When video is viewed at a lower framerate, it's up to our brains to fill in the gaps, to determine what the extra frames would look like. When motion smoothing is enabled, the TV does it and it does a bad job.

Are you (or others reading this) on cable internet? Remember, your network connection is, basically, shared by others in your neighborhood. So, if its peak usage time (ie, everyone has just gotten home from work and is checking FaceBook), that will slow down your connection.

The next one will be with kids!

I prefer InSSIDer. It provides a much better interface. Nirsoft does make some other awesome softwares though.

In RE: "Pay off the House." Something a lot of people fail to take into account is you can still get that "home equity" if you're renting, but you have to be diligent about it. Between mortgage interest rates, taxes and repairs, home owners typically spend 50-75% more than renters, sometimes even more than that.

Personally, I agree. When everyone was originally worried about net neutrality in the first place, this is exactly what we were hoping to avoid. A la carte access to the internet where each individual service has to pay extra just to reach consumers (as opposed to the model we have now where, say, Netflix pays to put…

Sounds like exactly what net neutrality is supposed to be preventing - preferential content access based on the provider paying a fee to the carrier. Would hugely stifle innovation and competition and be consumer-unfriendly in the long run. I don't see why cellular should be exempt from the rules, but govt bodies…

And the myth that charging your device at a faster rate will reduce the life of your device’s battery is false.

"You should remain vigilant for incidents of fraud and identity theft..." et tu Target?

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1. Notebooks can't do everything.

So, I read almost everything (books, magazines, Instapaper articles) on my kindle. When I travel that's all that I bring with me, so while I'm not obsessive or anything about it, it is highly annoying when your landing or takeoff is delayed and you are just sitting there circling, waiting for an hour or more with…

BBM is much more than just iMessage. and the convience of PIN based adding means you dont need to give your phone number out when socilizing.

Thank. God. I love my girlfriend, but she has really screwed up my recommendations on all the services we share now. I'm really sick of seeing a "Because you watched Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" list, or an "Animated talking animal children's movies from the 80's" list. I just want to watch Nova, dammit!

The problem is that it's making it impossible to speak without clarifying what you mean in more words than it would have taken to write the thought down. Saying women when referring to people with vagina's for a video game about vaginal masturbation is just faster, and shouldn't be taken to always mean that the…

Count me in this camp. I'll use Google products that I'm confident won't go away (e.g. mail, calendar, analytics) or Google products that I don't use for archival purposes. But after they hosed me on Reader I won't be using Keep. I only have room to worry about Google pulling one service I rely upon, and that slot is…

Alan, I'm sure that Keep is an excellent service. Nearly everything they do is excellent; I'm definitely a Google fanboi. Love their stuff. But I will not use Keep for exactly the reason you point out: the discontinuance of Reader. If they think that I will risk the loss of years of notes and important items, they're…

How he dies/what causes his death is more important than him dying. So everything isn't spoiled. But seriously, how have you not anything about that game spoiled? Do you avoid the Internet?

Going through the backscatter machines is for scrubs. If I get pulled to go through one, I always opt out. Those TSA motherfuckers are paid using my tax money to cup my balls, and by god, cup my balls they will. One day I hope to work up the nerve to actually come right out and ask them, "so over the course of your…