My fiancee and I always joked when watching Arrow about the ridiculous amounts of Surface product placement. “Surfaxe? Surface Surface Surface.” I’ve actually noticed them in a lot of other programs now, too. Mostly I just find it funny because it’s so blatant.

So it sounds to me like the issue is not actually mathematical, it’s an issue of technical limitations imposed by the formats. What I mean is this. Assume for a moment that the cameras are literally identical except for the sensor (a native 4k and a native 1080p, 1080 on a 4k sensor is of course going to be worse),…

I’m not sure how ending up with exactly the same number of pixels in both cases makes it a mathematical truth. As has been demonstrated (on this very blog, perhaps), more pixels is not always better. Choose a better sensor over more pixels.

I’m not actually convinced the principle does stand in the first place. Sure, shooting ona 4K-capable camera and then downscaling is better, but shooting on a 4k native and downscaling vs shooting on a 1080 native, the 1080 native should be better. Removing pixels always relies on algorithms to decide what should and…

I’m not sure, honestly. But it doesn’t restrict me to using their store to play it back, I can watch it using VLC if I want. I assume their must be some kind of DRM or the studio’s wouldn’t let them do it, but I haven’t looked into it much. I made my first ever digital-only purchase there when Star Wars came out and…

But, even if they do, even if you purchased on the Xbox, you can download a backup copy to your hard drive in a normal MP4 format that you can play without any special software. I have not found another service that allows this so far.

To my knowledge, purchasing on Xbone is a purchase through the Windows Store, which is also accessible (and downloadable) on your computer. So not really that useless.

I think that’s kind of a... misinformed argument to make. When you make a movie, you don’t have to pay royalties to manufacturers for the use of their hardware. That’s just not how it works. But you do have to pay royalties to any music you license or, generally, any footage you might license. So why shouldn’t Let’s…

I’d bet it’s the same one trying to take my brother to court for making fun of him online. I expect that case to be entertaining, they couldn’t even spell all the names right.

I never liked that Mint could access my bank accounts. Seems very not secure...

Those ads are absolutely irritating and definitely not a good thing to have in an app designed to be used WHILE DRIVING A CAR. Furthermore, for some reason Waze has more trouble getting my location of my GPS, keeps telling me GPS unavailable when Maps uses it just fine.

A lot of times it’s my only option for the freeware tool I need. The tool itself is fine, but it’s only hosted by some stupid web site.

Not that this will help me actually find the real download button.

This is very exciting for us poor people. Not as exciting as a way for us to actually charge it when we live in an apartment complex, but still fairly exciting.

On the first computer I ever built I had no idea what a heatsink and fan were for, so I just didn’t install them on the AMD slot processor. Needless to say, that didn’t last very long.

I mean, from a legal standpoint, I get it. I really do. It’s their right. But seriously, what harm am I doing to them, other than complaining about how bad the game (that is out of production anyway) is? If anything I’m increasing awareness of the brand and not costing them anything. So dumb.

You’d think that, but I tried to post a let’s play of Star Wars Shadows of the Empire (they own the rights to the Star Wars music) and instead of claiming ad revenue like a normal company, they straight up blocked it. Not even allowed to have the video up unless I remove the music. I just don’t even understand the…

Huh. I might just be spoiled. They have a butcher shop and smoker in house at mine, so it’s always top quality. Meanwhile, I have yet to get a piece of meat from my local Giant that wasn’t spoiled.

I generally find produce to be any the same price at Whole Foods but much better quality. Meat is usually a little more expensive, but also much better. Milk, however, is actually much cheaper at Target, despite what the article says.

The original joke implies that the definition of Kylo Ren is emo, that his name is a synonym for emo. Therefore we are saying emo emo, which is, in fact, redundant. Being good at grammar is all well and good, but completely useless in this case if you are not also versed in humor.