When was the last time you spent any significant time with a Windows machine?

Depending on the bar and what I'm drinking that night, a c-note should do it.

I don't blame Travis, either. I blame the editor who approved this without telling him to put a little more meat on it.

You can't expect Travis to do any actual reporting for this rant. Math is, y'know, hard and stuff.

I first wrote that last paragraph in January, as part of a longer FB reply to a friend who lives near State College and wrote that "Paterno's death certificate may read lung cancer, but he really died of a broken heart."

A more honest title for this piece would have been "Excusing the cult of Joe Pa".

In first with this: Borgnine's secret to a long, happy life.

Suns fan from the late 80's here. This is the only thing that could ever get me to root for the Lakers. If Nash went to the Spurs I don't think I could do it, but as long as they're not playing against Phoenix the Lakers are my team in the West next year.

Glad I could help. Usedcisco.com is a good source for used and refurbished Cisco gear, we buy from them a lot and have never been burned.

Your problem isn't range and you don't want multiple routers running on your network.

I don't know if it's mentioned in the movie, but if you like craft beer or wines from small producers - you should raise one to this guy.

If you're saying things like "Is Elon Musk an ass? Probably, but so are many other CEO's"- that is the definition of a strawman argument. A strawman is making claims that your opponents really aren't saying and then knocking them down. (Anyone who expects a CEO to be someone you want your kid to look up needs…

One drawback of the blog era is that Drew, unlike beat writers or newspaper columnists, will never have to actually cover a Heat game in person where he might run into the 6'8", 270lb, 2% body fat cocksucking subject of this piece.

Please don't take this as an insult because that's definitely not what I'm saying - but you're making strawman arguments.

Not as silly as you think. Despite ten million users, Dropbox doesn't offer a WP7 app. Neither does Stitcher, Words With Friends, Google (except for a search app), NPR, your bank, and so on.

WP Central, for one, was saying as recently as the Lumia 900 launch they believed the last generation of top-end Mango phones (Titan II, Lumia 900, etc.) would upgrade to 8, while older phones and low-end Mango devices would get what's now called the 7.8 release. No one even hinted that WP8 was going to be a…

I understand the reason for the change, but that doesn't have anything to do with where this leaves current WP7 users. Unless MS develops a new market for WP7 it's going to be a dead OS before Halloween and everyone using it now is going to be stuck in that purgatory until the end of their contracts.

The ecosystem isn't going away? What reason would any developer have to write for WP7 after this announcement?

I follow the WP market very closely and until this morning the unofficial word was that the most recent Mango devices would be able to run Apollo. No one at Microsoft even hinted this could be a possibility.

Here's the problem with all the "suck it up" analogies to older versions of Android: The problem with this decision isn't OS features, it's the apps. There are so many legacy Android users developers can't really afford to ignore your old OS. And the number of those users is still growing. Older Android platforms…