I never wanted a saddle horse, but I haven't seen the need to post that inconsequential fact to every equine forum on the net.

That said, I bought a year's subscription to XBox Music on Pi Day for $31.40.

30 million tracks available for streaming or downloads to up to four devices.

Broadly representative of all musical genres, all eras of recorded music, hit and miss when it comes to the spoken word, no audiobooks. Metadata is sparse. No album notes, no lyrics, but still a resource that is miles wide and deep and useful even to the hardcore CD and Vinyl enthusiast.

P2P and USENET are bottomless time sinks, here you can summon up 50 to 100 albums or tracks for sampling in one click and fill your shopping cart or playlist from there.

If are you living near the US border, as almost every Canadian does, you have to be comfortable using both systems.

This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (MAPS and PHOTOS)

The HP Stream 8 will serve as an example of a Win 10 upgradeable budget Win 8.1 with Bing tablet.

WIMBOOT with Compressed OS. If you are wondering why you haven't seen the Win 10 upgrade tray app on your RAM-starved tablet or laptop this is the reason. A solution is in the works.

Important updates for Win 10 home users will be automatically downloaded in the background. But not over a metered connection.

The Win 10 upgrade tray app that frays the geek mind does a compatibility check. You won't even see the thing unless your system is ready for the upgrade. As for the installer, it just sits there until you are ready to launch it.

Windows 1.0 was released in October of 1985. Twelve years before the launch of Slashdot. In 2015, the geek may fret and fume, but Windows remains a force to be reckoned with.

If the geek wants to "talk tech" on Slashdot, that is a fine with me. But the stained glass icon isn't an invitation to talk sensibly about Windows --- it is an invitation to rant and rave, and that wastes time.

Windows 10 Specifications: Feature deprecation section

Here Are the Features Windows 10 Will Remove When You Upgrade, Windows 10 Q&A: Will Windows Media Center be available in Windows 10?

Until the back pressure from coverage by mainstream news sites and other geek forums like Arts Technica can't be resisted any longer.

The driverless car will need to respond intelligently to the needs of its passengers if it is carrying the elderly, disabled, unsupervised minors and so on,

The.black sheep of our family favored a 12 cylinder Packard back in the days when if you could make it to the state line you were as safe as houses.

The federal police power was built on putting an end to this kind of thing.

Ulbricht conceived and managed a criminal enterprise on a global scale.

He hired a quack, a Dr. Feelgood, to give his business the anarchic-libertarian shine the geek loves so well. I can't help wondering how many will go to their graves following the good doctor's advice.

Personally, I find markup on a laptop or tablet pure agony and a distraction from what I want and need to post. The informal forum for me.

The days when the geek could wall himself off from the world are long gone, every decision he makes exists within a larger social context.

That is why stories like Gamersgate touch a raw nerve and can't be wished away.

The distinction between live action and animation has been blurred for decades.

Tron is the primal example. Rocket Raccoon is a fully realized character in Guardians of the Galaxy and not the comic relief or the blink-and-you'll miss it Easter Egg cameo of Howard The Duck.

Disney took a chance on Marvel properties as original, eccentric and obscure as Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6.

It did rather well by Wreck-It Ralph.

Which was rooted in character and story, not special effects.

To the uninitiated:

The New Egg retail price for single copies of Windows 10 in OEM packaging for the "system builder" isn't the dirt cheap wholesale price paid by Dell, HP or Lenovo for the mass-market OEM Windows system install.