Yeah, they save that particular behavior for when they're actually in a sports arena and being broadcast to millions of other guys screaming at their TVs

No, you showed me some text and a graph on Neowin that asserts Microsoft lost $10 billion over 2 years without a shred of evidence to back it up. Talk is cheap; this is no evidence of anything at all.

It takes one to know one.

So how's life in that FEMA camp? I'm sorry to hear that Muslim, Communist, jackbooted thugs broke into your house and took all your guns.

Things are bad, but not nearly as bad as a segment of the population wishes it was.

Huh? EAS doesn't even have rates, its emergency broadcast. It has never had advertising, and the idea of equal time on it is not applicable.

Because that happened with EAS on TV and radio. Oh... wait... it didn't.

Kids these days... they exists mostly for nuclear war, and invasions. Something that was a background threat not that long ago. They haven't been used, thankfully, but if they ever need to be used, it would be a good thing. I really don't see having the potential to send out an emergency broadcast as a bad thing.

Imagine in the case of a truly large scale disaster (such as an asteroid) , or an actual nuclear attack, not being in range of an active TV or radio...

Ah... you're one of them. But even accepting that this is something that might happen in our lifetimes, I would think that some segment of our population (the rarely vindicated paranoids) would like to know, so they can grab their 10,000 firearms and cans of beans, and go out with their bullhorns to scream at their neighbors "I told you so!".

Or you could just install tor on your laptop? What does the added complexity of using a weak arm based linux box to proxy for you bring?

Additionally what's the use case for this? Where are you plugging in ethernet so your rapi can be your access point?

A little QI, little JO

EA probably said they didn't want the data, or didn't want to bother transferring it, so Mattel destroyed it. It could have been a requirement in the contract.

a little QI, little JO

The MSFT stock price disagrees with you.

What I wonder is why it's considered impressive that they take an off the shelf SoC, design a circuit board for it and then act like they are a two year old who just made a poo.

I admit, including cores in my silly example was a bad idea. Cores is still something that matters, somewhat. Most things are still horribly optimized for multiple cores, but in some "normal" applications, like encoding, they do matter. But, if you take a high end x-core AMD, and a high end x-core Intel, the difference will still be very subtle.

Hey, I've got a $10 Holga lens for my mirrorless setup. It was $10 (cheapest lens I own by a large margin), it takes fun pictures at parties, and it was ten dollars. I've been tempted to get a lomo or holga cheap film body for awhile now... Just because it is amusing, and exponentially cheaper than some of the other film cameras I want "for fun" (an old Leica, or Voigtlander Bessa). I say "fun", because I have a full DSLR kit, and a full mirrorless kit, both of these fulfill all my serious and professional needs. Holga and Lomos are for playing around with, and for taking photography back to its simplest principles. They fill the same roll as, and I hate to say this, Instagram.

There are still film labs floating around. Most towns with a college probably have some. Also, and I might be wrong, but I think the Lomography guys will develop film for you. You can ship it out of course, or drop it off at most Costcos or Walgreens. I'm not sure if those last two hold for 120, though.

I actually have a good deal of respect for Lomography, they've been working on keeping film stock alive, which benefits more than just them, or the mythical "hipsters".