What really gets me is the wardrobe and fashion. Star-trek was pretty much out-of-era. There were lots of weird outfits, but the uniforms weren't really tied to any era (and they weren't weird spandex space-suits either). Hairstyles were also not quite so era based, except for a few characters. The old BSG also seem very... blonde.

Yes, my 64GB MicroSDHC turned out for be 3.5GB of actual memory followed by rewrites that corrupt over the existing data. Apparently this is very common.

Final Fantasy X-2 sold very poorly even with the fantastic reception FFX had, and X-2 wasn't a terrible game (thought it was a bit obnoxious at times).

If you've ever played X-2, you might see why. FFX wasn't the greatest of the name (but, for its faults, it was decent), but X-2 was like a Sailor Moon Dressup game with a pinch of fanboy-pandering. I reached a scene where the protagonists are essentially comparing each others' cup sizes and then threw it in the bin.

Yeah, my question would be: WHAT DID YOU F'ING TEST THEM ON

It's not like consoles differ in graphics hardware for a given model. Sure, a certain PS4 or XBone might have varying drive sizes, but the video hardware is standard, that's why they're consoles and not PC's. So any blaming it on the "graphics vendor" is moot, because they had the same f***ing hardware as the users who are experiencing issues.

To me, that screams one of two things (or both):
a) A really shyte QA process
or
b) They ignored a bunch of known issues and decided to ship the thing anyways. Because, money.

Sorry, Ubi, but you can't blame this on the graphics card. If it shows up now, it should have showed up during testing. It's your job to make sure that the game runs properly on the existing hardware, not the other way around.

Not, for the PC market, maybe that argument might hold water a bit, but we come back to the same issue. DX11 is a standard (I prefer GL myself by whatever), if the bottleneck is at the number of draws calls limited by the graphics API, then it is NOT a hardware issue. So, you didn't test the game on standard configurations with the two major graphics card vendors? Sorry, not their fault. AMD may be pitching in to help now but I doubt it's because their cards are the issue.

It's a shame if nothing were to happen to it (upgrades) for the next several years?

So who's "sponsoring" this group? My guess is one (or many) of MS, Apple, and/or perhaps Oracle.

Or the first time a teacher puts on some in-class movie to entertain the kiddies while he marks papers, and there's a scene with gunfire...

I wonder how hard it would be to dump something on there that "looks" like the real deal, but deliberately delivers poor performance, bad output, or even a cleverly hidden security hole.

Let them steal it, and then see if you can use those to your advantage when they make use of the subtly broken tech.

It's not exactly hard to find either. However, I'd say they know more when you're *looking* for a new job as opposed to when you're actually ready to quit. Extra hits from job-postings, google searches on how to update your resume, monster, etc etc paint a pretty obvious picture here.

"it's getting easier to capture video of the moments of your lives and share it"

Exactly. Yes, but can capture it, but we cannot consume it in the same manner.
You can record all the video you want, but you're probably going to hit less of a broad audience simply because a mark-I eyeball can only parse video at a fairly slow rate. Also, just because you can make a video doesn't mean it will be *interesting* video

Thus, as boring as it is, I can read and parse "bobby used the potty for the first time today" in about 1 second, but I'm certainly not going to dedicate 5 minutes to watching it.

[for the above, "you" means the person posting on social media)

Fossil-fuels are, but petroleum-type fuels are not. The biggest problem is that the current methods don't scale well, but realistically the holy grail the ability to produce hefty amounts from common sources (sewage would be good, and there has been some progress on that front), allowing people to keep driving whatever they currently are but creating a "closed" system in terms of emissions.

Pictures in such locations are generally prohibited. Really, what's the source of liability if it happens in a private residence with somebody spying on the owner's young daughter?

I'd say an X86 is general, but optimized. Obviously it does some things better than others, and there's known trade-offs between floating-point VS integral math, etc, but that's why we have special instruction sets, GPUs, and now APU's as well. They're still able to accomplish general tasks - most with reasonable speed - but they've been added on-to to accomplish the special tasks that are most common.

"Why is this not being done? "

It's not?