In order to avoid that splash screen while my game loads off the hard drive, I'm going to try to run it over the magical cloud instead! This is practical, right? Because once my local copy is loaded we can resync it with all that magical stuff the cloud version was doing, assuming I managed to connect to a cloud instance and actually do anything before the local version loaded?

And that's assuming I don't mind paying extra in order to fund this magical cloud version that I'll be using for all of ten seconds.

I'd also like to know what phone he's using where apps have no load time. Here in the real world, load times exist even on phones.

This article is pretty awful. "Show me a screenshot of the UI"? Please. Splash screens are telling me something helpful - the app is loading and isn't ready yet. Showing me something that pretends it is ready when it's really not is just bad UI and will only confuse people.

We've now reached the point where even the people writing the article summary don't RTFA.

If they won't offer this for business customers actually willing to pay for it, it seems highly unlikely they'll offer it in a free service.

Just like all that Android malware is also taking over Linux desktops, right?

You have to wonder what special kind of fail Ubi management is when they've failed to notice that they're breaking their own product for their actual customers while the pirate edition continues to function perfectly well.

I mean, even your average MBA isn't this stupid. These guys must be top of their class.

It's cute that you talk as if the Republicans are any better.

The two parties are very similar on this point, since politics these days is dominated by sound bites and trying to get special interests to rally voters to specific causes rather then broad based support for anything. Oh, and campaigns where you promise people things that can't possibly be delivered, because voters are dumb enough to demand that, complain about it between elections, then demand more promises next election. Democrat/Republican? Doesn't matter on this subject. It's just business.

Honesty is pretty rare. Saw a bout of it recently in New Brunswick, Canada. The Finance Minister got up and said that dumb campaign promises were bankrupting the province, like the ones his own party made in the election. That was a rare bit of truth.

I'm not sure if I should mod this as offtopic or insightful, because it's somehow both at the same time.

At the end of the day, this is small potatoes for TPP. The real barrier to Canada being taken seriously in these talks is the outrageously protectionist supply management system in dairy, and the 300% tariff wall that goes with it. Since the supposidly "conservative" and "pro-trade" government is quite in favor of keeping that price gouging system in place to placate farmers in Ontario & Quebec, Canada's not going to be making much progress in TPP.

Yes, another device to setup to solve the problem of too many devices. That is pretty much exactly why geeks shouldn't be allowed to design this stuff.

Because non-geeks want less crap in their living room, not more. They want one device that you just plug in and have it work, not a myriad of stuff you have to figure out how to connect and get to play nice together and oh god which three remotes do I need to watch a DVD?

If a Smart TV can eliminate the set top box and the need to hook up a PC to get the Internet on your TV, it's accomplishing something useful.