Oh come on, how ridiculous is that! Next thing you know we won't be able to say "porch monkey" any more. My grandmother used to call me a porch monkey all the time when I was a kid because I'd sit on the porch and stare at my neighbours. She was just an old timer, that's the way people talked back then! Didn't mean they were racist... Although my grandmother did refer to a broken beer bottle once as a nigger knife... You know, come to think of it, my grandmother was kind of a racist.

Read the PDF of the compliant linked from TFA.

What is the COP of an AC unit vs typical Natural gas or resistive heat source? 3:1? Pick a number you think is fair.

In total cooling degree days for the past year NYC is sitting at 70% of Tokyo (1154 vs 1604) in heating degree days Tokyo is 50% of NYC (2581 vs 5168)

While your correct about energy use in the Summer it constitutes only a small fraction of overall energy cost which is much higher in NYC due to climate differences.

This is insanely incorrect and misleading. For the last 1 year period your looking at about 2.5k heating degree days in aggregate for Tokyo vs 5.1k for NYC using 65f as base for both. It's a massive 2x difference.

According to the complaint they were required to have the phone with them 24x7 to answer clients.

They also end up fearing Ricola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A decade and some change ago first noticed marketeers slithering out of the woodwork to belch their dreams of SAAS into the ether. The dream is not a statement about architectures of the future it was always focused explicitly on raking in regular predictable revenue.. A concept customers have and continue to reject regardless of state of supporting infrastructure.

From where I sit the proof is in the pudding. I openly encourage our competitors to offer online subscription only services. We are making bank on those jumping ship from competitors. The very first question majority of our new sales prospects are asking "Is this software we can install" or "Is this something I buy or rent" in all cases the correct answers they are expecting to hear is always "Install" and "Buy".

There will always be applications that make sense to have online yet the logical demarcation lines for the most part are already well established... fatter pipes isn't going to move the needle.

From an architectural perspective turning browsers into dumb clients is completely idiotic but leave it to the Internet meme machine to continually march their fellow lemmings thru the path of least resistance and keep piling on layers of crap over crap never to fix a damn thing.

I find lack of interest in Media center hard to believe despite intentional action on Microsoft's behalf to kill it. The media extender market collapsed because MS simply made it impossible for extenders to exist. What if there was a cheap HDMI dongle that could stream from media center? None of this would be an issue and they could have existed if MS didn't continuously fuck over multiple companies producing hardware for media center.

I've had a TIVO for a while and in the last month they pushed an update that removed all RSS video feeds which was more than half of what I ever watched. The rss feeds don't require TiVo infrastructure to support they just removed it because they could and felt like it and now I'm fucked.

Anymore I'm beginning to realize that I don't really care about video broadcasts. If I never see another broadcast in my life I would be ok with that.

With all "convergence" memes going around and basically replacing everything with "Internet" I just hope the remaining people who care don't let a handful of mega content companies Netflix/Hulu/Youtube..etc. own everything. A DVR with some manner of "RSSP2P" backend would provide anyone with content to distribute a cheap way to do it not controlled by anyone... which I believe is important over the long haul if for no other reason than keeping mega content honest.

Most of my message was dedicated to the security chips of which ye speak and why I believe they don't present much of a barrier to well funded TLAs.

The government has all the power here. They can easily OFAC the crap out of any security chip that can't be owned by side channel attacks. Judging from laptop TPM scene where vendors have gone as far as enumerating list of vectors they don't even try to defend against... seems to me like open season for anyone with the resources to pull it off.

Anything protected directly by user entry into a smart phone is bound to have no usable entropy by itself anyway.

Failing this we have baseband processors with full read write access to OS memory to reduce material costs. I would be surprised if there was a consumer baseband on the planet without capability of being field "upgraded" by Agent Smith... at least from various accounts of ancient feature phones being turned into bugs.

While I don't doubt encryption will make things more difficult if/when it catches on you can bet the feds will invest in beating it and they will win at least for the subset of people who don't really care about security.

I have a feeling the bigger issue with ubiquitous encryption for TLAs is that when everyone uses encryption then the ability to use the fact that encryption was used to justify suspicion evaporates... that's what I think they are really afraid of.

The only difference appears to be refusal or inability to understand that ones own opinions and value judgments are not universally shared by all.

The following is true for me "Accessibility adds nothing in terms of functionality. It is useless. Its various secret gestures invoked accidently have in fact wasted my time and distracted me."

The only difference I would never cheer for the removal of a feature that can easily be toggled from a sanely structured stack of options because I respect the needs and choices of people who have different opinions and value judgments from myself.

Bringing Aero back to Windows is one of the top ranked requests on Uservoice.

How can they tell the difference between a new unknown codeword and a typo? For that matter, is CLOUD SYNERGY a secret program or a marketing term?

(If you want to create the ultimate hiding-in-plain-view secret program, start it with the ACTION ITEM view controller driving ELEVATOR PITCH monitoring devices built on PARADIGM SHIFT technology with STRATEGIC ROLE functionality and optional COMPETITOR STRATEGY and BIG PICTURE modules, all tied together via CRITICAL PATH and CUSTOMER FOCUS software. 50% of people reading it will fall asleep and the other 50% will have their heads explode, while you can get on with recording everyone's phonecalls and figuring out how to get Congress to mandate video cameras in bedrooms).

I think the OP was referring to a queue of landsharks in suits lining up to sue.

The world is bigger than just your opinion. Knobs hidden away in a control panel many are likely to only ever see once are not hurting anyone. Only those who like "eye candy bloat" are being harmed.

I could just as easily assert the accessibility menu should go because KISS... less clutter less options is a good thing...because...ugh... Henry Ford.

This is nonsense.

You have always had a choice. You could elect to turn off Aero and select larger fonts and high contrast themes.

People who prefer Aero in 8.1 have no choice...they can't turn it back on because it doesn't exist.

Lack of choice is not a feature.