Did anyone else notice that it looked like Gordon Levitt had wires attached to his pants during the hallway fight where he's dancing around the walls during the fight? The preview picture of the article makes it seem like they were rotating the hallway itself so why would the wires have been attached the whole time as well? I specifically remember some scenes where the wires shouldn't have been needed if the entire hallways was rotating.

I remember wanting to see this movie months before it came out. Then, when I'm finally seeing it in IMAX on release day, I start thinking "wow this movie is actually kinda boring so far" except for the effects in the first hour maybe of the movie. It was particularly funny hearing everyone in the theater say "OHHH THAT'S THE SCENE FROM THE TRAILER." like they thought they were amazingly perceptive or something

THEN, they actually start the heist and the levels....and the fight scenes with Gordon-Levitt, and I was completely blown away. It went from being a possible snore fest to the best movie I have ever seen in my life, and the beginning was justified because it explains the later parts. What a freaking roller coaster ride, movie of the decade (for me at least) absolutely.

That Apple isn't allowed to do anything warranty-wise if you jailbreak your iphone in the future? Could they refuse to replace a broken glass screen if they find out your iphone is or was ever jailbroken, JUST BECAUSE it was jailbroken?

Otherwise I don't see any implications for the end user. It's not like if you went into an Apple store with a jailbroken iphone the authorities were called to arrest you. Also, the people involved in the jailbreak process haven't exactly been trying to hide their work, they even have videos of them in the process.

I always liked the idea of net neutrality, and obviously there is something to be said about one website loading faster than another, but aren't there many more far reaching implications than just "Fox News loading faster than Daily Kos"? Like throttling of any downloading whatsoever unless it's a Fox News PDF or torrents being completely handicapped or something just because they are torrents.

I just feel like he could have used a much more hard hitting example than that.

I have to echo this. It's a pity that the mediacoder dev couldn't get his ducks in a row, but he's opening an honest dialog on that thread and in return is being ridiculed and spat upon. It may not be an issue that diego would like to deal with, but that doesn't mean he should be a jerk (the jerk store called...!).

I find it both humorous and disappointing that he justifies his ridicule by saying that he deals with "ignorance" all the time and so, of course, now has a short fuse. That may give reason, but it doesn't justify being an ass, either help the guy or shut the hell up. He's wasting even more of his time than helping the guy out by just ridiculing him.

Aren't the statistics inherently biased by being comprised of people who would be inclined to play an MMO? Just off the top of my head, maybe people could be gravitating away from stressful relationships in an MMO because they have so many stressful relationships in real life that they could be trying to "escape from" by creating an online persona.

As others mentioned, make it an h264 video with aac audio. I suggest using mediacoder, a free encoder with a billion options, including preconfigured iphone profiles I believe. Others suggest handbrake but I've found in the past that mediacoder looks like it has a lot more options to fiddle with. YMMV though, I've read handbrake has come a long way since ditching the "only encode DVDs" thing It used to do exclusively.

Yes, but what if with the act of time travel with motivation you also create an alternate reality where the titanic didn't sink or abe lincoln survived? Is there some rule where you must be attached to your original timeline?

Is it just me or does "Fred Phelps" sound like one of the evil old guys on scooby doo that's always wearing a ghost costume?

Computer manufacturers or parts manufacturers will never push the idea of custom built computers to the uninformed masses. There's much more money involved in pre-built systems, even more when you stick an atom in a net-top instead of a much more capable c2d. Computer manufacturers make more money from markup, and parts manufacturers can streamline the production process straight to the manufacturer, possibly even at a premium.

How about something's actually done to push more original IPs and game concepts than labor for weeks, months, years over a generic "me-too" shooter or wii minigame compilation?

I'd like to see more original game concepts like braid, p.b. winterbottom and portal, each of which probably took exponentially less time, at least if a team was involved, to create than a generic shooter. Although portal could have had a long development time, I'm unaware about that.

Even if those types of games take just as long as generic shooter #9, it will probably be infinitely more rewarding.

I wonder if this may ever escalate into being allowed to legally download a torrent of a DVD you own but have broken? Yeah...a guy can dream :(

I'm not saying i find android phones complicated, I'm saying the iPhone is prohibitively simple ( no multitasking for ages, limited abilities for 3rd party apps, multitasking is now very limited, every action based around one or two taps on the touchscreen, etc) and the android phones are more complex than that, finding a middle ground between open techie dream and the iPhone.

Yes, but that's exactly what I don't understand. I'm not sure if anyone even has the answer, so it is likely pointless to ask, but why, in a society that punishes child pornographers so severely, do some people still take that risk of possessing pornography (not that that should be right or wrong, legal or illegal) or act on their unaccepted fantasies with such risky possible outcomes?

It just screams a lack of self preservation or understanding the consequences of one's actions, whether or not the act itself is "right" or "wrong".

I may be extremely pissed at something someone did to me, but choosing to try and get away with murder unless I'm saving someone else's life (and possibly trading my own for it) would be idiotic in a normal society.

I think the problem lies in the fact that every person, even pedophiles or murderers etc, understands the need for a society to protect itself. If a person commits a crime, whether willingly or unwillingly (insane, can't control it, etc.), then society at least generally agrees they have to do something to keep this person from harming anyone else.

The problem is that sticking someone in jail where they could get abused "but we didn't cause it" is not a perfectly fitting punishment. Sticking them in jail or a hospital for an arbitrary amount of time decided by an arbitrary judge and jury (in US) is the best we can do.

I don't know the solution to those problems, but at the very least, something needs to be done to those who commit these crimes. It's too bad (and yet arguably good) that a child pornography crime can come down to a possibly innocent act as just having copy-able data on a hard drive (unless it's evidence of a physical crime by the person). It's definitely too bad that apparently the law is such that even obvious reasonable doubt (that some images weren't downloaded willingly) isn't taken as seriously, as it can still go to court, and e.g.: a jury of all moms with young daughters will still convict the guy in spite of the law.

Anyways, regardless of all that, even if we knew the exact reason why someone committed the crime, either consciously, subconsciously or due to a quirk, they are clearly a menace to society if they commit a heinous physical crime. It's just unfortunate that the solution is sometimes too extreme, too tame, or ineffective for many crimes.