BTW, on the Apple-talking-about-DRM thing? It's not like Apple has never lied to the public before. Remember when .Mac was supposed to be "free forever?" Turns out, in Apple language, "forever" is about 2 years, then it costs a hundred bucks.

Legal tests such as fair use and SLAPS have a strong element of weighing one value against another in court on a case-by-case basis. But fortunately, MediaWiki sites have file description pages, which are a convenient way to collect rationales to help an image pass these judgments. Say you have some images intended to document methods of risk-aware kink. Each image's description page should declare for what articles it is intended, much like non-free images on Wikipedia already do.

USB2 is total shit because it requires a crapload of CPU intervention. IEEE1394 has security issues but at least I can max out my disks mounted on it without producing a noticeable bump in CPU usage. Put the same disks on USB2 (they're WD disks with eSata, USB2, and 1394) and transfer data from one to the other, and you're looking at over 5% CPU use... on my Phenom II X3 720 running Linux. Further, transfer rates are cut by about a third! In short, you'd have to include a fairly powerful microprocessor as a coprocessor if you wanted to use USB2 for anything that serious. Presumably USB3 doesn't have this problem, but I have no personal experience with it.

USB data should be encapsulated with HDMI data, rather than adding more wires. The problem of course is that even dual-link HDMI leaves little bandwidth free for such pursuits after carrying high-resolution video.

Are you sure? I'm fairly sure I remember Fox News telling me that his father was Satan and his mother was Stalin's daughter.

I like the idea of strict enforcement, I hate the currently implemented use of selective enforcement which has lead state and local governments to utilize "speed enforcement" as a revenue generation racket. This was made very clear and apparent in the state of Virginia which, in 2006 implemented "Civil Remedial" fees in order to help fill short gaps in the state budget. This is a very nasty habit state governments have gotten into in order to avoid increasing taxes.

Strict enforcement will cause a public backlash against the laws. The right choice would be to reassess most posted speed limits, and make the appropriate fixes to traffic areas that have used the invisible barrier of "low speeds" to protect the public.

The bottom line, no matter which way you slice it, is that a transistor (in the realm of digital integrated circuits) is on (voltage high) or off (voltage low). Zero or One.

In the end, it all boils down to different ways of ensuring certain points at certain times in a certain ordered fashion are high or low, on or off.

Software is the ordered way by which one tells the circuitry when and how to be on or off.

It does not matter if you use 'Foo' or 'Bar' or 'C' or 'Perl' or Flash or what have you. It is all the same in the end.

Saying one is the 'one true way' is stupid, especially when there exist many a formally logically-equivalent way to do any of it.

Apple's devices are not special. They're digital computers troweled over with maybelline and no amount of marketing can change this concrete truth.

The fact that Jobs or apple, or whomever-the-hell is trying to state that 'Thou shalt not use @X to make our transistors change states' is just fucking stupid.

no there not, they are regulated, because the government gave them a phone monopoly for years and they still have the monopoly on the copper to you house.

I love a good seared steak like the next guy, but I wouldn't want to have sex with it.

Same here---sort of. Old desktop 2.4GHz P4 and scrolling causes 100% CPU usage in Firefox 3.6 which is supposed to have a decent Javascript implementation, but apparently not. I would test with Chrome, but the installer always fails on this machine with a completely useless error message. Don't know why.

I could sell dirty socks of my feet for $500 given Apple's marketing budget.

FWIW it's kind of useful to know people wrote an email on their mobile device (though the manufacturer isn't really relevant). Explains why the mail might by more terse, contain errors, fewer line-breaks etc.

Where will Superman change his costume?

Funny 'cos CBS joined up with ABC and Fox News Channel to create the Network news Service in response to CNN over 20 years ago.

If this goes ahead the USA will have 1 big news service for TV news - maybe some sort of competition commission might block this?

When you think about it, they need to be taken down for this seedy kind of price fixing alone. Why is it that we're accepting such abuse just because it's a digital platform?

The thread isn't about hiring a designer, it is about selling an idea. This basically shows how they have no idea how the industry works. I find all the criticism to be valid. We all have ideas for great games. But you actually have to do something to be hired as a designer. I doubt they have the skills to do anything in XNA or they would already have done it.