forum
fôrm/
noun
noun: forum; plural noun: forums; plural noun: fora

        1.
        a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Melatonin is a neurotransmitter involved in triggering sleep, it's also involved in gallbladder function converting cholesterol into bile. What most people don't know though is that it can cause eye damage in high doses (above 0.8mg) if taken regularly. Health food stores sell the stuff in 3mg+ tablets of course.

You'd be wrong. This is old news, it's something in the blue spectrum that causes the disruption. My parents already have a film on their glasses which filters out the light - they've been bugging me to get it for months.

I was not stating that internet meant international network, but that I was referring to the international internet vs a regional internet.

And then we no longer have an internet (international network) we have a regional one which would royally suck.

DRM of all games sucks but that's not the point.

The point is that I purchased the games for the Xbox achievements which were then patched out by Steam without any choice on my part. They weren't giving me the choice of take it or leave it, they just took it away. I *WANTED* GFWL - that was the motivator for the purchases. I have over 1000 Xbox 360/GFWL/Win8/Xbox Arcade games and non-Xbox/PS3 games can't be tracked by my favourite achievement tracking service making Steamworks games less fun/interesting for me.

If you can't identify the individual speaking then private in public can apply. There is no black and white. The volume of a conversation can change its interpretation in a court. Judges deal in greys.

Drop zones + 30" or bigger screen at a minimum of 2560x1960 res + up to 9 programs open side by side. You have space for up to 9x 853x533res windows or my preferred setup: 3x1x3 - 6 resources open for reference or drop swapping to the main middle panel which looks/acts more like a portrait screen. None of this affects the ability to full screen video or play games and keeps it all on a single monitor. 3200x1800 works well for that

Each individual speaking would constitute a communication to the public. When a person stops speaking it's someone else's communication to the public that begins when they start speaking. By contrast, someone cheering or booing in a crowd is not a communication to the public, it's a communication by the public and the "private in public" doctrine prevails (ie: anonymity/privacy of the crowd).

a) It is obvious. 3D is computationally expensive compared to 2D. An image a real person can manipulate to reveal the characters is easy for a person (given simple controls) and hard for a computer.

a2) You asked for useful, practical, mass-market - not interesting to the end user. For the latter, I can think of a million interesting uses for adding simple/quick depth to a web page without going full blown 3D/video/flash. From design tools to menus to smooth slideshow containers as a single object.

a) An obvious one, CAPTCHA.
b) by the time support for it comes around there will be decent resolutions. They're at 4 megapixels with their 2nd gen camera which is sufficient for a lot of web graphics uses. I'm sure they'll hit 8-12 by gen 3.

I'd still rather Lytro support.

To me, just looking at the Lena image before looking at the comparisons, my immediate thought was "this has been photoshoped to death" - sure it looks better than JPEG but it still looks like crap. The real issue is that for the future size will not matter but other issues will be more important. I'd rather see "4D" support (Lytro camera by Ren Ng) than any improvement on low end graphics.

I have to agree, even as a big fan of smaller. BPG arguably does create better images at small sizes but it's not much better than JPEG. It trades JPEG's pixelation for removal of details/changing colours/etc.

GFWL functionality was recently patched out of dozens of games from multiple publishers. Patches could not be prevented without going to offline mode, however, that only works for a max of 6 months and you're effectively blocked from most of Steam for that period to preserve the functionality. The odd game you could unpatch from a pirated version but many couldn't.

As shit as GFWL is, when you bought the games for the Xbox achievements it's rather useless when that feature is stripped out. If the developer released the patch and we had a choice of accepting it, or be limited in use without applying it, that'd be a different issue. The issue is Steam making them mandatory and not providing a realistic way to stop them from being applied.