by the exhaustion your brain is experiencing and you end up right where you started (or worse off). Then when you go off them not only do you start sleeping more due to trying to recover, your mental state takes a hit and it takes weeks to recover your baseline productivity.

As someone who genuinely needs to take this class of stimulants I wouldn't wish them on anyone. They can help but if I can avoid taking them for long periods I do.

SJW is a non-starter, as you say. However, when I was young I'd say some seriously nasty things to my best friend and he'd do the same to me - it was a running inside joke. Anyone looking in from the outside would think we were the most racist, sexist, awful human beings when in reality it was the absurdity of what we were saying that we thought was funny. The problem is with public tools like this that people can't tell the difference between something like that and something genuinely hurtful. I certainly wouldn't trust some poorly paid employee to be able to understand the nuances of a relationship, situation, regional language differences, etc.

The index is pathetic on DDG - they need at least 10x the index size to be remotely useful.

Assuming he's selling them. 104 of them are apartments for pensioners.

True that Valve has to police them anyway, but the more they do it out of scammers pockets and less out of users pockets the better ;)

The question really is, does the $5/account cover the costs of policing them if they do pay up.

That's my entire point... any algorithm might be able to show you what you want/need *sometimes* but they can never know what you want/need *now*. Just because you search for, lets say, "batman vs superman" several times does not mean that in this very moment when you search "super bats attack man" that you're looking for batman vs superman.

Just like a personal assistant won't know that today you're feeling like a spiced latte instead of your usual black coffee, neither will any predictive algorithm. If you keep asking your personal assistant for a spiced latte and they keep bringing you black coffee they'd be fired pretty quickly. On the other hand if you ask your assistant for the TSP report and they bring it to you when you really wanted the TPS report you can't really fault them for that now can you?

I have 123 games in my Steam library, less than 1/3rd of them are installed due to lack of space on my 1TB platter drive. 90% of the time they can sit on any format of drive and it won't matter, but the other 10% of the time they need performance and they need it right away. They're too large to be continually deleting and re-downloading, so the ideal is to have them on an SSD so they have the performance when they need it.

That's just games not including video rendering applications, audio manipulation, etc. It took me less than 5 days to fill 1TB when I first got this machine - on a monthly basis I'll churn between 750GB and 1.6TB of data between 2x1TB drives according to my ISP and that's not including local uses of which there are numerous that require both performance and lots of capacity.

So you want a magic ball

They were only bad if you didn't know how to use them. I found them to be infinitely better than what we have now - even Google of 3-4 years ago was better than now.

And you think a system built by man can divine what you and everyone else wants at the moment you type it in? That'll be the day. Until then, assume I know what I want and not your system.

I can't tell if that's sarcasm, stupidity, or trolling... you actually want a search engine that when you search it ignores your input (ie: gives top results saying "missing: stormtrooper" from a search specifically for stormtrooper information), ignores what you tell it not to give you (ie: -books will still give Google Books results) and generally give you crappy results (ie: try searching for terms which happen to coincide with a syndicated news story - it's impossible to filter out every news outlet that picks it up)?

oops.. never mind. Blekko is already gone... hrm... maybe Ark? Seems more social than geek though.