I totally agree that VR cannot duplicate the experiences that you can have in real life, like fishing. That said, in real life I cannot explore alien worlds or pilot a spaceship, but I can in VR.

Why they changed it, I can't say.

Yes, and the XBONE does that. At least, I assume so since I can start playing a game when it is only partially downloaded.

The sun is estimated to become a red giant in 5.4 billion years, not 7 million.

Use the 3D printer to print the paper, chalk, textbooks and sandwiches. Duh!

So you'd rather the rich hoard their money? Wouldn't it be better for everyone to put some of it back into circulation?

Only what you see here, pal.

The batteries in a Tesla are not really IN the car, they are UNDER the car. Watch the video.

No, he is using Coin as a generic term for all decentralized cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is the most popular, but not the only one; he mentions Feathercoin by name and gave this link to a list of others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies

You can refuse because your boss has no right to that information. Even if your boss stole your phone to get the data, there is no way he can prove you were the one using the phone at the time. Just say you we at home in bed and you loaned the phone to a friend for the day.

No kidding. I used to have unlimited bandwidth, but then upgraded for faster download speeds. Buried somewhere in the fine print it said that I now had a monthly cap, but unfortunately the person I talked to on the phone when I upgraded failed to mention that. My next cable/Internet bill was $460 (due to NetFlix and a recent subscription to CrashPlan). I called to complain and got it cut in half, but still....