I'm an old timer, and have been around so long that I want to be sure of something. When you say PII, do you mean Pentium II or Phenom II? I've seen that used for both.

I'd switch to x264 in an MKV container - you can get the same quality in about 3/4ths the file size without even being clever.

Because the existing site looks and feels like it's more than a decade old, and it doesn't inspire new visitors to stick around. Though with this kind of "harrumph, keep this new stuff outta here and leave us to what we find comfortable" reaction, it's hard to imagine new visitors finding anything appealing here anyway. I understand the frustration behind feeling like your suggestions and observations are being ignored, but this feels like a college CS club throwing a childish tantrum. It's only going to make the community look more insular to everyone who isn't in it.

X11's far more than mature by now. You can expect ongoing support in various capacities for decades - it's just that widespread.

Yet you are such a breathtaking, marvelous specimen of humanity that you would grace this undesirable place to enlighten the muck-dwelling Unixites. Truly we are all blessed. Let this day go forth! From this day forward, every February 4th shall be known as -

Oh, wait. You didn't even bother attaching a name to this pathetic holier-than-thou screed. Back to the comforting bosom of Mommy and Windows forums with you, you pathetic bastard.

Willing to bet the answer to that is "no." Meaningful features are a cudgel used to bludgeon customers into buying new Windows licenses, after all!

At least for the Lumia 820 replacing the battery's trivial. Just pop off the plastic shell and the battery's exposed and removable - in fact you have to take it out in order to replace the SD card or put in a microSD card for expansion. That was a major incentive for purchasing it, in fact: I like having some ability to expand a phone's storage capacity without being subjected to markup, or replace a battery when it starts underperforming. And between Google's increasing resistance to upgradeable storage and how badly I got burned by the Cliq XT I suffered through for two years, I wasn't willing to play in Android's ballpark this time aroud.

That he found stuck to the bottom of his foot.

That's not valid for AMD cards or IGPs because PhysX is Nvidia-only. If companies start using OpenCL to implement physics acceleration that could change.

It doesn't make it right that a Democratic shitnozzle got away with petty politicking either. The main difference comes down to economic damage done, and to the fact that at least one death can probably be laid at the feet of Christie's (office's) misbehavior.

I'd kill for an equivalent to foobar2000 in Linux. "Just run foobar in Wine" isn't really a solution, as it's not quite well-behaved in some particulars, and doesn't solve the root problem. VLC's dependable, but still feels like a stopgap. C'mon, guys - where's loobar2000? *cringes*

How bizarre. (Ooh, baby)

I'll, uh, show myself out then, yeah? Yeah. *cough*

Unless you had a connection to a wholesaler or a very generous refurb / used parts store, I have some trouble believing that. I swung a good deal around 1999 on a 17" CRT that maxed out at 1280x1024 at 60 Hz, and it set me back around $250, and that was a typical price. 1600x1200 was a "professional" resolution, usually isolated (as you say) to 20+" screens, and were basically a pipe dream for most consumers. The cheapest of those cost nearly twice what my model did, and a really good one could set you back substantially more. "Or maybe even" sounds like there's room for confusion in your recollection of events here - there is simply no WAY you got a working 2048x1536 monitor for $200 back when Quake III Arena was the graphical state of the art. Finally, five years ago would have been nearly a decade after the 90s ended, and well into the mass market commodification and development of scale economies that only started in earnest after the release of Windows 95. I can believe you snagged two LCDs at that price with some luck at a Black Friday sale back then. But "circa Y2K" and "or maybe even" suggest that this is either temporally confused or at least a touch disingenuous. Who are you trying to impress?

Yeah, if said PC gamers were completely loaded financially... Most '90s gamers felt pretty lucky if they could manage 1280x1024, especially given the limitations of hardware at the time.

The market segment's gotten mature, and the product releases aren't as exciting any more. I really can't argue with that because it's true. I'm sad to see AMD's per-core performance so low, though my FX-8320's been a gem for the work I do. Here's to Maxwell and Broadwell.