@BlindWolf8: The cars, yes, eventually. Basically, these cars that Google is testing first learn a route by someone manually driving the route. That person enters in speed limits, school zones, and traffic lights and signs as they reach them. Once the cars know a route, then someone can just choose a destination on…

@ender89: But they wouldn't have had a fanbase until they (and their gimmick) gained popularity. And this is a pretty neat gimmick - a group whose lead singer is really an amalgam of the rest of the group.

Tokyo Flash watches annoy me - I want to be able to turn them always on or always off whenever I want, but instead they are designed to only work for a few seconds after pressing a button.

My point stands - Nielson only works for people who are watching live HD television, which up until recently has been a small percentage of HDTV owners. I myself rarely watch live TV in HD. And I don't get not trusting the numbers given by the people who are actually making and selling the TV's - they would know the…

@phobos512: Gizmodo is creating their own atomic bomb, and when they got to figuring out how to detonate it, they found it interesting enough to write about.

Nielsen isn't a very good source of HDTV ownership, as they can't detect what TV's are in a particular household, only what type of cable box is hooked up to their service. I could easily see only 33% of US homes paying for HD cable/satellite. My source is the Consumer Electronics Association, a non-profit…

This is a minor issue. Microsoft doesn't let its support reps say "No problem" so that customers don't subconciously think the rep is making light of the issue that was so bad the customer had to call tech support.

Yes, worse than on an SDTV, no matter what cables you use. Any SD material you put on an HDTV gets added corruption, unless you have a really, really nice HDTV that has a top of the line upscaler in it. Upscaling isn't meant to make SD things look HD, it is meant to make them look as good as if the TV was an SDTV. …

"More and more people have access to high definition televisions, so the timing is right for a next-generation Wii that takes advantage of that technology and the access to it," he said.

@Korvis: Both the XBox 360 and PS3 support keyboard and mouse without modding. What you want is for *games* to support it.

So..what more is it capable of? I don't want to watch a video when the article could just have a sentence or two about it.

Somebody get this to CSI, it needs enhancing

@MrCoconut: I'm not getting it...what does being a "nice guy" have to do with anything else you said? I'm a "nice guy" and I'm not poor, I don't hate myself, I've got lots of confidence, I go out and meet girls and have relationships. Somehow you associate being nice with being a pushover crybaby?

@RainyDayInterns: Rosetta Stone uses an immersion method. It never uses English for its lessons - it just shows you pictures and makes you figure out what word, phrase or sentence is associated with that picture, without ever telling you in any way what the word is or means.

@38thsignal: What's worse is, go to their website and try to find out how to get their "TOTALe" service. Oh, you can find out what it is, but the actual service isn't called TOTALe on their purchase pages, it's called "Complete Online Access" (and costs $200 for 3 months!)

@stre: It doesn't even work that way. You have to subscribe to their online service, which costs $200 for 3 months.

@FrankenPC: You don't think removing the trees will make the neighbor's property suffer a major equity hit?

@senile groucho marx: Not to mention, with the update with the picture from 60 years ago, you can see that the trees were there when he purchased the property, already blocking the view.