I'm actually pretty terrified of Valve going public. A company like Valve can't be Valve with shareholders in control. Unless Gabe retains 51% of the stock... :)

Comcast would make a lot less money.

Granted, they would still be profitable, but they would make less money.

The speed for the plan isn't too terrible, either. 5 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. That's usable for everything except HD video streaming.

That reminds me of a joke by John Mulaney, where he told his friend how he wasn't sure if he believed in the death penalty. His friend goes (This is all a rough paraphrase, couldn't find a transcription "So you're telling me, if you saw Hitler walking down the street, you wouldn't kill him? You wouldn't kill Hitler?"

"Well, what do you mean by Hitler? Do I see some guy who looks like Hitler walking down the street, with the uniform and mustache and everything? Then I would assume it's just a guy on his way to a costume party. I wouldn't kill that guy. His costume is a little insensitive, but nothing worth killing him over. Or do you mean like, an old version of Hitler? Like an old man that I think might be Hitler? I wouldn't kill him either, because I'm often wrong."

"You killed this man!"

"He looked like Hitler!"

"Yeah a little, what's wrong with you?"

Ever play Titan Quest? It didn't get the highest of praise when it came out, but an expansion ended up correcting many issues. It's pretty much the best of all the Diablo 2 clones.

I have an Oculus Rift. I remember playing Half-Life 2 with it, and I got up to a window and looked down. Sure enough, I got some legit vertigo. It was great.

And yes, there is some motion sickness and nausea. I do believe that VR is an inevitable medium, regardless. Even with the Oculus Rift, which doesn't have the fastest headtracking and does have most horrendous resolution imaginable (effectively 640x400 per eye, mere inches from the eye. Just a horrible mess of blurry pixels) many people get the motion sickness under control.

Eventually VR will have greater FOV, greater resolution, and less head tracking delay. Not to mention better spacial awareness of the position of your head. All these things will greatly reduce motion sickness and nausea. I'm looking forward to it!

Saving the common people several billions a year would send nothing but good vibrations up the economic chain. Yeah, some cops may lose their jobs, but the billions extra that people would have every year means other jobs get created elsewhere.

I know, I'm just saying, it seems odd that you can get a tablet with a 2560-by-1600 resolution for 400 bucks, and yet you can't even get 1080p with ~12" laptops unless you venture into the 1K+ territory. It just doesn't add up.

Damn it, how is it phones and tablets keep getting these awesome high-rez screens, yet it's impossible to buy a laptop with anything better than 1366 x 768 for less than 1K?

People go to prison because they did something wrong and have to be removed from society for a while. The best thing a prison can do is "fix" the person so that they can integrate with society again.

You can't fix a person by taking away their humanity. So yes, they should get to watch TV, play video games, read books, have (consensual) sex. A "correctional facility" should do just that: correct a person. In a more perfect world criminals would come out of prison actually loving their fellow man. Or at the least, be able to integrate with society. Anyone coming out of prison should at least come out with GED equivalent. Preferably with some tradeskills too. Basically, if an employer sees that someone was an a correctional facility, they should think "hey this person has at least a basic education and some tradeskills"

That's how you keep them out of trouble and not going back to prison, just because they had to steal since they couldn't get a half decent job.

It's a plan for the inevitable Captain Trips outbreak.

I have an Oculus Rift and there actually is a browser plug-in that lets you use Google street view with the oculus. You don't get 3D images, but everything is to scale and the headtracking works perfectly. It's very very cool. I went back to the house I grew up in, some cities, etc.

An interesting sensation, though, was that you were seeing everything from the height of the Google car cameras. And it was pretty strange feeling so tall.

Competition is a beautiful thing. Of course, there was no competition in internet providers, which is the whole reason Google started their fiber service.

"Things are only impossible until they are not." -Picard

Obama was the one who appointed a former telecom CEO/Lobbyist as chairman of the FCC. It's safe to say he's not particularly interested in keeping net neutrality.

Let's not blow this out of proportion. Sure, it would be the bomb if the NSA stopped spying on everyone, as all this spying is a plague on our freedoms. But let's not burn any bridges here.