But I just set up my family with Ubuntu, installed their favorite apps, and now the only thing I have to do is remote in for updates after I've verified nothing's broken. It's been about 8 years since switching them over. I haven't had to update their hardware either. I'm thinking about putting a solid state drive in one of the older machines but that's about it. The only weird thing that happened is I had to re-seat some RAM because a machine wouldn't turn on but that's it.

Now the only questions I get are about when web sites are updated and there's a layout change, or when Google updated gmail and it warned you that it was going to switch you to a new interface, and they want me to click OK because they're not sure if it'll break something :P

Started in DOS, went to Windows (futzed with OS/2), and I loved Windows 2000. Around that time, spyware/malware was a big deal, and commercial apps began shipping with such apps bundled in. As much as I tried maintaining my Windows install, I would eventually have to reinstall, hunt for drivers (big pain getting SBLive! and ATI TV Tuner @ 640x480 to work properly, had to patch registers to stop audio popping), dig out serial numbers, dig out old setup.exe of the software versions I liked before they changed something I didn't like, it was a pain in the ass.

I didn't want to move to XP and get more of this. I stayed on 2000 as long as possible. Most apps I was using were open source, because I started moving away from commercial apps which were becoming increasingly annoying to deal with because of serial numbers, updates, adware, and around that time it was a fad to create Windows software that didn't use standard GUI elements, and I like using the keyboard to navigate.

Eventually the only thing I was using commercial software for was just the OS, so I moved to Linux. I wasn't too worried about games because I found those annoying even in Windows, having to download updates and patches just to get games to work properly, having to have specific driver versions and setting up my gamepad and using joy2key etc was annoying to me. Having to hunt down my save files when I reinstalled was a pain too, this was before they decided to put them in My Documents. I prefer consoles for gaming and I'm happy to have them just work when I pop in a disc.

Eventually I was in the market for a laptop so I bought Apple for the battery life, features, and durability. I liked OS X and used it for a while, but as OS updates would change the behavior of Finder or other things like that, it would annoy me. I also don't like the way certain apps need to launch X11 and can't use OS X's native GUI as well, and I was already happy with Linux so I just put that on.

Is a smartphone with GPS not able to do any of this? How would Google Glass be anymore accurate than a GPS to be able to overlay the information properly as opposed to an "AR" app on a phone?

Maybe it could be useful for some things, especially games, but even in that situation, not having a HUD or anything distracting on the screen is seen as a benefit, so why would you want it IRL? Maybe it could be arranged into something more useful to you personally such as widgets on a desktop, but I can whip out my phone and check a few quick things already.

I just don't know if I want to always be seeing data. So it'd be easier and cheaper to whip out a smartphone instead of taking out my smartglasses and putting them on.

My lunch/breaks are unpaid anyway... so what are they stripping away here? But yeah, this amount of micro-managing and bean counting is counterproductive, and just adds a lot of stress and pressure. When they're able to detect it, maybe they'll streamline it further and pay you only for the time that your brain is focused on your work, and pay you based on the percentage of the focus as well.

By releasing polished products that work well. Then the consumer incidentally finds out it runs on Linux and their opinion of it builds from there.

Now identity theft will become so much easier, trojans will be able to steal all that information too and spoofing access will be that much simpler.

So how will PS2 games like Metal Gear Solid 2 be playable? Canceling a shot by easing off the fire button is crucial.

Exactly, look how many companies still run some DOS program in a CMD box on Windows. They're doing so because it's more worth it to them than to develop some new solution. The solution they already had still works. If it were cloud-based then they'd be stuck paying bills that they really don't need to. The cloud is always going to fuck over the people who depend on it.

Then France can filter their internet. Why does Twitter have to do anything? If France wants censorship, they should implement it.

I always had those ASUS nVidia video cards that would come with those 3D LCD glasses, and enjoyed playing games in 3D since the original Unreal. It was extremely cool and kept wishing this was available on a bigger screen. Now it's trivial to set up a PC with a 3D TV, and also the PlayStation 3 has many full 3D games, and there's the 3DS. I always liked the experience and I'm really happy that it's widely available. Movies look great in 3D as well, and some fun can be had with the 2D > 3D software conversion that most TVs have now.

So yeah, I care about 3D. Looking forward to the Oculus Rift as well.

Place only unobtrusive ads, and offer SD videos and podcasts free to all, while keeping HD videos and extra content behind a paywall (mostly non-gaming behind the scenes just-for-fun fanservice). Or do like IGN and theme your site with a developer's game around the launch period and cater to almost every gamer niche with podcasts/videocasts. GameFaqs offers a survey every day and sells consumer metrics (but they have a lot of good will and most people don't lie on the surveys).

And maybe pick better ad partners? If your fans are blocking you then you must be doing something annoying.

What sense does it make to give SimCity players another game from EA that they probably don't want? My dad got this game and he's not interested in playing Dead Space or whatever else, he only wants to play SimCity. They should just fix the problems the game has in the first place and allow "offline single player mode" a.k.a. normal fucking single player mode like any other game has.

Mongo not just pawn in game of DB

I don't drink anything that smells like lysol toilet bowl cleaner and tastes like toothpaste