Bear in mind that he probably rendered the background separately from the foreground so they have a slight difference of colour temperature which aids in the 3D HDR look.

I think you're overlooking "Where no fan has gone before"

I'm glad articles like this exist to answer the great questions of our time.

Hate to tell you this - I was as keen as you were but (so far) it's a buggy mess.

By a stand with fans or buy a different laptop. I've heard plastic is a good heat insulator ;-P

Look on eBay you can buy most types of proprietary screwdiver from Japan or China for very little.

It works very well - I've done this for many customers - obviously is depends how accessible the CPU is on laptop but if your confident of your disassembly skills it can make a huge difference. Especially since most laptops come with a cheepo pad instead of proper paste.

Beautiful picture but you drew a white wolf not a white direwolf. A direwolf has longer legs and large head in proportion to it's body. Not to nitpick but Jon is described as having long curly hair.

No they really did not - I grew up with them and still thought they were pure cheese with no plot.

So i seem to have missed the part in the first three Transformers movies where Michael Bay told any kind of story ?!?

Just sell it and replace it the X8 is ridiculously old and underpowered in this day and age.

There are plenty of ways to view content on a big screen - if you actually used flipboard then you would grasp why is works on a phone but would not work so well on a tablet. Use Google Currents and stop moaning.

You'll have issues streaming any HD content over WiFi G - I moved to wired because of it - you need an N receiver for your laptop - you can buy really tiny USB ones then you'll have much more bandwidth, if adventurous you can usually upgrade the internal WiFi card without too much bother.

"and the alien conquerors of Earth are pleasingly ruthless this time around"

On ICS - Apex Launcher (Both my Desire HD and my Archos Gen9 Tablet)

People of colour live across the sea in the very hot lands - a bit like this planet before international travel, do you really have a problem with that ?

It sucked because of the massively contrived ending - and because McG is a total hack, I'm not saying you should agree but taste grows with age so one day you will watch it again and sigh and cry a little inside.

Considering that we have a fictional character nailed to a cross are we surprised to see people inside balls of flame ?

I hope this article is a joke - 2000 subjects is a drop in the ocean and all it proves is how nonsensical social titles are when it comes to sexuality.

To obvious because you've read constant online arguments about it for the last bajillion years- in the setting of the books it makes perfect sense, relax fiction is not that complex.