Or the ability to screencast more than two youtube videos from their android app, without crashing? Or the ability to automatically retry after a buffering error? Or how about getting the setting to always play HD videos working?

There is so much they need to work on over there, but since it's google, I don't expect to ever see anything fixed. They're good at rolling out new stuff, but it's always left to rot.

I'm guessing they know something about the new net neutrality rules being drafted and that wireless is either being excluded or will have loopholes. Especially given that the head of the FCC used to be a lobbyist for them.

What's needed is for a popular news client to have the option of automatically adding a random .sig to every e-mail like:

53dd73cb10a1540c9d3adb36fd8cd0d8f5b2ef736a4a23a07d6d2a80c88e907f

Could be random, could be encrypted. The police state types would be overwhelmed in no time.

I think PC gaming went first. So many of the genres I used to play disappeared or got dumbed down. And it was always the latest games that drove my upgrade cycle. Something simple like Minecraft doesn't require this.

If I were in the PC hardware biz, I'd look into owning a game company on the side that focuses on the most beautiful, resource intensive games I could muster.

I just realized that my OEM license won't transfer to my new computer and I couldn't easily find a copy of Windows 7, so for the first time I just decided to go without. I have Windows 8 on a laptop and there's no way I'd ever buy a copy of that, if it didn't come preloaded. It's just awful.

This marks the end of the dual-boot era for me. It's Linux all the way now. Great job Microsoft!

Traffic shaping, prioritization and throttling was happening on the internet long before last January.

Right and that cable company has little incentive to expand those pipes if service is good enough (which it is). Netflix was paying more, in order to deliver slightly faster buffering times to their customers. If Netflix isn't paying for the massive amount of bandwidth they're using, then it's the cable company customers who pick up the cost. Why should cable company customers, who don't even have netflix, be forced to subsidize the rest?

And just because the pipes are laid into my house, doesn't mean that the providers aren't constantly upgrading their switches and routers to handle all of this. If what they have is fine enough for non-netflix traffic, then let netflix pay more for what they hog.

Which startups can't provide the response times and connection speeds to compete?

This is an imaginary problem that hasn't even happened yet. Giving Netflix a faster path into my house hasn't changed anything for me. If anything, I can get torrents faster.

You don't think something that isn't broken.

I don't care if Comcast wants to negotiate more money from Google for a fast lane. Net Neutality lets big companies like Google and Facebook off the hook and passes the upgrade costs onto consumers.

The internet has worked just fine without these regulations. Once the FCC starts regulating it, don't be surprised when they start to grow their mandate into regulating trolling as bullying, and other unintended consequences.

Seems like there are more megacorps benefiting from net neutrality, than what we have now. I'm not worried about Google, Facebook or even Netflix passing the costs onto me, so much as I am the cable company. They WILL pass the buck if their cost of business go up. For Google, it just means a small dip in revenue.

Because the internet has been broken so far?? In what way do you think this will make it better?

ESPN is the reason I cancelled Dish in the first place. It's the most costly channel in their lineup and I got sick of subsizing it. Had they chosen better, cheaper channels, I would have considered it.

...is that they introduce products with great potential but do little to follow up on them. If anything they make them worse over time. The only exceptions to this would seem to be search and android.

Modern IDEs practically write half your code for you and you know if you have a problem, before you even compile it. Developing in emacs will never be as fast, I don't care how good you are at it.

oh wait, doh!