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    Guidemaster: Is Valve Index the best virtual reality system to buy in 2019?

    This is an error in both the article and the commment you replied to. SDE is only tangentially related to subpixel design and resolution - you can have many more subpixels but if they are small with large gaps between them then you will get SDE without some kind of optical correction. The...
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    Guidemaster: Is Valve Index the best virtual reality system to buy in 2019?

    The swap from a RGBG (pentile) subpixel to a full RGB subpixel is not the same thing as reducing the dead space between pixels, and not really the point. The subpixel change gives a higher effective resolution in red and blue channels due to the higher subpixel count - you can think of PenTile...
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    Steve Jobs in motion: five videos to watch this weekend

    Ars recycles some old Jobs content while Anand breaks down the new Intel architecture. Boy do I miss the pre-sell-out Ars days.
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    Samsung claims foreman lied about his past to get on Apple v. Samsung jury

    Wake up Ars? People have linked the transcript multiple times in this thread, which means your article is, at the very least, missing a key piece of information. I know you think that Apple bias sells you advertising space, but this is becoming a joke.
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    Which smartphone are you using <em>right now?</em>

    No Galaxy Nexus? Well done Ars.
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    The next iPhone: what Ars readers want from Apple

    - No physical home button - Micro USB - Strong body that doesn't shatter - NFC So, you want a Galaxy Nexus?
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    Blizzard to extend <i>Diablo III</i> endgame with 100 new character levels

    You got it! A few more (especially true when you consider WoW vs D2): - Level cap easily/quickly reached with "end game" progress through items only (MMO) vs long term progress through items and levels/skills evenly (ARPG). - Small numbers of powerful monsters (MMO) vs hordes of less powerful...
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    Blizzard admits <i>Diablo III</i> is a game that ends

    Really? So you're writing about people's expectations of Diablo 3 and you *clearly* never played Diablo 2 to remotely the same level as anyone that would claim to be a fan of the Diablo franchise. Are we actually meant to be surprised that you, therefore, don't get it? Maybe next week we'll...
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    "Who needs an app store?" Five years of iPhone

    I find it sad that this is the "Feature Story" on the front page of Ars. I understand there are a lot of Apple fans, but given that the company releases so few products, do you really have to feature these nothing-articles just to keep the Apple fans happy? Can't we just... like... not hear...
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    Does this smartphone make me look stupid? Meet the "ladyphones"

    So we should complain that putting a dude in skull-and-crossbones painted power armour on the front of a video game cover is some how "boyification" of games? Or if that industry is too male orientated for you, how about the plethora of male orientated skin creams now available? Are they...
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    "Proper" British English finally coming to Windows

    Wow, lots of Americans in here that think English is phonetic. I really wonder what gets taught in your schools..
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    Rambus loses $4 billion antitrust suit filed against memory chip makers

    There's a massive difference between patenting something simple like a memory interface that people are already using, and developing new processor architectures in a reasonably quick cycle and licensing them into SoCs. Like, apples and oranges *massive*.
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    Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive

    This article would be nice without the massive sense of entitlement. Where do we download the Mango or iOS code again?
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    Why Steve Jobs cried

    I understand the cult of Mac needs to have their regular Jobs fix, but why is this a "feature story"? Especially when it isn't even news, let alone a story? Please stop turning Ars into a trashy celebrity magazine - articles here need to have some substance.
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    In gaming, everything is amazing, but no one is happy

    Understand this is poking fun, but a better way to get your point across would be satire. I read onion articles and think "oh that's brilliant". I read this and thought "what is he talking about there are plenty of happy gamers, just look at Starcraf... oh, he's trolling".
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    Blizzard founder sticks up for Activion's Bobby Kotick; we don't

    With how well WoW: Cataclysm *isn't* doing, it will be interesting to see how this relationship might change over the coming year.
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    Alleged WikiLeaker could face death penalty

    Scrolling to the bottom and looking at the citation is pretty hard, amirite?
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    Alleged WikiLeaker could face death penalty

    No this is the bit where the pity comes in. You're too friggen ignorant to even bother finding out if that is actually true. You just heard it on CNN so it must be true right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index Edit: Oh and only an American could claim "economic...
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    Alleged WikiLeaker could face death penalty

    Yeah putting this kid in jail for life will CLEARLY undo the damage to the USA's reputation. What's really sad is that you guys don't even realise the rest of the world is looking at you with a mixture of pity and revulsion as your country crumbles. Worst health care in the developed world, a...