Looking at the image, it's hard to believe it's only Q1080p (quarter-1080p - 960x540). Though, it makes it a funny resolution that requires scaling for SD and HD videos... (SD has to be scaled up, all HD content scaled down).

Plus, with the glass at a fixed angle, any polarization that happens is easily compensated for - cars don't have such luxury.

The jailbreak is per-device, so if you don't want to do one device, you don't have to jailbreak them all.

To reverse it, just go to iTunes, and click "Restore". In the worst case, you'll need to enter DFU mode (turn off iPhone/iTouch, then press Power+Home together for 10 seconds, then release the Power button (keep Home pressed) for another 10 seconds). Plug it into USB and iTunes will ask to recover a phone in "Recovery" mode. Install official software, and you're done.

The only thing with the iPhone though is that the baseband may not update properly... but supposedly DFU mode clears that and allows reflashing everything.

The nuclear reactors use U-235, which is an isotope of naturally occurring uranium, and the same exists for plutonium. What has to be done is it has to be refined enough so it's actually useful. But by themselves, it's not terribly interesting.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the periodic table table - a wooden table with each element in it... and if you dig down, there's links to places where you can buy element samples, too.

Dammit, where is installer.app for 2.0?

Why?

Installer.app already has 3 or 4 of them, for free! One of 'em is even a circular bubble level...

A lot of knobs were quite superfluous and unnecessary, while others are quite necessary.

Take a digital camera for example - a point and shoot digital camera should have one button, and one switch - the rest of the functionality can be hidden in a touch screen menu. This is because you need the shutter button (it's an integral part of what everyone considers a "camera"), and the switch (for power). But a Point and Shoot camera is just that - you point it at what you want to take a picture of, click the shutter, and boom, the image is captured.

A dSLR though, must have knobs and buttons because they're designed for people who want to tweak the way they take photos. Common settings that often need adjustment (shutter speed, ISO values, aperture, etc) have their own dedicated knob because every shutter click has a different setting (even if taken together of the same subject!). They're not "point and shoot" because they're designed to offer control.

Some people want to take a photo. Others want to take a photo with the ability to control every little element of the process. With point and shoots, you can do those adjustments too, but it's not as convenient because 99% of the people using them don't want or need to change them for every shot.

Things like fighter jets and stuff, don't actually have a lot of knobs and buttons - the cockpit has a lot of them, but in flight, practically every command is issued from buttons on the stick and throttle ("Hands On Throttle and Stick" - HOTAS).

For sound boards, the common adjustments are knobs because they can change from second to second, and any form of multiplexing doesn't facilitate this. Lesser used functions may get moved elsewhere though.

Race cars - not a lot of buttons actually. There's the display for all the feedback (speed, tach, etc), and the buttons control things like the radio, speed limiter, drinking water, and display information page. The design is already minimalistic so the driver can concentrate on the race. Drivers have the pit crew that can monitor everything else.

Granted, it's not like the other one, but even that had a huge gas-powered energy source (and it still only lasted 2 hours or so), and this one is a really tiny backpack...

It was kinda annoying watching a movie on an IMAX screen and having the damn thing letterboxed on it!

And this 3D thing will be another TV upgrade, you can count on it (they have to sync properly with the TV - can't have the scaler/video processor lag otherwise the frames might be off). A perfect way to provide more DRM and restrictions, too.

(Sorry Sirius, you don't have my favorite station. That's why I went XM).

That... and considering Sony releases "shipped" numbers while Nintendo actually does "sold" numbers (the former means how many go out the door - if a retailer sends 'em back, and they out the door, those PSPs are counted *twice*, the latter is the number actually sold to a customer).

Alas, for that price, they couldn't spring for a DTS decoding license as well?

Used bookstores are a godsend for students, as is selling back your old textbooks. Naturally, all publishers are irked by this. Countermeasure one is the new edition every term, thus making resale of old texts less than worthwhile (except if you have an enlightened prof who supports old editions).

But digital books? Perfect! No resale value, no used bookstore to compete with...

Supposedly the new PSPs are better (I have launch unit), but... what will I do with two PSPs?

Though, once the 3G iPhone is jailbroken, you can tether using SSH and SOCKS easily enough, like you can with the current iPhone.

Just use Pico ITX... there'll be plenty of space, and you can stick the power supply in there!

(There's a Via kit called the Artigo that has a Pico-ITX board and the case, which will fit inside a regular 5 1/4" drive bay halfway.

It isn't feature complete, after all...

Apple already wrote off the entire sale of iPod Touches as revenue. If they add a feature, they have to restate revenue because it's obviously "not completed yet" and thus, they can't recognize the entire revenue of the sale at the time of the sale.

The iPhone has a recurring revenue stream (carriers pay Apple a portion of the service fees for the iPhone). Apple cannot claim that revenue in one shot (like a lot of Enron folk did) - they can only claim that revenue when it's incurred, i.e., every month. So this means that there's revenue being generated and expensed for new feature development.

Granted, Apple should make the fees something like $2 each or something... but them's the laws. Can't recognize revenue if features aren't complete. And if you plan on developing new features, better have a plan of how you want to recognize revenue.

In short, SOX is a brilliant way of ensuring Enron et al don't happen again. Unintended consequences include a way to nickel and dime people for upgrades.

It used ultrasound to accomplish channel changing, and the buttons just controlled hammers that generated the sound on aluminum tuning forks.

What I want to know is - can it encode the audio? So it acts like a regular 5.1/6.1/7.1 sound card, but encode it into dolby digital/dts/dts-master/dolby TrueHD/etc? (The previous Xonar cards can - quite nice if you use an A/V receiver to do your multichannel decoding, rather than discrete speakers).

Even Slashdot had the story dating back to the turn of the millenium!

Sure you had to shut the lid, but c'mon know, most batteries are hidden in the bottom or have a latch there. Most sane people will flip their computer upside down to fiddle with the latch, and probably just end up closing the lid anyhow. Sure you can put the laptop on its side and replace the battery that way, but still.

Most users don't change their laptop battery or buy a replacement. Those that change their laptop battery will close the lid. A battery to keep power flowing so you can use the "sleep" rather than "hibernate" mode is nice for the few that swap batteries (and a stadnard feature of Apple notebooks), but honestly, in the PC world, is hibernating so hard?

Then again, given Windows (or more like OEMs like Dell (crappy BIOS) and hardware manufacturers (crappy drivers)) inability to often suspend/resume properly... it might have some merit!

If you buy a ticket from the scalper and can't provide the information on the ticket... you just wasted your money.

Might be the good way to get rid of the scalping problem where tickets sell out in the first 10 minutes...

It's like the older style DLP projectors which did the rainbow thing (until they mostly solved it via rotating the disc 3x faster, then for good using 3 DLPs...).

Fix that to be like plasma or LCD, and it'll be the ideal technology.

The Sony Store guy said it was because the source was 1080p24... but that's even worse... flicker hell.

That was one reason why I preferred HD-DVD to Blu-Ray - the mastering of HD-DVDs just seemed "better" in many respects in image quality.

Early Blu-Rays were mastered so badly that a few were "remastered" (Fifth Element), or the DVD was better quality (Talledega Nights - WTF?).

As for real film grain, I think the source film doesn't have too much grain, but the film shown in the theatres does. This is because the latter has to be duplicated many times over, so using cheaper stock would be a good idea (since it's all thrown away in the end). After all, source film is scanned at 4k lines before digital editing (and CGI is also rendered at 4k lines). They add some grain so the CGI and filmed parts aren't too distinct. Then they print to master film before duplication.

The source film will add grain, the print master will have the source film's grain plus its own grain, and then the duplicates will have all that PLUS the grain of that film.

I think Transformers also used film... guess it just really depends what quality film... and what exposure (low-light film is grainier).