BeOS was good and all but the only UNIX it had was Bash and partial POSIX support. A big missing piece was pthreads, though it was addressed in Haiku. I would say BeOS was its own OS with a dash of UNIX compatibility thrown in. There was also no security and the OS was single user only which meant anything goes.

But recognize your whine is really short-sighted when looking at the whole media ecosystem at large.

Still sticking those little insulting jabs in there.

I still stand by my argument and say the studios should adapt to newer methods of content delivery. They can reach their audience directly and let them choose how to view all while still lining their pockets with millions in profit. Its win-win and everyone is happy. If HBO was on Netflix they could have prevented most of the piracy. And they should also realize people in other countries also want to take part in the hype a show has generated. Making them wait months or a year or more for new episodes after they have aired in the US also fosters piracy.

I too grew up going to the video store. In fact the parents of a close friend of mine used to own one down the block. FREE RENTALS! Those were the days.

But getting back to the $2.99 price, I look at it from the point of viewing time. Its 2014 and we are still stuck with an artificial, video store time limit. There is no physical tape or disc to return which makes sense for a video store who want to give other customers a fair chance to rent the video. The video store has a limited number of copies for rent. Remember when it was only 1 copy for most movies, before blockbuster? The internet can in theory stream a video to an unlimited number of viewers (assuming no bandwidth limits). So the video store model is just idiotic to impose on an internet delivery system. 15-20 bucks gets me a physical copy I can watch unlimited times but 3 bucks gets me only 3 days online? A dollar a day? This is why I say three days is insane. Give me a month or two. Maybe one weekend I want to watch with a friend and the next week or so with girlfriend.

The point is this:
The internet has changed the world. No longer is information scarce. You used to have to go to the library to find informations and books. Now its at your fingertips in the comfort of your own home. Maybe the kids going online to do research for their report are spoiled too? The Movie studios could benefit from instant on-demand delivery by offering a wider selection to a wider audience. But they have so far refused to make any major effort. They make far too much money by making their content scarce which to me makes no sense in this modern internet connected world.

Apparently you became grossly self-entitled and "spoiled" through no fault of your own, eh?

Please, tell me how I am spoiled when the Studios are ignoring the Internet which can open the floodgates to their content and allow people to view programs and movies as they see fit? Why should I be forced to pay insane amounts of money for a premium TV service that I don't really care about. I had HBO and let me tell you this: its worthless. The movie selection was terrible at any given time and its on demand barely offered anything I was interested in. Its 2014 and I still have to buy a plastic disc to watch a movie or pay $15 a month to watch game of thrones and a bunch of crappy movies? I realize Netflix and others are getting better but their content masters are still holding onto an ancient business model that is causing people to flock to alternative methods to find what they want. Yea some people just don't want to pay but I WOULD HAPPILY PAY if I could watch it on a device of my choosing whenever and wherever I want.

Okay, hold on here. Where did I say free? Honestly if you are going to write a rebuttal please actually read the comment you are responding to and not just the first sentence. I said either fund it with commercials like South Park or offer a one time fee for a more reasonable limited viewing period.

Simple solution: Stop hiding your TV shows and films behind a wall of artificial scarcity. We have the internet which gives us instant access to whatever we want whenever we want. That has spoiled us and you (studios) haven't capitalized on this yet or are too damn slow.

Put your film in theaters. Once it is no longer profitable at the box office then put it on youtube (not some proprietary bullshit site that only runs in IE or some other nonsense) for a discounted rate and allow multiple viewings. Don't rent me a fucking film for $2.99 and then only give me access for a few days at most. That is a rip off. Let me pay a few bucks for a month or two or three. Honestly how much money will you lose if you let people have the movie for three months? How many times in one month is someone going to watch a movie? This is especially important for childrens shows/movies where they might want to watch it a hundred times.

TV shows, do what South Park does: Release the episode on both TV and the internet AT THE SAME TIME! Put a few commercials in there just like a regular TV episode and people will watch it. Or give them the option to pay a cheap monthly or yearly fee to watch commercial free. Id pay southpark studios a few bucks a month to watch their shows if I could see them all commercial free. If you are a premium show like Game of Thrones then do the same damn thing but for a fee. Let me watch an episode for a dollar and let me have access for a month or more. Or let me pay a few dollars to watch as many episodes as I would like for a month or so.

People have enough of a burden trying to pay bills/make a living and you expect us to spend hundreds on cable TV, tickets and DVD/BR *every month*. No thanks, we have better things to spend our money on. Your content is simply a time waster when we want to relax for a bit or go out every now and then. We dont need it and I am not willing to pay the exorbitant amount demanded. Adapt or die.

One word: Bluestacks. Not open source but is freely available and already does what TFA is claiming major manufactures are going to do. I have owned my PCplus for about a year already. No touch screen though but the mouse works pretty good. If you have a touch screen laptop then you already own a PCplus.

I am very surprised they didn't come to the obvious conclusion. Copper thieves enter manhole and cut fiber cables realizing they aren't copper. They then get frustrated and then shoot at the transformers.

TFA then throws this asinine phrase into the mix: "military-style weapons". WTF? This country is filled with "military-style weapons". Every gun toting red blooded god-fearing republican owns some type of "military-style weapon" such as an AR-15 or AK-47. Its fear mongering plain and simple. I have very religious, right standing cousins, a few of them former military. They own various semi automatic magazine fed rifles or as the article says "military-style weapons". My friend has an AK47 with a loaded 30 round magazine in his closet. Maybe they are terrorists too?

My money is on meth heads or some other form of junkie. They didn't get what they wanted and were jonesing so they went bezerk and shot up the substation. Case closed.

Another fear mongering gem:

Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said last month that an attack by intruders with guns and rifles could be just as devastating as a cyber attack.
A shooter "could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle and take the whole thing out," Wellinghoff said last month at a conference sponsored by Bloomberg.

200 yards with a .22? What kind of 22? A rimfire 22 or something like a 5.56x51mm NATO or .223 Remington? A 22 refers to a .22 rimfire cartridge, AKA 22 LR or .22 Long Rifle, which is commonly used for target and small varmint shooting (Eg squirrels, gophers, rats etc.). It will bounce off a transformers steel skin like a BB at 200 yards. A 5.56 or .223 is a rifle cartridge with quite a bit more power and is used in the AR-15 and many other semi auto rifles (the 5.56 is the standard NATO round used in the M4, FAMAS, G34 etc.). That could penetrate at 200 yards using the right ammo but seriously it would mostly be an inconvenience unless it damages the windings. You only need to worry about oil loss from holes in the skin which leads to overheating or loss of electrical insulation allowing devastating arcing.

"In ruling, the judge noted the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and how the phone data-collection system could have helped investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred."

Oh please. It has been said time and time again that the dots were in front of their faces but they didn't take notice. Same with the Boston marathon bombings. More tugging at the heart strings of America.

" 'represents the government's counter-punch' to eliminate al-Qaeda's terror network by connecting fragmented and fleeting communications." ....Said the CIA man in the judges chamber during judge Pauley's coaching before returning to the bench to read his ruling. It couldn't sound any more insincere and staged. Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Seriously. After all of these shenanigans have been exposed, who can trust anything the government says? They will keep on happily pissing on our rights while the courts fall in line with them telling the people "look how good this is for you! You should be happy and embrace it!" Fuck you William Pauley for selling us up the river you sackless pussy. (had to rant for a sec.)

11.811023622 pixels per mm. There you happy now?

"and poor children (which includes many racial minorities, although not because they're racial minorities) going to shitty schools where they're lucky if their education is only twenty years out of date."

tl/dr: Without a stable household with at least one educated or mature parent, poor children will fail regardless of their schools environment.

I would say many poor children do not have parents who actually give a damn if their child is educated or not. More often than not, public schools are used as baby sitting services. That is why public schools in bad neighborhoods look like they are war zones, no one cares, not even the faculty as they are powerless. After the kids get home its time to let them run wild in the streets so as not to bother mom, who is single any might have two or more kids from multiple men. There is also no male figure in the house nor someone who can provide a steady income.

So most poor kids don't care about school let alone a career path or genuinely becoming interested in something. If the poor minorities want education it must start at home with at least one parent who gives a damn and tries as hard as they can to ensure their child rises up above the ignorance and poverty to make a successful life. But having known many poor and ignorant "minorities"(mainly Hispanics), I see a huge a problem because the parents are often so ignorant its hard to distinguish their behavior from their own children. So without a parent who is educated or even mature, how can they possibly inspire their children?

This isn't true for everyone but for a majority, yes it is the truth. Even a 20 year outdated education would benefit them. They need English, writing, reading and basic math skills first. Then worry whether they will be the next John Carmack, Dennis Ritchie or Linux Torvalds.

As another poster pointed out, buyers of this TV are also selling themselves into sexual slavery in order to afford it:
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Enjoy big buck bunny, no not the film but the big, hairy, sweaty guy in the fursuit who is going to pay you $500 a night to "play" with you. Should only take a few months of sessions with mr bunny and several years of medication and therapy to enjoy your new 4k TV.

USA! USA! USA!

The gun is there to threaten the victim with death if they do not comply. Sometimes the crook happens to be carrying a gun.

Many times criminals who shoot someone during a robbery shoot because they are scared. The victim makes a quick unexpected move and the criminal panics and fires. That or the criminal did not expect someone to be at the place of robbery such as a home break-in where they thought the house was empty.

I was watching that show, First 48. They had an episode where a guy broke into the cab of a semi truck not expecting someone to be in there sleeping. They caught the suspect and he confessed. The truck driver woke up, yelled and the crook was startled and fired killing the driver. Another episode had a guy who was arguing with his friend in a car when he thought his friend was going to pull a gun on him and he preemptively shot him in defence. Turns out there was no gun, he was just paranoid (shoot first, a symptom of ghetto life where everyone might have a gun and will use it for little to no reason).

May I ask what was the cause of your stroke and what age were you? Strokes run in my family and my father suffered a severe one at age 46 which basically rendered him brain dead. He died in a nursing home 9 years later. His father suffered one around age 65 in the late 80's but like you regained most of his motor skill after a few years. So I am paranoid about strokes.