which is the time you buy a new one and stuff the old in a cabinet door in your kitchen plugged to the power outlet 24x7 and use it as whatever means you want in the kitchen.

people replacing hardware every year is not the problem - the problem is when they replace and leave the other one to eat dust when they could make some cool usage. (or, you know, charity)

Though it's interesting why one cannot use proxies by claiming (and proving, obviously) that it's owned in MTGO/MOL

Well, I use metric and I believe it to be the only truth (aside from Math), but when you read this definition one 1 metre (sorry US):

Length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second (17th CGPM)

versus the definition one 1 inch

From July 1, 1959, the United States and countries of the British Commonwealth defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres.Consequently, the international inch is defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres.

makes you understand why some people prefer to use a system where "it's the lenght on a man's thumb!" (sure, may not be true but whatever)

Also, in Brazil and I believe most of Europe, who cares about pumbling? They're still using inches, heck, I don't even have a unit of measure for them - I just ask for a size x bolt/pipe or whatever. I believe this holds true everywhere else. You just know the size you want but do not care about the lenght and the UOM.

Disclaimer: everything off of wikipedia. take it with a grain of salt

and the quality of thumbnail images really isn't that important either

(Emphasis mine). Obviously you don't know what the Internet is for...

Someone please mod parent up as it is very interesting and shows a different view of what is happening at Princeton.

Specially if you look at comment 35866584 which refers a part of the bug report.

Very very concerning I might say... (posting openly as I could not care any less for OIT :D)

Interestingly enough there a _lot_ of modules for LaTeX including Chemical modules for you to add formulae in a simple way - not easy.

Sure, nothing beats WYSIWYG for editing but the quality of the document done in LaTeX where you just focus on content is amazing. Nor re-organizing, cross-references that always work in the end is a given. The weird part is that I had a MAKEFILE to produce by undergraduation final paper.

i mean my ps3 jumps and says "hey, here's a fw update, wanna install it?" and you click yes.

The only reason your PS3 "jumps in" and tell you there's a firmware upgrade is because you have it connected to your network and the internet. The same person that actually goes and pays the money for the upgrade is the same person that never connected or does not want to connect it.

It makes a LOT of sense too. Take my father for instance: He still think it's a little absurd that a video-game connects to the internet to play online while it's perfectly acceptable to have more people in the same room for the other games (which incidentally can give birth to the online/offline multiplayer). So, by my father's stance, why would he connect the video-game to the internet and therefore know there's a fw upgrade?

Most likely, the ppl that pay up the service receive the notification by trying to play some game and it requests a certain fw version or see some an article somewhere that mentions that the last PS3 fw update has 3D capabilities on it.

Actually, the ones who care about this stunts by Apple are the ones that either do not own an iP(hone|ad) or do not plan on having one. Honestly, I don't get all the bithing about this - it's not like it wasn't pretty clear when you bought that THAT is how the game is played.

It's almost as if these ppl want an iPhone but do not want the restrictions.Guess what? That's not how Apple plays.

Thank you for pointing out that you follow Mainardi's view of stupidity. Just so you know, when you say that to rip a CD/DVD in Brazil (like I care if they write with a Z or a S) is illegal you could not be more wrong. This has not been crime for about 7 years when the congress passed the bill to work on the 1940 copyright law. You can read here - for those not fluent in portuguese it pretty much states that it's not a copyright violation when done for personal use.

I'd also like to point out that Brazil is not an "Outlaws Paradise" as you seemed to imply through your text. All countries have their own level of problems - be it social or political. It'd be interesting if you actually took your time to understand what a "simple bill" might represent for the state in 50 years rather than in the usual 4-year-minded.

Unless it's like Brazil where the law states you have to have a spare tire at all times.

And God forbid you try driving around without one - it comes with a nice ticket for you to pay.

tl;dr but I'll save this little part here:

And in three years time I'll be playing that same modern game that you like, on a system more than capable of playing it, for about £10 and I'll have its bugs patched properly and the DRM will, most probably, be disabled.

Three years from now I'm gonna check if you can buy any of these games, most probably, without DRM but each for £10 and in a system more capable than a 360/PS3:

• CoD Modern Warfare 2
• God of War 3
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Uncharted 2
• Gears of War 3

History shows you have a chance of being correct but I still want to check. Take God of War II for example. The game itself sells for £9.47 and it would be in a "better" system (emulation in PC hardware which is questionable if it's better - not to mention the legal part of this). The safer way to prove your point of a better system would be running GoW2 through the GoW:Collection which is, as of now, sold for £17.91 which breaks point of price and timeframe.

Time will tell.

LotR + Hackers crossover. Now THAT is something I'd see.

Unless, of course, they HAVE to declare or they face serious tax evasion penalties. Brazil may charge you 50% more of what is beyond the amazing, wait for it, US$500 tax-free you can import.

I honestly never had any crashes with my normal use of Flash-based content that is merely varying from Youtube to one or two websites that insists in using Flash content (mostly restaurants). And I don't even use Apple's approved Safari, I use the good ol' beta Chrome.

For those not aware, ClickToFlash is a Safari plugin only for Mac OS X so OP was talking about his experience in his Mac.

As some of you know, Flash plugin in Mac is not bad. It's really bad. I have a Macbook which I dual boot with Windows 7. Same hardware, same shitty version of the Flash plugin - totally different experiences. Adobe does not make a good Flash plugin for Mac OS X. Period.

I'm sure Apple is to blame for this too, I've read somewhere in regards of some library/API for Quicktime that if Apple allowed Adobe to use could help improve hardware acceleration or something. Again, I'm not sure about this.