Something that everyone isn't realizing is why they are doing this. There is a positive reason behind all this.

People are more and more increasingly double or tripple or more selling a single ticket online, in person, etc. What happens when "grandma" paid top dollar to take her grandkids to a Miley cirus concert just to find out that those grandkids who have been so excited for weeks can't get in because the concert is sold out and someone already entered the building with the same "eticket"?

Ticket fraud is on the up swing. It is much more detramental to have someone physically at a venue who is not being allowed in to a concert because they find out their ticket is invalid while their kids are crying and screaming. Parents will do most anything for their kids.

I support this movement to a more secure eticket.

Something they should consider is a "re-register" process to verify a ticket is valid and switch out ownership of the ticket. I wouldn't expect anything like this in the near future as it would require a fairly extensive uplift to ticket purchasing systems.

don't communicate with people you don't want your wife finding out about. Problem solved.

Does your company's homepage have a flash animation or H.264 video? The acceleration is only for H.264 hardware decoding. There is no acceleration for use of adobe's proprietary animations.

Apple has provided the API's to do the hardware decoding, and Adobe has a beta called Gala which has Mac OSX Hardware Acceleration enabled.. Adobe will have a release out soon that will incorporate the hardware decoding in OSX. My guess is Adobe had to fast-track the release of 10.1 to compensate for the wide open security holes they had lingering, and weren't prepared to merge the beta and the final release trees.

Remember, when you have long term suppliers and buyers like this, you actually create a real relationship, and that relationship is worth more than just the money and product changing hands. You don't want to terminate or damage that relationship more than you have to.

Agreed, but how many people are going to be skeptical to order from newegg now due to trying to protect the relationship with the partner. Newegg might want to not reitterate whatever the supplier is saying in protecting themselves a little more. A statement like this would be more effective, "We have received a limited number of complaints from customers receiving their orders. We are immediately sending out replacement products to these customers and will investigate this situation to insure it doesn't happen again."

This wouldn't throw anybody under the bus, keep everyone at ease thinking that newegg backs their customers, and then they can work on figuring out the situation at hand.

I checked out the website and watched the comparisons of their test video vs H.264. I'm sorry but H.264 looks much richer, has more depth, has better contrast and recovers quicker when skipping through the video. OGV looks blown out out, slightly blurry, missing some richness and seems easily susceptible to blocky video.

Being in the entertainment industry the largest disconnect is that people creating entertainment products are visionaries, such as Walt Disney. Obviously he was much more visionary than many of the CEO's of today, but the concept is the same.

Things aren't always about "the money", it's more about "the experience". But to create a complete experience it requires a lot of time and resources of talented individuals which requires money from investors (also known as entertainment companies). Investors want a return on their investment (well, duh). So it requires people paying for that experience to make the effort balanced. A complete experience also requires going into a controlled environment which means leaving your house. The internet junkies of today want to experience the "complete experience" without leaving their house. So there's a HUGE disconnect.

There could probably be a system created for micro-billing of watching entertainment but there probably wouldn't be the recoup necessary to offset the investment in creating quality entertainment, but more importantly this would create lesser quality of entertainment in the end. As things would be created with the uncontrolled environment and computer screen as the target audience, the number of senses that are able to be stimulated from the experience are lessened. This format would attract people who want to capitalize on making money in that genre, but be restrictive of serious creative types to realize a whole and complete experience.

If you want to be entertained and want to continue having great art created, get off your duff and go see a movie. Throw your vote of what arts you want to see more of with your hard earned dollars. Buy the stuff you enjoy, pay to see the stuff you enjoy.

So my guess would be that, as someone new to running, you'd probably need equipment that helps you avoid injury rather than equipment that "makes you good". At least, well, that's what I'd want when I start with a sport. I certainly don't want a Formula 1 car to learn driving, the chances to kill myself are just a wee bit too high.

Well, let's think through this logically. With your ski analogy the more advanced you become the more performance you want out of your gear. Effectively what you're suggesting is to not put novices in a position to getting injured and letting them build strength.

After reading this article thoroughly you would find that running barefoot (or with a thin leather strip) is exactly like your novice ski gear. This situation induces the novice to take it slower, let the muscles develop and teach your body to absorb the impact, let your feet get stronger, etc.

Putting your feet in 'comfy cushy shoes' enables an inexperienced runner to believe he could run forever without developing those muscles and correct running style. An untrained runner puts too much impact on the heal not letting the foot and legs absorb things correctly.

So your analogy actually works in reverse from what you thought. The less advanced you are, the less "high-performance gear" you should get, exactly like in skiing.

I just want to thank you for this comment. At my university the Mac students are unbelievably dogmatic and too blinded by their love of their computers to ever concede a Windows machine might, in some instances, have an advantage for certain people.

It's very refreshing to see Mac users who actually understand that the computer you buy is simply a personal decision of which one you think is worth it. On the whole Slashdot users are pretty reasonable about it on both sides. For the people who want what Macs offer, they're great. For other people? Not so great.

I hope this mentality dissipates as I get older.

I too applaud the parent poster of these comments along with yours. I'm glad these wars are ending! FINALLY!

After all, if those idiotic moron windows users want to continue to waste their time re-installing windows on their machines every 6 months, install and maintain 6 different virus checkers and pop-up blocking softwares, and have over 50 applications nested deep in their registry to automatically start upon login and stay resident in their system tray and slowing down their machine, and be at the mercy of microsoft gods at every software update to hopefully not blow the system up, I say, go for it!

Glad these wars are over with! Good riddance.

This might look like PRS is being the lame ones, but if you actually know a bloody thing about the music industry you would understand better what this really is about.

Youtube/Google makes millions upon millions of ad revenues from youtube. A clip that gets seen a lot generates more revenues. If it contains music that is 'copywritten' there should be a performance royalty associated to that clip. This is a movement to control the cash-flow of the music industry. There is no sense for Google to retain all the profit and not pay the writers and creators of the content while they rake it in.

Look at all the moving parts before slandering a group going after your "sainted" google.

Ok, so it points out a flaw with Windows 7 and Linux but completely fails to give the praise to the efforts that Apple is doing with Mac OSX and Snow Leopard!!! OSX is incorporating incredible efforts to leverage GPU and Multi-core solutions for developers. Ignoring these pieces is incredibly ignorant of the "personal computer" and "distributed computing" markets.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

I want in on this lawsuit. Normally I'm a strong proponent of "you got yourself in it, get yourself out of it." But the iPhone's exclusivity on AT&T combined with AT&T requiring me to buy a 3G contract is totally anti consumer friendly.

I don't ever use the 3G network even though my phone has the capabilities. I leave it on the EDGE network because the 3G network drops too many calls.

I'd deserve to just be paying for the EDGE speeds instead of 3G speeds and be compensated for all the forced expenses of having to have a 3G premium. There's no way I would have known "going into the contact" that 3G would drop more calls.

This one drives me nuts. My life is conf calls yet when a call number in included in a meeting invite, IT'S NOT LINKED like phone number are EVERYWHERE else in the phone apps.

Well, at least you can copy and paste the phone number to be dialed..... Oh wait.. nevermind.

This amount of money could have been used to buy everyone a new HDTV who watched tv over the air... Most people have cable, or satellite.

This is absolutely absurd to spend this kind of money on something that people should be figuring out on their own.