Only it's not at all clear who was responsible for that. The rebels have a vested interest in starting a conflict. I'm also skeptical as to whether chemical weapons were ever used, or if they were, that they were used by Assad. He has everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Free Mobile in France. 3GB / month (after that it's throttled) and they don't give a shit if I tether. This costs 18 euro a month which is discounted from 20 because DSL isp is also Free. I'm outside of a major city so I only get about 15-20 MBit down and a tenth of that up. The actual box (Freebox Revolution) i'm using is capable of fiber to the house, however, and this exists in cities like Paris. Free is nice. They assign you a static IPv4 address and don't care how you use your bandwith. The Freebox Revolution even functions as a NAS / Seedbox / DLNA Media Server right out of the box. I have to say the quality of service is much better than what i'm used to having in the States. Mobile ISPs stateside will rape you if you use too much data or dare tether without paying them first. My only issue with Free is that they have a peering dispute with Google so you can't watch YouTube during peak hours but it's actually not that big of an issue since I can just use my phone's connection for that (Free's mobile network is actually piggybacking on Orange, which Google gets along with).

It's Glenn's own word! I'm in a civil union with my "partner" and I don't particularly mind this term. Although I agree it can be confusing, most of the time people get what you mean by context. When I marry him this November, i'll call him my "husband" but not before then. You can blame the homophobes for creating this dual tier of unions but it does exist and I might as well use the proper confusing term as much as possible to emphasize just how idiotic it was that until just recently I couldn't get married.

Nope. Caught the reference as well. Was listening to SOAD this morning while out exercising.

If only. No. The times are staying the same and history repeats itself endlessly. We're heading for a panopticon. A system that could have been used to give us unlimited freedom is being used to gradually enslave us. I'm starting to understand that choice at the end of Deus Ex where you're given the option to basically blow up the internet and plunge the world into darkness.

France too. It was reported in Le Monde this morning but hasn't hit the international press yet in full force. Here is an English article from a local French paper. Apparently the whole assembly (congress) knew about it and was on board.

I don't see a problem with emulation at all if Steam handles the whole deal. I bought the old Xcom games through steam and it bundles with a preconfigured version of dosbox. There is also no DRM on the game itself. What game did you buy that needed further configuration?

WTF are you talking about. Wii U isn't doing that great because of it's high price relative to horsepower, but the 3ds is doing better than the DS has to date by a million units, and the original DS was the best selling handheld console to of all time. The Vita is the portable that's flopping. I think it's cracked a million units but just barely. There's no doubt Sony will win the console war with MS, but I wouldn't count the Wii U out of the race already. It's not too late for a price drop and when Nintendo releases new first party titles like Zelda their market share will increase. Once that happens, developers will target the platform more, even if it means increased development costs.

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You don't have to switch distros to change your window manager.

I have a Mac. Metro is in no way whatsoever Mac-like. Unity obviously has taken some influence from the dock, menu system, but it also borrows window snapping and some other stuff from prior versions of windows.

Nvidia + HDMI here on Linux. I have minor issues when resuming from a suspend which requires me to kill my X session / log out in order to get 5.1 audio back (switches to 2.0 for some reason). Otherwise it works fine. DTS HD and Master Audio also works with XBMC over hdmi. In Windows on the same box I get a bluescreen when I try that. I also get a bluescreen in Windows when I try and use 24/192 over 5.1. So it's a mixed bag. The Intel HDMI built into the motherboard seems to work fine, as does the integrated Realtek chipset.

Fwiw, I never had that problem on my MBP running windows with 720p video and it's just a 2.6ghz core 2 duo with a 8600m (also Win 7 x64). I never tried 1080p iTunes video, though I know the machine is perfectly capable of decoding 1080p mkv with xbmc (in either Mac OS or Windows). I will agree that iTunes sucks unbelievably on windows compared to Mac OS, but I have had the problems you experienced. If it's still a huge issue with you, you could decrypt all your iTunes video content and play it back using something else (xbmc, perhaps, which uses DXVA). I ended up doing this to leave the Apple ecosystem for good, but that was for unrelated reasons.

Mod this guy up as informative.

I'm more partial to think the lighting on the faces is more to do with a simple bounce from the sun. He assembled the image from three separate virtual exposures. It's likely he chose the brightest one to use for the faces, his normal exposure for the walls and stuff, and the darkest one for the sky. I don't think he assembled the "HDR" using some automated method. More likely he just used more traditional blending (overlay, etc) of the different exposures and some layer masks as photographers have been doing for long before it was labeled with the misnomer "HDR". The Palestinians fake and recycle a bunch of photos, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.