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VOTE: Audacity

Even back in the days of Dumbphones (Bosch 509e, anyone), I still did my level best to send my text messages in full words and sentences, with correct punctuation. I find I write tweets (what few I send) in longform, and shorten by creatively employing synonyms and contractions wherever possible, but not for texts.…

Plasma, all the way. Blacker blacks, better colour, brightness and contrast, faster response times and miles better viewing angles make the slight increase in power draw a worthwhile price to pay.

Without looking at any of the others so far, here's my contribution. 393 words.

I only have one, though not for preference. Next time Tax return season comes around, I will definitely be investing in a second (27") monitor. That will become primary, and this 23" 1680x1050 screen will get shifted into portrait and put beside it for documentation/browsing and other such tasks.

But there IS a JPL logo on Curiosity, along with a NASA one. Just grab this Panoramic image (posted by your sister site IO9): http://io9.com/5934183/this-interactive-app-is-the-best-way-to-experience-curiositys-panoramic-views-of-mars?comment=51807180

While this is an awesome story, it has been told before. However the plot (Good though it is) isn't what really makes this movie shine. It's the humanity shown by both main characters (and the Robot/AI voiced by Kevin Spacey shows HUGE amounts of empathy and humanity, even/especially for a computer). So do watch this…

Great. Perfect for EVs. Now all we need to do is work out how to deliver several hundred thousand amps of power quickly and safely.

...Playing a British drinking song...

Like they did with H.264, which can encode a DVD into 700MB without loss of quality? Oh, no, wait, H.264 is the encoding scheme used for Blu-Ray. Or how about VP6/WebM, or XviD/DivX? Nope, those all came to market too. Sorry, bub.

MKV, AVI and MP4 are all containers, able to hold whatever streams you care to place in them. For instance, I could encode a video with Intel Indeo encoding in an MKV container (quite why I'd want to I have no idea, but it's a possibility) with no issue. You could also make an "only audio" MP4 or AVI file. This is…

"mkv quality" is meaningless. MKV is a wrapper, just like OGM, MOV and AVI. It's what you put inside that makes the difference. However, there are a fair few tweaks that can be made to H.264 streams that trade encoding complexity and time for quality. I'd suggest hopping on over to Doom9 (The home of people who do a…

I thought it was a Futurama reference ('cause, you know, it'd be in keeping), but it turns out this was parodied in The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror", where the book in question was revealed to be (in order):

That "Again" makes me think there's a story there...

Well, in theory the point is to build anticipation for sexytimes to come (pun unintentional) when one/both of you get home/together. It's also (for some people) something of the thrill of doing something "Naughty"/illicit/taboo in public where the chances of getting caught are greater.

When I lived 5,000 miles away from my then-girlfriend (now wife), it wasn't "Sexting", but laying in bed with a Skype connection to talk each other to sleep (6 hours difference in timezone) often led to kinda-sorta-cyber-sexytimes. But that's a long-distance relationship. So "No" then.

It's easy.