If Activision were running things, they'd put out a Half Life game every year, and TF2 would only get updates as part of paid DLC. Is that what you want? Valve needs to make money and keep being awesome. They seem to have a handle on both those things, so I see little need to complain.

Yes and no. Sure, I'll use it as a second screen to look things up (occasionally related to whatever I'm watching), but I don't post or tweet about what I watch. "#Glee is just the most awesome thing that #FoxTV has ever made!"

So, he made it look like crap...to keep it looking nice? My mind is blown.

So the thing at issue here is the ammonia? Is it merely processed with ammonia or is some detectable amount of ammonia present in the final product when consumed? If ammonia is actually being served to consumers then that would certainly contravene USDA regulations and get the company into hot water for selling…

None. I'll just buy a handful of usb-lightning cables for charging and be done with it.

"Earn"? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. A rise in stock price isn't anyone "earning" anything. Semantic quibble aside, it doesn't even put additional money in FB's coffers. It merely raises the theoretical valuation. FB would have to file before offering more shares,…

Agreed. Real tracks have a lot more thought put into their design and modification. They are tuned to create a particular driving experience that just won't happen when a game designer has to crank out a bunch of original layouts in a short time. That said, it'd be nice to see something other than the usual…

While you are right that they are charging for load, it is also incentive to not invest in particularly good coverage. Why have better infrastructure if you can charge more for retransmitting packets?

Sure, I guess. If you think rocketships and robots are awesome.

Yep, Laguna Seca coming out of turn 2.

Apple's phones have been using some kind of glass from Corning for a while, but nobody official will comment on what glass it is. They don't want component brand names specified, so it's unclear if it's the same as Gorrilla Glass or slightly different. For scratch-resistance purposes, Apple has always prioritized…

Fees are used to discourage bad behavior. If you want to discourage unrecyclable waste, the fee should be applied at the point of production or consumption (purchase), not well after the transaction has been made. Additionally, there should be a cost benefit analysis which compares increased recycling at the expense…

To give credit where it is due, BusyCal is much better than iCal ever has been. It retains the best of the iCal interface, but plays so much more nicely with calendar services than iCal ever could. It also allows you to sidestep the horribly broken clusterf*%$ that is AppleSyncServices.

Any idea if Valve is doing anything to address the fact that living room entertainment is typically shared and Steam accounts are not? If I'm going to bring my Steam games into the living room, my wife will want her own friends list and saves. Right now, Steam doesn't do that (to be fair Xbox handles it in a clumsy…

There is a cabled connection, same as anything else. This is really just a software variant built around the assumptions of a 10' viewing distance and not necessarily having a keyboard/mouse as your controllers. Many people - especially those wall-mounting their TVs - run their cabling in-wall to keep it nice, so I…

I'm not interested in arguing your main point about unions one way or another, but I think you might have Marchionne's motivation the wrong-way-around. I suspect it isn't Canada being expensive, but rather Europe being expensive. As long as he's keeping a European plant open, it makes most sense for him to keep it…

Effing cyclists. Not all of them, of course, but you know the ones I mean. The ones who think that stop signs only apply to motorized vehicles. The ones who demand lane space (which they have every right to) until they get to an intersection where a motorist is turning right - then they yell at drivers telling them…

You don't mean Allen Funt, do you?

Nope. I've got an old 3GS that I use as a test phone for deployments. That's going to be 3 1/2 years old and it runs the latest version of iOS. I think it will also be supported by iOS 6 as well, which means it would have at least a 4 1/2 year support life. Are there any Android phones that get that sort of…