Many MACs are adjustable in the drivers.

And yet some are not and are hardcoded. I.e. The Surface Pro series has a MAC that isn't adjustable. The registry hacks don't work because the registry keys don't exist and if you use some software to spoof the MAC you end up in a BSOD loop.

I bought shares in a company should I be compensated when the company folds? Every investment carries risk. Leaving my money in the bank in a savings account carries risk too, just a lower risk with a lower reward.

Why are people always entitled to compensation? Why are companies entitled to go bust and get bailed out? What happened to just letting things run its course?

I don't understand why this comes back to insurance. There is a concept of self insurance, or no insurance.

We run risks every day of doing something where come company won't come and bail us out. Why should someone suddenly be *forced* to have insurance to do something?

Or at least I hope you are, and you're not just a paid shill/astroturfer (you're a bit too crude for that), but you've also never had a mini-gun pointed at him by private "security" personal because you asked for better pay. You've never had terrorists come in the night and cut your families throats for the same thing (google "Coca-Cola South America" sometime). You have no bloody idea what the hell your talking about. If you did you probably wouldn't be trolling it and you'd go back to goatse and Natalie Portman Hot Grits.

First version releases always have issues.

"Geek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin" :P

We don't need to. After use in a modern nuclear cycle the final waste products decay to safe levels quickly enough that it becomes an almost non issue. By comparison the waste produced by a coal power plant is significantly worse.

But we won't get there because of an interim stage of the cycle. OMG PLUTONIUM THE COMMIE TERRORISTS WILL GET US.

That was their fuckup. It didn't need to be a worse mouse experience. Note that I'm not talking about metro here which is just a plain bad experience.

I'm talking about other small fine tuned details like the borders which are significantly larger, the larger hit area on icons, the introduction of the checkbox on explorer icons allowing multi-select without needing a keyboard. I'd mention the ribbon too but someone will lynch me for it.

In general none of these had a negative impact on the mouse, just a negative impact on the eyes as some people really hate the window border. Yet they were ultimately product breaking features if you used Windows on a convertible tablet.

In general my experience with Google took a sharp downturn in the last quarter of 2014. Largely it seems they're riding on momentum, because they really did do some ground-breaking work. Android was an awesome answer to iOS. Not quite as slick and clean maybe, but I had no trouble with the FroYo, ICS or Jelly Bean. Lollipop on the other hand has really provided no additional functionality I felt was missing and has only served to drain my battery and randomly reboot when apps aren't crashing or freezing.

Inbox and email tabs just hide new important emails.

Hangouts is creepy(animations pop up here and there just to let you know someone is listening in) and the voice/video call functionality is an exercise in frustration.

Google search seems to be gradually leading me away from the things I'm looking for toward pages of links I can't bring myself to click.

I'm ready to switch to anything that provides something resembling quality.

And not just story time? When I used to gm I always had a hard time incorporation actual play mechanics into my sessions and caught myself just telling a story...

Actually I think you'll find it's more to do with the cost of licensing when it comes to recording TV. From what I've read the licensing fees are absolutely extortionate which is why none of the very awesome open source media centres which in every other way shit over MS's product have this feature. It's a handy little way for cable companies to maintain a monopoly on PVRs capable of recording their channels and likewise a way to ensure that these PVRs don't record protected content.

The reason the medallion system was implemented has nothing to do with how it ultimately ended up being run. It's a government granted monopoly to the rich with an obscene barrier to entry disguised as a regulated but open industry.

Whatever reasons various governments had for implementing the system they had doesn't change the fact that the free market is attempting to offer a competing service with dramatically improved customer experience. Most people wouldn't complain if local taxis offered what uber does, and I'm not just talking about the obscene prices of taxi services in some cities, often caused by the obscene cost of the medallion.

Uber being self-entitled douchebags doesn't preclude evil cartels.

That's nice. I'll voice the opposite opinion. Windows 8 tries to greatly improve the completely non-existent touch screen interface that exists in Windows 7. Windows 8 is borderline navigatable on touchscreen and I'm not talking about the metro UI (which is an abortion).

Isn't that a function of a TV sensing a sudden state change of the HDMI input?