My $0.02 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_(reptile) What could possibly go wrong?

I was looking for this post :) Everyone should at least have an understanding of the argument.

There are people from Stanford working on it, but it is a project at Google itself: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html.

Even better. ;)

Don't get it? Here's the reference.

Not actually true in my experience. I've found that, at least for content released in the US, you can usually find a fansubbing group who did a magnificently better job than whatever group got the US license. There's still worth in buying the US versions to support the industry, but the industry is often producing in months or years a worse product than you can get for free hours after the episode airs in Japan.

Good fansubbing groups are much more conscientious about typography, timing, translation, and explanation than I generally see from the industry. AND I get the whole thing in an easily portable, easily convertible format with neat soft subs. What's not to love?

Buy the DVD and if you're not subjected to horrible voiceovers from the same five people who seem to do every anime ever produced in the US* then you'll have horrible, solid yellow or white, aliased, blocky, poorly-wrapped subtitles that make all kinds of weird decisions about what to translate and how. And I've never seen a U.S. industry release that will translate signs, messages on cell phones, blackboards, notes, etc., much less in the right location on screen and in a font that matches the spirit of the original writing.

If the anime industry in the US ever wants to complain about sales these are the things they should fix. *Disclaimer, there may be some slightly irate exaggeration and/or hyperbole in this statement. Viewer discretion is advised.

The only time I play Halo online at home is when I'm playing with my roommate. Also, you should see the break room at work at around 3pm every day. Admittedly, it's not your usual workplace setup, but 3 TVs + 3 Xboxes = lots of people playing local split-screen.

I have a friend with a Citi card describe that feature to me. I looked around Bank of America to see if they had something similar, and it turns out they do. They call it ShopSafe or something like that. But, just like paperless statements, Washington state customers can't use it because BofA is completely inept and hasn't consolidated Seafirst's system since they were bought almost 30 years ago.

Warcraft 2 definitely had multiplayer. I remember playing that over dial up. I'm pretty sure warcraft 1 had multiplayer, too, but I never played it. I don't think it's fair to suggest that those multiplayer experiences were "afterthoughts," when it clearly took a lot of effort to get it right.

Except for the bandwidth, the servers handling the data requests, the support staff to make sure the system stays up... When you're talking about transferring hundreds of gigs, it can be cheaper to ship physical media.

I wondered about that, too. It seems like they thought about it in the bill: