The OP made a huge mistake by including personal details in the question -- typical /. users apparently can't answer a legitimate inquiry when there's fodder for sniping and irrelevant arguments to hand.

I think you misread the post. Yes, Steam's Big Picture mode is for home theater-style setups -- but the question wasn't about that. He was asking about siting the computer in another room and piping the USB, sound and video to the living room.

She should also be glad that at least he isn't secretly a serial killer then, too?

High-quality conductors can improve performance, but only a bit, in this case; when it comes to length the problem isn't resistance, it's the capacitance of the wire (which is a function purely of length). The longer the run length the higher the current needs to be to achieve the same voltage. Ethernet's run length limits are based on calculations to determine the point at which the signal in dB is too low to be reliably received. The latency he experienced probably wasn't to do with the length itself, but with the fact the packets had to be retransmitted multiple times before they were successfully received.

Actually, the propagation still takes place at the speed of light. You mistakenly appended "in a vacuum" to the phrase.

She's less likely to mind the gaming if he's hanging out with her while playing. Still.. it's a perfect opportunity to get permission to build a man-cave.

This is ridiculous.

TRIM is already implemented in firmware; what the OS sends to the drive are "hints" indicating blocks which have become free and require clearing. Without the OS sending those hints I don't see how the SSD would know which blocks are safe to clear; doing so requires reading the drive's file system, which is why the OS has always been involved.

It's a declarative sentence, any conditions narrowing scope should have been included in the (absent) part of the sentence called a clause. You're confusing written English with conversational English. That sentence would have been read and understood if one person said/typed it to someone else during an interactive conversation; using that type of sentence structure on a forum/group conversation thread is ambiguous and can lead to multiple contradictory meanings.

You can't go back to square one, it hasn't been cleared for rewriting yet.

It's a declarative sentence, the scope is global unless a clause is used to restrict it. Likewise, the use of "this" (as pronoun) in this context requires that the noun to which is refers be used *in the same sentence* because otherwise it renders the sentence so ambiguous as to be useless -- two people can read the same sentence and come away with opposing messages.

You don't even have to look as far as eBay, those same counterfeit cards are also available on Amazon.com. You can even get them "Fulfilled by Amazon"; I called to complain and was told "we just distribute what the sellers send to our warehouse" -- if that argument wouldn't keep a fence out of prison why should Amazon get to use it to profit from fake goods? Also, even though you can still get 4GB microsd cards every fake I've seen has been an 8GB one; do you think perhaps that's because it's easier to add the "12" without needing to scrape off the "4" first?