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  1. Re:They know exactly what it means on Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    no one is forcing you to buy internet twice. you don't even have to use a cell phone if you don't want to.

  2. why would i care if at&t throttles my kids' youtube if they watch too much during the month on cellular? Same for myself, some of us have better things to do than stare into a phone all day long and "stream"

  3. They know exactly what it means on Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and they are wording it to exclude the few people who want to use their smartphone as their home internet or have some continuous download on it 24x7 cause they want to feel special at using a lot of data

  4. like buying meat and produce by the pound? Or taking stuff out out of place?

     

  5. why can't they have legacy servers? on Hundreds of Thousands of Windows XP and Vista Users Won't Be Able To Use Steam Soon (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    IOS does something similar where you can download the last working version of the app for your IOS

    why can't steam keep the old legacy servers for the old client and repoint everyone to new servers that will be updated along with client? disable purchasing on the legacy servers and just keep them for the old games

  6. Re:So buying the X right now wouldn't be too smart on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020: Report (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    you can always get great deals being one gen behind. especially with the shortened cycles like now

  7. Re:Translation: market penetration of 4K too low on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    stellaris doesn't have 4K yet

  8. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? on Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    so do you fire all your engineers while you're not shipping new product? why pay people to sit around and do nothing?

  9. Re:WOW on Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    they probably optimized it for their CPU's instead of generic ARM

  10. Re:Android was a defensive play on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Google knew about the iphone. Google's CEO was on Apple's board at the time

  11. Re:Zero people want #5 on Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    so for years i hear how tech needs to follow star trek. voice commands finally become popular and people don't want them

  12. Re:Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Google won't certify your android phone for OHA unless it has google search, apps, etc. go read about what happened when Verizon and others were shipping android with Bing search. Google came down pretty hard

  13. Re:Anti competitive on Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    how is it anti-competitive? Steam is free to release their own SteamPhone. Apple spent a lot of money on it's platform and no reason to let others profit from it for free.

  14. Re:I feel sorry for you streaming-media people on Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hulu has always been owned by comcast, fox and others. Just like Verizon trying to get rid of copper, the ISP's are probably going to try to get rid of their cable box businesses and simply sell streaming packages without the overhead of the cable box

  15. Re:Abandoned PC gaming long ago for this reason on GPU Prices Are Falling (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    PC has Stellaris

  16. Re:Do theaters not sell tickets at the entrance on MoviePass Changes TOS To Prevent You From Seeing the Same Movie More Than Once (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    popular movies at the nice theaters are sold out for days in advance around release time

  17. the quality of care thing is a money pit on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 2

    just an excuse for hospitals to keep you and run lots of tests. happened to a family member where she spent a month in the hospital and was told she might have cancer only to leave diagnosed with a bacterial infection. and one of my kids. a day in the ER with an MRI and lots of other tests only to be diagnosed with strep.

    people need to accept the fact that medicine is not perfect and doctors don't know everything and not sue anytime a diagnosis is wrong

  18. Nintendo can't even make a 1080p console in 2018

  19. Re:Credit Cards Charge Fees Too on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    cards take less than 5%

    cash you need to pay people to count it, pick it up, do the bookkeeping, account for theft and pay the bank to accept your deposit

  20. Re:Lower prices right? on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    not as long as there are dummies willing to pay that much for a shot of cheap liquor and a cup of fruit juice

  21. Nobody was robbed on Hackers Keep Robbing Cryptocurrency YouTubers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    the bits are still there

  22. 2018, people are still dumb on Millions of Chrome Users Have Installed Malware Posing as Ad Blockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of these extensions have nothing but an anonymous internet email behind them and yet people and computer geeks install them and literally give admin access to their computer to strangers

  23. Re:False ring tones? on T-Mobile To Pay $40 Million Over False Ring Tones on Rural US Calls (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone calls a rural area T-Mobile pays the receiving carrier. A lot of these are a scam and charge extremely high rates.

    Probably illegal not to route these calls, so T-Mobile found another way

  24. Re:Uh, no. on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    the second ave subway
    7 train extension
    L train tunnel rehab
    rebuilding dozens of stations

    East Side Access for LIRR to Grand Central

  25. the companies went bankrupt on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The subways were originally built by private companies but the fare was set by the city. This caused financial problems as costs rose.

    After a while these companies went bankrupt and now they along with the commuter railroads who were also originally private companies were all bought out by the state and turned into the MTA. A state sponsored private corporation that the state, the city and other counties control.

    In the 80's the private companies who ran the bus system were also integrated into the MTA