Actually, they do have a business in this when they are the ones not just providing it, but now dictated by law on how much they should provide you, or what broadband really means. There is nothing stopping newer entrants into this market from providing broadband services, aside from a high cost of entry in laying out new fiber. Which tends to make it affordable for just the Googles of the world. But then again, why should Verizon, Comcast, TWC or others be required to provide their infrastructure for free to their competitors? How is that fair?

I'd say 25Mbps is too high - I'd start that definition at 15Mbps. That's the speed at which my FaceTime or VOIP calls are smooth. Unless they wanna define broadband as watching Netflix, Hulu or YouTube.

18 and life you got it....

When I visited the Bay Area this time, just couldn't recognize the place, in terms of landmarks. In places where a lot of tech companies had landmark like headquarters, there were few. Instead, the Bay Area looked like any other mediocre place in the state, just more expensive. The tech sector has shrunk to just a handful of companies, and the bulk of them seem gone. GP is right - CA is very much a joke. Courtesy the Davis/Schwarzenkennedy/Brown era

Looks like a good solution for this would be for Microsoft to port DirectX either directly to Android/iOS, or indirectly to Linux/FreeBSD. That way, signal developers that if they develop to DirectX (which has the audio advantage over OpenGL, where OpenAL is something that has to be separately supported) they'd be supported on all 3 platforms. While the Windows version could remain proprietary, they could release these 2 versions as a dual license of GPLv3 and either BSDL/Apache.

Actually, how inferior is Intel performance to either NVIDIA or AMD/ATI?

Thank you. Did you fix the problems that were a major issue which was brought out last time, and which brought about LibreSSL?

This is what I was wondering. That major bug in OpenSSL that caused security issues in applications using it - which caused LibreSSL to be created in the first place - has that been fixed?

So don't these OSs have VMs that one can use? OS-X? Trisquel? ChromeOS? Okay, maybe the last one doesn't, but what about the first 2?

Why doesn't RedHat, or Oracle, or SUSE, or someone else run Linux through the compliance tests?

Fully agree w/ this. Have said several times - I'd have a lot more respect for the FSF crowd if they finished HURD and came up w/ software that they wanted people to actually use, instead of preaching all the time - don't use flash, don't use MP**, don't use i****, don't use Windows, don't use FaceBook, don't use Amazon, don't use Google, blah blah blah

Actually, so is GNU, if you think about it!

I don't think it's just that. It's b'cos in the past, since people had nothing better to do, and weren't getting sleep, they killed the time buying stuff from those catalogs. Now, people can actually use electronic items like smartphones, tablets and laptops, even if they don't have an internet connection, and that gives them something to do that doesn't involve spending more money. Ergo, they stop buying stuff from Skymiles.

Better yet, Minix 3.2

I call bullshit, since the objective of both are mutually exclusive. Chromebook is great if you live on the internet, have few to no local files, and just use your laptop for browsing & email.

Surface Pros are full laptop replacements. There are some niche uses for it, other than just as laptops. Say I have a peripheral that only Windows can recognize, it makes sense to have something like a Surface Pro, or if one is on a budget, HP Stream or a WinBook. Like I have a Brother label maker, which my PC-BSD setup can't recognize. That's the sort of thing I'd want a Wintel tablet for, provided it has the appropriate USB slots and drivers.

Other than that, non-Windows alternatives are great

Actually, LiGnuX was better, although the capitalization was still weird. A better way to have written it would have been either all caps - LIGNUX, or all lowercase (in keeping w/ UNIX CLI conventions). Too bad it didn't take hold