A Keurig maching and a Jura Capresso machine are entirely different beasts. The Keurig is great for quick easy, individual drinks (e.g. one person can have coffee and the next tea). The Capresso is a serious coffee creation device that actually makes crema coffee right at home at the touch of a button. There's a reason a Keurig costs $150 and a Capresso costs $1000+.

I like and own 'em both though, they each have their place.

I played GTA4 in character. I tried to do the right thing, drive by the rules, and not kill anyone. My Niko had already seen enough of war and bloodshed, but it was all he knew. He tried to make a change going to NYC, but did not have the will to break free of the dominating personalities surrounding him.

This style of play made some of the missions where you had to escape the police much more exciting.

No one was run over by tanks.

Also many forget that this wasn't just a few thousand idle students peacefully hanging out in the square. There were about a *million* disaffected students and unemployed workers camping out wherever they could, demanding free food from vendors, and harassing the general public. This went on for almost a month before the government took action.

Think about how long a million people would be allowed to camp outside the US capitol buildings, especially if they were harassing and looting.

Get ready to pay for it. You'll need at least an 3 Mb/sec for good streaming, so that's a 2xT1. Or about $400/month if you're in a well connected area. If you have Ethernet over Copper available (you probably don't) that would be the way to go.

The guy that did this was actually a co-worker of mine at the time. Pretty awesome.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/hacked-ms-pac-man-rom-wins-hand-in-marriage/

If you're looking for a new search engine I've found myself supremely happy with DuckDuckGo (http://duckduckgo.com/). Great results, snappy interface, !bang searches: it's great. The !bang syntax was what really hooked me. I used to spend a lot of time making custom site searches for my browser ("wa query" to search Wolfram|Alpha, etc.). With DDG that's all inherent: "!wa query" sends query straight to W|A.

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.