What's the point of that? As someone who has terabytes dedicated to local media storage rather than counting on the cloud to reliably stream (or even carry) a particular album or movie, this trend is really ticking me off. I'm going to take a guess that XBone won't serve as a Media Center Extender as well. Was hoping for a single device to play games, watch TV, and listen to music, but it looks more and more like I need to get a separate NUC (or equivalent) for the media server access (although that was going to be necessary anyway, since XB360 won't play ripped DVDs)

Coming from a professional panty-sniffer.

Is there any part of my comment that you understood, or did you just read "Apple" and think "How dare he?!??!" Quick tip: that last line was a reference to "Casablanca". Should go without saying, but again, you and that reading thing...

Running the Apple walled garden model against a variety of hardware, and your rapid updates brick some of the models. Shocked - SHOCKED - that there's gambling going on in this establishment.

"In myyyy day, we wrote hand-tuned assembly, and we LIKED it!"

If we ever get to the moon, for the love of God, do NOT take off your helmets when going inside any structures, terraformed or not. And if you see any large cobra-worms, DON'T try to pet them. Show some common sense.

Microsoft: obscure error code with a generic description Old Apple: Bomb icon that says 'Error' New Apple: Plain blue screen, nothing else So simple and refined!

Many of them involve an evil cactus as the villain.

A patent for patenting. Sure there's prior art, but when has that stopped anyone from trying?

And again in 30,000 years when Voyager gets past the Oort Cloud and *really* leaves the solar system.

Nice substance. "B-b-b-ut it's not a memo...it's too looooong!"

MSR did the implementation for .Net generics. They incubated Linq (via C-Omega). There's the Reactive Framework. Code Contracts comes from them. Tons of AI work. Michael Abrash worked there for a while on natural language.

They come up with some good ideas in research. Their main problem IMO is that they are too conservative about releasing some of their projects, or in some cases emphasizing them (i.e. keeping indexed searches off by default until Google Toolbar started doing fast desktop searches). They've got infrastructure out the wazoo, but it's rare that the fully utilize it.

The whole "zombie apocalypse" fad just escapes me. I'm sure these folks have to know that zombies are fictional, so what gives? Is it the fantasy of blowing the heads of people without the stigma of being homicidal? Is it an attempt to justify doomsday prepping? Is it because vampires are passe? I just don't get it.

They use the game as a pretext to search his backpack in the mornings, ala the airport, and when he's got a gun in the backpack, it's become reality. If he has normal stuff and a phone in the bag, it's just a video game.