Roku needs to add Keyboard support before they try adding Ads.

There is no reason to not support a keyboard for entering search

Enterprise IT changes every few years as they lifecycle things. In reality I'm not all that surprised, especially if upper management changed over and the new regime had different perspectives.

I got a pair of real eclipse glasses with my copy of Sky & Telescope's eclipse guide. They don't work very well with my glasses so I'll do the pinhole camera thing for the partial phases.

Loved Dr. Becky's collander.

...laura

VLANS also work. All we need are layer 3 switches in the neighborhoods.

I have a 100% fix for the last mile problem.

Local Utility Company, that owns and maintains fiber.

All fiber brought back to a COLO facility where Vendors offer their services to the local utility customers, directly AT the COLO facility. Choice to the Consumer. The COLO and Fiber are maintained with fees extracted as part of the rental agreement between the vendors and the local Utility CO.

A consumer purchases service from the vendor(s) of their choice directly, based on their desires and needs. No Government needs to be involved. Increase Options creates competition.

Its a wonder smart people haven't figured out that Government Franchise Agreements has stagnated the status quo into doing nothing.

ROFL

Exactly

Prequel!!!!

The most correct date function is yyyymmdd:hh:mm:ss

Anything else is stupid, just like DST.

We are sitting in this weird spot that business-class desktop machines that are a decade old can still perform adequately to meet the needs of the user short of things like gaming.

I suspect that the biggest issues are in enterprise computing on virtual machine platforms where both CPU density (and associated heat) and GPU density have become core elements.

Industry leaders that are conducting basic research should be developing their own manufacturing equipment to produce chips using those revolutionary processes/scales that are supposed to be a major component of being industry leaders.

That they're buying machines for their flagship products indicates that they're no longer the leaders they used to be. It would be one thing if they ended up buying machines for expanding their legacy products offerings simply because their own in-house machines are worn out or otherwise require lifecycle, or because they've upgraded the oldest products to a new process to make them more cost effective while still producing something that on-paper meets the legacy product specifications, but this doesn't sound like doing that.

And I hate to see this/say this; Intel is a major employer in the metro area that I live in and I've been personally acquainted with people that worked as manufacturing technicians on the factory line, but it sounds like Intel continues to make compounding mistakes in their business. I don't know how a company that has managed to lose nine billion dollars over two years can continue to operate.

Probably because while Verizon owns Yahoo, it's not been wholly integrated into Verizon as simply another unit?

Yahoo News was a halfway decent competitor to Google News as far as aggregators go, but I now expect it to take a sharp quality turn down into wharrgarbl.

Many of us on this website dream of a day when humans no longer have to perform backbreaking or mind-numbing labor. Our spirits are assaulted whenever we hear politicians hatefully brag about how they will create more jobs instead of leading us toward the Star Trekkian paradise of less soul-crushing or injurious toil.

I thought Amazon was one of the few good guys, working to help create a world of 100% unemployment. I know it's only an ideal to strive for (we'll likely never free everyone from having to work) but they seemed to be trying.

How many times have we been promised "I'll replace you with a script" or "AI is coming for your job?" Empty words. Lies. To find out they were secretly saddling innocent humans with computers' jobs, is an insult to both of our races.

Carlos Slim. Mexican Telco Tycoon.

Until we get to the point that we no longer need a pound and a half of extra plastic strapped to our faces to see the matrix, I'm fairly certain we aren't living in it- yet.

It's absolutely ridiculous to claim these anecdotes mean computers suck.

These computers which initially worked and then turned against their owners all had one thing in common: they run proprietary software, made to serve the manufacturer's interests at the expense of the owners' interests.

So stop saying "smart devices are bad." The obvious conclusion is that "proprietary smart devices are bad."