Not only that, but someone on the inside has leaked out that during this Google I/O thing, information will come out about something! This is astounding! I thought Google I/O was going to go by with no announcements of any sort. So, seeing this, it just blows my mind.

What will Google do next???

BTW, why not throw in a leak that Jelly Bean (or whatever is next) info will be given out too. Ice Cream Sandwich is 8 months old now, so information should be pretty soon.

They'll have the world's tallest building record for a couple days at least...

So, you want to keep your job. You read a nice, informative article on some businessy web site. OK, I'm never going to touch that cloud shit. I could get fired. Now, how do you manage your company's needs without using the cloud? I hope you know, hire people that know, etc. Because guess what happens if you lose all the data in that case?

Just tell your wife/mother, "Well, at least I didn't get fired for using the cloud!"

Well, let's see. It needs more blood, to be mature. It needs 1080p graphics with lots of tessalation and megaquadrapixels (sublinear lighting is a plus). It needs voice chat, sounds can rage at other people's yarns. It needs to use an xbox360 controller. It needs to use a new franchise character that's never been seen before. It needs 64 player coop and CTF modes (preferably at an extra charge). It needs a he'll difficulty level that I can't beat, so I can rage that it cheats.

Probably more too.

That's all, not much more.

Origin didn't pull Steam games and import them for me. But I did later type the serial numbers in to add them to my account. That way I can play one game on Steam on one computer and (...shifty-eyes...) another game on that other computer from Origin. Pay no attention to my wife sitting in that chair. I'm playing them both. She's just watching. Really...

Simple, expand the users in your household. When you have a 2-3 people watching Netflix, Youtube, etc. daily, several hours a day, more hours on weekends, it adds up. My Comcast usage is showing 530-600GB a month for February through April.

Grown up problems I suppose, with being married and then having kids. If it's $10 per 50GB over 300, so that's $50 minimum on top of $45/month it currently costs. Using that much, they haven't even sent a threatening letter to me. The stories I've read of people getting cut off were from those uploading those sort of numbers.

I wonder if the business rates are still unlimited? When the 250GB cap was coming out, people talked about switching to a business line to get around it. For similar bandwidth (Speedtest.net shows 14Mbps down, 4 up), it would be $60/month (12M/2M). Or, for the $100 or more it would cost on residential service, I could get 22/5 business service, a markedly faster download connection.

But you won't get in trouble for getting yourself killed. That's the important thing to remember here. The other person? Boy, he (or she) is in a world of trouble!

I got an AMD 6870 over a year ago ($150), and it's played everything I've thrown at it just fine with maxed graphics. Skyrim, Witcher 2, etc play without any stutter and look wonderful. All on an AMD 965 (3.4 Ghz X4) CPU from the year prior.

I'm just trying to figure out what I'm missing by not spending 5x that price.

Good news for me. They opened it up for a couple of my accounts, one with paid storage, and one free on Wednesday. So the rollout is progressing quicker than I expected.

It's far easier to just be able to think you're sticking it to Big Farma by buying organics. Don't go making this complicated!

It's not rolled out for everyone, apps domains included. I'm in the same boat, waiting.

Google has a little breakdown of the old-vs-new plans. They say the purchased storage is shared with everything, but my Gmail says I have 208, so they add the default 8GB to it.

I just checked and it was already set to Rapid Release, and I have no Drive. I set it to scheduled, and then back, but alas, it's not that simple. I guess I'll have to wait and wait for it to get rolled to any of my accounts.

Have you looked at Ting? The folks from Tucows have gone into the prepaid cell market. Buy a phone ($300-500 for Android, $65 for basic flip phone), then get refunded for any unused minutes, text, or data each month. There's no need for any 50,000 minute plan when you know you're only going to need 100.

It's definitely worth looking into once my contract nears it's end.