Citations please. Most of my fellow gamers (our clan has 450 members) are males in their late 30's to mid 60's, with about 15% female in their late 20's to late 40's.The average gamer is 37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture The average social game is a woman in her early 40's. http://gigaom.com/2010/02/17/average-social-gamer-is-a-43-year-old-woman/

Nothing personal, but fro where I sit, fuck you. Seriously. The Call of Duty games have sold utter boatloads in their first week for both consoles and PC's. So do other FPS games. I play COD World at War (because it's the last COD version that let's users create their on servers without paying additional fees to Activison, create unique maps without having to pay for them from Activision, create mods without having to pay more to Activision...you get the idea). In these games, my average ping of 49Ms gives me a huge advantage over most other players, who can range between 75 and 100, 200, 500+ Ms. So, for a boatload of gamers, ping is king, I've spent a bit more money on a Cisco router that let's me adjust QOS per port, gone for a Fiber to the CO high speed internet connection (waiting for the fiber to the home upgrade), and optimized the snot out of my system and network to give me the best pings.For you Farmville types, a sub-mediocre Internet connection is just fine. Burt you do not represent everyone else. So STFU with your idiotic statement that your requirements are representative of the rest of the Netizens. Because they are absolutely not. Not even close.

That guy gives assholes a bad name. Let this be a lesson to you kids. What your parents said is true: Whatever you send in an email, pretend it's written on a postcard.

Oh screw it! You're asking them to read the frikkin' manual or the equivalent thereof! Who does that?!? JUST DO IT! And if traveling at warp speed causes disruptions in the space-time continuum, we'll just reduce speeds and perhaps eliminate warp-speed travel, as long as the Klingons and Romulans do as well.

I'll feed ya, Anonymous Coward! :-) Why is it lame? Potentially (and admittedly it will eat giga-watts of electricity) it could confirm some very fundamental elements of theoretical physics. That, to me, is worth every giga-penny. Advancement of fundamental knowledge is money well-spent. Do you have something against science on the frontiers? Just askin'.

Correction: I run Snow Leopard in virtualization. Whatever.

Bastard. You said it before I could. If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I've switched to Mint running the last Gnome 2.x. Please, PLEASE, somebody fork Gnome so that that the goodness that is Gnome 2 can live on with nice tweaks and features. This shitty OS X imitator that's Unity is like watching a bad Pearl Jam cover band with an alcoholic lead singer with nodules on his vocal chords, and Gnome three is just a big bad barrel of WTF?!? I want a simple interface that just gets out of the way and lets me work. Gnome 2.x does that. Why dump it for eye-candy-ish half-baked buggy trash? Coding to the lowest common denominator just will not fucking bring the masses. Want Linux to be hot and cool with the masses? Find a hardware manufacturer that says screw the short-term in terms of profits, is going to be uncompromising in search of excellence in design, and will create an interface that is elegant and will attract coders. Saint.Jobs did it. Shuttleworth's a pale imitator. Anyone else? (Full disclosure: I don't own a Mac, though I run OS X Leopard in vitualization now and then. I like my iPhone. I prefer my HP TouchPad running WebOS to the iPad that I had for 4 weeks. I'm typing this in Windows 7 on my gaming rig. My other PC runs Linux Mint and my work laptop is set to dual boot Windows 7 and Mint. No one from IT has come into my cubicle yelling at me. Yet).

Welll....The OS is fucking superior to iOS - it really is quite nice. It needs more polish, but the multi-tasking is damned nice. The card interface is brilliant and is more intuitive than iOS (full disclosure: I own an iPhone 4 as does my wife and I run OSX in virtualization on PC's on VMWare Workstation despite Apple's odd restrictions). Sure, there aren't 1000 fart apps for it (I found just 1) but as a content consumption and unified communications device it borders on excellent...and you get the ability to play Flash. Overclock the sucker (did I mention that HP embraces Home-brew?) and add some cool hacks and you have a bitchin' beast that as a bonus plays Angry Birds. I can read e-books, .pdfs, remotely connect to my PC and servers, edit MS Office docs... I have access to an iPad and Playbook at work, as do my colleagues, And I've played with both over several weeks. Meh. 9 out of 39 of us bought TouchPads for what it can do, and for the potential to run Android in a dual-boot config. That was my primary reason for jumping on the low-cost 32Gb Touch pad - running Android...until I started using WebOS and dove deep into modding the device. Too bad HP will let it die a painful death. WebOS, we hardly knew ye...

...RIM's product is the best, therefore, "BBKing". Further posts are unnecessary.

...wishing I had mod points...

I'm a Toamto-holic. dd-wrt just would not work properly on my Cisco/LinksysWRT160N V3 despite careful configuration changes etc. In frustration I installed Tomato and it worked first try right out of the gate. I had also used it on an older Linksys router and it never gave me any grief. Its features cover off my needs and it's been completely hassle free. Just my own experience.

I've kept an external one for 5 years now and it comes in handy. I recently acquired a lightly used 4-year-old HP Proliant rackmount server that has no DVD/ROM and I have no USB sticks available. Having the external drive let me install ClearOS and get a damned useful router/gateway/ftp/web server running in a few hours. I also have a basement closet full of a huge variety of old/new cables, components, etc etc. you never know when you'll need that old widget.

It doesn't have to be that way. I added a replacement Kernel that lets me boost the CPU to 1.836 Ghz, added some patches that stop some logging services, a tweak here, a change there...Slashdot comes up in +/- 3 seconds. Opening a site in a new card 5-6 seconds. Not bad at all.

Wish I had mod points for OP. Nailed it. Add apps for very specific content (Ted Talks, Khan Learning) and there's no reason not to get this at firesale prices

There are already folks working on getting Android (honeycomb) and Ubuntu on it. http://liliputing.com/2011/08/hp-touchpad-afterlife-hackers-bringing-android-ubuntu-to-hps-tablet.html