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Comment Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor (Score 2, Insightful) 878

Of course he would. Their missiles and ours have self destructs that can be used mid-flight. Once russia sees the incoming mess, they know they must self-destruct theirs, and we supposedly will do the same.

Of course, if the missiles do hit us, well, then we have no way of self-destructing ours.

Comment Sort of (Score 2) 132

"Steam Play" doesn't mean that you should in theory be able to play the game on any machine you can install steam on. It means that you get a license to play the game on any OS they have a version for. Many games have a version of windows and mac, which would be available for steam play, even if there isn't a version for linux.

Also, steam runs on iOS, and can't install any games at all.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 465

Pretty much what the family has already provided.

Try walking into a car dealership, demanding the keys to the car on the showroom floor, because you have a legal document that says your grandma died, and she left you her car and see how far that gets you.

Comment Re:What a surprise. (Score 0) 248

I still think that Metro was the right choice, however, people are reluctant to change. The metro start screen isn't BAD, but using metro apps as default wasn't the right thing to do. It was too much too quickly. Metro start FIRST in Windows 8. Metro apps available in Windows 8, but don't make them the default for anything, maybe by windows 9 they could have changed the default to metro apps, after refinements.

They also need to take things further. Making it easy to design, develop, and distribute .NET applications as THE standard on windows. Port the .NET framework to Xbox One, phones, desktop, mac and linux. Have a consistent metro API for .NET, and let applications be written once, run on all versions of windows and mac/linux (perhaps with some UI tweaks). Drop the price for all but the enterprise versions of Visual Studio to $0, including MSDN/technet.

Microsoft needs to go back to their roots. Get Microsoft stuff on EVERYTHING. Integrate EVERYTHING. Make their stuff the easiest to put stuff in, and get stuff out. Stop trying to "lock in" users, and make them WANT to stay. Make the stuff so much better than the alternatives that people want it. Don't tie office to windows. Office is an office suite. Make it run on everything -- windows, mac, linux, tablets and phones regardless of OS.

Just my $0.02

Comment Re:That is why you use your own router (Score 1) 253

* I see no reason to let Comcast profit additionally unless I get something in return like extra bandwidth or a discount on my bill.

Like access to wifi when you are away from home?

* The neighbor isn't paying for any any service calls that get made should the equipment fail.

This doesn't change anything.

* The neighbor may be involved in illegal activities I want no part of given that law enforcement is going to come to me first if there is a problem.

Why would you suspect that? Perhaps you should buy the house next to you, so that the feds don't step on your lawn as they bust down his door.

* There is a non-zero probability that the neighbor's use of spectrum may interfere with my use of that spectrum and I'd rather not facilitate that.

Yes, the alternative is that comcast lease space from the electric company and set up their own wifi hotspots on every pole. That will be much better for your spectrum as it degrades your signal at all times instead. Sounds like a better plan.

* It offends me that Comcast could provide extra bandwidth to me for close to zero marginal cost but instead chooses to charge me for it.

Are you suggesting that bandwidth capacity is free? Naive.

* I don't really care to give people any reason to hang around closer to my home than necessary

Don't worry, I don't think anyone wants to be closer to you than they need to be.

* It's unclear if my bandwidth is protected and given priority access (my guess is that it is not)

You appear to guess wrong a lot.

* Comcast charges absurd rental rates for their equipment so I should get full access to the capabilities of the equipment if I'm renting

Then buy your own.

Comment Re:That is why you use your own router (Score 1) 253

I had a similar problem with comcast for about a year, and would call them on it. Eventually, one tech did something, and moved me to a different node in the neighborhood. It was awesome because he also messed up the config for it, and while people were typically getting 6 (or 10 with an upgrade) Mbps, I was getting 54Mbps... which I think was the full speed of the node at the time. They eventually caught it and fixed it about a year later when they were rolling out the newer speeds in the area though.

Comment Re:Comcast WiFi (Score 1) 253

When the problem repeats a few times, they are eventually going to figure out that the user is breaking it.

Haven't dealt much with cable tech support much, have you? They couldn't figure out what is wrong with a line if you handed them a cable cut in half. They'd first ask you to try and reboot the computer to make sure it wasn't that.

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