Hopefully, if Skype is found to have a security vulnerability, only the DLL with the vuln will get updated.

On the Nintendo Entertainment System, players pressed the controller's Start button to pause (that is, stop) the game. By the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, many games were adding a quit option to the pause menu, so Start to stop was becoming believable.

System 7, introduced in 1991, had an Apple menu, which held shortcuts (called "aliases") to applications. Third-party extensions such as MenuChoice and HAM, released the following year, allowed aliases to be grouped into folders. (This is exactly the behavior that Microsoft would later implement in the "Programs" section of Windows 95's Start menu.) Apple later bought the rights to HAM and integrated it in System 7.5 (1995) under the name Apple Menu Options.

I see a PlayStation 4 console for $400. Which $400 "mid-range PC" can run games in comparable graphical detail to a PS4? Does the $400 include a graphics card and a lawfully made copy of Windows? Or are you planning on using integrated graphics and Steam OS instead?

I don't see how telling the operating system which connections are unsuitable for bulk downloads is "tricking" the operating system.

Exactly. Here's a guide to getting it working. But you still have to buy a genuine copy of Windows 3.1 and a USB floppy drive to read it into your DOSBox. I don't think Windows came on CD until Windows 95.

Windows 10 is "secured" against use with hobbyist hardware. It requires new device drivers to not only be signed with an Authenticode certificate but more specifically to be signed with the more expensive EV certificate. (Source) The cost of obtaining an EV certificate and of setting up a corporation or LLC that qualifies for an EV certificate can make it cost-prohibitive for hardware hobbyists to produce low-volume peripherals that work with Windows 10.

Windows 8.1 and later require NX bit. No x86 CPUs sold while Windows Millennium Edition was current support the NX bit.

Then you should let Windows know that a particular SSID is "a low connectivity area". See Microsoft's page about Windows 8 and metered connections. The page states that when only a metered connection is available, "Windows Update will only download priority updates."

I don't have Windows 8 or 10 in front of me as I type this, but the steps to mark a connection as metered in Android 5 are as follows: In Settings > Wireless & networks > Data usage, open the overflow menu and choose Network restrictions. It gives you a list of all the SSIDs you've seen, with a checkbox to mark each as metered. The notice at the bottom states: "Metered networks are treated like cellular when background data is restricted. Apps may warn before using these networks for large downloads."

If you need your laptop ready to travel in a hurry, close the lid. It'll go to suspend. Then open the lid at work, and it'll resume.

64-bit Windows has never supported 16-bit executables, except for Windows 7 Pro that came with a coupon to download Windows XP into a VM. To run the Windows 3.1 game Chip's Challenge on 64-bit Windows 10, you'll need an emulator, whether it's an Atari Lynx emulator or a PC emulator with a copy of Windows 3.1.

How does Stack Exchange, an RP, get away with trusting random OpenID 2.0 IDPs?

As far as I can tell, signing up for most of these requires a valid subscription to cellular telephone service, as Yahoo's sign-up form states: "Your mobile number is required." I've been told that the same is true of Facebook in some places. In your opinion, is it reasonable to require each server operator to maintain an ongoing subscription to a mobile phone plan with unlimited incoming SMS in addition to the domain, web hosting, wired Internet service, and VoIP that the server operator already has?

That's what I was afraid of.

Because the primary PC is connected to a comparatively small monitor, and a console is cheaper than a second PC for the living room. This is especially true if Microsoft chooses to also make the streaming app available for a (possibly used) Xbox 360.

No, I'm saying that both people are going to be in the same room, looking at the Xbox's monitor.

Not all shared-screen gaming is split-screen. Bomberman, Smash TV, and Street Fighter aren't split. Rampart is split, but only to the extent that each player fires from his own territory on one side of the river to his opponent's territory on the other.

You're right that two players would need two controllers. I'll assume this streaming solution also forwards XInput to allow use of the Xbox's controllers with the PC game.

Perhaps streaming is easier to do in some households than packing up the gaming PC and moving it into the TV room.

I'll take that as an A. ;-)

A few years ago, I collected eight comments from other users who were unwilling to put a gaming PC in the living room. The market may changed substantially in the past few years since comments like those were posted; if so, what has spurred this change?