How can self-driven cars co-exist with driverless cars? It needs to be all or nothing, or else the driverless cars will slow to a crawl trying to avoid every bad or aggressive self-driven car out there.

There will certainly be some pain. Suppose the first step is to make the Interstate highways auto-drive only? People would rightfully object to that.

Antenna hooked to TivoHD, 42" plasma, Netflix. Total expenditure per month is about $25. The Tivo lets me record anything 24/7 from the free OTA.

Perhaps, but I hope it's a lot less ads than Hulu. They want you to watch a 30 second ad before a 3 minute clip.

I have several different controllers and they all act the same in Netflix. All other apps and games act fine. My controllers haven't had a hard life.

My PS3 is a first gen. 60GB.

I just found it very weird that an app would act like that on standardized hardware.

You can usually back out of the updates, but there are far too many updates.

Netflix on my PS3 has some really weird scrolling issues, each row of covers keeps scrolling without my doing anything. It was fixed briefly last year and now it's back. Aren't all PS3s basically the same? How did this pass QC?

I can maybe understand some sort of DRM for the first year or two a game is out. But I've never even heard of half these games. How long are they going to hold these gamers hostage?

That was my thought. They were trying to entice users to upgrade to Vista and 7 by not allowing XP to run the latest IE. That wasn't exactly an enticement to me.

Sure they have an interest in keeping things snappy, but things can and do happen. Look at Sony, a multi-billion worldwide company and all PS3s were off the Internet for a month. S3 and EC2 have not been perfect, I have first-hand experience with that.

Even though we are both using the word scale I assume we are talking about resampling. If the image was 2048x1024 pixels then Amazon would decide it only needed to be 1024x512 for the Fire and send it as that size? If so, no thanks. In my experience traditional browsers load the whole 2048x1024 image but resample/resize it to fit the browser window. The full-size image is there in the local cache if you want it though.

Suppose Amazon's servers are overloaded, then your browsing sucks even though your browser and Internet connection are fine. And I don't want scaled images, I want the image that the site sends. And how much of a performance hit are DNS lookups and open sockets?

If you want to do everything through the Internet they might as well run the OS on their servers too.

I wonder how much of the sluggishness is due to the browser funneling everything through Amazons servers? If you want a consistent user experience the local hardware needs to handle retrieving and rendering, not a remote server. I don't want my browsing dependent on how much traffic Amazon is experiencing.

Can another browser be used on the Fire besides Silk, one that works like a traditional web browser?