I was kind of dragged to see it because I wasn't interested in the slightest by the trailer. It was surprisingly good.

I'm pretty sure this only applies to books made with the Author software, so just create the book with a different authoring program to sell it somewhere else....

As far as I can tell, what this really does is give people who click the link intentionally plausible deniability. Whereas before you had to agree to participate in a DDOS before beginning your participation in the attack, now all you have to do is click a link and if somehow your IP is chosen to track down and…

This is pretty standard NDA stuff, especially in product development areas. I do auditing and work under similar restrictions. We're not allowed to even let slip the names of companies under audit, let alone detail of the audits themselves

Ah that makes sense. Also explains how they basically tacked the feature onto the game so quickly as opposed to having it in there from the beginning of development

You're right they did take out the processor. I have no idea why a standard mic wouldn't work then

HowIsYourFlat below is right, I just Google'd around and apparently they did remove the processor that was originally in the prototype before releasing. In that case, I don't really know why you wouldn't be able to use any standard Xbox mic....

Once it's open they can no longer just put it back on the shelf and sell it as new, which is why there's a 15% restocking fee at stores like Best Buy. So if you want them to open the box so they can check it and charge you 15% of the sale price to return it, then you've got a great idea

Good god it takes literally one minute to read this article

I might be totally wrong, but I think you do need Kinect because of the additional processing power it provides. Basically I think the Kinect is the device that takes the voice input, processes it, recognizes the command, and turns it into the corresponding "button press" to send to the Xbox. The Xbox alone doesn't…

1366x768 is actually a common resoultion for "720p" LCD screens and 13-14" laptop screens

You can RTFA too

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Does anyone know if the SSD's in these ultrabooks are standard 2.5" and thus easily upgradeable? Or are they like the MacBook Air drives

I would really love to see some 13.3" models, unless I missed something and there is one.... 14" is juuuust a bit too big for my taste

You need to look up the difference between chimeras and hybrids

I think you meant to say peanutty

I shall name him Rhesus Pieces!

I agree. I think HP was WebOS' last shot at really getting out there. With Android and iOS well established and WP7 really starting to come into its own there just isn't going to be room for a 4th mobile OS in a year, which is probably at least as long as it would take for a new company to get some decent hardware put…

On a slightly related topic, who else can't wait for this stupid "Occupy *insert 'witticism' here*" trend to die?