OK, so I now have three WQHD displays and the 1440 vertical pixels are nice... while I cannot stand the 21:9 1080p monitors, because they are only useful for watching movies, I can see 3440x1440 being somewhat useful, but realistically, nothing beats multiple monitors for development. There are times when you need to go full-screen with your application while debugging. Having a 7680x1440 (and 3440x1440 still means at least 2 monitors to match what I currently have) display won't help me at all there (which is why I don't use nvidia's "Surround"). The problem with the 2560x1080 monitors is the lack of vertical real estate for "everything else" outside of games and movies. We took a minor step backward with 1080p to synch up with our home theater TVs, and as a developer, it was truly miserable to develop in. Even if I went with two of these monitors, it means I don't have a center monitor - I either have a primary and a secondary off to the side, or I'm staring at a bezel in the center. Maybe a developer on a budget could get one of these, and a WQHD monitor as a secondary... all I know is that I'm no longer miserable debugging full screen and mobile apps with my current setup.

While I'm ranting...

For home theater, ultra-wide is fine. Curved, on the other hand, is a crappy gimmick unless you are the sole viewer in your lazyboy at the focal point. In this usage, I can also see curved ultra-wides as a possible ideal gaming monitor.

Anybody who uses the phrase "these gadgets" when referring to desktop computers is a bit out of touch, and probably shouldn't be trusted to provide an unbiased, open-minded opinion about them.

Secondary reasons to not take this opinion seriously is that it comes from "the teacher's union" which prioritizes member employment over education. It's akin to the UAW saying "these robot gadgets make poor quality products because they don't have the flexibility of a human assembly line worker" - just because they make some idiotic statement without a connection to reality, doesn't make it true. Unions are, by definition, very self-serving of its members, often to the detriment of the employers (the theory being, push them until the start to bleed, to make sure we get the most we can).

Sim City got the "offline" treatment (thanks to a huge backlash and insanely poor sales), but you can be sure the servers would have gotten retired within a few months of "Sim City 2015" being released.

The problem is any time "Revenue Stream" is mentioned in a corporate board room, the immediate reply is "do it and shove it down our customer's throats".

For EA, that revenue stream is in the form of yearly editions of games with few new, compelling features, other than a new price tag and servers that remain on for another year or two.

Except there are associated costs. "Gross income" is a poor metric on subscriber value. Honestly, I think it is a terrible deal for Charter (though I pay Charter close to $200 per month as a customer).

Charter has to pay a multitude of companies for the programming they carry, on a per-subscriber basis. I'm sure they have a decent profit margin, but after infrastructure costs, access fees to programming, and other costs, how much profit is actually being made per month, per subscriber? I suspect it would take 20 or more years to see a profit on those subscribers at that cost.

10-4, good buddy!

Hmmmm... might have to dig out my 150W linear amplifier I used to use to drown out obnoxious truckers with, when they needed a smackdown.

...transparent aluminum! Clearly, Apple hates Star Trek.

Platter drives have been artificially held high for the past few years... and it will burn them unless they start budging on capacity and price, as SSDs will continue to drop.

With 5TB and 6TB drives finally making it out into the consumer space, platter drive pricing may finally start dropping, but will it be too little too late? Will there be enough of a market now in the consumer space to support the larger drives? I suspect the average user has plenty of storage already - perhaps to the point of full porn saturation - but more seriously... how much drive space does Grandma need for her cat pictures and baby videos? 2TB is probably more than enough, and within the year, she'll be able to save all that to a 2TB SSD that boots her e-mail/web browsing machine in an eyeblink.

Of course, the platter drive makers have brought on this trouble themselves... like the DRAM price gouging back in 1994 (The Sumitomo explosion supposedly endangered epoxy resin supplies, prices of RAM tripled overnight), platter drive makers have taken the same opportunity to create a scarcity to drive prices up and keep them up. They also delayed higher capacity platter drives, giving the SSD makers an opportunity to catch up. They can't keep this up and stay in business.

If this supported DLNA as a client (since I have a media server), I'd be all over this. If I owned one, I'd develop for it. Kindle owners BUY APPS. They are about on par with iOS users.

Like "alcohol-related' accidents, where the police are required to check a box if either driver, whether to blame or not for the accident, and whether or not either is actually impaired, if they had a drink earlier in the day.

Same goes here, I suspect, padding the numbers because somebody was having a conversation at some point in their drive, and considered "involved" even if the driver who had the call wasn't to blame for the accident.

All this does is serve the personal agendas of "safety experts" who have decided to tie their career to an issue and doggedly pursue it, regardless of the facts and rational analysis.

Can it be a source for distracted driving? Certainly... but having a hands-free conversation is no different than having a conversation with a passenger, perhaps even less so, since you are less likely to take your eyes off the road when the other person is not in the car with you.

They used to have Romulan Ale and Klingon Blood wine, among other things.

Sad that a Michael Jackson show replaced the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton in Las Vegas. There had been talks of reviving it Downtown, but I guess that never materialized.

I was told OS/2 was the choice for ATM operating systems!

Can OpenFL handle something like Stage3D and wrappers like Starling?

I've used Haxe in the past, but found it lacking in support of things like sound and sprite animation for writing mobile games.

More likely Jango Fett detonated a concussion missile to try and kill the Jedi on his trail.

...what could possibly go wrong? Because, that simply can't be asked too many times, right?

Ugh.

It will actually turn out that this virus will simultaneously cure cancer and all known diseases in humans. They'll call it the Ponce de Leon infection as it also stops and even reverses the effects of old age, and will result in a sharp drop in mortality rates and a rapid increase in population.

Eventually, the Earth's population of humans will outstrip its ability to support them.

Then the real carnage begins.

What pisses me off is that Google goes to areas that are already well serviced by other vendors, and taking FOREVER to roll out. At this rate, they'll manage 10% coverage in the US by the turn of the next century.