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Comment footshot (Score 1) 78

I still run one windows machine in my house. That is my main gaming machine. I run 10 LTSB because the store and UWP never really interested me, and I have an MSDN subscription. When Microsoft released Forza Horizon 4, I really wanted to play it. Hey good thing I kept my windows gaming machine around. But, no. You need to run the store to play Forza. You can't install the store on LTSB. (why would you want to install the store on LTSB, that's the whole point?) (Just to play Forza) So anyhow, it turns out my Windows gaming machine can play any game not made by Microsoft. Solid work MS. I saved $65. -T

Comment Wouldn't it be the people doing the discriminating (Score 4, Interesting) 82

I'm the last guy to defend facebork, but... If someone misuses the advertising tools on a platform to break the law, wouldn't that person/company be responsible for breaking the law? Why would facebook be liable for having a wide range of advertising options available to people selling an enormous range of things, in which housing is a tiny percentage. This is akin to going after google because someone sent a hate email from gmail. -T

Comment EA is just a bad game company (Score 2) 715

I haven't bought an EA game since 2013 and it has nothing do with politics. I have three main issues with EA, not in any order. The first is reskins. Every AAA title they release for AAA prices is just a re-skin of a game they already made years ago. The second is the Origin Storefront. They force you to use the Origin store for their games, when they don't have anywhere near a big enough game catalog to force another store on me. The thrid is the complete wasting of prime IP. They have some of my favorite IP tied up in licenses and refuse to make decent games.

NFL keep cranking out those crappy madden titles
PGA tour golf they haven't made a decent game since 08
Harry Potter - how you waste this with a single crappy quidditch game i don't know
Star Wars - Only made battlefield reskins, never even made a real game for it
SimCity - acquired, made one crappy attempt at some online BS and killed it
I'm ready to see this company go away, and stop wasting prime IP.

Comment Harder to find out of state opportunities (Score 1) 346

In cities with housing shortages like Boston, LA, NY, etc, companies are less likely to consider people from out of state. It's too expensive to move them. Even if they are willing to move themselves, many give up in tight housing markets once they realize a shack is a half million dollars.

Comment Goodbye Google (Score 3, Interesting) 72

In the past I have thought, I will use google because they are a huge company. They aren't going to get bought or dismantled anytime soon. I won't have to deal with finding all new products.

Death of Google reader: OK, it's a big internet I can find another way to aggregate RSS feeds. And google says that's a dying technology anyhow.

Death of Google homepage: This one hurt a bit more. It was nice having a configurable homepage that I could point to the most personally relevant info on the web. I guess I can just make bookmarks and hit 5 different sites when I sit down.

Destruction of Google finance: So it's been a little less useful since google homepage died, but it's still nice to have my portfolio organized the way I want. All I have to do now is click on the shortcut. But wait, they just destroyed google finance. I can no longer even decide the top three stocks I want to show up on that page.

Death of Google hangouts: Great I finally got my entire group of family and friends to all use the same chat client. Now google says they are killing this by the end of next year. Hangouts, by the way, is the one reason chrome gets installed as soon as I build any PC.

So you are telling me that google has yet another project that they have released and are putting no love into. Go ahead, sign up, spend three years cultivating an app to play the music you want to listen too. Don't worry it will be fine. Google is a huge company. I'm sure you won't waste all of your effort getting this configured and trained, only to be abandoned on the growing list of google services that just cease to exist.

I have a pixel 3. I have youtubeTV for $35 a month. I use google search and chrome (huge advertising target). So, please don't tell me they don't make money from me using their products.

I think I'm done with Google. I really tried to be part of their ecosystem. They don't seem to care. So, I can't see myself caring to delve further into this bottomless pit of abandoned services.

Comment I miss Winamp (Score 3) 175

I loved winamp, and would love to get it back. I don't really have faith that this won't be a terrible cloud heavy version with the old Winamp name. But, here's hoping it's a lightweight music player that doesn't connect to the internet unless I direct it to.

Comment Tweets? (Score 1) 513

So, we should consider changing the course of public education because a 15 year old's tweet got a lot of likes? It's social media. You can find something to support any crackpot argument you want. It doesn't make it right, or scientific in any way. Teachers, just because the new digital whining gets more attention, it doesn't mean you need to suddenly kowtow to it.

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