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This has nothing to do with the relations between Brazil and Japan and everything to do with the fact that Nintendo is dying. This company has shown time and again that all they can do is release tired useless gimmick after tired useless gimmick and pass that off as "innovation". They release the same games every single year with absolutely no change and force their customers to pay a massive premium. The Wii was a massive joke, except no one laughed. Their 3DS handheld has less power than the original PlayStation Portable and costs 3 times as much and has no games. The Wii U has less power than the original XBOX much less the 360. Don't get me started on that abomination of a controller that weighs as much as a cinder-block, has a range of about 1 foot, and a battery life measured in minutes and not hours.

Nintendo is the corporate equivalent of the walking dead. I doubt they will even be around in five years. Even their own shareholders can't stand them. They would just be better selling off all their IP to a company that knows how to actually produce something, like Disney. Then Miyamoto and Iwata should do the world a favor and commit sepuku to atone for the massive failures they have inflicted on the game industry.

Ooo, this should be fun. I'mma go ahead and debunk basically everything you've just said that can be proven with numbers.

The Wii was a massive joke.: FALSE. The Wii has sold over 100 million units, and about 9 times as much software (so, about 9 games per console. Not bad!)

The 3DS handheld has less power than the original Playstation Portable and costs 3 times as much and has no games: FALSE. The 3DS runs an ARM11 Dual-core at 268 Mhz compared to the PSP's CPU held back to 222MHz. The only way it's more powerful is through mods/hacking. In addition, the 3DS has had over 186 million software units sold, compared to psp's 5.2 million. In addition, the PSP retailed for $199. The 3DS retailed for $249, and later went down to $149. So, no, not three times more.

The Wii U has less power than the original XBOX much less the 360: FALSE.The WII U is lcocked at 1.24 GHz, compared to the original Xbox's 733Mhz. Now, the Wii U does have a slower clock than the 360, but has more memory and a higher GPU clock. Raw CPU power will only get you so far, and the Wii U is more than capable of out-shining the 360.

Controller weighs as much as a cinder-block, has a range of 1 foot and battery life measured in minutes, not hours.: FALSE. The Wii U gamepad weighs about 1.1 pounds. Cinder blocks, on the other hand, usually come in at 30 to 35 pounds. The range goes up to 27.5 feet, but typically works best up to 15. The Battery life CAN be measured in minutes, but only if you consider that 180 to 300 minutes a better way of saying it than 3 to 5 hours.

Nintendo is the corporate equivalent of the walking dead. I doubt they'll even be around in five years.: FALSE. Nintendo has enough money saved up to last 52 years, assuming an annual deficit of 250 million. That seems unlikely given that they had a profit of over

And even if they were the same, I love how /. is so fixated on one mistake one department made over a decade ago.

How about the repeat three years ago?

And let's not forget about "OtherOS" four years ago.

Or profiteering from Whitney Houston's extremely convenient death two years ago.


No, Sony's PR problem doesn't come from "one mistake one department made over a decade ago", it comes from their entire corporate ethos, which their latest woes merely exemplify. They pretty much have made it a holiday tradition of shoving their foot up our asses on a yearly basis, and then expecting us to just smile and ask when the next gen of Playstation will come out so we can re-buy our entire game library that doesn't work on their empty promises of backward compatibility.

>Zalman

http://www.geek.com/chips/pc-c...

"Moneual CEO Harold Park, and vice presidents Scott Park and Won Duck-yeok, have apparently spent the last five years producing fraudulent documentation relating to the sales performance of Zalman. These documents inflated sales figures and export data for Zalman’s products. The reason? Bank loans.

By increasing sales and exports Park and his associates were able to secure bank loans totaling $2.98 billion. Someone has finally realized what has been going on, though, triggering Zalman’s shares to be suspended on the stock market and the company filing for bankruptcy protection."

Nope, I refuse to give my money to alleged or proven scammers.

And here is article claiming they installed Ubuntu. A couple of pictures.

The real question is drivers -- the article is pretty short on any real info on driver compatibility.

1. The hardware is locked to Windows. My understanding is that the newer Pro versions aren't locked, but that's despite MS's efforts otherwise.

None of the Pro versions have ever been locked. Good luck loading Ubuntu on that iPad too. Hypocrite.

That is a very astute summary of the issues.

I would love to see residential ISP's make an honest case explaining why the existing system is broken. (Where end-users purchase internet service from their residential ISP and online businesses purchase internet service from their ISP's - both with the understanding that packets will flow between the two, unrestricted. When demand exceeds capacity at peering points, each end will make a reasonable effort to add capacity at peering points providing customers at each end what they have paid for).

I'm not against the idea of residential ISP's turning an honest buck. After all, they really did invest significant dollars in infrastructure, including negotiation for rights-of-way in municipalities. Further, they need to maintain that network, and upgrade the network as demand increases. I think that they deserve a fair chance for an honest return on their investments. However, the idea that residential ISP's should be allowed to double-dip on selling access seems quite insane to me, and is counter to the open principles employed since the foundation of the internet. We can thank Ed Whitacre Jr, former CEO of SBC for coming up with the idea in 2005/2006 (as far as I can tell) that the residential ISP's customers are both customers and products to be resold to content providers. The Internet doesn't work that way, and never has. The idea that content providers are getting some sort of free lunch on the residential ISP's dime is laughable; it's just a shameful distortion of the facts. The residential ISP's bandwidth has already been paid for by their customers, and the content providers have already paid for their own bandwidth. I have yet to hear a compelling argument from any ISP's about how the existing system is broken (other than, to paraphrase, "because we can").

As a freedom junkie and pseudo-Libertarian - part of me believes that government regulation of the internet opens up a can of worms. However, residential ISP's demonstrating their willingness to distort facts and abuse monopoly powers that they have in many markets. Is there any reason why residential ISP's should not be regulated accordingly?

The Surface Pro 3 doesn't have a locked boot loader. And it's actually quite easy to install Linux on it if you so desire. There are some hardware compatibility problems, but there's no locked boot loader, and installing Linux on a Surface Pro 3 isn't much different from installing it on any other laptop.

And yet MS is coming up with new ways to license Windows that make it cheaper than ever to make sure people have proper Windows Licenses. They also have this which is what allows you to buy $99 refurbished (off lease) PCs and ensure that you get a proper Windows license. The last $99 refurb I bought came with such a license and also included an actual OS install CD.

I think they have a ways to go in terms of people building their own machines, or upgrading old versions. But it's not like they are charging ridiculous amounts of money for their software.

It's not a computer, it's a "tablet". They are locked down in hardware to only run the OS they shipped it with.

Wrong.

For a Surface Pro 3:

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/...

For other tablets

http://www.techradar.com/us/ne...

I've already installed Linux Mint on my wife's W8 Touch screen laptop. She just stopped using it under W8.1 because the experience was so awful. Under Mint, she's happy. But I digress.

There's just a few things you have to change. If you want a dual boot, there is a little more to do, because when you enable the device to see another OS, it won't see W8. In my case, it didn't matter, because I had no intention of ever booting into W8 again. Overall, installing and using Linux is pretty easy.

Hmmm... Did anyone just say why don't we use this opportunity of reliance upon centralized power and the weakness thereof to get rid of the energy cartels and rely on decentralized power instead, thus making our nations stronger, more independent and resilient to both attacks and natural disasters ? Just food for thought on a day that Solar Power just got greener and not to mention cheaper http://www.geek.com/science/se... The fact that power companies are being "attacked" is old news - The right path to take in the light of these "attacks" is one of energy self reliance. That means "self powering" each building and furthermore securing such installations from infograbbing / controlling entities looking out for their own profits with no real concern for your needs or finances.

More specifically, Intel has a TERRIBLE reputation in 2 areas:
1) Announcing something when it is far from finished.
2) Producing "consumer" items no one wants.

Examples:
2001: Intel closing consumer electronics unit
2011: Intel drops smart TV to focus on smartphones, tablets and thin laptops

Some experiences:

In 2012, I was visiting an Intel web page. A pop-up asked me to take a survey. I said yes. I mentioned several management problems at Intel. I said that the problems at Intel started at the top. For example, the then CEO, Paul Otellini had paid $6 billion for McAfee. I said that, in my opinion, McAfee software was worse than useless, that McAfee had no connection with Intel's business, and that the $6 billion was entirely wasted. (Last week I mentioned McAfee anti-virus software to a programmer acquaintance who works for a bank. He said McAfee anti-malware software is worse than the malware it is supposed to protect against.)

I'm not saying I had any influence, but 3 months later it was announced that Otellini would no longer be CEO of Intel.

This is my understanding from talking with friends and acquaintances who work at Intel: The processor and chipset division is managed quite well. Apparently Intel top management doesn't mess with that, maybe because they don't understand anything about it.

Non-technical people can't manage technological companies! To manage Intel well, it is necessary to have technology in your heart and be fascinated with the details. And, at the same time, it is necessary to have the social ability to manage a large company.

Several years ago I called an Intel support person and showed him a huge mistake in the description of an Intel product. He said something like, "We are re-doing the web site. We will fix that soon." A year later, I talked to the same man. He didn't remember me, but I remembered him, and had written his name. I mentioned the same error. He gave the same excuse again.

Another experience: Several years ago I wanted to buy Intel motherboards. It took 2 hours to become a member of some online Intel group and find the exact model number.

Remember Intel Bunny People dolls? Apparently someone at Intel thought that processor and motherboard buyers would be motivated by a cute doll.

It is my understanding that Intel's incompetence continues. It surprises me, but my own personal opinion is that I would be a far better manager than what Intel has now. One of the biggest problems in the entire world is the rarity of good management.

If they don't want civilians do to their job, they should do their job.

What's hard to understand about that?

Mind, It's also disproportionate to fetch iphones with SWAT teams.
These things do not always point to the correct address.

While MS wasn't hit too hard by this praticular bug, they have been hit by bugs in open source "core infrastructure" libraries before. Anyone remember this: http://www.geek.com/news/micro... ? Basically everything MS shipped had to be patched due to zlib being statically linked all over the place.

Anyway, lots of people run open source stuff on windows servers (well, some do at least...), and it's in the best interest of MS that those boxes are safe.

And last but not least, it's if not free so at least very cheap publicity.

Pretty sure it was the one that was reviewed here. Had a Crusoe CPU from TransMeta (remember them, anybody?) and ran Midori Linux. Apparently some of these units also ran Windows CE, but I only saw the Midori version.

CGI first introduced to TV in Babylon 5

The July 1994 issue of Compute! magazine discusses the graphics used in Babylon 5. By today’s standards, it seems primitive, but it was innovative in its time. Each episode of the series used an average of 6,000 frames of computer graphic animation from Foundation Imaging. They used 24 Amiga 2000s, 16 of which were dedicated rendering engines. They had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Fusion-40 accelerator and the Toaster. The Amigas were connected via a Novell network and sent data to a 12 gigabyte 486 PC file server. They later upgraded to Pentium and Alpha-based systems.

The making of Babylon 5

Source of Amiga Video Toaster Software Released

http://www.geek.com/games/tomb...

The lackluster jobs reports have almost nothing to do with automation and worker replacement. Big companies don't hire in the mass needed to move the unemployment stats much more than a few tenths of percent. This is because they already have hired people. They've been hiring people for years as the grow. At some point you can decide to get a little more out of the people you hire by pushing them a bit, or maybe making their jobs a little more productive. But either way, the last thing a modern business wants to do is hire a bunch of people they'll have to layoff down the road.

Small business is where the growth in employment happens. Small business expansion is at an all-time low, and has been since the rise of stupid laws like Sarbanes/Oxley, that can devastate a small company while just adding to the accounting burden of big companies (who can absorb it or pass it along to their customers). Until the US becomes small-business friendly again, there's not going to be much job growth.

And what about all that automation? The whole point is that robots are getting cheap. That means it's going to be possible for small businesses and entrepreneurs are going to be able to buy them. What will they do with them? How about custom manufacturing everything? If you've ever remodeled a kitchen, you know that there's a lot of activity around building cabinets, designing the space, picking materials, etc. It's one of those things that produces a lot of activity and is expensive, but not so far out of reach that average people can't afford it. Now think about the automotive aftermarket, custom motorcycles, even additions to homes. All of these things are somewhat custom today. Imagine if those same ideas were applied to cell phones, where a designer could build a model of a phone just for you, have the circuit board made, 3Dprint the case in any color(s) you want, Assemble the phone in the back room and finally, gets you a detailed breakdown of the cost, which is surprisingly not much more than today's iPhone 5S.

Oh, and when you drop it, can easily fit a new glass cover on it because he knew you were going to do that.

Well not the electron itself but as of last year we do have a picture of the orbit.

Sorry for being a pedant. :)

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YouTube goes 4K at CES, brings royalty free VP9 to fore front

There are some very big players moving in HEVC.

Netflix has tossed their hat in the 4K ring with the announcement of 4K streaming starting next month.

The jump from streaming 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 is not something that can be done by just flipping a switch. First of all, viewers need a 4K TV, which practically no one has yet. PCMag's Chloe Albanesius has informed us that Netflix's 4K content will require ''somewhere between 12 and 15 Mbps'' to stream properly. That;s a pretty serious connection which, again, not many .

By using H.265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) moving forward instead of the currently popular AVC H.264, Netflix thinks they will be able to stream the same quality they currently transmit at half the bitrate. Not only does this mean there's room for higher quality 4K streams, but the current HD content will be transmitted more efficiently.

It's unclear when we'll see 4K streaming available in standalone set-top boxes any time soon, or whether or not it will require new hardware in order to handle the increased resolution in the future, but for now it looks like the TV itself is the home for 4K streaming.

Netflix is bringing 4K streaming to TVs with H.265 and House of Cards [Dec 19]

Wasn't this about Microsoft changing Skypes architecture to enable surveilance? Hell, they were even brazen enough to patent aspects of it. They've even been scanning chats for URLs (which was news to me). Apparently the excuse was they were scanning the URLs for malicious software, which may be true... but most regard anything they say these days with a grain of salt, and rightly so.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/microsoft-security-essentials-strikes-out-on-questionable-av-test-1538990/ Geek.com outed this testing firm last Friday for A) running MSE without applied windows updates, and B) accepting sponsorship from tested softwares.

http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/bill-gates-loses-worlds-richest-title-after-giving-28-billion-to-charity-1324573/
28 > 1.
And that was 2011.

By SDK I mean the tools, the havok physics engine, the unreal engine, the cry engine and so on.

Well, Crytek is already porting its 3d engine :-)
http://www.geek.com/games/crytek-is-porting-cryengine-to-linux-1562557/

Android is licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0* and GNU GPL Version 2.0 (the Kernel), for everyone and for free. The license is telling you: here is the code, do what ever you like. To compare that with the restricted Windows EULA or license that you have to buy for at least 3$ per phone** is very deceptive.

* Android Open Source Project License
** Windows Phone licensing cost revealed by ZTE: $23 – $30

Oh, what do you do on it? Can you draw like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puyMmARTqck

Oh wait, it even has shitty lag. http://www.geek.com/android/the-nexus-7-lag-dilemma-and-why-theres-no-real-fix-1560784/

Enjoy your lagfest.

I don't get all the nonsense hate. Comparing a Nexus 7 to a Surface Pro is like comparing a lawn mower with a jet engine. Of course it going to burn more fuel because it can do more. .

A few months back, I read about a wax heat sink that could allow processors to turbo to very high speeds for very short periods. But...

Unfortunately, dealing with the heat created by sprinting isn’t the only issue that needs to be resolved. Even if wax is up to the task, there needs to be improvements in battery technology before such a system would work in a portable device.

Intel engineer Steve Gunther told Wired, “if I can’t get the current out of the battery it doesn’t help. You need balanced solutions.”

Well, here's the technology that can help that.

Actually, they are building Xbones. Foxconn is making both consoles and I have little doubt that students are building both, yet it's the PS4 that gets pushed to the forefront.

How about an article titled "Foxconn Accused of Forcing Interns to Do Assembly Line Work or Lose School Credit"? I guess that wouldn't have as much sizzle, now would it? And then we couldn't show our displeasure with our wallets, to the benefit of Sony's competitors.

No offense taken, and I certainly suspected a possible virus. However, this was on my home PC, the only PC that is on 24/7. I ran Wireshark, netstat, and assorted other utilities to check the activity, the PC is clean. I was occasionally running uTorrent, but the torrents I was seeding were low demand (live shows shared via Dime A Dozen) and that program was throttled.

Now I don't know for a fact exactly how much bandwidth I was using. I am basing the 10 terrabytes on the published news stories. Perhaps I was using nowhere near that, and Verizon has not been forthcoming about the limits (at least not to me) so maybe it really was just about Tor.

Just a few very well known samples. That is not even the tip of the iceberg. http://www.geek.com/science/robot-swarms-self-assemble-into-flying-units-of-any-shape-or-size-1562961/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvpEfAPXn4
http://naturalrobotics.group.shef.ac.uk/research.html

(Pay-walled articles) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4108264&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4108264
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11431-012-4748-2

This is a pretty popular research topic nowadays. I have no idea why this MIT news is literally in every tech-blog on the net(other than their excellent PR department, I wished the PR guys in my university had the same enthusiasm...). I'm not trying to discredit them or anything, but while their approach is somewhat novel, similar results have been achieved in many different ways.

I don't have a real gear selector. It's a CVT, and park is a button that does not reside on the 'stick' (that only serves to select drive, neutral, or reverse)

If you're just making mid-tier or lower gear, releasing months after everyone else with mediocre specs, then you're going to fade into obscurity. This means you get less FREE ADVERTISING, because everyone ignores your press releases, so you are stuck charging lower prices for devices.

Just look at a company like VIA Technologies: they used to be relevant, producing competitive chipsets for Intel and AMD. But they were more complacent in their other "visible" product categories (x86 CPUs, GPUs) so they made little-to-no long-term brand-name recognition driven by the chipset sales. So when the chipsetm sales were stolen by AMD and Intel, they dropped like a rock.

Today the company has practically collapsed, with earnings more volatile than ever before (dropped from 500 million USD/yr to 140 million USD/yr revenue in 4 years). They make 2nd-run parts a year after top-tier component makers because being first to market would take too much R&D budget (and they can't charge high dollar for their 2nd-run parts either). They make "me too" ARM cores and try to sell people on gimmicky platforms, living life from one press release to the other.

AMD is getting DANGEROUSLY close to this line, and if they cross it they will likely not be able to afford to re-enter the top-end (due to the massive increase in R&D costs to remain there). Generic "just like everyone else" ARM server parts are just the beginning of this slide.

The Surface Pro can run Linux: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-surface-pro-1539262/

For how long? Microsoft is moving to a future where only software from Microsoft can be installed on its not your devices. Its not even being subtle about it. I suspect my next GNU/Linux will a converted chromebook

Ironically, GNU/Linux runs better on every iteration of the MacBook Air (I've just installed Arch on a 2013 MBA as proof of that).

The Surface Pro can run Linux: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-surface-pro-1539262/

For how long? Microsoft is moving to a future where only software from Microsoft can be installed on its not your devices. Its not even being subtle about it. I suspect my next GNU/Linux will a converted chromebook

The Surface Pro can run Linux: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-surface-pro-1539262/

The other metric is http://www.geek.com/apps/nsa-data-center-will-use-1-7-million-gallons-of-water-per-day-to-read-your-email-1562152/ or power needs.

..use it to light the grill in the afternoons. You can't do that with an iPad....

What makes you think that?

The XBox was the last successful entrance that they've made into a new arena.

Successful by what measure? Exposure for Microsoft, yes, and that's surely very valuable to the company. Successful as in it became popular, yes. But it is not a profitable product. In 2003, MS gaming division lost US$348 million per quarter. That's some price to pay for what amounts to nothing but MS marketing spend. What was gained? For a product to be "successful", it should float on its own, not perpetually buoyed up by tax-deductible division losses.

And now this:
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/158279-microsoft-is-losing-it-over-the-xbox-one-if-you-dont-have-the-internet-stick-with-the-xbox-360

All that money down the drain, and STILL they are alienating users from a new product. Same is happening with Windows 8. Someone somewhere is a bad product manager.

Random googled link. Feel free to google more. http://www.geek.com/games/ps4-runs-modified-version-of-the-freebsd-9-0-operating-system-1559866/

With Apple, every consumer is chained only to the app store.

iOS users overwhelmingly like having a one-stop-shop with all the apps in. That's one of the things they chose that platform for.

It wasn't sprung on them as a change from previous practice. Indeed before the Apple Store, the mobile app market was tiny. Apple's one-stop-shop popularised phone apps.

And you're pulling this data from where exactly? Your intuition?

Is that why so millions of people fall over themselves to jailbreak the phones?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-jailbreak-statistics-jaw-dropping-154024296.html
http://www.geek.com/apple/stats-reveal-evasi0n-ios-6-1-jailbreak-1538656/

Looks like you're falling victim to ex post facto reasoning and attributing Stockholm syndrome to iOS users.

This. This is what i wanted to see (and order / put on my wishlist)
http://www.geek.com/news/the-large-hadron-collider-has-been-recreated-in-lego-1452279/

Better ATLAS here:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/2130239/the-large-hadron-collider-has-been-recreated-in-lego
http://www.geek.com/news/the-large-hadron-collider-has-been-recreated-in-lego-1452279/

I thought this was a dupe story, but apparently this one is a miniature model:

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/21619

WTF 80 deg F (approx 27 deg C) is quite warm in a Data-centre especially in a "cold aisle" and 95% humidity is criminal.

You're used to classic datacentres, where the goal was "shove as much cold air into them as possible", i.e. "the lower the temperature the better". It all depends on how the datacentre was built, how its cooling system is/was engineered, and an almost indefinite number of variables. References for you to read (not skim) -- the study in the PDF will probably interest you the most:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/10/energy-efficiency-guide-data-center-temperature/
http://www.geek.com/chips/googles-most-efficient-data-center-runs-at-95-degrees-1478473/
http://blog.schneider-electric.com/datacenter/2013/05/06/getting-comfortable-with-elevated-data-center-temperatures/
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nosayba/temperature_cam.pdf (PDF)
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/data-center-temperature-and-humidity-range-recomme.html

TL;DR -- 80F is not "quite warm" for a datacentre designed/built within the past 10-11 years.

What's Apple famous for again? Yup, they are famous for being famous.

Well that and popularizing the graphic user interface everyone uses in the first place.

And for having a pretty decent Unix-based operating system while Ballmer drives Microsoft off a cliff.

And for designing the first mp3 player that the mass-market embraced.

And for ushering in the change from feature-phones to smartphones.

And for creating an earthquake in the tablet market such that in the future it is predicted more tablets will sell than PCs.

But yeah...they are just famous for being famous...

...Until they release a TV with a kinect-like interface running iOS. And then Sony's PS4 and the Wii U crashes and burns, (which is sort of already happening...sales on the Wii U are very poor and Sony's electronics wing isn't doing well either), while everyone is playing Angry Birds on their new Apple TV platform and we get umpteen-million articles about the "New Console Wars," which are now between Microsoft and Apple.

Of course then a couple years will go by and people will forget all of history and again claim that Apple is just famous for being famous. Such is the cycle of Slashdot.

Here's a blog post on why the moon landing could not have been faked.

http://www.geek.com/news/why-it-was-impossible-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing-1537386/

It's fairly similar reasons why the Ford Video is real, and explains why His Immensity hasn't had anything to say since the story broke.

Please, the moon landing was obviously faked

Here's a blog post on why the moon landing could not have been faked.

http://www.geek.com/news/why-it-was-impossible-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing-1537386/

It's fairly similar reasons why the Ford Video is real, and explains why His Immensity hasn't had anything to say since the story broke.

So it's not possible to fake the footage with film effects, then shoot the film with video? See Room 237... not saying we didn't put men on the Moon, but the footage was most certainly faked, and Stanley Kubrick was the only one capable of pulling it off, and he admits to it in hints within The Shining!!

http://www.geek.com/news/why-it-was-impossible-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing-1537386/

It's fairly similar reasons why the Ford Video is real, and explains why His Immensity hasn't had anything to say since the story broke.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/28/facebook-loses-users-biggest-markets
http://www.geek.com/news/millions-are-leaving-facebook-every-month-due-to-boredom-1553510/
http://technorati.com/social-media/article/facebook-deserted-by-millions-of-users/

Summary, their oldest markets, i.e. US/Canada/Europe have reached "peak Facebook", and numbers are going down in those older markets. E.g. in the Technorati article...

> Data released by analytics firm SocialBakers suggests that people are
> leaving Facebook in their millions.
>
> It reveals that the social network has shed 6 million US visitors in the
> last month, which represents a 4% fall. The UK fares no better having
> lost 1.4 million users last month, a drop of 4.5%.

> Worryingly for Facebook this is far from a blip. In the last six months the site
> has lost 9 million users in America and 2 million in the UK. There's a similar
> picture across the developed world, with usage falling in Canada, Spain,
> France, Germany and Japan.

Yes, the numbers of well-off North Americans and Europeans leaving will be more than offset by the influx of third-worlders. But that guy or gal in the call centre in Mumbai, or the peasant in Asia, is not worth as much to advertisers as the westerners that they replace.

How about graphics cards.

Agreed. Google have turned into major scumbags on this.

It's a testament to the power of corporate brainwashing ("Do no evil! Lol") that most "geeks" give them a pass on this and the rest of their shenanigans.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/google-netflix-and-microsoft-propose-drm-for-html5-1537974/

They've tried this in several areas, including the Cayman Islands.

From the linked article: "...there had already been an 80% decrease in the mosquito population as compared to adjacent control areas."