Of course they have a choice. They can move to an area served by FiOS, which ranked as more satisfying in a recent Consumer Reports article than Comcast or TWC.

I recently had to get my cable TV fixed, as the cable box wasn't syncing for more than a minute after being plugged in. After about six calls the "customer account executive" finally determined that I should bring the box in and swap it. During the last of these six calls, the rep asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 105 Mbps Internet. I told him my computers are too low-end to make good use of that, and when I see speed problems, it's usually on the other side. I forget what else I had to embellish my "no thanks" with to get him to back off.

I'd imagine that business-class plans are less likely to forbid this. A hotel, for instance, needs to share a connection with its guests.

How would a wireless mesh network reach from, say, Arizona to Indiana?

If the Internet connection where you live has become unusable, you could always switch to somewhere else. Compare this: I imagine a lot of people would like to move to a rural area, but they like the Internet more than they like the country.

Among some members of my family, I've detected a Grover Norquist mentality against any increase in entertainment spending. To afford another $120 per year recurring fee, they'd have to cut out something else. Cord cutters in countries where over-the-top video on demand (OTT VOD) services such as Hulu and Netflix are available recognize that everything but the "festering pile of social ills" that is televised sports is available on OTT VOD.

The gun owned by a non-subscriber when a competitive ISP tries to pull copper or fiber across his land to reach a subscriber.

One problem leading to broadband monopoly is city ownership of city roads. What alternative would you recommend? The only one I can think of is burying a few conduits in advance when performing other utility maintenance, and then leasing each individual conduit to an ISP to blow its own fiber or copper.

Yes, the Wii U has an ARM processor used as an I/O processor, but games actually run on a separate multi-core application processor derived from a PowerPC G3. Conceptually it resembles the ARM9/ARM7 setup of the DS, PowerPC/ARM setup of the original Wii, or the big.LITTLE setup that ARM is trying to push in mobile.

But I was referring only to YouTube policy. Thanks for testing the video.

Is this just USB flash drives and hard drives or also USB optical drives?

I was referring to external cameras, so that you don't have to point your laptop at something to take a picture.

For one thing, a PC supports more brands of printer than a Chromebook. If your printer isn't "Cloud Ready", you need to own a PC and have it turned on.

Have you a source for that? This source states that you cannot print while offline.

I'm on Comcast, which has a 300 GB/mo cap. My cousin's dad is on satellite because he lives out of the service area of cable and DSL, and satellite has a 10 GB/mo cap except for bulk downloads during the early morning.

The problem comes when companies stop making 10" laptops that aren't thin clients.

Even games that aren't "state of the art" can break the deal if they happen not to have been ported.

Does putting a Chromebook in developer mode void the warranty on the hardware? I don't want to have to buy a new Chromebook if it develops a broken hinge or an unusably loose charging port a week after I put it in developer mode.

The deal is that everybody has a different 10 percent: whether it be video editing, or web development, or playing games that use a joystick, or whatever.

Someone who doesn't want to become the next Jammie Thomas.

It was some time ago when I used the stock YouTube apps for Android and iOS. I don't currently own a Wii U on which to test, but I have read a policy document stating that YouTube allows the partner uploader or a Content ID claimant to block videos from being viewed on "non-monetized platforms". Does "1-800-KIRBYCIDE", a popular fan video for "Doctor Online" by Zeromancer, play on Wii U?

Because there are plenty of bands whose music is for sale on iTunes Store but not Google Play. For example, last time I checked, "Bück dich" by Rammstein was on iTunes Store (US) but not on Google Play (US).

I thought YouTube just errored out and displayed "The content owner has not made this video available on mobile" on an attempt to view a monetized video on a platform that doesn't enforce ad viewing. Besides, good luck carrying your Wii U with you and using it offline.

Good luck doing so while offline.