I believe the Superbowl is planning to be aired in 4K for the first time on Fox streaming apps. I'm guessing Fox is using this as leverage to put the screws on Roku for negotiating. Should be interesting to see how this resolves.

I am actually glad you pointed that out. I had glanced on the page and read this article as Walmart Putting 17,000 Octopuses.. and was really confused (and admittedly interested). Glad to know it was probably due to my eyes seeing that second article title in the same glance, and I wasn't just having a stroke.

It was a great system that Sony gave up support on way too early in its lifetime (at least in the US). There was only a handful of first party "AAA" type games that were released prior to that, but when it didn't gain major third party support it became the home of some niche genres and indies. The AAA games that did come out like Killzone & Uncharted were excellent and greatly surpassed anything I'd ever seen on mobile platforms prior to them and for quite a while after. The system had an amazing screen (particularly the first generation which was OLED) and optional 3G radio capabilities for gaming on the go.

Sony did their usual BS like requiring these ridiculously expensive proprietary memory cards and a proprietary charging port (at least in the first gen). They also didn't offer an HDMI or DisplayPort out port which was a shame as it could have been like the Switch. Finally, while some games supported cross-saves and/or cross buys (i.e. you get both the Vita & PS4 version in one purchase), that was inconsistent and eventually pretty rare.

For a while, if you liked either indies or the limited genres that flocked to it (JRPGs, Visual Novels, "fan service", etc.) then it was an excellent system. It also received some great games from PS+ over the years including pretty much all its AAAs so many people might have large libraries if they were smart enough to add those games even when they didn't own the system. Overall, it was a great little system that never really received it's fair shake.

Doom (2016) is a very much a modern interpretation of old school shooters like Quake - way more than other modern FPSs like CoD, BF, Halo, etc. It captured the over the top speed, action, fun factor, etc. perfectly and the changes they introduced fit perfectly. The new Wolfenstein is also quite good, but I enjoyed the new Doom more.

Agreed, just turned 34 and am in the same boat. Actually, for the most part, I don't even know what channel number most of the shows I watch these days are on as it's Tivo's job to know for me. I have had a Tivo since Netflix was dvd only so this certainly isn't caused by streaming video.

Growing up pre-time shifting (well besides VCRs), I had slightly more awareness. For example I am pretty sure TGIF was on ABC, and I know the Simpsons were on FOX. However like you said, I didn't care as the network was basically the container and as long as I could access it, it made no difference what network it was on.

Don't forget your extended warranty, only $49.99 + 10% deductible.

So is oil, and while they're not #1 right now, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Aramco, Pemex, etc. are not exactly hurting too badly.

Personally I lost my faith in E&Y after I saw some of their creative accounting techniques around the sale and depreciation of virtual goods for companies like Zygna.

I definitely mark the beginning of their decline as their transition away from KDE3. Several excellent, mature apps were either effectively killed (i.e. Konqueror) or neutered (i.e. Amarok). Lots of customizability (arguably KDE's key feature) disappeared, and for a long time, lots of core functionality was broken. This wouldn't have been as much of a problem had certain distros not decided to jump to KDE4 way too early in its life cycle leading to bad experiences for both new and existing users. I don't know if KDE ever recovered their previous momentum from that transition.

Sadly, I think the worst part about it was that the Gnome devs watched the whole thing and clearly learned nothing as seen by their Gnome 3 transition.

Gentoo since around '05 as well. I was coming from a dual boot Fedora Core 4 & Windows XP Pentium 3 800MHz. Something completely borked my Windows install, and I was able to recover my data from Fedora so I decided to go full Linux after that. I learned a lot from that stage 1 install process, fell in love with Gentoo's flexibility, and I haven't seriously considered another distro since that time. Gentoo continues to offer that flexibility, and is one of the few remaining distros that allows (and even defaults to) being systemd free.

I don't recommend Gentoo for everyone, but if you really enjoy Linux or tinkering with PCs, it's definitely worth considering.

This will almost certainly lead to a law suite by some large shareholder claiming the board of directors failed to perform their fiduciary duties (specifically their "duty of care" which basically says the board has to perform due diligence on all alternatives and choose the one that's best for the company). Since what's "best" is subjective, this is actually fairly typical and borderline inevitable with any large M&A transaction. There's very often some party that feels the board should have taken some alternate deal and by not doing so they've been materially damaged. If this goes to court, the board will demonstrate that their investment banking advisor (Qatalyst Partners if I recall correctly) demonstrated to them that they took the best deal on the table, and the other party will come up with arguments against it. Regardless of the outcome, and barring something crazy, the transaction will with MS will still go through regardless of this lawsuit's outcome.

I work for a very large bank heavily invested in Java and while we are largely a Java shop for the Web tiers, most of what's done is no longer J2EE but rather Java in a servlet container with frameworks like Spring or Hibernate. In fact, we're largely shifting off of full fledged Java app servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.) to simpler containers (e.g. Tomcat) as the needs are no longer there. Talking to my peers at the other big bank, it sounds like this is an industry trend.

A quick glance at the Vigile's submission history shows that every one of his or her post links to pcper.com. Never heard of the site, and definitely not going to check them out now. If you're going to submit posts like this, at least making your conflict of interest be clear.

As much as I want to like Pebble, I just can't get behind their aesthetics. I feel this is an issue about most smart watches in general, but Pebble with their shape, bands, and plastic casings feel particularly toy-like in my opinion. I would love to see their screen technology in a more formal form. Their metal line is a step in the right direction, but still has a ways to go before I'd wear one to work.

Correct, the latest stable release (VLC 2.2. 2) doesn't compile due to API changes on the FFMPEG side however the latest VLC in their Git repository works with it. I am the Gentoo proxy-maintainer for VLC, and I have looked at the changes to make VLC 2.2.x work with FFMPEG 3.0, and they're not trivial or backwards compatible. My recommendation for folks on Gentoo at least is to use VLC-9999 (the Gentoo name of the latest upstream commit) if you need FFMPEG 3.0. One other thing to note is that FFMPEG >= 2.9 also breaks hardware acceleration in VLC (i.e. vdpau or vaapi), and if you need those, either stay on FFMPEG 2.8.6 or switch to libav.