I guess Hitachi fixed the DeathStar issues. I remember those old IBM Deskstar having horrible failure rates, then Hitachi bought the division.

I don't mind ads if they're non-intrusive. Slashdot gives me the option to not have ads, but I let them through anyway. Gizmodo and Yahoo (mobile) have painfully annoying ads. I block them when possible. But in Yahoo (mobile) when I can't block I just go somewhere else. Has anyone look at the recent Google search result page? Fill with so much advertising. I've done a lot more of my searches over at DuckDuckGo. I don't mind a little banner ad or side ads, but don't try to take over my screen or play sound.

I love that game. Basically the only reason I bought a Gamecube and 4 controllers.

First time I've heard of this Google service and I use Google for almost everything web related.

No, seriously. I can totally justify spending around $350 for a HTPC with gaming to experiment with. Cheaper than my wife's purse.
$150 - AMD A10-6800K (with mobo over at Microcenter). Yes, I know Intel is faster and it's not the fastest GPU either but for $150 it's hard to beat the combo.
$80 - 8GB of RAM
$100 - 3TB hard drive
and I have a bunch of old ATX cases and power supply.

It's Linux, if I don't like it I can always put something else on like Mint.

Cool, but my head hurts trying to understand the theory.

Yeah, that changed in Windows 7. Previous versions of Windows had language pack supports at Home and above editions but MSFT made that into an "enterprise" or "ultimate" feature in Windows 7. Very annoying for a lot of people I know that speak and write multiple languages, some of them have switched to Mac OS X for just that one reason.

I like the feel of the Microsoft keyboard and mice, but durability was definitely not their strength. I've had plenty MSFT curve keyboard and laser mice die on me within 2 years. Logitech products, until recently, have been extreme durable. Recently, I've had a VX nano and MX Revolution (original version) die on me within 18 months too.

Y'all can have your drones, I'll be sitting here with my nets and signal jammers.

I didn't know a Leaf can use regular 110V using standard outlet.

That's certainly thinking out of the Big Box.

Not against each other in the same company but against their peers across all companies. At the end of the year, the bottom 20% gets sent to the Thunderdome. 2 goes in, and hopefully zero comes out.

At least someone is making money from Android besides Google and Samsung. I really wish Sony can get their act together and release an amazing phone. They have it in them to be able to do better than Samsung and Apple.

I just did the update on my Surface today. Not a happy experience.
Took 2+ hrs to download a 2.1GB install. Took another hour or so to install. Then download all the updates for another 30 minutes.

Win8.1 borked a lot of things:
1) Maps application on my Surface has stopped working
2) Forcing signing to a Microsoft account when you restart until you fail signing in 3-5 times then it lets you do a local account
3) IE has been crashing on me constantly. Could just be ESPN.com doing something weird. But it wasn't do it before.

Haha. But the last couple of albums have been absolute garbage.