I'd be happy to pay a small fee to get GoT. Looks like I'll just keep downloading it until HBO is willing to take my money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ha, that would be awesome but I was thinking more along the lines of a complete wipe of memory or something.

I try to use email as much as possible. People forget what was said, or remember things in different ways. The nice thing about email -- or any recorded communication -- is that you have a history of who said what, when.

Or a phone that self-destructs if given a particular password.

Exactly so.
Thinking about in PC terms Android is the old Microsoft. Microsoft is Linux and Apple is still just Apple. Off doing there own thing and happy with there low double digit market share. They are a very influential niche player for sure.

The difference is MS can pay and pay to keep playing until they make it. Worked for xbox. Starting to work for Bing.

Exactly. Lets not go back to that. Last thing we want is a webkit monoculture.

If the main complaint people have about the new version of Windows is that the icons don't look very nice it must mean this is a pretty good version.
After all, it's not like you can't just change the icons to whatever you want them to be. I'm sure by the time it ships there will be more than a dozen "Classic Icon" themes available for download. I may spend 45 seconds finding one I like and then never think of it again.

It will soon be running the same win 10 that my laptop and phone use. I had better be able to make my own games for it.

I've always wanted Apple to invent automobiles.

Interesting -- why are you "rebuilding" the team? The events leading to that may (or may not -- what do I know?) have something to do with the quality of your candidates.

As an aside, I worked on a C++ compiler (20 years ago at IBM), but it was the code generator & optimizer. There are plenty of moving parts in a C++ compiler that are pretty far away from C++ features like templates and stl (exceptions and lambdas on the other hand do poke their way pretty deep). You have to go and learn them -- working on a compiler back-end written largely in C (or the C like subset of C++) will not teach them to you. But I can still to this day read a hex dump and disassemble x86 instructions in my head. (not as quickly or fluently for less commonly used encodings as I used to, I'll admit)

But I'm close to the 50 year old mark -- I'm pretty grateful to have an interesting and rewarding job -- I'm quite happy that I'm not looking for work these days.

(Although Apple pings me a couple of times a year :-)

I probably just don't know enough to appreciate how bad my sound quality is.

'Washington should be very thoughtful how they go forward here,' he said. 'This uncertainty is not good for investment, and it's not good for jobs here in America.'"

Why not? Uncertainty drives change, and uncertainty at this point was created _by Verizon._ Granted, something had to change, because what the big ISPs have been doing is abusive at best.

Besides, it was Verizon that started this mess by trying to change the rules for its own benefit. Complaining now is just sour grapes. Enjoy your new Title II status.