Very cool, thanks!

@Dashrender said:

LOL did you miss the first five words?
"It's definitely a good start"

You're right, It's definitely a good start and awesome to see it OFF the drawing board and into real life.

Yeah, probably. I blame the lack of coffee. Of course I don't drink coffee, but then I can always blame things on it then 🙂

One of the podcasts I listen to was talking about exactly this problem and other problems related to ads, etc.

Some study found that many of the most popular websites now have a user downloading more junk related to analytics and ads than it does the content of the website.

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

@IRJ said:

Good thing the NSA has stopped dozens of terrorist attacks...oh wait they haven't stopped a single one.

Can you prove that they have not? 🙂

If the NSA ever stopped anything they would be gloating about it to justify their exsistence. As discussed before, even if they saved 50 lives a year it still isn't worth the invasion of privacy. More people die from hornets and wasps every year.

I wonder how many people die every year commuting to work at the NSA, of stress caused by the NSA, actually killed by the NSA, due to trying to hide from the NSA, etc.

More than the NSA has saved, that's for sure.

@IRJ said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@IRJ said:

I am surprised they are still online at all.

Why? I mean they are redundant after all lol...

The only thing that is redundant is their outages

And their excuses. And their talk... their.... double talk? Tee hee.

@scottalanmiller said:

That the same company that had Steve is the company that is Microsoft today is really surprising. It seemed like they had completely lost their minds for an era there.

In many ways Apple and Microsoft have switched. Microsoft is listening to people now. A few years ago apple stop listening and abandoned their true "creative professional" market by ditching the Final Cut Pro 7 and going with the Final Cut Pro X which wasn't professional, and then also ditched the upgradable Professional workstation... hmm.

@Dashrender said:

Well let's use the UK, since it's the only one I know a tiny amount about.... The queen has very little real power. Most everything is run by the Parliament. Is that not the same for the rest of those countries that you listed?

Perhaps I'm thinking of monarchs wrong - is it not a single person who's word is law (save for the contract of a constitution, which just seems weird with regards to a monarch/dictator).

Yes, which is why I prefer a stronger monarchy that most of these have become. Although some of them have a bit stronger monarchs than others. Some the king (or queen) still wields a pretty sizable amount of power and/or influence.

Throughout history, though, kingdoms and empires have had the most stability. Modern history, look in terms of a hundred years or so, is misleading as great empires had millenium of history. Like living in Spain, for example, pretty much only three empires have run it for well over two thousand years with some pretty great luck. It was Rome for around 800 years. Then it was Al Andalus for another 700. Then it was the Kingdom of Spain in the Holy Roman Empire for another 700ish. It's recent history with the empire disbanded is just a blip in the imperial history of Spain. And the king still sits and to be a Spanish citizen one must claim fielty to the throne.

Persia, Rome, Byzantium and others stood for lengths of time that are mind boggling and commanded massive percentages of the world's population. Castro was a 1/2 generation dictator over a really small island. Hardly plays into the statistics for success or failure. And one has to wonder how badly he did.

The greatest work of human civil engineering of the century was done by a dictator that most westerners despise (with good reason), but his love for his country led him to do things that it is often believed a democracy could not even do.

@Ambarishrh said:

I used the pro for sometime, but now back on free, does most things I wanted now.

Can't beat the price! 🙂

Thanks for the heads-up. We just reserved ours. I have really been liking Windows 10 tech preview on one of my other machines.

Good question.

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@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Seriously. Or, what I really want, is when can everyone else get a self driving car!!

Car accidents will drop. In fact the other day I was thinking about how sometime in the not-too-distant future, people who drive themselves will be considered reckless, like driving with a cellphone or bottle of whisky in your hand, as they'll cause most accidents.

This is probably true... I would still prefer to drive myself but I feel the cost of insurance on a vehicle of the manual nature will be extraordinary.

I like the idea of driving myself but it is worth giving that up to stop everyone else from driving themselves. But, as much as I like driving, getting to read a book, post to ML and drink wine while traveling in my car are worth a LOT to me.

I spend about an hour in the car each day... if I could turn that time into something resembling productive (even playing a video game) I would give up driving.

I think most video games will be tough just because of the unavoidable car motion.

I was thinking 3DS or something similar... even an emulator on the phone is very nice to have on long trips.

OMG, talk abut car sickness. Wow.

Hmmm, I get car sick when reading a book in the car... not when playing games.

Sadly, in many cases, government and religion are part of IT. Mostly because IT is everywhere, including in government and religion. Nothing wrong with that per se but the problem is is that keeping government and religion out of all IT discussions is akin to keeping business out of it. But in many cases business, religion or politics are the context of IT.

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