Why are people crowdfunding blogging platforms?

That sounds like a challenge to me.

I think we saw that in action today. I guess Google Now has been rebranded, adjusted, integrated, and redesigned into Google Assistant?

I might believe that if I didn't already block ads in Firefox. Edge happily displays all those ads and the oodles of extra javascript that comes with them. In my experience, that makes Edge drain my battery faster than Firefox + uBlock.

Despite their godawful handling of my beloved Playstation Vita, I had been eyeing a PS4 so that I could play Final Fantasy XV this fall. I'm starting to think I shouldn't bother with a PS4 at all if they're trying to pull this cell phone upgrade every year or two bullshit.

I already have a WiiU, and with the rumors flying around that Microsoft is also thinking about these shenanigans, the WiiU might be the only console I get this generation.

Well, the Xbox One is a PC running Windows, and the original Xbox was also a PC running Windows, but the Xbox 360 was a different beast. It had a three core PowerPC chip at its heart and ran a custom non-Windows-derived (IIRC) OS.

Facebook is modern gossip, and I'm pretty sure > 60% of people have gotten their news through gossip for all of human history.

Sounds pretty darn handy, but we all know what's going on here.

GNU/NT is what I'd call it.

Gee, Sony, thanks for abandoning the Vita in favor of this shit. I love playing games designed for buttons on a touchscreen.

Yeah, and that's common. The department says that a linear algebra course should cover a list of selected topics: systems of equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, etc. But it is straight-up stupid to require professors to all teach the same material in the same order from the same textbook the same way. The student population benefits from having a variety of perspectives. A lot of problems get solved when two people who learned the same thing in two different ways get together.

No shit. My first Motorola smartphone bricked itself after being dropped a foot onto carpet. My second Motorola phone stopped getting OTA updates a week after I bought it. My Samsung Galaxy S4 is incredibly unstable and requires daily reboots.

On the other hand, my Nexus 7 1st gen had the mysterious and completely ignored "slows to a crawl if you use more than 80% of internal storage" bug and became too slow to use after updating to lollipop.

Maybe I just won't buy smartphones or tablets anymore.

Now this is news for nerds.

...is that we didn't stop evolving during the paleolithic. The Atlantic seems to forget that for the most part too.

They're the only provider with decent coverage in rural areas. If I wasn't on Verizon, I'd have spotty or no signal every time I drive outside the city limits (which is often.) I hate Verizon, but they're my only choice.