Well, you could promote them if they're unstarred. Failing that, we still have the heart system back at Gawker Media Classic, so if you don't mind ca.gizmodo.com, there's that.

His name was Kotaku? Follow up then: What does Kotaku mean, and furthermore how does it translate (if at all) to being a meaningful name for a gaming blog and a first name?

1920x1080 would be the resolution that I'd be gaming in. Yeah, workstation doesn't require anything like heavy rendering; Handbrake and very light Photoshop would be the top of that, gaming is the main focus.

I'm thinking of Crossfire for two cards that (to my knowledge) are not top range at all. They're more then what you say, but I'm in Canadian dollars (which don't reflect the dollar parity at all); it's the PowerColor HD 6950 for 300 a pop.

Oooh, excellent chance for me to exploit the far more knowledgeable hivemind. I'm endeavouring to build my first computer. It'll be for gaming/light workstation, budget around 2-2500. What should I avoid in terms of the useless and/or overpriced in this general market? I'm open for any advice really, from overpriced…

The Simpsons isn't really a detail so much as the biggest pop culture phenomena of the 1990s, and you're 31? Your teens were spent in the golden age of The Simpsons when that episode was produced; you really have no excuse. Shaaaaaame.

Lots of people. You can get an iPhone 3GS for $99.99, and given market trends more people would go for that, especially given Apple's recent marketing success. As for selling at a loss, yes you can, but the PS3, Wii and 360 were all (and remain to be) in the relatively same price range, Sony's being considerably…

A phone subsidized to 1.00 still wouldn't work because it so goes against market trends that it could very well be considered an antitrust market distortion on the scale and ubiquity you're indicating. Secondly, you can't make people buy something,so this would be an offer, not a giveaway, so anyone could do it…

Well, except then they'd have to partner with a bunch of international carriers as well as a phone manufacturer and would incur billions in fines from the European Commission because that kind of marketing (giving away free phones) violates so many trade statutes across the world, especially antitrust trigger-happy…

And apparently you never lived through the past twenty years and thus cannot understand ubiquitous pop culture references.

Skype's the definitive VoIP service right now, and when most people think of VoIP, they think Skype; that's worth a lot on its own (how much is up to Microsoft to decide). MS hasn't had great luck with proprietary communications platforms (Games for Windows, the whole Windows Live suite which most people still just…

Why are you giving editorial advice in the latter half of your critique?

From what I'm gathering from other comments, plus your own expertise which is clearly well over my own, I think what I was trying badly to talk about was theoretical performance.

So clearly supercomputing has outpaced consumer computing by quite a bit in 20 years? Any idea why consumer tech hasn't kept up even the remotest pace?

Impressive, but I'd be curious if you took something with the power of say, an Ars Technica God Box and see just how close to contemporary supercomputers we get.

@Lizzie323: You'd need to get Pokemon's Red to break the ice.

@Grimwolf: American is a race?

Where are you at? There's a lot of independent ISPs who don't cap.

Flopped? Except that Bell and Cogeco, two of the largest telecoms nationwide (and the largest in the largest market, Ontario) actively cap and throttle. Dunno what corner of the country you're in but I wish I was there because for a solid 2/3 of Canadians the idea of capping didn't die at all. Telus is only available…

You've saddened my evening. I was gonna go buy me some cheap tunes.