> they already charge you TWICE for line rental once for the phone once for the net

No they don't? They charge you line rental and a separate fee for broadband. Broadband requires the line. All of the ISPs bar Virgin media do this.

This is still a bad idea, I don't care how good the graphics are going to become. I'm sure that this is great for certain applications, like training the military or a doctor, but VR will always be on the fringes. We won't be ridding the bus to work wearing these hugh things playing games the whole time. Here is the main problem, no one will sit extended periods of time wearing that thing on their head when your still basically playing a FPS. This is great for a little bit, but people will give up on it because it will be too much fatigue after a while and that will not be worth it then.

I tried to get on XBOX Live yesterday, and was having trouble connecting. I figured it was because it was the afternoon and their servers got overloaded with all the people who opened their new systems and tried to get online, and it overloaded the servers. That wouldn't be the first time the xbox servers got overloaded on Christmas. I did a test and it gave me a message right away that it was not my network or isp, it said it was an issue on microsofts side. I tried again like 10 minutes later and it was fine.

I'm sure you've never been to the south side of Chicago. This city has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, but it literately is a warzone. It is not uncommon for 20-50 people being shot on any particular weekend, most of the guns are illegal, and I'm sure a good part of it is gang violence. I totally agree with the above comment, there is never a good middle ground because the pro and anti gun people are both wackjobs. I am firmly pro gun btw, I believe that if we went full open carry like Arizona then alot of that would calm down in a year or two at the most.

It is easy to get high resolution on a small screen. The problem with the larger screens is that you have ALOT higher rate of defective screens, when you increase the size. Once that happens your cost go up because your basically throwing a bunch of them away.

Yes, like Nightmare

They're enacting punitive measures.

The whole point is that it is something people see moving around, it's alot cheaper than a security guard, plus it only takes 1 recharge of 20 minutes a day.

I'm not sure why you'd want to display the RPM to anyone but the driver, that should be very simple to pull off. The windows SHOULD already work the way you describe, as for the remote starter, those are VERY common now a days and you can get off the shelf parts to in stall one in a few hours.

I agree with the writer of the article, it looks like a modern R2D2. I just want it to follow me around and beep when I say stuff to it.

Comments like the one linked are a great read, but without ANY sourcing what so ever, it's hard to take it seriously.

Certainly, Nvidia is more than happy to donate engineers and code that favours nvidia hardware (as well as the hardware itself) in return for some branding and an exchange of cash, but to claim that it deliberately gimps older or competing hardware seems beyond the realm of likelihood. IF such a thing was happening, there'd be easy ways of proving it and lawsuits would be flying around pretty quickly. Furthermore, ultimately the performance difference in games between similar competing cards is all in line. You get a bit of variance per title, but it's not like 80% difference here, it's a few frames, single-digit percentages.

They've addressed the "why aren't you opening up all components?" part by saying this is just the start and that they'll be releasing more when they're in a better state for other platforms.

Sure, this could be an empty promise but just a few years ago people wouldn't have ever considered that Microsoft would open source any major .net components, let alone the core and with full Linux/OSX support.

Considering that Winforms is very dependant on the underlying Win32 components of windows, it does stand to reason that it'll be one of the hardest things to port over to other platforms so just this once, we can probably give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt.

Most users don't care about security. If you made setting up a user name and password the first thing the user see before you can do anything else, people would still put a user name as "user" and password as "pass" or "1234"