@Stevenson: I felt the same way when my wife explained it.

@Stevenson: It's not that they can't tell, it's that they don't care.

@Arken: A good movie is made better by a quality presentation.

There are a lot of reasons to buy Blu-ray that aren't related to 1080p resolution.

@muzicman82: It's subtle, and the difference is usually lost on people with Home Theater In a Box systems or other poor playback hardware. There's a lot of bad audio equipment out there, considering most people think Bose Lifestyle systems are the industry's reference and a flat panel's integrated speakers is what…

@lego6245: There's a measurable difference in 128 kbps and 192 kbps MP3s. There's no measurable difference in Monster Cables and decently built interconnects.

DO NOT WANT.

@p51d007: No, you really wouldn't have.

@daniel7860: False.

I saw a pilot who was riding in coach do the "standby and stash" move with his Blackberry. He left it on the entire flight.

Wouldn't this break the book's spine?

@Gimmeslack: This article does not apply to me.

@muzicman82: Agree. I still buy CDs. 90% of the time I listen to them in MP3 format, but for that 10% of the time when I break out the CD, I enjoy the noticably superior sound quality.

@cjtyler72: I'm a big Clancy fan, but stopped reading his newer works when Executive Decision became a thousand-page bore. I haven't read the Bear and the Dragon, so I didn't take that idea from that book.

A US vs. China war is remarkably unlikely in the next 20 years.

@Arken: This is true. But what if the Michael Bay version of the aliens is in charge of the invasion? He'd probably push Jupiter into our path.

@Marty_is_SIC: My thoughts exactly.

@Arken: Come on, aliens with that kind of technology will have watched Armageddon and know the ol' asteroid trick won't work.

Here's another mildly racial joke, which will seem far more racist than the example above because I'm not going to spend nine paragraphs overselling it.

@AddictedToGiz: The point is that it's a humor article. The writer was writing tongue in cheek. His extreme hyperbole was feigned for comedic purposes.