<lastname>@gmail.com, got in early.

That might not be too far from the truth. I'm thinking that the product will be somewhere between a Steam Machine and an expansion of the Wii U controller. Something that would let you play games on a console unit but also play via a stream on a handheld or smart device.

Yes. About 100K for engineering undergrad and a law degree. Ivy and top tier respectively and got very lucky in finding a job in patent law at just the right time. I could be in a very different situation if I'd graduated a year later or hadn't gotten the right work opportunities starting out. I busted my ass for…

Steam is it's own incentive not to use Greenlight. Tons of cheap, good games. Tons more not as good games that pop us a recommendations. There isn't much reason to sort through the chaff that is Greenlight.

Yeah, adding crazy is a bit redundant. Russian on its own should tell you all you need to know.

I've been pretty happy with off the shelf NAS devices. One of the reasons is that I have a standalone HTPC, that I did build, that has an HDMI out running to a receiver. The HTPC handles Kodi, Plex, WMC, Subsonic and links to Steam on my desktop. Most of the storage is on a Synology box or a cheap USB array. With…

The NFL is counting on the player's union to take the pressure off of them. If they get tough then it will be the union that is seen as being dismissive of domestic violence and advocating for lenience for offenders.

I take more of a middle road, I like the heavier flavors that come from darker roasts but not at the expense of losing complexity of flavors. Vienna roast, Yemeni mokha, fine ground in a french press with a nylon filter is close to coffee perfect for me. It's a bit overwhelming but so, so good once you get used to it.

Bitterness comes from oversteeping as well as the type of bean. Good arabica coffee, a milder roast and a brewing method that avoids oversteeping will cut any bitterness way down.

The whole bill seems to be just a big load of stupid. It's a refusal to implement anything relating to Common Core standards and instead calls for establishing an independent set of standards following some loose guidelines. It also doesn't require school districts to follow the standards if they don't want to. The…

Just finished: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell. Can't recommend it enough.

For Alastair Reynolds offerings, I think House of Suns is a better choice than the Revelation Space books.

Engineering degree, now working as a patent lawyer.

One thing I've never been able to do is make a clean break. My PC today has a lineage dating back to the mid 90's. At first it was because I could only afford one upgrade at a time, be it case or MB or video card. Now its mainly the hard drives that survive upgrades, which have also become more infrequent.

Or they know what the response would be. Kuwaitis killed about 4,000 Palestinians and expelled 200,000 because the PLO expressed support for Iraq. The PLO apologized to Kuwait. The Israeli leadership is insane but they are pussycats compared to their neighbors.

Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iraq. All countries that have oppressed and brutalized Palestinians for decades with no complaints from Hamas, much less rockets. Why no toddlers being taught to kill all the Bedouins?

Google's approach with GoogleTV was pretty awful. They promoted it like crazy and dropped it pretty much completely once they changed focus to Chromecast. That may work fine for mobile technologies where there is a two year turnover but TV's are kept for much longer. I could easily see the same thing happening with…

Wait a week or two and check XDA.

Without Conservative Christians setting the bar for what is tolerated in terms of batshit crazy in America the Anti-Vaxxers would never have gotten off the ground.

Diablo isn't that bad solo, but on Torment with a party of 4, the shadow clones can be brutal depending on the classes playing.