Back in those days sound cards and CD-ROM drives were rather optional, a PC gaming standard made sense.

What hardware do PCs have now that are so different than PCs from 10 years ago? Built in WiFi? Bluetooth?

So really what this seems like is that we're trying to understand why a $300 laptop from Walmart can't run the latest games on Ultra-mode? Do we really need a new spec to tell us this? Can't we just ignore those cheap bastards and tell them to go play more Minecraft on their phone?

I just purchased a smaller HDTV (32") very recently and I made my purchase based on what many of you would, the screen quality. The Vizio I picked has a brighter and more clear display than the others on the shelf and it has a thinner bezel. Additionally it has built-in WiFi and "Smart TV" features even though the price was the same as the others around it.

The TV has apps for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and many others. Apparently it checks in with Vizio for firmware updates and app updates on its own, I'm ok with that. I only have a Netflix account so I tried that first. The app interface is nearly identical to the one on the XBOX, so I prefer now to use the TV's built in Netflix then powering on the XBOX and going through all the motions of logging in and launching it. Accessing Netflix with the TV remote is about equally clunky as the XBOX controller so nothing lost or gained through that, but without the added noise of the XBOX fans it's a gain.

It's not like I was seeking these features out, but they do seem to have a place just as long as they don't try to do too much. I have no desire to open a web browser up using a TV remote. However, if there was a way to wirelessly stream a laptop screen to the TV without too much added hardware or software then that would be the way to go. Or control the TV with my touchscreen smartphone. Vizio sells some stupid dongle for the iPhone to accomplish this along with some badly programmed app. No thanks, let me know when it doesn't suck.

I wonder what part of the brain decides which Android vs iOS team to be on, and which related part of the brain flames scientists for not catering to their choice of mobile platform when making webpages.

The market has had over 10 years to address the customer's complaints. They didn't. Too bad for them.

Many predators see their prey based on movement, like cats. Perhaps dissonance in hearing is some evolutionary equivalent to this. The beating of wings, the trampling of feet, the clucking of the tongue of angry wives...

I thought it was Samsung that got hauled into court not Android.

It should've had a ticker tape parade.

Instead it gets a 3-day long crawl through LA neighborhoods past people eating at Quiznos and workers taking a break at the Firestone tire shop as people take pictures and wave flags. This could've been bigger. It should've been bigger. NASA, do you even have a PR department?

Time to grow up or GTFO, as they would say on the Internet.

Well I was going to vote for Sen. Tom Martin but then I got sapped.

I then waited 8 seconds without trinketing but then the polling booth was obscured.

I gave up and ran.

I don't need some fancy new social media site to tell me that most of what I say on the Internet is delusional rants and unsupported claims.

Because ALIENS.

He's really taking his obsession with Outback Steakhouse too far.

So like the OP said, he was banned because he deliberately violated the terms of the appstore by creating a tool that collected end user information instead of disclosing the issue to apple.

Thanks.

In Soviet Russia you track Google?

(confused)

Neil Young is talking about online digital music sales. Steve Jobs and Apple were the first to twist the arms and convince the Big Four to legitamitely sell digital music online (DRM Fairplay AAC/MP4). Before that there was little to no online sales and the majority of music was either MP3 being download through Napster/Gnutella/etc or CDs purchased at Walmart/Sam Goody/Best Buy/etc. The rest of the industry followed after Apple's success in this, including Amazon MP3, Zune Marketpace and all the others.