You're confusing Anne Frank and Hellen Keller jokes.

Actually, Plex for Amazon Fire is only $1. Personally I have a Roku and Plex is what I use it for 90% of the time, for streaming media that I have locally on my network.

I remember "fuck you Burning Man" parties in the year 2000...

I don't see the issue. Amazon.ca isn't selling the device. Canada's population is about 1/10th of the USA, it's less affluent, and streaming services are less common, so it's not like American devices need the Canadian market to succeed. There are a million devices that are initially released in only one country, this will make it one million and one.

I'm sure Amazon would love to make more money, if this does well and if Canadian streaming services get larger they will probably sell this in Canada.

DLNA is shit, go for Plex.

What the heck? $130 and no remote control? Why would anybody want to buy that?

Huh, there isn't in the US either, but the same old antenna picks up digital signals. I imagine if I cared about optimal results it would make a difference. I am a Computer Engineer but must admit I know almost nothing about such things.

A lot of people don't think "it's in some religion so he gets out of jail for free" is valid logic. Being a dick is being a dick, no matter what the Greek Orthodox church may say.

Saying it's "a different opinion" is under-playing it. "Cheese is delicious" is an opinion. "I will donate money to deny a class of people basic human rights" is something more, something that speaks ill about you personally. I have no plans to stop using Firefox, but you'd have to be a dick to do that.

By your logic Fred Phelps just had a different take on the world, and can't we all just get along?

Maybe it's fun to play with, nothing wrong with that, but ultimately it's not a good way to watch TV. If you just want basic TV, an antenna will get you a good amount of channels. My $5 Radio Shack antenna gets me like 50 channels including weird shit like the Dog channel. If you want to watch extended channels like HBO, go to Piratebay or Playon or Torrentstream or Hulu.

But you were 24 then, naturally you would hang out with friends doing silly crap more than when you're 39. You probably go to bars less now, as well. Just the way life works.

Split/shared screen isn't really the same thing as Wii U, though. And the article barely mentions the idea of dual screens.

Every console supports split screen right now, because Shooters have it. And fighters have shared screen. It isn't anything the Wii U is leading the way at.

The article was interesting to me, because personally I gravitate towards RPGs and an occasional quirky type game. I'd love to do a shared/split screen game, but they're all shooters & fighters. The only real exceptions I've found are the RPG Fable 2 (which was a bit of a button-masher, but OK), and the puzzle game Ilomilo which is pretty fun. Oh yeah, and those old Guitar Hero games, but that's not really my thing.

I don't know about this. Call of Duty Ghosts is currently $30 for PC, $30 for XBox, $36 for XBone. New releases are all $60, right? Savings don't sound like much.

I don't own an XBOne, I just think gaming PCs are inherently pretty expensive. Your example of $379 for a super cheap gaming PC doesn't include the $100+tax cost of windows, so that's pretty much in line with the $500-$600 I was talking about.

Looking at the survey, it seems 1080p is much more popular than 1600x900. Obviously going higher is better and I'll guess lower resolutions are often done by the people running HD Graphics 4000 and the like.

Realistically, even a bare-minimum gaming PC (with Windows & video card) is going to be $500-$600, and more like $700-$800 for something that can play the big games out now at 1080p. Of course many gamers here will spend $1000+. In addition, that requires you to spend the time/deal with the bother of building your own gaming PC - sure, for some people it's kind of fun, for other people they don't enjoy it, and time is money. And then what you set up is going to be a big noisy box that may work great in a basement, but less so in a living room or even home office.

Saying it can do work or run emulators or watch movies isn't really relevant. Any old computer can do that, even a $30 Raspberry Pi.

San Francisco has a very large amount of technology companies, certainly more than San Jose. Sure Mountain View is the epicenter, but San Francisco is a very large part of it.