Most football games on Sunday I can watch on regular channels like CBS, NBC and FOX. But for Monday Night football I need ESPN, which means getting a package of channels that include ESPN through a cable provider (subscribing to ESPN+ does not fix this). Many of the other channels I do not and will not watch. Thursday night football normally comes on NFL Network. If I wanted that, I would need another large package of channels on top of the one that includes ESPN.

Now I need to subscribe to Amazon Prime for 3 hours a week for 17 weeks out of the year. I would watch nothing else on Amazon. This is all too much. I don't think I'm willing to pay for, subscribe to, and keep track of all of this. Not to mention the football games that are also broadcast on Nickelodeon (that is not a joke--I thought it was when I first saw it).

I had the money. I was willing to pay. I STILL have the money. And I would still be willing to pay. But it's too late.

The MS store is broken, but it's even more broken (seemingly) if you are living outside of the US (as a U.S. citizen). I can log in to my MS account on both my computer(s) and my XBox(s). Cool. I want to simply buy a game. The wife won't let me buy an XBoxOne because we have every other system plus a gaming computer. Awesome. Fine. I'll just get the game on the computer, but the only way to get it is through the MS Store and they won't let me have it because of where I happen to be right now.

So what was I supposed to do? This was a few months ago, but still, what other alternative did I have?

Wake up! Most honest people don't "pirate" for the fuck of it. People, WILLING people that are willing to pay money will pay money. But companies like MS and Google and ..... blah blah blah create too many extenuating circumstances for the willing.

Then, the Willing become Pirates....

That works, and so do text-only browsers. But, throughout all of my time of using (mainstream) browsers, I have not had one come to such an irreparable state that I could not download either a different browser or a different version of the same browser.

Sure, it seems (I guess) like generosity on the part of MS to provide a fallback means to getting Chrome or Opera back if one of them completely fails, but how often does that actually happen? How often are users left with no browser at all because it has become crippled in such a way that makes it impossible to get another browser/copy of browser?

Duly noted. But do you believe that big business has nothing to do with those organizations? No influence on those organizations?

I'm not trying to flame or start a big argument, but I'm just curious.

Universities, in general, do not fund themselves. I'm sure that "big business" has some influence on where research funds are allocated.

Yep. $50 is too much to pay to watch a movie even before it hits the theatres. I say that mostly because the movie might not even be enjoyable. I have yet to watch a movie that was so good that I would have been willing to pay $50 to watch it. That's in the video game price range. At the very least, it takes over two hours to decide that game totally sucks and I wasted $50. With a movie, you watch it and two hours later, you decide it sucks and that's it. You probably won't watch it again in case it turns out to be not all that bad. With a game, you can play it for a few more hours and then re-evaluate the initial suckage that you experienced. With a movie, all you can do is re-experience the same suckage.

Sure, you might like the movie. But honestly, how many movies have you walked away from thinking, "Wow, I would have paid FIFTY dollars to see that!"?

"Delusion" isn't the right word for people suffering from PTSD. I haven't experienced it myself, but as a former member of the US military, I have seen what the effects are; they vary widely from what people can mistake for delusions, to what people can mistake for "ordinary" depression/withdrawal.

I don't do drugs quite as often as I used to, but if I had to pick one to do right now, it would be mushrooms. The effects of that drug, I think, can be fairly referred to as delusions. The symptoms of PTSD vary much more widely than simply imagining and/or seeing and hearing shit that isn't really there.

I would argue that this isn't about purely mathematical entities. They are talking about photons (a thing in physics; strictly speaking, "photon" has no mathematical meaning). These photons are traveling at a certain speed (m/s, km/h, cm/day....), which is also a physical quantity. I think it's safe to say that they are talking physics, not pure mathematics.

>>"Hoover had initially experimenting with sharing apps..." >>"Product Hunt also said it will continue to operate idependently." .... just pointing those out.

I'm no physics professional, but I read up on it here and there. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that arriving at infinities in physics meant that something was wrong. I definitely recall that being said in my college-level physics courses. There's also the Ultraviolet Catastrophe that immediately comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Right now, the "two" are Android and Apple. Blackberry has fallen off, and Microsoft never really had a serious chance at the mobile market share. I really can't imagine what Tizen would have to offer. Apps? That's what they're going for here? Are there not already enough on the other chosen platforms? Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think it's just far too late for a company to expect to be a major player in mobile device operating systems.

At the risk of being relegated to the realm of the uninitiated, I have to ask: For what practical reason does a browser need to have information about battery life?

I know that no longer selling to OEMs is not the same thing as EOL, but I still feel like Windows 8.1 is "too new" to already having it phased out. I'm not saying that 8.1 was great or anything, but it at least had the potential to be a longer lasting offering of OEMs. Sure, MS is trying to push everyone to Win10, but as a user of Win10 since it was in beta, I think that it still feels just as beta as it was when I first used it. For that reason, when I build a desktop for someone or install a newer version of Windows for people that still have a computer running Vista (for whatever reason, but it happens), I default to installing Windows 8.1.

Not really, but there are some names that you just know for certain is more than likely to be an African-American person. From what I can tell, they don't make up the majority of all names for black people, but they tend to be obvious. *Jamell (male or female) *Shakena (female) *Nyeemah (female) *Shakeema (female) *Daquan (male) *Quantray (male) *Quantrell (male) ... and those are just a few people I've known over the course of my life. Shakena, once we graduated college, worried about being judged by her name when submitting her resume for jobs. She ended up just going to grad school, because you can't go wrong as a professor, I guess. My name is Karl, which is considered a pretty generic name as far as race goes.