What I mean with drama is that the kind of subtleties, the emotional responses, the dialogue, those things are not enhanced with greater FPS, resolutions, or stereoscopic "3D". It's a seriously flat plateau as far bang for buck when it comes to quality in genre. Yeah, you probably don't want to watch an old realmedia video with massive blocking artifacts and muffled sound but once you hit SD resolution and stereo sound, that's enough. Minor jump in enjoyability for DVD quality but then after that is just a waste of storage space, bandwidth, and/or CPU use.

Also, I would say that for any sound, when given quality source files, higher quality sound systems is always better for for anything. You (a rhetorical you) could say that modern, overcompressed and low dynamic range music wouldn't benefit as much and that's probably true. ...but then I'd also say that anything over stereo would be a waste since I only have two ears anyway but whatevs.

Anyway, I feel you're missing the important distinction between emotional connection with viewer and visually immersing the viewer. Just as I don't need to be 1080p with 7.1 surround sound to mourn the death of a character, I don't even need it to be real. It could be CGI, a handdrawn comic, or just a combination of letters on a surface. It's not the number of pixels or how many are flashed at me in a second that regulates the impact it has on me.

The use of such high visual fidelity should be for things where visuals trump all. Sports (god I hate sports) benefit because you're watching the action. Nature shows (various National Geographic things or the Planet Earth series) benefit because... it's fucking nature and the only sensory experience you can get from a TV is sight and sound. Action flicks or CGI wankfests (Transformers, blah), again, because you're watching the spectacles, not the shitpoor Bruckheimer dialogue & acting.

But now what's the point of high FPS in a drama? Would Downton Abbey be that much better in 3D? Is a comedy going to be more hilarious in 1080p?

There is one thing about Steam that pisses me off to no end: 3rd party DRM and accounts. The last thing I want or expect from Steam is to have to deal with additional accounts or bullshit installation (I'm looking at you Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet).

Oh, be kind. He's probably just a boob that bought that 3 digit account and has no real logical or critical thinking skills.

Anyway, if they put their cars on stilts, the problem would be solved!

Really? I realize you're a shill but really? That's the best you have?

Is the market for this mouse so anal retentive they'd sooner bring an $80 mouse with them to school or a friend's house lest they suffer from another mouse?

That's for corporations and rich people so they can lawyer bomb any peons who dare to use the system against them to highlight the ease of abuse of the DMCA.

I work late afternoon to evenings. Commute is between 15 and 45 depending if I bike or walk. The public transit is so skewed for other directions that it'd take just as long to walk so that's what I do even in bad weather.

This is getting complicated. Can't we just kill them?

They were STEALING bandwidth and you didn't report them?!

We'll solve this the same way we solved criminals possessing guns: Everyone drives drunk!

Much like our public school teachers, airport security obviously is something done by the Joe Schmoe off the street with minimum training and for minimum wage. GO MURICA!

Yeah, and that force could (should) have been cuffing the protesters and hauling them away. What do you think should happen after "these people get arrested"? They should be abused because of that?

You get sent outside so you don't fucking stink up the place.

If you want to "network", whatever. Just don't whip out the phone and start yakking into it in the office.

Let's give them some more publicity. Who funds them? Who are they representing?

Power? I'm guessing a little over nil if it is focusing on 1nm or smaller areas.