So Intel, who has focused on the performance enthusiast crowd, now sees dollar signs by trying to put their chips on all your home devices. They're sticking with the one existing market they have a chance at making money from. What a shock.

Seems strange to go from having one main competitor to having many in the embedded world.

I would mod you up for that, but I already posted.

Since using their app which you then have to install on your hardware, instead of theirs, will probably do something to make you hate them. If you don't understand that statement, you've never been a Comcast customer.

With the potential speedup. I intentionally avoid/bring cash to places that have the chip slot enabled because it typically takes 5 times as long to process the transaction.

I can only imagine...

A bill featuring a President who made it his mission to destroy central banking?

It wouldn't matter, Tubman has enough super delegates that she was already a lock for the spot.

That's because the MBA's are in control of the media is well. It's all about maximizing profits for those at the top, and for the media that's advertising dollars, advertising dollars come from eyeballs. It's why every single linkbait these days is either "one incredible trick" or "blah blah blah until he/she/it did this", always some gimmick to try and make you curious enough to click even if you don't do jack on the page.

The quality doesn't matter, just the selling.

The Mythbusters already confirmed that air powered had drying spread germs more than paper.

How is Zuck going to monetize this?

Burner CB Radio sets. Easy enough to get a hold of, cost parity with cell phones. Available at every store that carries toys.

Once those get tracked they'll move on to HAM radio.

You're assuming the users are not going to be in India. Customers, maybe, but employees will all become off shore.

If end users remain in the US, it's very cheap to have a single facility on-shore which functions as a drop ship/reimage station. You could easily have one single tech (paid bottom dollar since their job is mostly inventory control) armed with 20+ network ports and 5 USB sticks reimaging hundreds of machines a day. My employer has already set up these mass imaging and deployment centers.

One salary to pay to serve hundreds of employees. Everything else runs through India or the Philippines.

My personal desktop computer is a decade old. I bought it within months of the Core 2 Duo 6300 coming out as it was the best price to performance CPU out at the time from Intel. I've had HD failures, Video Card failures, but the core of my system is still humming along fine a decade after I first assembled it. I've also ran it pretty much 24/7 for the majority of that decade. I've gone from hardcore gaming and music production to spur of the moment gaming (think flash) and toying around with development. I still prefer web browsing on my desktop since I can effortlessly run multiple tabs across multiple monitors. No single screen tablet comes close to being that productive.

To think that I would replace this trusty steed with something as useless as an iPad with designed obsolescence is preposterous. Sorry, I don't need to pay Apple $300 per year to feel like I'm cool. I'm way cooler for having a rock solid reliable desktop PC.

Full Disclosure, I've been shopping Newegg to replace my desktop, but only because I am once again thinking about music production and No Mans Sky is coming out. I'll take a $1000 gaming PC once per decade over a $300 tablet every year.

This really only affects those who care enough to pay attention. 99% of the users on FB will install the app and be happy as can be since they're getting a "better" experience. If they don't mind, who really cares? Sure FB can control what they see, but their friends already do that, just as they do in real life. It's the whole discussion about how fake FB life is again, just a different context.

It's not as if it's hard to avoid the walled garden, use the mobile site via a browser with protections built in. Done deal. If people don't want to pay attention or help themselves, why waste your energy caring about it? Yes FB is shaping up to be the perfect way to condition a huge group of the world population. I don't think there' much we can do about it.

That's the rub though, you have to go multiple days to bring in affordability. I've been to Dland enough times to know it's not worth multiple days to me. That's from when I was single. As I am now married with three kids a bare minimum $500 to get in the door? No thanks. My money goes father with better entertainment value at almost any other theme park. The Disney price premium is just to high.