Gaming is an expensive pastime? Is he kidding? It might be expensive for children, but for employed adults it is dirt cheap. $2,000 will get you a very nice TV, a console with all the accessories you could want, and enough games to keep you busy for a couple years of regular play. And most people are going to have…

Ah, the sexy sexy life of a whaler.

Turnabout being fair play, Apple should make 4 or 5 posts a day to their homepage reminding people about the commenting systems shortcomings and suggesting alternate sites to visit until Gawker can work out all the usability issues.

Yes, walk to the TV...which probably doesn't have many buttons.

I was going to say exactly the same thing. I have a Harmony One and I'm really pleased with everything about it but the touch screen, which drives me nuts. You can't feel the button you want. It's too easy to accidentally press adjacent "buttons". The cheaper Harmony remotes have physical buttons corresponding to…

Well, having read many articles like this didn't encourage me. Then I read the wiki you linked to which said nothing about simulation physics.

Pretty regularly, actually. I use it to can rip my new DVDs. Aside from my Xbox, it's the only optical drive I have and I have to transform the media I buy (shiny discs) into the media I want to own (a file on a media server) to work with my AppleTV. But for actual computer tasks? Never.

I don't think Volvo North America has any idea what they want their brand to be. Certainly their marketing doesn't emphasize performance in any way, so they can't be serious about taking market share away from Germans. Perhaps the pleasant but inoffensive styling of the sedans they sell here is chasing Lexus buyers:…

I don't know why this game is being allowed to tarnish the Forza reputation. It might be fun, but is very much not Forza. Turn 10 may have provided the engine, but they aren't making it - Playground Games is. The physics are simplified and the emphasis is shifting to graphics over simulated driving. The Forza car…

Isn't any flare in an image an error? They are artifacts of the equipment used to to capture the image, not of the light before it enters the mechanism. While this does look particularly bad, the other example given still carries the flaws of its process. The iPhone 4 one is only "normal" insofar as people have…

"I like women taller than me" is a personal preference and "Why can women not use Rogaine for men" is a question I assume relates to some medical warning on Rogaine. How are those sexist?

Bravo. Never has this been more appropriate.

Can someone please explain how to accidentally text your entire contact list on any phone?

I know you can still by cocaine-based sprays for a sore throat over the counter in France, so that is used for medical purposes. Diarrhea treatments still contain chalk. Chili powder (or the capsaicin in it) and caffeine are in plenty of medicines. Like it or not, a number of states do have legal provision for the…

I can't believe you're recommend podcaster still. I loved it for years, but after the interface change and the recent update to to iOS6 compatibility (it wiped out libraries and all subscriptions for most users) it shouldn't be on your recommend list anymore.

I've thought that the squared lights on the Camaro were the cheapest looking thing about that car...and now they appear on GM's flagship sports car. This rendering doesn't really tell us what it's going to look like in production, though.

I don't think there is a legitimate contractual mechanism that exists for doing a la carte licensing deals directly with artists. That is the very reason that the RIAA and the big publishing companies exist. A few independent-minded acts may fall outside of that, but most have sold their ability to directly license…

For what it's worth, I really love the turn-by-turn nav in iOS6. Yes, map search is subpar and there's no street view, but the nav is very slick. The animation while in transit is extremely smooth (on a 4S) and if the phone is running another app or asleep, the turn-by-turn integration is excellent. Granted, I'm in…

You are right! Well, a few iOS versions back you couldn't do it on the phone. I should probably check the current version before posting dated howto advice.