I like the idea. But you know how many people would just not pay the $10/yr fee and take their chances with getting infected...hurting the MSFT brand in the long run?

someone...or perhaps a string of people...got hired to redesign this site...and god damn it they're going to redesign it! Never mind if it's needed or not.

Site goes down and it comes back up all fucked up. Slow. Buggy. Poor UI. Errrrrrrrrr

I feel the same way as you,. Interestingly, NES games were $40 back in the mid 80's which is $86 in 2015 dollars....so games have gotten cheaper...but so has everything else electronic.

Why do you say it's dumb?

I paid $10/month for Spotify and remain amazed at how cheap it is for what I get.

I'll give Apple Music a shot.

There are already tens of millions of people paying this amount. So people will certainly pay. The question is how many will pay this amount? I think the business model for streaming music is still in flux.

I personally think $120/yr for access to all music in the world at all times is absurdly good value...but it is a luxury that not everyone wants to afford.

Because they were offered it in exchange for paying tens of billions of dollars in the future.

Linking this to people who pirate/steal is just trolling.

the benefit of driving to work is pretty clear for most, as opposed to the benefit of putting a probe on an asteroid...

5 days a week? ugh, that's too often.

I read a NASA report awhile back that claimed the changes of a nuclear powered probe/ship causing serious damage/death on earth was one in a million.

I'd say that's a decent size risk for a mission like this. Perhaps less so for a Voyager mission.

Of course. You sound reasonable. I'm not referring to people who attack government policies. Many Israeli's themselves do that. However, many of the protestors/activists I've observed are calling for the destruction of the state and the killing of it's Jewish/Christian/Muslim/Druze/Bahi citizens.

A recent example was when the Israeli Judo team when to Morocco a couple weeks back, the people in the stands at the event screamed "we're going to murder you. you'll never get out of this country alive" and the event organizers needed to organize a military escort for the team just to get them out of the country. Sounds extreme, but shit like this happens every other day.

I've seen interviews from the ME where many people claim that ISIS was created by Israel and is being commanded by Israel to take over the ME. Yup. That's just what Israel wants...an Islamic Caliphate surrounding/invading their country.

Anti-Israel is the new anti-Jew. If only the Jews would all die, the world would go back to being the happy loving peaceful place it was prior to 3,000 years ago when the Jews established the state of Israel....so goes the core meme...of deranged, deluded, and evil people the world over.

My work machine is a 2012 MBP 15" with Quad i7 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD. It was $3,000 new.

I've never had a work machine more than 3 years old, so it feels like I should upgrade.

But when I look at the newest machines, I realize they're pretty much exactly the same as my 3 yr old machine, except that they now cost $2,000 and are very slightly faster.

Oh, that sounds great. Pointers please. I've bluffed my way in, but have yet to achieve the god-like position and huge sums of money.

because they had the wrong attitude....

Yeah, I hate it when jobs advertise for X experience in Y language, rather than just asking for a creative, analytical thinker with development experience.

Ok, I'm being partly sarcastic, but in an ideal world, I'd be serious.