A majority of the games on PS1 are 320x240, however, there are a significant minority of games that use more than that. Some of these are pretty popular titles. I know that tekken 3 at least uses 320x480.

It might have to do with the audio lag in the android sound system. Android uses something called audioflinger which had a very high latency. This became apparent to me when I tried running some emulators on my phone a year ago. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) seems to have fixed this issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQcl4RDl5I

No, I mean electrically, as in vending machines measure the electrical impedance of each coin you stick in to determine if you are actually inserting US currency and not iron slugs/foreign coins.

This might be correct if the dollar coin were a new thing, but dollar coins have been in circulation since the Carter administration. Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible. So any vending machine that has been updated since the 80s should accept dollar coins.

Besides bandwidth, LTE also has broadband-like latency. This is important for multiplayer gaming and real-time communication (i.e. skype, gtalk video chat).

Firefox and Chrome Mobile have the option to "request desktop mode". Unfortunately, a few sites seem to want to give you the mobile site anyway. Also, there is no option to make this a permanent setting. Opera Mobile has an option in the settings to change the user agent to desktop. This has worked every time for me and is much more convenient than requesting desktop mode every time.

Since I have been looking into these types of programs for a while, I'll give you what I have learned so far.

Groove IP only works if you have set your google voice account to forward calls to Google Talk. Groove IP then talks to Google Talk through jingle like you guessed. One caveat is that in order for it to work, you cannot be logged in to Google Talk from any other computer, otherwise the call will get sent to your computer's GTalk session. Most other VOIP apps use a third party pbx to achieve this which means if the third party decides to pull the service then you are SOL.

There are a couple of other programs that use the communication with GTalk, one is called Spare Phone. The Spare Phone app is cheaper than Groove IP, but it doesn't integrate with the native dialer like Groove does. Talkatone is another app that uses GTalk, but for all your calls go through their servers for some reason, so it is no better than the third party pbxes.

You don't? Well I do.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis/

So you can connect the microUSB from the phone to a TV and play video, show pictures, play music, mirror games all through the TV?

Cool!

Can you show me how?

You can do that if your phone's microUSB is an MHL port.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEb-DICYCgg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link

I do the same, and I use a couple of solutions for that. You can't really push something from your phone to an active tab, but you can sync stuff like stars or bookmarks over the cloud.

I typically "star" stuff in google reader if I think it sounds interesting and want to read it later at a computer. RSSOwl can sync with google reader (including whether an article is read or starred), so I use that on my computer. Also, if I am in the web browser and I find something that I want to read later I can use "share" with an app called Pocket. Pocket is basically a set of bookmarks in the cloud. You will need to install the Pocket add-on for your browser of choice. Then, whatever you "share" with Pocket becomes available at any of your other computers.

At one university I went to, students who were not ready for their midterms did the fire alarm pull. At a different university, it was anonymous bomb threats via payphone. Anyone got any other delaying tactics at institutions they attended?

I thought a third party created this audio watermarking stuff? According to the wikipedia the company that created Cinavia is called Verance.

Damn, I always thought fashion patents were non existent. Turns out they simply decided not to use them except in rare circumstances.

Also, women's preoccupation with shoes continues to baffle me.

No clothing manufacturers would sue another another manufacturer for copied designs because patents for clothing are not accepted. And yet the fashion industry doesn't seem to be standing still. Imagine that! Innovation without patents on look-and-feel in an industry that is all about look-and-feel!

I have a small correction. dB is a ratio of power, so it should be 2*48 or 96 dB.