High Bandwidth != Low Latency

You really wouldn't need that high of bandwidth to play this, it is just essentially streaming video. The issue is that that streaming video needs to be encoded, transmitted, decoded and displayed in under 100ms in order to avoid the user from perceiving the lag between pushing a button and the game registering the action.

To everyone who seems to think that teachers work a tiny number of hours only to enjoy an entire summer off:
You are a bunch of idiots

Your average teacher works 10+ hours a day 5 days a week throughout the school year for minimal pay. The school day may only be 8-9 hours, but there is curriculum planning, staff meetings, PTA meetings, homework grading, and many other things to extend the time. I stated 10 hours above, but that is a conservative estimate.

Then, after the long school year, most teachers have to go take classes themselves. It is a requirement in many places that teachers have "continuing education" just to maintain their pathetically low pay.

So who is going to take the brunt of these extended hours? The teachers.
Will it help anything? No.

Yes, there are bad teachers out there, but there are a hell of a lot more bad parents. A teacher can educate a student for only so many hours a day, after that it is the parent's responsibility to encourage their child's education. When a student consistently comes in without doing their homework, what are the teachers to do?

In my opinion, one of the best ideas I have seen is giving teachers the ability to grade parents. Everyone wants to hold teachers accountable for the quality of education they provide, it is time we held parents accountable for failing to foster that education.

Yeah, because teachers want to extend the time they work every day and lose their vacation.

Oddly enough, I did recently experience Windows killing my desktop due to powerdrain. I had been using Ubuntu only for quite some time prior to this install. During regular usage on Windows, I started smelling something like burning plastic. I immediately turned off the computer of course, couldn't find any obvious damage, and went back to regular use in Ubuntu after it cooled down. After leaving the computer on 24 hours a day in Ubuntu for a few days, I booted back into Windows again and, sure enough, more burning plastic smell and the computer crashes.

It turns out that at some point (a long time ago from the looks of it), the fan inside my PSU had snapped and it was no longer spinning. Apparently, I had run it like this in Linux for quite some time with no problems or damage done. However, around an hours use in windows obviously drained more power and overheated the power supply.

In short, Windows did in fact draw too much power on my desktop and cause it to shut down.

Wow, you are right. I guess I better go claim my spot now. I can set up a tent and just live in a parking spot, since I own the land and all. Even better, the state buildings are all taxpayer funded, no more hotels for me!

Seriously, all of you idiotic, Ron Paul supporting, libertarian douchebags need to just go establish an island colony somewhere with your ideals that defy all rational economic analysis. Just make sure that when you are starving to death after your instantaneous economic collapse, you hold true to your ideals and don't allow us to waste our money bailing you out.

Apparently the 'preview' option doesn't show line breaks properly. Sorry about the extra ones. . .

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Wait, did you actually just play the race card in a discussion about driving habits?

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I sympathized with many of the points you were making about the necessity of driving in some locations and the lack of suitability of small vehicles in many /terrains/weather conditions. However, by showing a willingness to extort the atrocities of slavery to "win" a debate on driving has undermined your credibility completely. For all of the good points you made during this argument, you should be ashamed of yourself for that statement.

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As for Sparr0, "Plan better." probably wasn't the best way to start your comment, it is rather condescending. Both sides of this issue need to understand that the view is very different for someone living in a city to someone living outside of a major transportation network. I've done both, and both experiences certainly have impacted my views. Your idea of a corner grocery store in every housing development is great, but it doesn't exist right now, so you can't exactly use it to dismiss the need for driving.

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I grew up in a house (not a housing development) that was 3 miles from the closest grocery store (or minimart) with no public transportation system at all. There truly is no reasonable option here other than to use a car for your everyday commutes. Now I live in the city with a grocery store 1/2 mile away and I do all of my shopping on foot. I'm not about to judge someone still in the situation where they need to use their car.

I hope they make a version that fits my 11' tall children.

Is that supposed to be Chinese? You should learn pinyin. . .

Boxee does NOT strip out the ads for any of the content that you view through it. In fact, when you opened the Hulu plugin with Boxee, it even provided the same cycling flash ad as you see when you load Hulu.com.

The only difference between using Boxee and going to the Hulu site directly is the way you navigate which shows and episodes are available. There are no ads at all on Hulu when navigating the lists of available programing.

It is also worth noting that Hulu provides the ability to embed their videos into any site. This is effectively what Boxee did but their site was designed specifically to be navigated using a remote with the Boxee interface.

The reason that Hulu's content providers want them to block Boxee is simply because they cannot/will not graps the concept that internet video is slowly replacing regular broadcast.

I always compare it to how you could judge/audit a bank's security.

Bank #1
The bank manager gives you a full blueprint laying out each path to the vault and how those paths are secure. Next, they show you the construction of the vault, how thick the steel is. They move on to show you how the locks work and explain why they they chose those type of locks.

Bank #2
The bank manager assures you that the vault is definitely in the building and that it is absolutely secure. However, they state that it would undermine their security to provide you any additional details.


Which bank would you feel more safe about putting your money in?

You are (purposely?) missing the entire point. The average Firefox may CHOOSE to install flash, but that is their choice. If Microsoft wants to make a Firefox extension, then they need to put it in the directory just like everyone else.