Buh? An iPod is capable of providing higher quality audio than any of the internet radio streams offer, so what are you talking about?

No, its like saying I've invented a better driving simulation algorithm than Gran Turismo/Forza/rFactor/etc by building & driving a physical car that has a one molecule wheelbase.

IMH, analogue has always been faster and more accurate than digital, just larger and less able to be re-purposed, quantum tech fixes this.

Your personal anecdotal feelings are neither here nor there. The public at large would be hard pushed to think of a category of app that is not well catered for amongst the apps available on the app store. They don't feel the slightest bit limited. They feel spoiled for choice.

More to the point they find downloading, installing and uninstalling apps on iPhone OS devices a breeze. And they don't need virus checkers, nor the services of a techie friend every few months to get things working as they do with your favoured Windows PCs.

Plasmas also use more power, so if you are going with total cost of ownership, it is going to be way more than a buck.

face it, the denier tag is a blatant attempt at tarring anyone not convinced of AGW with the same brush as holocaust deniers.

No, the denier tag is a description of someone who outright denies facts.

AGW on the other hand is nothing more then a hypothesis

No, it is a full-fledged scientific theory.

Quick terminology: Spectral color- Pure, single wavelength color, like a laser. Composite color- A combination of many spectral colors of different intensity.
To truly reproduce a color, each pixel should be able to not only make one spectral color, but a combination of all of them.

This would be very expensive, and fortunately, our eye have sensors only for Red 580 nm, Green 540nm, and Blue 440 nm (RGB), if we exclude the low light rods. We can therefore get away with RGB screens. There are slight errors. For example, assume each R-G-B pixel emits light matching the eyes R-G-B sensors peak sensitivity. Now, we can reproduce any light stimulation by exiting a linear combination of the three emitters. The eye however is sensitive from 380 nm to 740 nm, and can obviously not create the stimulation for neither 400 nm light, nor 700 nm, as your linear combination of only positive values will not cover these spectral colors (outside the gamut of the display). Take a picture of a prism spectrum or rainbow, and compare the original with what you see on the monitor, and you can see this.

So bottom line, RGB covers almost all colors, but adding emitters allows linear combination to cover more of the possible stimulation, but a high cost for little value. It is primarily the near UV purplish blue below 440 nm and the warm reds near IR that can not be reproduced.

When you say "database", I imagine you're referring to the traditional relational database. I've never used Cassandra or Voldemort but I have used memcachedb and tokyodb and the one major difference is that you can't select on ranges in a key/value system. You can't select all keys > 100 or keys 100 - 500, etc

In the case above the farmer knew his seeds were roundup ready because he sprayed roundup on section of his crop and harvested seeds from the plants that survived. That's why he lost.

Perhaps because he's *really* thinking about upgrading? not all of us feel a physiological need to purchase every newest-and-shiniest the moment it's announced, but sometimes we do like to have shiny toys to play with and perhaps he just believes that this provides an affordable way to get a nice, sizeable upgrade from his current machine.

Hell, I'm hardly a ricer l337 g4m3rz yet if all I need is a couple hundred bucks and a BIOS update to run this chip, even *I* may be tempted in spite of my current dual-core still serving me well.

Not *all* posts here on Slashdot are sarcastic, though I can see why you'd get confused.

Well that makes sense. I have looked at lots of companies that have been successful for a long decades and still don't pay dividends. So even when you are talking about long term investments in valuable companies, I guess it is still a gamble on whether or not they ever choose to offer dividends. If there were some kind of conditional guarantee written into the stock that says, "if we make X profits you get Y in dividends" then the stock's value would be more directly tied to the company's profits. You, as an investor providing them with capital, would share in their success.

Microsofts very creative way of handling security has been known for a long time. Instead of fixing the bugs they go for the statistics. By downplaying any security issue until openly proven wrong and rate vulnerabilities as low as possible the statistics look much better.

Another smart move was UAC that puts all the blame on the user but doesnt fix the underlying security issues.

Comparing only Windows to Linux + All applications is also very deceptive, especially with the practices above in mind.

The sad thing is, it works. People tend to think Microsoft has improved their security when infact Windows 7 in many cases are worse than than its predecessor. If you lie enough times with a straight face stupid cheep will think its true.

According to Apple? Do they write the laws (yes, maybe they do a little bit, lobbyists, etc.) but they certainly don't get to decide when the laws are being violated. As far as I'm concerned, jailbreaking is a requirement for unlocking my (now unlocked) iPhone. Since it's a necessity - it is therefore *explicitly* legal according to the DMCA. I don't give a fuck what Apple says the law is, no one has yet been brought to jail (or fined, or whatever) for jailbreaking their iPhone, and they never will.

You're right. I learnt the other day that the Great Wall Of China - famed for the fact that you can see it from space - can't actually be seen! Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_great_wall_of_china#Visibility_from_space I'm seriously doubting whether you can see this damn from space either!

Nintendo have:

And Sony, EA, Activision, Microsoft et al have all claimed the same thing at one time or another. They seem to be smartening up nowadays, though.

And the numbers are almost certainly not accurate, anyway. Some people DL several versions of the same game - some people buy several copies. Some people lend games to people, thus making customers into pirates, and some people lend copies to friends, making a single pirate into a counterfeiting ring. The actual numbers are completely impossible to determine by any means other than watching what every single person in the world is doing every second of every day.

"Lost sales are impossible to measure accurately"

Lost sales CANNOT be measured PERIOD. Lost sales are an industry fiction, people that know how to pirate will just wait for the crack or for the price to drop, the whole point of getting something for free means you didn't intend on paying for it in the first place unless the thing you were pirating was genuinely good and you want to support the developers.