That doesn't sound like the wholesome AT&T I deal with.

Now be fair, execs at Japanese car companies come up with terrible ideas at a fraction of the price charged by execs at American car companies.

If you're saying that Apple does a middling job with the bootcamp drivers, then I have to agree with you, but it works nonetheless and you aren't limited to the outdated drivers Apple distributes with their occasional bootcamp updates. I do all my gaming on Macs (but while running Windows, of course) and save myself…

It's just something they pulled of an old scorched crate from WWII they found sitting in one of their very large warehouses.

Thank god they're planning for 17" slates. You know that's going to be an important niche to fill.

Oh jeez. How long can I do it before I'm at serious risk. I mean, how long could someone hypothetically do that?

A few ounces of fruit juice every couple weeks is more than sufficient to fend off scurvy. Even lettuce has vitamin C in it.

Exactly. And now we know he was done in by the vitamin industrial complex.

I really don't think that's fair. Sure, Epic Swagg deserves what he gets, but what about the effect this will have on his parents Ma and Pa Swagg, his wife Mrs. Swagg, and all the little Swaggs? How does it help anything to humiliate all of them publicly like this?

The mini is only $600, so this is more than 4x Apple's price.

No, with Windows you had to remember an arbitrary number. With OS X, if I want to type ø, it's very easy to remember that it's option+o. Likewise å is option+a, ¥ is option+y. If you want an umlaut, you type option+u then the vowel you want the umlaut over. Accents work the same with e and c. Predictably, similar…

We never convert anything to down to 24fps and I can't imagine why anyone ever would outside of a situation where you are trying to heavily stylize the footage. There are a handful of network dramas and maybe HBO series still shot to film, but not much else in television at this point. Now, European PAL content is…

Very little stuff for TV is shot at 24fps anymore, except commercials and things where they want the effect of the pulldown later. Film just isn't shot for much at all these days. The production company where I work shoots everything at 30 or 60 depending on a variety of factors. Delivery is almost always 720p30,…

I'm pretty sure Han Solo drove a '55 Chevy in American Graffiti.

That would work, but would be deeply unsatisfactory and might not meet the spec for 1080i. If your original source is 30fps progressive (or more likely 29.97 non-drop-frame) then you're just throwing away half of your image. Interlaced video's strength is that it effectively doubles the frame rate and results in…

You can always re-wrap MKVs very quickly. The additional features supported by MKV are things like DTS, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, and referenced external SRT files - cool stuff, but not actually used by many people. The actual video codec (usually h264 these days) is exactly the same for both, so you really only lose…

One overlooked note. The new AppleTV doesn't support 1080i. Until the past couple years progressive scan HD wasn't ubiquitous in TVs so lots of 3+ year old TVs will be forced down to 720p with this box. I'm sure there's a technical reason for this limitation, but it was a huge disappointment for me (yes, I learned…

Yeah, you're right. I still doubt that he'll actually clear $100k for the year, but he's going to be doing great for an actor/monologuist in 2012.

If you actually listened to the This American Life retraction episode, you'd know that they led the piece by standing by the substance of the allegations against Apple's vendors; that every transgression Daisey claimed was in fact well documented already in many places, including Apple's own reports. The retraction…

He's sold a lot of monologue tickets. That's a far cry from making a lot of money. This will no doubt be his best year as a monologuist, but it's probably nothing impressive when compared to a lot of middling jobs with steadier pay.