Those who modded this post insightful should have done a little research first. Bareknuckles boxing was popular for a very long time....but most of the great boxers of that era were VERY careful about their bouts, some of which lasted an hour or more. Why? Not for fear of a nice liver punch or a busted nose....but the fear of splitting a hand open on a tooth or breaking a hand that would never heal correctly.

For a dock worker or farm hand.... A single knockout rarely causes notable cognitive loss. A single broken hand can ruin a man's ability to feed himself for the rest of his life.

Wish I could mod you up... I too know of people that take advantage of fair return policies...and in effect ruin it for the rest of us. Those that deny the truth of it should show up at a Best Buy the weekend before the SuperBowl or any major SEC rivalry game and see how quickly televisions are walking out the door.

I'm shocked that you mentioned ebay/paypal as being 'no hassle'. Just about everyone I know at one time was a regular ebay user....and most haven't used their account in over a year due to past hassles. Paypal has become pretty straightforward, but I can remember my account being locked for two months because of a credit card expiration.....which is why now I only use it for payment and never to receive money.

I really wonder if that wasn't the intent of the ending. One man cannot save the universe....only effect a very small part within his sphere of influence.

Yah, I was always amazed that The Matrix BBS had 20+ lines and served as an EZnet hub. That was simply an amazing feat for a BBS that a guy just ran for fun. Rocky and Tom were ahead of their time.

I remember when America Online was a BBS run by Rocky Rawlins in Birmingham, AL. He sold the name to some unheard of upstart company who offered him stock instead of cash. He took the $15k in cash. Oops.

Utilizing the Evernote app....the Transformer Prime is the only thing I can think of that would be as good as, if not better, than [smart]pen and paper.

I expect the market to correct the model of $5 DLC for one hour of play to occur before $60 for 40 hours of play. DLC, hats, and paid content with regards to Free-To-Play will do well in the market....but there is a lot to be said for a level playing field and flat initial cost for people that play in even casual/competitive games. Knowing another player can drop $20 and get a BFG-2000 that insta-nukes his opponents may encourage griefing kiddies to play...but eventually drives away the core market.

That being said, it Riot Games has done an excellent job with balancing Free-To-Play competitive gaming with League of Legends.

Whereas I agree that IBM's server solutions stand a head higher than Dell, I would not dream of saying the same of HP. We are primarily a Dell shop and looked at swapping over to HP after numerous issues with Dell's Partner program. At the end of last year, HP accounted for 5% of our server install base. They accounted for closer to 20% of our server degraded/downtime for clients.

Horrid product support consisting of smug warranty reps with little product knowledge. Getting parts was even more of a chore. Dell's 4 hour turnaround on parts is generally just that. 4 hours. HP's 4 hour parts warranty was regularly 24 hours, and in one instance, four days. Yes, days. Admittedly the actual failure rate was comparable with Dell (not better), but when you couple it with a disdain for supporting their products....sorry, we're done with HP.

I also think you're spot on with the take on Equallogic's gear and Sonicwall's future at Dell.

It's worth noting that the handful of homeopathy practitioners that I've met over the years have a holistic approach to their medicine. I'll try to provide an example :

Western Doctor visit : You sit in the waiting room for an hour before being taken back to a room. They spend 2 minutes to weigh, measure, and get your vitals. Doc walks in and you complain of headaches. He nods, looks you over, and prescribes Tylenol 3 and ushers you to the payment processor.

Homeopathy practitioner visit : You sit in the deserted waiting room for 5 minutes before going back to a room. The practitioner comes in and gets your measurements/vitals and asks you what's wrong. You say you're having headaches. They ask more questions about activity cycle, diet, stressors, and your social situation. They prescribe you a placebo, tell you to quit playing League of Legends until 2am, and get another 2 hours of exercise per week.

There are positives to the methodology that contribute to the observed successes in those that believe.....but the actual treatments are not one of them.

....in any sense. Professional RC applications are high end rigs that demand precision and low latency. "Professional" RC racers require the same kind of response time and controls that grant tight precision. This system covers not a single requirement. Essentially it can only bee for one of two things...
- Hobbiest geeks
- Automated RC tasks

Seriously?

Very odd.... As an avid gamer, I can't remember the last time I had a game that I had to 'fight' to get it to work.....DRM or no. And that's across two gaming machines, a mac w/bootcamp, and two laptops. Unless, of course, you're not talking about 'fighting' a legally purchased game and instead you're talking about 'finding a hack so that I can use a pirated copy'.

Professional wetwork usually results in no collateral damage.

Leaving entire an entire city block standing while accurately destroying a room or wing of a target structure qualifies as 'Light' collateral damage.

Heavy collateral damage would be something more like firebombing a city (Tokyo/Dresden), burning most of a city to the ground (Atlanta), deforesting hectares of land (Operation Ranch Hand), viral warfare (Native American suppression), or fat man & little boy (Nagasaki/Hiroshima). And before you howl about the evils of modern warfare....do a little research into the 30 years war for some really beautiful examples of heavy collateral damage.

"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." - Stalin. At the end of the day, every single death is a horrible thing...but keep it in perspective.

Wars are always fought for one reason and one reason only.

Power.

If you believe the US civil war or WWII were fought for morality, you're buying into the same propaganda that was used to fuel all conflicts since. Ask yourself this... If the US was fighting the civil war over moral outrage over slavery, why didn't they free all slaves in the Union? Did you realize that most of New York, at the time, was built by slave labor? Or how about all the US concentration camps used for Japanese-American citizens? Don't even get me started on the similarities between HUAC and the Nazi party....

Next time you open a few history texts....read the facts only and gloss over the bias and presentation.