Is this similar to that ultra-hd I had heard about on /. years back? I seem to recall them setting up a test monitor in Japan somewhere and playing a video of the ocean and supposedly it looked so realistic people thought water was going to splash on them.

I remember being not just impressed with the specs but also the producer of the video...to make something with camera angles, lighting, sound, etc. that fit that well into the location must have been tricky and likely had more of an impact than the resolution.

"new headline: Hulu may begin loosing viewers next year."

Subhead: "General public learns how to use bittorrent--traffic to EZTV.it and Mininova surge!"

I am a heavy bittorrent user. I honestly tried to like Hulu when it came out, but the ads were just too long for me. So now I just "timeshift" my shows via bittorrent exclusively. HD rips + no commercials + no buffering + ability to easily archive + hookup to my flatscreen TV = not touching anything else with a 10ft pole.

Realistically, they'd have a good shot at overturning this new law if a big enough public stink was made about MPs and Ministers blatantly disobeying this. I think someone needs to make a very public database of all the offenders. And hey, if you happen to be a hacker and can anonymously publicize some evidence of their violating this well, that's public info now and should be displayed everywhere.

Bingo. That was just an extremely long-winded and spun version of saying "Now with more grind!"

Unfortunately, all our best players will have a high ping as they come from some rather distant countries. kekekekeke

On the flip side, isn't buying "gold" from China what got our country into the debt fiasco we're in now with them? Fucking gold farmers.

Is that a state by state thing? This issue has me seriously scared. The revenue (not much, a couple hundred a month) from one of my sites goes into a business checking account that is basically setup as a sole proprietorship (in IL). If I've been collecting unemployment because I don't have an actual job, while earning revenue from that site, am I fucked? What is my best course of action if that is the case? I don't even know what sort of lawyer would deal with this kind of law.

Personally I try to avoid companies that care that much about what I do in MY time in general. If I'm not on the clock, its none of your fucking business. If I decide to learn a new language on my own, it is irrelevant until I start using it at work, in which case I expect my going above and beyond to be noticed. If it is required that I learn something new for work, I sure as hell had better be paid by the company for it one way or another (even if it just means doing the learning during company time).

Not a troll, I swear. Just someone interested in the works of Steven Levitt...

I've read many racially slanted comments elsewhere that seem to indicate a general opinion that the majority of Sidekick users are african american or hispanic. Someone responded at one point that there would be a huge drop in the number of drug deals that occur because everybody will lose their dealers number.

Now, the nerd in me started wondering...what if there actually was a connection!? Or not even something drug-related...could there be other connections that occur as a result of this data failure? Just food for thought...

Will this catch fried graphics cards? I have a Dell (yeah, I know) m1730 xps with dual nvidia 8800m gtx cards thatg no longer seem to work and show exclamation marks in the device manager and windows is using it's backup drivers.

I played around with different driver versions and other fixes but Dell still feels it is a software issue despite there being many forum threads from people with the same setup experiencing the same symptoms and it seems to be caused by the cards overheating due to poor engineering on nvidias part and an issue with the Dell bios that doesn't turn the gpu fans on until it's already way too hot.

Trying to find some way to confirm and isolate the hardware issue to prove the situation to Dell.

Of course they don't care. While consumers give the obvious answer that they don't like things more targeted, the unfortunate truth is that these ads are more effective. Just ask anybody who runs contextual ads. If it performs better than people will continue to use it, period.

The problem is that they do this in such small increments and in very sneaky ways that the frog (consumers) doesn't know it's being boiled alive.

Remember, they would not be moving to this model if it made us give them LESS of our money. Bottom line is everybody wants to suck on the residual/subscription revenue tit now that they've seen how much it's made for blizzard and gamers will ultimately suffer as the average cost for a game continues to go through the roof. Frankly I miss the days where you'd pay 50 bucks for the game, get some free updates, and then pay 50 bucks more for the sequel since the original was so good and the company had good support.

I didn't say anywhere in my post that lite apps are useless. Just that they are misleading with their current categorization as "Free." Agreed that there needs to be a demo section or a "requires microtransactions to do anything worthwhile" section.

So what rights will parents have to prevent their children from being taught these falsehoods? I can imagine quite a can of worms if schools don't want to let parents remove their children from instances where this is being taught.

Better yet, can parents sit in on these teachings to make sure their kids aren't being blatantly lied to?

What I think is a greater crime are all the "lite" apps or "some other stupid clone of Wars game w/ microtransactions" that clutter the Top 25 free lists. Seriously if I'm looking for free games I want an actual fully functional free game, not a cocktease that requires me to pay you in some way for the full experience.

On that note, if anybody knows of any good up to date iPhone game directories that are 100% no strings attached free to play please for the love of god post a link!

As much as I'd like to mod you down I'd rather respond.

Why do you feel you are entitled to have more fun in the game than someone who pays the same amount as you every month?

It now requires uber gear to do ANYTHING fun in the game and if blizzard prevents casual players from accessing half the game because they don't treat it like a second job they will lose a ton of subscribers.
If you really need to wave your epeen around you have achievements. Hate to break it to you but who do you think blizzard cares more about, one person who is upset he can no longer solo 5 people in pvp and wants to quit or the 5 people who are getting soloed and want to quit? Guess which group makes them more money.