I think the thing to buy swung back and forth between AMD and Intel a few times since then though.

I tried to avoid "smart" TVs. I'm on my second one, but with the "smart" features turned off as much as possible. It was one of those things that was kind of a ding against the attractiveness of the TV but they otherwise had the features and connectivity (jacks) that I wanted.

I was talking to someone that couldn't find a TV that wasn't "smart" lately. Apparently you have to look for non-consumer devices such as monitors for signage, lobby displays and such.

Lose your wallet all the cards and IDs in it are at risk.

Sad that so many backers thought this was something. NFC can do this job. I just don't see a viable future for a separate digital card.

But then, if you lose your phone you've lost a lot.

He also dodged a reader question on his opinion of George Lucas by referring the question to someone else.

I think it's worse than that. The guy's movie netted big and yet he feels his movie should have been entitled even bigger windfall despite having plot holes that Superman can throw a container ship through.

Rotten Tomatoes has a Critics score *and* an Audience score. A lot of popular movies have a higher audience score. BvS has a 63% audience score. Iron Man 3 got 78% audience score. Lest it be a Marvel v. DC thing, The Dark Knight got 94% audience score *and* 94% critic score, so it's not like so many reviewers are snobs about comic book super hero movies.

I don't either. I don't intend to buy such appliances. They'll be woefully out of date for most of their useful life. They're often insecure as shipped and I doubt a notable number of them will ever get updates.

They also said other browsers support same but didn't say anything more specific, such as who and what versions they started supporting it.

This is why people should be very wary of crowdfunding because so many of the crowdfund campaigns are exactly that. So much bullshit. There's quite a few legit companies that do get started this way but enough failures that people shouldn't be backing projects as carelessly as they do.

Recent regulation was changed to allow for "crowdfunding" startups this way, where you can actually get shares of the business this way. I haven't heard of anyone doing this yet, though I understand the option is legally available now.

That works if you do have the means to defend it. But the means to defend it get pretty thin when you're talking about clones selling on Alibaba. Even if you have legal resources in China, they're going to use your brand. Even those only selling very different competing designs will use your brand.

Yeah, I think Cameron has a case of rose-colored glasses on how great the theater going experience supposedly is. But maybe that's what theaters are like in Hollywood. That said, nine times out of ten, I do enjoy going, it's the one time out of ten that really tanks it, then there's the cost.

I really think offering something that allows families and groups of friends to watch from home is more likely to help save the theater going experience than hurt it, provided it's not punitively priced.

Yes, it's pretty simple, it just raises the question why a simple one-line statement wasn't included with the story summary for a rarely mentioned project. A search on this site for Vulkan shows only a small number of stories about it, so it's not like a regular reader would necessarily have an idea what the topic is.

Yeah, I can sympathize that web sites need money, but if you're allowing ad services to serve scam ads then you've really lost your footing. If there's more ads than content by screen area, then you're not in the content business, you're merely an ad pusher.

And most ad networks are trying to show me the same ads on every site. They also use photos that have nothing to do with the allegedly advertised service, like they picked a random viral photo and stuck their ad under it. Then there's so many ads for various kinds of woo that won't solve the problem they claim to solve. Then there's the ad that "people from your nearby town(s) are scandalized by this one web site". "Don't eat this one food" showing a banana, which is false. Video ads on a site only offering static content is also wildly out of place.

If it's in reference to the new MacBook, the adapter hub would connect power, an external display and a USB jack, all that in one click. So you don't need to connect a bunch of devices individually. I recall the power adapter splits out a USB jack as well.

On Windows tablets, you might find adjusting the control panel settings to suit. I find on Windows or Mac, I like to dial the settings a bit to be more to my preferences anyway.

Reed Hastings has been gone from that board for a couple of years now.

I get annoyed with the notices from other sites that are asking for Silverlight. It's usually stuff on the login page. eBay and Tumblr (I think) are notable examples, but I've encountered several others.