Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

The end of life for Windows 7 is not until January 14, 2020. Windows 7 is working OK for me.

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Why in the world would I want to give Microsoft more money just to stay on the Microsoft Upgrade Treadmill©?

All one has to do is watch the GM CEO testifying in the Congressional hearings, and read the reports about GM's safety failures, to see the arrogance is not with google, but with Detroit. The folks in Michigan are afraid of google in the same manner that auto dealerships are afraid of Tesla's direct sales. The current, cozy, entrenched business interests are going to be upset for the benefit of the consumer.

Furiously back pedaling? - or - Careful restatement of certain specific points based upon new information, while keeping the overall context intact?

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I've seen so much over the top hype and hysteria from the climate change deniers, that I no longer believe their 10 word or less summaries of why climate change is not happening.

The climate change deniers need to start presenting a better level of peer-reviewed data and conclusions, and stop their unproven assertions (note: hypothetical research papers funded by the oil and coal industries, however well that funding is hidden, do not count.)

That's not why you join mensa, that why you continue to be a member after you join.

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When I attended the mensa meetings, the condescending attitude of mensa people towards others was quite a surprise to me. After a few meetings I just stopped attending and did not renew my membership.

When US companies outsourced their jobs, it was said that they outsourced the jobs to China, or to India.

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Why, all of a sudden has the terminology changed?

A sleek, once-efficient browser has now been turned into a bloated platform for for IDE hosting. Why would anyone want to use such a mess for such a critical part of their development infrastructure, especially in light of the continuing whimsical and frequent changes to the look, feel and operation of the FireFox UI by out of touch developers.

Perhaps Mr. McMillen needs to take a reality pill and realize that he is the person who has gotten it wrong, not everyone else.

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I'm surprised that Wired fell for this false equivalence.

Sure, it is always good to publish ideas that may be in opposition to the mainstream. But I would have expected Wired to at least publish opposing ideas that are not so completely ridiculous, thereby giving those ridiculous ideas a false equivalence to the reality-based mainstream ideas.

From the summary:

What he actually says is:

What Nest's privacy policy actually says is:

Notice how, we won't share your data with anyone without your permission in the article suddenly morphs into we won't share your personally identifiable information with anyone in the actual privacy policy statement?

What about the other non-personally identifiable data, like when my house is empty? Or how many people are in the house? etc, etc.

... are the best in the world for star-gazing. Chile Chill video showing the Chilean night sky....

I guess P. T. Barnum was right. There's a sucker born every minute.

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Adobe's Cloud Solutions Fuel Strong Financial Results

So, apparently, Adode has convinced many people to buy in to an unreliable service. I sincerely wish them success.

So now when the Adobe cloud disappears from the Internet more people will be affected.

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Has Adobe said anything substantial regarding how they are going to address their cloud downtime problem?

... well that didn't last too long. Don't be evil

Microsoft started looking at patent lawsuits when they hired IBM's intellectual property guru back in the 1990's. That was the move that convinced me that Microsoft was going to build a patent portfolio to use against competitors, instead of competing via innovation. I guess Microsoft thought it was easier to buy patents than to learn how to innovate.

Back in the 1990's Microsoft didn't have to worry about competing or innovating because of the Windows monopoly. as a result, Microsoft never really learned how to innovate and move a market forward.

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Now Microsoft is faced with a marketplace in which Windows no longer has a monopoly. Unfortunately, Microsoft never really learned how to innovate, so what is left?

Patent lawsuits, of course.

The once powerful Microsoft, a company that could kill off a start-up just by announcing an intent to compete with it, is now reduced to trying to maintain its power over the industry via legal bullying.

And the fact that Microsoft had to buy some (most?) of the patents to use in its bullying merely underscores the appearance that Microsoft still does not know how to innovate.