Mozilla is whining anyway; when they switched search providers from Google to Yahoo I had to go through and specify it on EVERY INSTANCE of Firefox I have. Since I use --no-remote and segment my web browsing this was actually a royal pain in the ass. Granted, Google was the old "default," so I had never changed it, but it was still an undesired change in behavior. If they're going to whine about Microsoft doing the same thing then they ought to look at their own behavior.

Firefox is still my browser of choice for personal use but for others I've started to recommend Chrome. It's just less hassle to support it for your luser friends. The future of Firefox and Mozilla is not an encouraging one, which is a pity.

It's a bit hard to get outraged at MSFT when GOOG has been doing the exact same thing for the last three or four Android versions.

The ISO for Home and Pro are the same. If you have a key (a Win 10 key! A Win 7 or 8.n key won't do!), it will install the right edition without asking. If you skip key entry it will give you the choice as what to install. So, no, you can't accidentally grab a Pro ISO and try to install it on a Home version, because the Pro and the Home ISO are one and the same. Only the key makes the difference.

I can get XBox games on my PC right now, for the most part. They're in Microsoft store, they're on Origin, et cetera.

I go to Steam because it's easy to find funky stuff and there's always a sale.

The XBox app won't change that.

Million, you must think this is 2001 in the Slashdot heydays...

I see you never begged at the feet of Silicon Graphics....

Sun on a throne? Sun were amateurs compared to SGI in making your customer kneel.

No sub $11,000 electric car that has 100 mile range.
No electric car that can charge in 6 hours at home without spending thousands on a fat charger and an electrician and permits to install it.
No apartments with electric charging stations.

So nope.

Pisonme-pisonu - isn't that a animal from Doctor Doolittle ?

Only for Xbox one. Worthless.

now let me play games on my PC via my xbox one. Kerbal space program, dont starve, etc... Then it's competition.

Playing GTAV on my windows tablet? boring.

Yes. Switching computers on my KVM switch (scroll lock + console number)

I'd have to question that (not that she has to do it or the reasons she was told, but the supposed reality that elders can't read normal text as well as caps). One of the pieces of research that was done here in the 1950s resulted in motorway road signs in the UK being in mixed case rather than all caps - it caused howls of anguish from old-timers resistant to change - but the thing is words with lower case text have more of a shape - for instance "Manchester" can be resolved as the word "Manchester" much faster than "MANCHESTER" - it was found you could read the mixed case before you could even resolve all the letters because you could recognise the shape of the word, given that lower case text has more features like ascenders and descenders. Hence all UK road signs ever since have been in mixed case.

Exactly the same here. I called MS and they said it won't work with a 7 key. I just have to wait, it will be converted automatically. Not all that certain how that's going to work...

I read a book a while back called "the disappearing spoon" where it discussed how earlier semiconductors used gallium, but were failure prone due to the heat (gallium has a very low melting temperature). Silicon was a godsend and once that was used, it changed semiconductors forever.

My first thought after reading the summary was "oh no! Not this again!" But the "nitrade" may make a huge difference. Hopefully this is the case.

That's not destruction of property, that's maintenance of property. Want a better analogy than the soccer ball? If your neighbor parks in your driveway without permission you can probably have him towed. What you can't do is take a 9 Iron to his headlights.

From what I remember, the numerical keypads with 789 on the top row were inherited from ancient calculating machines, not entirely unlike the QWERTY ordering of the keyboard -- it was the way it was laid out and as it wasn't broke no-one ever bothered to fix it. There were some mechanical reasons for this originally, then it carried over to electronic calculator keyboards and then their descendants, the computers.

The phones keypad pedigree is different: from various circular dials that opened and closed a switch a number of times corresponding to the number the user wanted to dial, the keypads that replaced the dials got the numbers in a natural top-to-bottom ascending order, usually with keys organized in a 3 wide 4 tall matrix.