and yet my comcast gives me 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.

They just don't want me to use it. They'd rather I downloaded from their networks with services like hulu and any other video services which require a cable subscription to be viewed on the Internet. ISPs should not be in the content business as well.

why don't you first convince Nvidia to make their drivers install the first time without issue.

On ubuntu, there are 5 different options for installing. Choose the wrong one and you may have to reboot like 9 times and install/uninstall like 5 times.

And I'm experienced at installing them and have been doing so since they first released it.

My latest ubuntu installation on my computer was for the steam ubuntu beta. It took me 2 hours to get the drivers installed using software central. I had to resort to apt-get to manually force different variants to install before finally finding the one that worked. The original one. Which wouldn't work prior because of missing deps, which should automatically be installed if I'm installing something that needs them. It didn't do that on ubuntu using the software center. And that's why Linux still isn't ready.

It's because of jerks who think chasing down deps is actually freedom to choose. When it should be, "you're installing X and Y is necessary so it's being installed first.

has to do with security rings. They mean ring 0.

Perhaps it's just the diet.

But as an obese man, I for one welcome my new gut overlords.

That monopoly was removed back in the late '90s with the telecom act. I remember in 2000 when there were about 30 different DSL companies to choose from.

Now, there's 2. AT&T, and Comcast.

Those are the choices with no regulation.

You're wrong, they brought him on-board to make 'Jam with Chrome' work.

They are something which can be very easily replaced.

They have no significance other than being the original package.

In the Boston Science museum, there sits a non-descript floppy disk with the Morris worm written on it. The disk isn't significant, what's on it is.

So, while they may look cool, there's no significance to a museum other than the software and box art.

And let's be honest, SNES games are nowhere near 'Smithsonian important'.

gamespy has been owned by a few different companies. IGN being the former.

A lot of developers have no choice but to choose middleware for their games. The alternative would cost way more, which for a budget tends to be a larger piece of the pie than middleware.

At least with steam, Valve have promised to unlock all the doors should they ever go out of business.

gamespy is still used by a lot of older games, with no alternative.

I discovered this the hard way when I just got battlefield 2 for the 10th anniversary of 1942.

It was always a kludgy system. They've shut down more service offerings over the past 10 years than I think have opened.

that choice isn't Netflix's to make if the show is currently on TV.

cool rant bro.

Netflix is $9 a month. That's actually counter-piracy pricing. I happily pay that every month for what Netflix has to offer.

This deal is a bonus. The only thing left is just waiting for an online streaming provider to get current television shows from all networks.

It's a controller friendly ui for steam presented in a tv friendly format.

The chat ui is especially creative. It's a flower.

didn't you hear, they discovered mardi-gras beads on mars.

the term used by one of the JPL guys was "one for the history books"