I've only used the Xbox One, but when you record something (generally by just saying "Xbox record that" after something cool happens) it's automatically shared with your friends in a constantly updating "Friends clips" playlist. Being able to turn on your console when you get home from work and watch a highlights-reel of all the funny/weird/awesome stuff your friends thought was worth recording is a feature which is difficult to overrate.

When you upload worthy clips, they're also shown in a playlist on the store page for that game, so rather than simply browsing to a game you're interested in buying and watching a selection of cutscenes and carefully manicured gameplay trailers from the publisher, you get to watch as many gameplay clips as you like that average gamers thought worth recording - arguably a lot more useful in forming a decision on whether or not it's a game you'd enjoy playing.

You cannot fit a complete description of reality in said reality.

But you don't need to describe reality to the extent that it can trick those outside the simulation, it only needs to be complex enough to fool the AI.

anyone spending that amount of money for a fucking headset should be shot, period.

Jesus dude, don't hold back.

I bet he can't even say why he bought it other than things that could easily be disproved through simple tests.

I can't speak for that guy, but I've got some PX5's too, and here's why I like them, feel free to disprove these points through "simple tests"

- Dual bluetooth - I can switch between voice chat and a phone call without touching my phone or interrupting my game, and I'll still be able to hear what's going on in the game while I do so, or I can fire up a custom mp3 soundtracks on the PS3 even though the console doesn't support it
- 7.1 surround sound without a mess of cables running around the room, and which I can pump up as loud as I want at any time without bothering the people around me
- works on my ps3 and my 360, no need to have two different headsets lying around
- audio profiles that actually work, you can store profiles that selectively equalise the audio, raising the volume of footsteps to the point that it feels like cheating in multiplayer
- good quality mic - better than my other 360 or PS3 headsets according to the guys I routinely play with
- voice chat volume dynamically adjusts, so the game audio never drowns it out.
- comfy as fuck

That'll probably do.

I have no idea how showing the video of the murder is a disrespect if it is what happened and in no way altered.

So if your mother was raped and the event was recorded, you wouldn't find people posting the video of it on "bestrapes.com" disrespectful?

You might want to give your position a little more thought.

You missed 3) Colonisation.

All the reasons you gave as to why aliens wouldn't bother with Earth also applies to why humans wouldn't waste their time with [continent/country/landmass].

The new coins have shorter blockchains and often faster confirms. If I want to do stuff with bitcoins a week after having last opened the client, I have to wait a few hours for it to sync the changes to the blockchain, then after sending or receiving the payment, the confirmations take a few more hours. Doing the same in the likes of digicoin or worldcoin is currently far faster.

That's one advantage the new coins offer. Sure, their value is in the pennies rather than the hundreds, but that doesn't stop us sending the equivalent real-world value we want to send, it just means more coins have to change hands during the transactions.

We clearly haven't seen a legitimate rival to bitcoin's dominance yet (the current rivals have almost all been forked from its codebase somewhere along the way) but it'll happen, in the meantime some of the clones are definitely worth using.

The *always* do that at E3 though... OK so you remember OtherOS and the root kit, but do you remember the dual-HDMI-out on the PS3? Remember Eight Days? The card readers? The 6 USB ports? Streaming your video files to your friends in Home? The importance of a single-SKU? Remember when backwards compatibility was a "core value" of the PS brand? Remember when every PS3 title would run in 1080p? Remember when motion sensing was a gimmick, and rumble on a wireless controller was impossible?

So they generated a ton of good will by telling us they would let us own what we bought... the same guys who stripped the Linux functionality out of a device they'd already sold us just a couple of years back, and you believed them?

You can lend/sell used steam games?

Like Battlefield?

Then Napster and MP3 players appeared. Suddenly the industry was in a panic. The MPAA began an aggressive attack on downloaders

MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America

If half the people who *didn't* use it actually questioned whether Sony were correct in nerfing devices in our living rooms, they'd have had a tougher time.

As it was, those of us who *did* use it got shouted down by those who showed a rabid devotion to the right of a company to remotely disable features of consoles we'd bought and paid for.

If you pay x people billions of dollars for acting like maniacs, how many more would start behaving like maniacs just for the payoff?

Or maybe the fact smartphones are mass-market has brought the console wars to John Q. Public's pockets.

As a Galaxy S3 owner, I say fuck all this "techcnical luddite" talk, it's just a bunch of hipster bullshit. Once you get to spending more than a couple of hundred bucks, there's no such thing as a bad smartphone any more.

Now find a free or paid app like iMovie or Garageband on Android, Ready? Go!

I don't mean to pry, but how many donations have you had on iOS? I'm about to launch an Android app and will be porting it to iOS at some point, I've heard iOS is more profitable but it would be good to get an real-world idea of just how different the numbers are.