Anyone really thinks Mercedes, Audi and the other big carmakers will actually make electric cars for people to buy within the next 5 years? Instead of electric cars destined to live inside press releases and test groups? Hint: The demand is not there. Nobody wants to pay top dollar for a glorified grocery getter that…

As a note, Handbrake cannot crack DRM byitself. At least not for modern discs. You need a tool like AnyDVD HD (paid*) or DVDFab HD Decrypter (free, download it now if you haven't already).

The Gambon in Top Gear? Because not even the stig can't get it always right.

The first gen Fiat Punto doesn't have a cupholder. I mean, at all.

You know that Analog computers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer ) do exist? And that they don't need to break everything into discrete steps? Of course with Analog computers you have all kinds of inaccuracies and noise/singal degradation any analog system has.

"What is the US government going to do? "

But there is also no penalty for uploading copyright-infringing content. Uploading copyrighted material to filelocker services must be the only infringement that doesn't have any kind of penalty in modern law. You can upload any infringing file you want to a site like rapidshare, and if the content gets removed by a…

The author is a hipster (see the Instagram part above), his statemetns don't have to be consistent with his previous statements.

You mean like how the iPhone 4 got iOS 5 but didn't got Siri? It's iOS 5 in name only, in reality it's a cut down version of IOS 5. With Android, if you care about upgrades, you can get a Nexus and have upgrades to the same vanilla Android the latest Nexus is running. Or get a Galaxy SII/SIII which have unlocked…

The reason Motorola's upgrade experience is so bad is probably because

Because OEMs don't want to become just chip packagers, and suffer the margin crush PC OEMs suffered in the 90s. That's why they differentate through skins and hi-end SoCs not officially supported by vanilla Android. If they all offered the same UI and SoC as the Nexuses, margin crush!

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The flaw in that logic is that you think people care about whether a software environment is open or closed. Fact is, the PS3 and iOS are some of the most loved environments out there, and they are both closed and require developers to pass "certifications" to get their apps and/or games on the platform. As long as an…

Well, it was pretty much inevtable. When I saw Samsung converting Android's home button into a big button at the center, and mangling Android to make it look more like iOS, my reaction was "meh". Hey Sammy, we want Android to look like Android, not like some Apple knockoff. Just my opinion, but LG, Motorola and HTC…

"Shedding a tear over the destruction of a consumer product, now THAT'S enraging. "Oh my god, that mass produced phone is being destroyed!" "

The really stunning thing is that Apple, the company that is supposed to be revolutionizing computers and such, couldn't build an inventory system that doesn't allow employees to walk away with free stuff with a sticker price of half a thousand dollars, till the late 2000s. And the people who smashed iPhones for fun…

LG Optimus 2X. Everything looked amazing on paper, but when I took it off the box, I found out the screen washes out blacks badly. I am talking about grey-looking blacks here. In normal room lighting, it can really start to hurt your eyes. I can reduce the effect somewhat by enabling auto-brightness, but then the…

You must already own a real Aston to be able to order the Cygnet.

Well, it tries to solve the comment overload problem without hiding comments from new users, like the old one did. But that doesn't make it an improvement, got to agree. It's worse.

I never understood surge protection for RJ11 and RJ45. RJ45 is used in LANs, and RJ11 cables are underground, so they can't be hit by lightning. Most RJ11 and RJ45 equipment can't even produce higher than normal voltages in that port, the device must be hit with a thermonuclear attack or something to send a high…