Power buttons on the outside of a portable computer would get pressed too frequently when they are in bags or otherwise being carried around. Any that offer a functioning-while-closed feature like Apple's do would suffer the additional fate of not necessarily going to sleep after they are inadvertently…

Wouldn't that be the court's concern and not Microsoft's? They're rules laid down by the court for their own reasons, not for opposing counsel. I'd believe that the courts aren't yet set up to deal primarily with digital copies, which is why things like font size might matter to them, but the MS attornies certainly…

Usually for contests like this, the company will have to buy insurance against someone winning before the contest even starts. What happens is that they'll pay a few hundred thousand dollars (more or less, depending on the calculated likelihood of someone actually winning), so they'd be out most of their money,…

Don't care for baseball personally, but this is a good portent for the future of my AppleTV. So good that MLB probably wasn't supposed to say anything about this yet.

I'd say it's not accounting, it's the finance guys. They ruin everything.

I've always thought Netflix did a pretty good job of covering smaller and foreign films. Those distributors are happy to make deals. It's the big distros with major features who are reluctant to play ball with Netflix.

His dismissal was announced yesterday and nope, the production went on hiatus without fulfilling the season's contract, 4 shows short. Presumably shows in post will be finished in the coming weeks, but the writing and production staff would have been laid off immediately. If there is another season, they won't know…

Some people who sit in coffee shops all day with laptops:

There is something funny about this whole story. My 7 month old son probably wouldn't go into a bin without a bigger fight than a flight attendant is ready for, but if he did I can't imagine that I'd be upset enough to sue over it. Even if I were sitting down and buckled in, it certainly wouldn't take more than a…

What about all of the people whose jobs depended upon this jackass continuing to do his show? A big network sitcom keeps a lot of people in work. I imagine that the 2 1/2 men offices are now employing a handful of people.

You'd have to buy Meeples - the little player pieces - too. Some tiles would also have bonus resource shields which would add a few bucks here and there.

Maybe sponsored, but not enough to actually make a living. Maybe a low enough pro ranking that you're still able to enter some non-pro races.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

The lawsuits are because the government had no intention of helping some people who will have lifelong debilitating conditions because of the work they did. Many are limited in what they can do now and others are no longer able to earn a living because of the effects of helping out there. Regardless of whatever…

There are 3 MAJOR international airports right there in a 20 mile radius, to say nothing of other major airports up and down the coast with airspace overlapping the tri-state area and all of the smaller airports and dense helicopter traffic that have to be taken into account.

Quicktime is a transport layer, not a particular codec. It allows for codecs to be added via plug-in, but many 3rd party plugins aren't particularly well optimized. Quicktime support from Apple has focused optimization on a modest codec list over the years - H264, Pro-Res, a particular variety of MPEG2 back in the…

Really? I've never heard of people having problems with Quicktime. It's a pretty reliable transport layer and is extensible enough that most codecs are availalbe for it. People quite often use Quicktime in conjunction with codexes (yeah, I know it should be codices) that aren't appropriate for the task, but that's…

Then it's a non-word that people have been using for at least 60 years to convey an idea we all understand upon hearing it.

Huh? Since Sony's a Japanese outfit, so I guess you're implicating Americans because our tort system insists on sticking to a consistent set of rules as part of due process? Judges (like this one) make mistakes everywhere, but that's why there's an appellate system and a review process. I agree this is all BS, but…

Except that the majority of Arab Americans are Christians of Libyan descent and they are of no interest to the FBI, so maybe Muslim-American is the more relevant modifier.