I think the question was about refresh rates, hence the comment that other articles claim 60Hz (@ 8k).

It boils down to solid angle per pixel -- sit close enough to a huge screen and you'll be able to tell the difference.

I could imagine absolutely humongous curved screens being really cool -- the periphery might not contain any information relevant to the plot of the movie, but it would make for a very immersive experience. I call it the 4pi steradian display...

This is sort of true for home audio as well -- surround sound receivers are cheap. Surround-sound preamps, though, tend to be very pricey, even though a very basic preamp would just be the receiver sans the final amplification.

Interesting -- that does seem surprisingly small. Had to check it out myself :) looks like each server is drawing a little over 100W, which seems more-or-less reasonable: http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

Cool stuff!

Nuclear energy is just about the safest form of energy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

Energy is really, really dangerous, end of story. Nuclear is somehow the "scariest," but not because it's statistically more dangerous.

Yeah, there is some cool work being done on thermal energy storage, particularly with molten salt (industrial level): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

At the in-home level, who knows, maybe a rack of batteries will become as commonplace as a water heater.

Although I think in some places (e.g., Los Angeles) it does match fairly well, as air conditioners use a lot of juice. But I completely agree: nuclear is a terrible form of energy...but it's better than most alternatives.

I'll be "that other...other guy" and point out that LEGO is still all-caps.

Sounds like some sort of euphemism...

Out of curiosity, do you know if The Interview is available in most/all regions?

I subscribe to and love Netflix here in the USA, but I've heard that in other countries it can have a rather anemic assortment of content...

I have a C1, and it's pretty neat. However, the software support just isn't there -- I would like to replace my RPi as a media center, but the C1 currently can't decode MPEG2 (wat?), DTS-HD MA passthrough didn't work last I checked, and HDMI-CEC doesn't work either (again, last I checked -- about a week ago). VC-1 only recently started working (despite the website clearly indicating that it works...).

That said, dedicated gigabit ethernet is great -- even if it doesn't quite the performance you'd expect from gigE, it's still a lot better than the RPi (and it's not sharing USB bandwidth, so that's a huge plus too).

You should be modded +5 insightful-yet-depressing ;)

I think they mean "GNU/Linux," as Chrome OS runs the Linux kernel.

I don't think I'm brave enough to ask what the Wankel analogy would be...

Though I suspect this mandated noise will be very different from the faux muscle car roar. Longer wavelength sounds are harder to localize, which makes much of the deep growl of a V8 -- real or simulated -- less useful than, say, the backup beep of a large truck.