Haha! That's awesome! Yeah, that sounds great to. I just think having a drum set in my office would be a great de-stressed, as well as help me get the mandatory graphic design brainstorms going.

Ditto, except I'd put a drum set instead of a Piano in that gorgeous room. Perhaps one day, when our company budget allows, I will have an office large enough to accommodate a drum set. Here's to dreaming.

Yeah that's pretty helpful because there is no need to move actual furniture around to figure out the bed use of your square footage.

Well, being a graphic designer, I'd probably take the graphic and trace it in Illustrator. If it's not a vector already. Then I would draw the furniture as close as possible to scale, and move it around to plan out a space.

Maybe they are, in terms of time, but no one with their amount of influence and brand power has done this yet. That makes a huge difference. Perhaps you and I have heard of these devices because we're into tech, but most people out there have no idea. All Apple has to do is lift a finger and then the entire world will…

I do have to say I personally don't like larger screens on smartphones in general, as it defeats the purpose of a smartphone in my opinion: compact and easy to use / access information quickly. The only real advantage to a larger screen is watching movies, and I guess the argument could be made for playing certain…

Yeah, the whole reason why I haven't let go of my AT&T contract is I have grandfathered unlimited data. The question is if will still be pestered by the little "sponsored" badge. The logical answer is no, but I've seen companies do things that make even less sense.

And to touch on the CG discussion, I happen to have a keen eye for CG flaws/shortcomings, and there are plenty of those in the LOTR trilogy. But they don't bother me that much, as they don't really disrupt the flow of the films for me. For example, when Legolas is doing his awesome stunts on the oliphant, he looked…

Thanks everyone for your responses... they have been very informative. I think I'll pick it up at a Redbox machine on bluray this weekend. If I dig it i'll probably get the trilogy when it comes out.

Is it really that much of a crap flick? I haven't seen it, but I just googled it and it has decent reviews and ratings. Having just seen Desolation, I was eager pick up the Blu Ray and check it out in my home theater... any thoughts on the movie?

If you add the suffix 'ness' to an adjective it becomes a noun and ceases to be an adjective. Forever. But given the context of creative license, I'm not sure if your use of the word 'adjective' is correct or incorrect. Grammatically, I believe it's incorrect. So I'll leave it to you, the writer, to either leave the…

That's so funny... I did that one time back when I was in college and before widescreen was popular (circa 1999). I shot a video with a regular 4:3 camera and basically just cropped off the top and bottom in Adobe Premier to make it look more like a 16:9. It gave the video a more cinematographic feel, and people were…

I would be surprised if there were starker differences, since according to this report male to female differences are genetic and naturally anatomical. Whereas chess players (or any other kind of person that works intensely with they brain, really – e.g. translators and interpreters.) acquire brain differences over…

No, by using the force.

You can potentially still mess up with this tool. I've seen it.

Wonder if Apple is able to filter these things... you'd think so since they've got so much power now. They must at least have some kind of say, much like there were never any tacky "intel inside" stickers on my gorgeous MacBook Pro.

The idea of turning your phone into a tablet in one swift move is actually pretty cool, but I'm not sure if there are many more practical applications beyond this. Not this wouldn't be amazing on its own. It would definitely make Apple look outdated in the minds of most consumers, if they don't step it up that is.

See the three buildings that kind of stick out towards the top right? It's the egg shaped one in the middle of the three. It kind of blends in with the background, but you can see it because of the swirled stripes.

The Gherkin (egg shaped building) designed by Sir Norman Foster.

Gotta love the Gherkin, probably in the top 5 most futuristic looking buildings.