Thunderbird is not stagnating, Thunderbird 3 is a major step up and I don't see any equivalent of Chrome threatening to beat it in terms of speed or functionality.

I was thinking you had a kid. If you don't, I can't imagine how busy you'll be if/when that happens :)

In all seriousness, you don't need to "have no life", be unemployed or single in order to do an activity for an hour or so without interruption. I find it very hard to believe that you are truly that busy, that's all.

Really sorry, but most of us can spare the time to play more than 5-10 minutes of gaming without interruption. What, you can't even do a couple of hours? Must suck for you.

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who have regular sex.

Curious, I didn't know nVidia supported other shutter glass brands in the past. I thought they had written the drivers and the 2D -> 3D conversion specifically for their 3D Vision shutter glasses.

Previous glasses presumably didn't use 120hz monitors? Or did they only support specific games, rather than patching all DirectX games at the driver level? Either way, it's disappointing that nVidia have abandoned early adopters of desktop 3D.

They are separate downloads, but I don't think they have to be kept in sync. In any case, new 3D drivers continue to be released to patch games like Left 4 Dead 2.

I think nVidia are going to push this, it sells their overpriced shutter glasses and 120hz TVs from their partners, and it even encourages people to upgrade their GPU (3D naturally requires double the framerate). They've put a lot of effort into backwards compatibility and working with developers to get native 3D support in newer games.

Since so many of us geeks wear glasses, it's no surprise that most 3D glasses technologies are designed to comfortably slot over existing specs. It's not really a big deal in practice.

The nVidia 3D vision's only real weakness is that it darkens the screen because of the LCD shutters. Otherwise, it's exactly the same picture quality at native resolution, and I've found it to be fully worth the money.

Yeah, I think you said just about all that needs to be said.

The iPad isn't going to replace a music player, it's too large.

It's not going to replace a movie player, it's too small. Unless you're watching something on your own? Can't imagine that the sound is too great either.

It's not going to replace e-book readers, it doesn't use e-ink (iPad has a supposed battery life of "10 hours", Kindle is 7 days)

It's not going to replace video games for anything but the casual market, the hardware isn't up to scratch.

Plus it's completely locked-in and controlled by Apple, with proprietary formats, where you own nothing, only rent and agree to whatever terms Apple dictate. No thanks.

No thanks.