Oh cool another post about why crypto and mining is bad. Nvidia has already stated they are ramping up production for this year, as is AMD.

While there are idiots in every establishment you work for, Geek Squad is not inundated with them. I worked for them while in school and some of the guys took a lot of pride in their work. They have some good tools and training at their disposal. The front Geek Squad guys are the "customer techs" which focus more on selling and checking machines in and out. The smarter guys linger in the back and are known as advanced repair agents. Those are the ones manually removing malware when scans don't get it all, fixing boot issues, upgrading hardware, etc. Sure, requiring A+ would help immensely with getting rid of all the idiots, but some stores run a great crew.

I wonder if this will help them better compete with Nvidia when it comes to making cars smarter. We could certainly use more competition, but I hope Qualcomm can get over their internal staff issues before they get themselves more involved in another industry.

Considering some cable companies offer bundles of TV, Internet, and Phone for ~$60 a month, I see $25-40 as a tough sell. For $60 and having the web plus close to 100 channels, I don't see the benefit of having to buy a box and rely on streaming for only specific channels. Plus, I love using my TiVo commercial skip feature. No ads on most major shows. I do like more competition though. Hopefully Google offers something good for the masses.

If only we could physically hack in a damn Micro SD slot.

Even by knowing the stock was super inflated, you could have still made money and pulled out once it starts to drop off. Some people just rode the wave to make money and waited for something like this to happen. They're still coming out with a good ROI either way.

The largest issue here is creating the advertising ID and sending it over seas without user consent. This is pretty easy to comply with though, given it can all be done with a patch/UI modification.

But if I did, I would have bought some damn stock.

Edge saves power on a few benchmarks but not across the board. Throwing out an arbitrary number of "x" percent could be saved by switching will confuse all the family members that call, asking if they should switch. On the other end, Windows 10 is their own product. They can kind of do whatever they want, and we can decide if we use them or not.

Posts like this are constantly make me question if I should keep returning to this site. Seriously? What parent wouldn't want their kids to be able to hear things if they have the financial means to do so? Who cares if a culture is killed off because we are enabling people to hear/hear again. Should we complain about eliminating wheel-chair marathons because we helped people walk again? Let's just boast about how technology is improving the quality of life instead of focusing on small and insignificant rubbish.

Agreed. Curious on this as well!

I'm glad they're supporting them. I just hope this phone doesn't come with a barrage of preinstalled apps that I don't need or want. If the phone is clean and basically a Nexus-like device with some cool Cyanogen mods, I'm all for it. I want better hardware at lower prices (who doesn't), but I also want a good experience on the phone. We'll see what this does to the future phone market.

Let's add to the fact that the 9/11 terrorists did sound an alarm and multiple investigates we poorly underway. Stupid bureaucratic BS stalled the investigation by the FBI when the NSA passed info on to them. They knew they were suspicious but we were way too slow to respond.