I'd say that we won't know the answer for a while more, provided Dolby don't ditch the tech before that. Firstly, humans are generally much more visual than auditive: a brand new TV set with vivid colors, large contrast and a sharp image will be a much easier and more obvious sell/upgrade than a new sound set. Not only are we better wired to notice the difference, it's also much more easily demonstrated in a shop, whereas a sound system normally needs a closed room with not too horrible sound properties to work well. On top of that, you can buy speakers individually, or in a pack with the receiver. Finally, lest we forget, most people will have one "home theater"-style room, be it the living room or a dedicated room just for movie watching. While they might buy a new TV for another room in the house, just about nobody will buy a second sound system.

The end result is that people upgrade their sound system at a much slower pace than the rest of their home theater setups. For instance, we've had the same speaker setup for something like 15 years. The speakers themselves don't really age (they'll eventually degrade, but that's about it - there isn't as pronounced a difference in tech as with TVs where you could get 2x better sound for the same price within a few years), so there's no point in changing them, and therefore we don't really think about changing the receiver itself. It's old enough that it doesn't have HDMI. It doesn't support Dolby True HD or DTS HD. Atmos is pretty much the equivalent of OLED TVs to us - it sounds neat, but not enough to be worth the investment.

Yeah, it's harder for PR to let a tweet sit unreplied to for weeks at a time. An email is so easily "mistakenly" routed to the spam folder.

This. It won't be easy, of course not, but there's this entire third dimension we're barely even using right now which would give us an entirely new way to scale up. The possible benefits can already be seen in for instance Samsung's new 3D NAND, where they can get similar density to current SSDs with much larger NAND, thus improving reliability while keeping capacities and without significantly increasing costs. Of course, CPUs generate far more heat than SSDs, but the benefits could be tremendous. If anything, imagine the amount of cores you could cram in the same die area if you could stack them!

The irony is how, in many ways, companies like Ford were much closer to Tesla back when they formed. I guess the question is, should Tesla survive Musk, whether history will repeat itself.

What it feels like is that you'll be able to get the AMD branded ones or get the same ones straight from Toshiba for less money. Perhaps some AMD models will be OEM-only in their Toshiba designation to reduce competition. Regardless, I don't remember OCZ's Vector drives (using the Barefoot 3 controller) making waves, and the 19nm lithography is going to push reliability down. Let's just hope they stick to MLC.

For most gamers, a Crucial MX100 would most likely be a better purchase, or if you want something fancier then Samsung's 850 Pro or even a PCI-E/SATAe/M.2 option instead.

Source 2 Episode 1 and 2 will be a thing though, but they won't be feature complete until Episode 3 which will never come out.

"Unlimited" means "limited by the physical nature of the connection", in essence. We all agree that you can't break the laws of physics and get more data per month than your connection can handle. Therefore, if my connection is 20Mbps down, I should be able to take 20Mbps down 24/7 for the whole month. THAT is unlimited.

If Verizon can't handle that, they should put a cap on it and be honest that it's not an unlimited plan. You can't have it both ways.

Doesn't help that the first time you write it, you say "Godi" instead of "Kodi"... So much for memorability, right?

So what you're saying is that the backwards states pollute a lot. Gee, whodathunkit. Sadly, your crude assessment clearly designed to make electric cars look bad is rather... laughable. You include transmission losses for electricity, but not distribution pollution/losses for gas? Nor refining? You assume that ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of your electricity comes from coal? You assume that efficiency between electricity and gas is in any way comparable? I could go on, but I doubt you care about that.

Go ahead and enjoy your Hummer.

Well, he is coming into the country with a biological weapon...

Problem is that this case could repeat itself for any company operating in the US, even if the entire hosting is in the EU. EU-based cloud hosts would have to NEVER do business in the US in order to be off-limits, basically (and even then I'm sure they could find a reason).

To both cases: this is why organizations like Interpol exist. So a police force from one country can work in tandem with another to solve a case that crosses national borders. If the US want data stored in an Ireland server, they should work with the police there to get it, instead of saying that their jurisdiction extends worldwide unilaterally.

You wouldn't have to do business in the country for them to attempt to subpoena you, mind. They can fabricate a reason for doing so.

Not to encourage competition, to encourage THEIR horse in the race. You can be fucking sure that if it were a Chinese corporation with the monopoly (a real one), they'd be heralded as champions of Chinese ingenuity or something.

It's not a "CS club", it's one of the largest academic communities in the world. Their weight varies by discipline, but in mine (computer graphics) they're ubiquitous: SIGGRAPH is run by the ACM. That's a conference with tens of thousands of attendees every year where major companies like Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Autodesk and more go to show off their new research and products, both hardware and software.

The problem the ACM has is that joining has little incentive if you don't go to a conference. If you do, especially as a student, the steep discount makes it more than worth it, but otherwise there's little to gain that cannot be had elsewhere. Computer science in general has always been strong on giving out pre-prints of articles published in journals and conference proceedings, so you rarely need privileged access to eg. the ACM's publications. Their newsletter is neat in that they give job listings that I probably would have a hard time finding elsewhere, being so very focused, yet it's not particularly useful due to geographical spread and it's most certainly not worth the standard admission fee. I've had no incentive to dig around and figure out what else a membership offers, which goes to show...