No I understand it I assure you. Again, why would you want to block the airplane sound coming in but not going out? Is there a specific reason you'd need to not hear the engines but hear what's going on outside form within the engine? Or from outside the cockpit but not vice versa? Neither of those are a good reason. And there's no way a sound damper wall or insulating material is more expensive than something filled with tiny fans.

Music studios yes, but why would airplanes want to transmit sound from inside to outside, or vice-versa? Same with motorways. You definitely want to block traffic noise from adjacent buildings, but why would you care that folks in the cars can hear whats coming from the buildings? Just block it all.

If you have public voice chat on you're doing it wrong.

BF4 on Xbox1 has 64 player online gameplay vs. 24 on Xbox 360.

I wish these types of projections were accompanied with a verification that the authors shorted the stock.

Don't worry, Slashdot stories won't suffer the same fate as each one is duplicated later on!

Another vote for WDLive. I have a lot of DVD ISO rips and it plays them all beautifully.

I think they would have had to at least added an I/O expansion port or something. You'd need something that would do a direct passthrough to the HDMI output (even the HDMI in with a 360 (supposedly, haven't tried) produces lag). It wouldn't just be a single USB 3.0 connection - you'd also need power. The box would have to have most of the 360 hardware, and would be pretty sizable to not melt with current tech. But the $99 price point seems realistic, and, agreed, would probably sell ok especially at launch where there aren't a lot of titles. I guess if you play a lot of kinect stuff using the new hardware would be good. But other than that having second controller/box under the TV doesn't seem like that big a hassle. For me the biggest deal would be some kind of way to install the disc to avoid disc swapping. I really don't want to have a selection of green boxes somewhere nearby with this generation, so I'm buying online only. If there was a method to send in your discs for download credit so you'd never have to swap again that'd be pretty cool.

I disagree with using "dumbass" as a contraction. GP poster had it correct, in that he was describing the previous poster's ass as being dumb. On the other hand, "dumbass" is a pejorative describing a person, literally a "stupid donkey". Now, I'm guessing the former version is a derivation of the original "dumbass", which was probably "dumb ass" at some point as well. Some examples, with everyone's favorite contraction:

"You're a dumbass."
"Your ass is dumb....your dumb ass".

See the difference? It wouldn't work well to say "Your dumbass" as that would imply that he either literally owned an unintelligent donkey, or that he had a dumbass working for him:

"Yo, your dumbass you sent down here to fix the pipes made things worse!"

And for mods, this is all very relevant to the article topic - after all, there's nothing more important than being able to correctly insult people on xbox live. Let's keep it horribly racist, sexist, demeaning to all cultures, and grammatically correct out there fellas!

Typical response -- you know, not EVERYONE lives in the UK. There are other countries out there. You should try visiting them.