This has really been a long time coming. X11 is very old and a lot of people have been trying to figure out how to get this replaced. Probably makes sense that Google really just took the lead on this.

I am a big believe in BASH. It's still my go to tool for most scripting in UNIX. It is everywhere, which makes a big difference. People used to use Perl because it was so ubiquitous. But on current systems it is Python that I see more commonly. Node.js, Ruby and Go are out there a lot too. The one thing that you can almost always count on is BASH. It's simple, it's standard and it is really fast to do simple things.

USB-C, this is nice. I like this.

1984

Good stuff.

I am not going to take the time to read through the site rules as I do not even have an account, but I question if that can be done without the developers consent.

That would still put it back on the developer and I will simply not support a developer that does it. same as I no longer support Sun/Java products if at all possible.

It's the second one in the Shield series, so it has a little traction already.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. They are just copying Windows.
Surely more reboots is a good thing. Windows needs to reboot and is popular.
 
Can't you all see? More reboots equals more popularity.

CubeRox Alarm Clock

Great, more SSL / TLS issues. I'm surprised that this is not getting more press than it is.

@Reid-Cooper said:

@thecreativeone91 I thought that the HTML5 spec was going to have specific file and codec types specified. Was that dropped?

No. it just provides a way to present the video. It's up to the browser to support the codec. H.264 is the most common, but even then there are differnt types as it's a GOP codec there's I frames and P frames. where I frames are key frames and P frames are rendered by the computer as inbetween frames at the time of playback using a lot more cpu. All I frames take less cpu usage but are much bigger in size.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I think they are just worried the government will over reach like they do in many other things.

This is why I did not want Title II applied. I worked for an ILEC for years and I know just how much of a f[moderated]ed up mess that it made of things when DSL was rolled out back in 2000.

I have never been against network neutrality principles, but Title II was not the best way to go about it.

By using Title II, I expect the ILECs to bring all their lawyers in, and those lawyers already know Title II inside and out. This is going to turn in to a complete cluster f[moderated].

@scottalanmiller said:

That is odd, to be sure. That really makes Access so much less useful. Which is saying something because it was never very useful.

How many times can we stress this. Gods, Access needs to die in nuclear fire.

Like @tonyshowoff says I do not think they ever led. Firefox was good for a brief time, but I too always feel it is too slow to use.

I use Chrome or Safari as my default browser. I pop IE to test things and even more rarely I'll pop Firefox to test something.

That's a great idea. Cheap enough that I can imagine lots and lots of people deciding to invest in one of those.