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Except that's how it was and not only did every manufacturer have their own proprietary charger, but they tended to change them every couple of handsets just to keep things interesting. Your options were either to carry your charger everywhere with you (which somewhat defeats the point of having a mobile phone) or just hope that if you needed to charge your phone outside of your house that someone nearby had exactly the same charger as you so you could borrow it.

That's on top of the extra waste generated when you can't keep your old charger for use with your new phone.

There's nothing to stop the standard from being changed in the future as technology advances, it just means that you won't have 30 different proprietary cables to pick from.

No, this is CRYENGINE not CryEngine.

It's basically CryEngine 4, but they decided to drop the number and capitalise the lot, apparently because of how big a departure it is from CryEngines 1 through 3.

Remember that, in terms of Steam at least, the majority of - if not all - games that are available on multiple platforms only require a single purchase to allow you to play them on any of those platforms (much like Sony's Crossplay) so while they may not see direct "Linux sales" I would imagine that Valve provides them with stats to show which platforms the games are being *played* on, which is probably more useful here.

XP is over 12 years old, that's one hell of a *free* long term support package. Is there any other OS available that has a 12 year support lifecycle? Ubuntu's LTS releases have a 5 year support cycle, Apple doesn't have a published official policy for OSX but it's about 4 years on average. RHEL comes the closest I can find at between 10 & 13 years depending on the version, but you have to pay for that so it's not directly comparable.

XP has had a pretty good run of it, all things considered and if Windows 8 wasn't such a PR mess, this "forced" upgrade would probably a lot less contentious.

How much "game-changing functionality" can you really work into a fucking coffee machine?

Oh totally, the Beeb would be so much better if it produced the same level of lowest-common-denominator shite as ITV and Channel 5.

True, but if Gmail was the thing that everyone associated with email and the only service anyone outside of the email field had really heard of, then it'd do serious damage to email's reputation.

It would have been fine if they'd kept it in their mattresses, but instead they gave it all to a guy who used to manage Magic The Gathering card swaps.

Get it on PC.

Why is everyone seemingly obsessed with trying to produce knock-offs of software that's already in a popularity decline?

"Is X the next Snapchat?" No, because people are already bored of Snapchat and moving on to whatever the latest tool for sending people semi-anonymous pictures of their genitals is.

This.

If I ever went through someone's emails, documents, IM logs or anything else private on the company network without someone from HR physically sitting with me, I'd be fired on the spot.

I feel really sorry for anyone who works somewhere where IT are allowed to gain indiscriminate access to all your stuff just because they're bored on a Friday afternoon.

"Sure, we left the windows open, but the door was impenetrable"

Yeah, it's clear.

"This automated and indiscriminate bulk collection of data is unacceptable!"