If it was environmental, ALL of the balls ON BOTH SIDES would have been underinflated. It doesn't take a room full of nerds to figure that out. Unless the Colts kept their balls in a warmer, this is a stupid waste of time. Have some integrity and stop trying to find ways to let the Patriots off the hook. Cheating is so ingrained in their culture they do it when they don't even need to. And they're not good at cheating because they keep getting caught. Tear their house to the ground and rebuild on a fresh foundation.

Alibaba was the big shit last fall and I was looking to buy a plasma TV in the 60" range so I checked their site. If I were to believe Alibaba's seller, I could get 5 of them for the same price as 1 TV from Costco. Yeah, that sounds legit.

25/3 is barely adequate now. It'll be pathetic in a few years when streaming 4k is the norm. And what's with the turtlesque uplink speeds? How are we supposed to "cloud" our lives at 3 megs?

That's horrible! Just horrible. Oh, the humanity!

What you should have done was quote this from the MS page:

People will still latch onto the definition of "Windows device" and "supported lifetime of the device" but at least it's more clear than the linked article.

That's a possible interpretation. Just because it's the interpretation you like doesn't mean it's the correct interpretation.

I'll bet it's available thru the 'torrents.

What's that? It doesn't have a battery? Then it's not a laptop.

I had a ramdisk in my Epson QX-10 and it was amazing. 2 megabytes of pure, blazing speed. TP/M booted and Valdocs loaded in seconds. It had a power supply and battery backup to keep the data from going poof every time the computer was turned off.

Their distribution model is pretty ridiculous. These people are trying like hell to pay for content that they want to watch. It would be easier and cheaper to just pirate the content but they want to pay and the media companies refuse to sell their product. They trick the media companies into being paid for their product and the media companies block them. It's absurd. Ridiculous. Asinine.

They're going for The Big Dirty. One big score and they're out.

Try Windows. Cheap Windows 8.1 (full Windows, not RT) tablets are popping up like mushrooms. The recovery partition, OS, and its first round of updates take nearly 16 gigs. And they're selling tablets with 16 gigs of storage. So you power on your tablet, connect to your network, install the updates, and you've got a few hundred megs of storage left. I bought a $100 32 gig tablet just to play around and see how it works. I've installed Chrome and a couple little games and have 9.85 gigs free. Out of the 23.5 gigs that's left after they lopped off a 5.2 gig recovery partition. 5.2 gigs which, unless something goes terribly wrong, will never be used.

Found a story about ending the camera system in AZ. Apparently my habit of setting my cruise control to the speed limit may have contributed to my lack of tickets. They ticketed at 11mph over so I had a 1mph buffer if I missed a speed limit change.

As with red light cameras, it depends on the implementation. I won't go near the state of Arizona again without a damn good reason. I went on a southwest road trip maybe five years ago and speed camera vans were everywhere. That would be fine because I've got cruise control and set it for the speed limit (yes, I really do) except the speed on the interstates varied randomly. Cruising along and there's a speed limit sign 10mph slower than the current speed and, shortly past that, a van with a speed camera. If I were coming into a populated area, that would be one thing but it's out in the middle of the fucking desert. Over and over. I kept an eye out for the changes and adjusted accordingly but I was surprised that I didn't get a ticket in the mail. It would have been easy to miss a speed change in an area that has no need for a speed change. A lot of my attention was diverted to scanning for road signs instead of watching the road. I've heard they ditched this program but I don't plan to go back to verify.

If they were using these automated systems to catch people who are already violating traffic laws, that would be one thing but the local governments (or their agencies) often manipulate the situation to create violations from people who wouldn't normally commit them.

What about the impact of apps that can't be transferred to a new device? I have a couple of time-waster games on my first tablet that can't be moved to a new device. A top question on their FAQs is "How do I transfer my game to a new tablet?" "You can't. Too bad, so sad." I wonder how many people are reluctant to upgrade because they spent $50 on crystals in some game and they don't want to throw it away.