You are talking about insurance benefits. Benefits are earned and used by an employee, much like money is. It would be akin to saying that if an employee decides to buy with their earned money that the company doesn't agree with, that they should be able to deduct the cost of it from that employees paycheck because they don't want to give the employee the money to pay for it. Essentially giving the right to the company to dictate what the money an employee earns can and can not be used for.

To be fair, both were and still are cross platform compatible. .NET (BCL) and C# can be run on any platform and contain nothing that is tied to windows. They didn't actually write anything that ran on other platforms, but that was because there was a (mostly) lack of interest on those platforms to do so. However, Mono does run on many platforms and runs .NET code just fine, as did moonlight which was available for the mac ran silverlight stuff. Everything that anyone would need to actually implement .NET on another platform is freely available, and C# was submitted as a standards document.

Now they also do distribute some higher level classes that are tied to the windows platform, but those are the exact things you would expect would be tied. Mostly UI stuff that has no counterpart on other platforms (Forms, etc). Just don't use any classes that contain "Windows" as part of it's name and you should be good to run any of your code on any implementation outside of Microsoft's version for Windows.

Of course, you do realize all major motion pictures are shot at 24fps with the exception of a handful.

My first new video card was a nvidia RIVA TNT. Was made by diamond, and I bought it with my 486/25. It was $600.

High end video cards have always been $600-$1000 ever since the 386 days. Unless you quit your gaming bug before then, you never had a current gen high end video card.

It is still an image/video in three dimensions. Yes, it could be better. But that would require higher resolutions, and better channel separation. True holographic movies would be horrendously expensive to produce and difficult to watch. It's the directors job to tell a story, and direct the viewers attention. True holograms would make that near impossible, and likely detract from the movie more than it would ever add.

As someone who could both use public transportation, or drive (I live in the suburbs, work in the city) -- and have done both, I would be crazy to drive. The train is often faster than I could drive (but not always, depending on the day), but the train doesn't get delayed nearly as often, and doesn't get in nearly as many accidents. Now, I've never been in an accident that was remotely my fault, and even then, I've only been in two while I was driving, the sheer number of close calls from idiots not paying attention is insane. Factor in gas costs and increased maintenance, and the train is by far the cheaper of the two.

On those alone -- safer, faster, more reliable I would take the train. However, I also gain 1.5-2.5 hours of my day back on top of those already compelling reasons.

More Doctor fail. The squid brain dalek is only one revision of them.

And by those rules, slashdot must comply as well (assuming they have some relationship with something in the EU), as most of their articles are not much more than links back to other sites.

And there is the problem. You believe that free speech should mean that you can say whatever you want without consequences, and that isn't a right. Never has been, and never should be. You are free to say pretty much what you want, but you must face the consequences for saying it. You should also note that free speech is about what the government can prohibit, while there is no such protection from what private or non-government entities can limit.

Please read your constitution and bills of rights.

That is the freedom of the firefox developers to choose. One choice limits the freedom of the end-user to decide if they want to or not.

Personally, I would have liked a raid array controller that I could hook up my 12-drive raid-6 array and being able to attach it to a laptop.

Or attaching my OCZ Revo for a superfast scratch disk.

Or a 10Gbe connection (or faster) so I can access my local NAS box.

But I understand these aren't mainstream use cases, so what I could use to for isn't popular enough to keep such an option viable by itself.

I've never heard Microsoft say that there was a "no selling of used games policy"...ever. What I did hear was they were contemplating not using physical media, which sparked a bunch of people to make wild assumptions. When asked about it, Microsoft responded that you could resell them (based on licensing agreements by 3rd parties), and you would get a code that you could then give to someone else so they could download and activate it. Always seemed reasonable to me, but the wild theories about everything were floating around everywhere that had no actual basis in fact or statements from Microsoft itself.

I don't post as an anonymous coward to hide my identity. I've posted when I was clearly in the minority, but I still post, and I've taken some crazy karma hits for it too. My karma is pretty good, so I don't mind the occasional hit because I'm not in the majority opinion, but I don't write inflammatory or troll posts either.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the commentary would be better off without AC posts as well.

Probably the best explanation of the problem and how adaptive sync works that I've seen. Well done!