Quite complex? You've got to be kidding me. My wife and I have a 2005 VW Jetta TDI Wagon and it has been nothing but simple fixes for six years and 120K miles. We've had oil changes done by everyone from Jiffylube to our local mechanic: no complexity there. The only major service we've had was a belt replacement at 90K and that seemed no more complicated for our mechanic to handle than any other belt replacement I've had done.
Big big +1 for the Drobo here. I have Drobo first gen that I bought at least a couple of years ago. It has been chugging along like a champ as our main data store. Yes, we aren't protected from accidental deletion, but we are protected from drive failure. I'm actually going to be switching our solution around a bit this weekend: 2TB internal storage and Drobo for time machine backup.
Even though it's from the old n' slow first gen, it's been great for everything from iPhoto to iMovie to iTunes. We have 35,000+ songs, hundreds of movies archived from DVDs, and gigabytes upon gigabytes of HD iMovie video.
We started with 3x750GB disks, and after Christmas I dropped a 1.5TB drive in the last slot. It worked exactly as easily as they claim.
A kit provided by the very company raising this hue and cry. That's not suspicious.
Yes, but as a human not feeling the inner ear effects.
I love to play Unreal on the PC (well Mac) because I can completely justify the enhanced abilities within the context of the game.
Playing as some drafted kid in WWII...not so much. The limitations of the controls hold back my skill as a gamer and highen the realism.
Of course the iPad 2 is getting video cameras. The big question for me is: are they going to be smart and use the front camera to provide a simple hand gesture interface?
It'll be one data store with your info, email, apps, documents, etc. The iPad will present one interface, the iPhone another, the laptop yet another. All the same "computer" data and settings.
The sales numbers don't reflect it at all, because that simply isn't the case. See Halo series sales.
But really we're all one big happy gaming geeky segment of the population.
Superior for playing the game better, yes. Superior for gaming comfort and realism, not for me.
If I'm playing a robot or enhanced human, sure I'll grant being able to whirl around and hit five targets in five directions in less than a second. If I'm playing a WWII soldier, not so much.
Why? Sheet music costs money to produce just as much as a textbook does.
I got (or was forced to take, that addiction is serious) hours upon hours of pure gaming goodness from my investment of 10 euros. The software was written, I bought the alpha game and it had everything I wanted. The game was complete. Now each major revision is like I'm getting bonus content.
An enterprising Hacker News user has come up with some interesting and pretty conclusive results.
We have some pretty conclusive test results.
I was raised a vegetarian and I was the last holdout when we all decided to actually start eating meat. I see where you are coming from.
But you are absolutely, completely wrong. Meat is an expansive world full of an incredible range of complex flavors.
Bart: Milhouse. You were supposed to be the night watchman.
Milhouse: I was watching. I saw the whole thing. First it started falling over, then it fell over.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
