"Blu-ray was a much better roll-out. They enlisted major studios before the product hit the market"

BR had better DRM, that's what won the studios, not technical superiority. HDDVD was cheaper to manufacture as it could use existing DVD facilities

Beta *is* superior (on paper at least). better tape speed, more video lines, better sound. but at the end, you could choose between a device that recorded 1.5 hours in stereo at top quality that cost a thousand bucks, or a JVC VHS deck that could do 4 hours in mono at 400$. Guess who won ?

(I own both, and still swear at Beta's technical superiority, but VHS was the better choice)

Multiple episodes show grey as pink (Klingon uniforms), because one of the guys was in fact colorblind to grey

According to the cute asian lady who checked my eyes last time, I'm colorblind (sure, I can still read color codes on capacitors and resistors), she explained to me they are different kinds of color blindness, Found out I can't see different shades of Orange (or Green) :(

No. They did what they always do, and tried to push a proprietary format (Minidisc and ATRAC) instead of embracing an established standard. With their music catalog, they could have *owned* the MP3 player market like they did with the original Walkman. (add to that their movie catalog and they could have killed the iPod touch before it was even born.)

And every ISP should be split from its content provider (both Cableco and Telco) but it won't happen...

Tried that in the 90s and it didn't work. Besides, running OSX on a 300$ plastic Acer crap kinda defeats the point of getting a Macbook. Apple neither sells software nor hardware, they sell Macs. Sure I'm running OSX on my PC, but selling OSX for PCs is a bad idea...

But GSM allows phones to be used on different providers, something TDMA/CDMA didn't allow. Besides what good are fast speeds if you're only allowed pathetic quotas? GSM also allowed *competition*.

I'd rather have European telecom prices instead of getting gouged here.

Great idea, just like Hydro Quebec (oh wait)

How hard can it be to be replace Ballmer? Vista, Zune, Media Center and Metro. Half of them really bad, the other two (Zune and MCE) were abandonned. MCE was a really good product (still using it on one of my machines), Zune could have been something too.

They need to innovate, Tablets are replacing laptops, computers are fast enough to not need replacing (Mine is around 7y old) and competing office suites are good enough to replace Office in most cases. That means less Windows & Office licenses in the consumer market (beginning to change in the business market too)

The countermeasure for laser listening was to install the windows inside a pipe *frame* and play music in the pipes. Using an object inside the building to extract audio defeats that countermeasure. This is 2014, do not expect any privacy, especially from government agencies...

That's what you get when you let a Third World hellhole be the target of design and that First World nations get shoddy translations.

If you make a few cuts in the side plastic, an HTC One M7 will fit in there as well. Cut out the camera section a bit more and you get to use that as well.

As an Indian American, while I agree with the spirit of your comment, please remember that we are just as badly affected by the H1B visas as any other Americans.

Unfortunately, we are all cast in the same light, our background, academic qualifications, or experience notwithstanding.