I think the music format was just Sony being Sony. They've always created their own proprietary format for nearly every form of new media in the past 30 years. Beta-Max, Mini-Disc, and Blu Ray are just a few examples. They want corner the market to essentially do just what this article says, charge premiums like Apple.

Is there a valid reason why Spotify doesn't just group all your songs by artist/album like pretty much every other music player since the dawn of time? I respect that I'm maybe missing something and this is a newer progressive way of listening to music via playlists. But I just want to put on a full catalog of albums…

It works fairly well on my android, aside from the occasional hiccup. But the lack of lock screen controls is super annoying and kind of inexcusable for a music app at this point in time. Especially considering that the music app is only available if you're a premium subscriber. Amazons free cloud player does it just…

Wow, you have my sympathy bad neighbors are the absolute worst. It sucks that there is so little you can do. I agree with other poster, maybe to catch some of this on camera and pursue small claims court for damages and/or some kind of restraining order. At least then if they came onto your property you could have…

Let's put 20 seconds on the clock and see how many fap comments we can make.

I'm personally looking forward to "I am Alive" coming out next week.

Well that certainly explains why they were happy to let me keep my unlimited plan when I upgraded to an LTE phone. I don't agree with this at all, I strongly believe unlimited should be unlimited.

I'm fine with it if it means cheaper hardware from places like Dell. There are only 2 camps, people who know about bloatware and uninstall it or install a fresh copy of windows and those who don't who aren't going to be taking advantage of that quard core and 16GB of RAM anyways.

There was a decent outer limits episode from the 90's series of the show that dealt with it too. They had invented teleportation but it worked by basically just sending a blueprint of your molecular makeup across space and recreating you on the receiving side. To "balance the equation" the body on the sending side was…

Same here, I actually lost all respect for a friend a few years ago after making this comment and I shit you not, "The Departed was just ok, but Boondock Saints was way better".

Amazon gives away free 3G access on their devices, no monthly fee, no yearly fee, nothing but a slightly higher retail price on the 3G enabled Kindles. This is the same 3G that companies like Verizon and AT&T have been trying to tell us is so precious a resource they need to do away with unlimited plans, raise prices…

Getting mugged behind the 7-11?

Maybe, but they're not arguing that we should shutdown the EPA to replace it with something better. To paraphrase Rick Perry "the EPA has done a great job cleaning up the environment, but now that it's clean we don't need them anymore". Doesn't sound like someone who's really concerned about issues like this.

The dog one was debunked often on that old show "To catch a theif". Most people were sure their dog would stop a burglar, yet every time the dog was happy to see the theif. It makes sense, unless your dog attacks everyone who comes into your house they're not going to attack a burglar.

It's per month I believe. However in my experience selling all sorts of things, most items sell within 2 weeks even things you'd never imagine someone would still buy.

Maybe not through FBA, but you're always able to just sell it on there yourself and pay to ship like you would on ebay

I've been selling on amazon for about 2 years now and I personally love it. I've got rid of so much clutter and things I never thought in a million years would sell have sold within minutes.

I agree and I'll add the reason games continue to get easier is because these same people are the first to run to the internet and bitch about how shitty this game is. Publishers are like movie studios they'd rather aim for the least common denominator. Easier game means more people finish, more people buy DLC, less…

You should be able to configure a controller and mouse combo in most games. Back in UT-99 I used to use a sidewinder controller in my left hand for moving/jumping and the mouse for aiming. It worked great, however I eventually hit the upper limit of skill that could be reached with that setup.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Best phone I've ever owned. It's a bit larger especially coming from an iPhone, but after about a day you get used to it and really appreciate having a bigger screen. And it's so fast, loading apps, the LTE, everything. It's what I always wished my iPhone was.