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It lets you switch between up to eight paired devices (two at a time), which is a legitimately great feature.

On the other hand, they were caught collecting information about user listening habits, because we live in a dystopian hellworld. The app for their latest model (Bose 700) requires you to set up a Bose Music account and presumably opt in to this collection.

Iâ(TM)ve been following this story for a while and this is the first time Iâ(TM)ve seen anyone saying theyâ(TM)ve removed ANC. The usual claim is that itâ(TM)s noticeably less effective, which can be very subjective.

Personally, I choose to believe that the firmware made the noise-cancelling a little bit better.

Bose has been so unable to reproduce the problem that theyâ(TM)re sending techs to peopleâ(TM)s homes to take measurements in situ. Independent third-party reviewers using actual test equipment have been similarly unable to detect a difference with the firmware update. It seems likely that the problem exists only as a memetic illness, spread between credulous audiophiles. A social media disease, if you will.

Neither Bose nor independent third-party reviewers have been able to actually measure a difference in ANC with the firmware update. Given that audiophiles are extremely suggestible, my money is on the problem existing solely between the earcups.

This is intuitive, but a baseless folk etymology. It most probably comes from a term for zinc ore, and the miners who stole it (Cohen 1989).

The current Galaxy Nexus and several other phones handle both AT&T and T-Mobile's 3G frequencies. You are right, however, in that a lot of phones won't.

Those are pretty much your only options on the GSM front. T-Mob has a 30 USD/month plan for 100 minutes and unlimited text/data, but all of their other plans are more expensive than straighttalk for smartphones (probably featurephones as well).

I find it funny that you mention two games for a console made after the Playstation 1, then say every game and game system manufactured before the introduction of the PS1 should only be in the tens of GB. PS1: 94. N64: 96.

Yes, Nintendo really did release a technologically inferior console 1.5 years after it's competitor. They expected it to work, too. Hahaha.

(Your estimate is slightly off, though -- Everything up through the PSX/N64 era is about a GB, N64 is about 5. GB. Pretty fucking crazy to think about, eh?)

But a PSP can do that ... and play PSP games, too. And I doubt that thing will play PSX games - Where the PSP can.

Don't even bother trying to play the game with a controller identical to the one I just suggested! ... Yeaaaah. (It works just fine, I've done it. Hell, that was the first way I played OoT)

Starcraft 1, maybe that's true. It was great, at the time (and I've played a lot of RTSes) ... but that is far from true for Starcraft 2. Then again, even RTSes that are focused on macro really do anything like what would be needed to really have a "strategic" game. SupCom came close, but still fell way short.

It is, unfortunately, a pissing match that is all the higherups care about. What brings a school money? Students? Naaah. GRANTS bring the school money, for engineering -- And maybe that's only so true because at UF (where I attend for CS), tuition is dirt cheap. It's gone up like... 40% since I started, I think? and is still like $150/cr. And what brings grants? Research and papers and publications and. . .

I've had more mediocre professors at UF than great ones, by far. In the CS department, there's been one good prof, one great prof (He even posts on here, actually...), and one OUTSTANDING ... lecturer. Said outstanding lecturer is being let go because he doesn't have a PhD (from the campus newspaper). Compare him to the professors I've had that phone it in. The ones that show up 10 minutes late every lecture and read off ppt slides. The data structures prof I had who used the book and slides that our department chair wrote 10 years ago that I've even heard professors say are godawful, let alone everyone that takes the class. Grumblegrumble.

I feel like being a bit of a pedant, here.
If it wasn't for the merger with Enix, Square likely wouldn't be around. See, it wasn't so much a merger as a Square-fucked-up-when-they-made-The-Spirits-Within-and-needed-bailing-out. Further, they had a lot of great years after that merger, given that it was... almost a decade ago. They considered merging before that, but at the point they merged, TSW lost Square a bunch of money and they would have had a hard time making it back on their feet.

It was a fantastic system that came out at a weird time after Nintendo lost a bunch of 3rd party developers with the N64. That the Gamecube came out after the PS2 and was aiming for a similar crowd didn't help, given that Sony had built up a massive amount of momentum. That's more the issue that Nintendo had, from my looking back on the GCN's failure.