Definitely replay it from the beginning. The dialog you've missed is pretty awesome and sets up one of the important characters in the game.

I think the better analogy is the post office.

You pay shipping to receive packages (to the post office). You also pay for the content of those packages (to whoever you bought the item(s) from).

Now more and more people start ordering stuff from Amazon. The local post office realizes that their mail trucks are filling up and they're unable to pick up all the packages they need. Some of the packages get left behind, some get crammed into the truck (and end up damaged), some make it through.

  They also notice that a third of all packages have Amazon logos.

Does the post office:

A) Use the extra money it has been receiving from postage fees to upgrade it's fleet, buy more trucks, hire more drivers, etc.

B) Pick up on Amazon's generous offer to have some items already stocked, packaged, and automatically labeled next to the Post office so that commonly ordered items can be transferred locally instead of going through the USPS's now heavily taxed fleet?

C) Extort money from Amazon in exchange for their customers receiving their packages in a timely and undamaged fashion (which their customers are already paying for).

Now you can say the main difference is that the post office is charging per package vs selling a service to its customers where they can receive a certain amount of mail (say in pounds) per day. Either way though a service is being promised, paid for, but not fully delivered.

And now to add self interest:

What if you got an ad flyer from your local post office with "Now you can order movies and books from the USPS!" while at the same time movies and books that you are paying shipping to receive from Amazon are getting delayed, crushed, or lost.

Look at it this way:

* Netflix has over 30 Million subscribers .

* According to the US Census data, 75% of US households have internet.

* 115 Million Households in the US

Some math:

115 Million households * .75 = 86.2 Million households with internet.
31 million Netflix Subscribers / 86.2 Million Internet users = 36% of households with internet in the US use Netflix. Yes, over a third.

Now add the fact that cable companies are losing cable TV customers in the hundreds of thousands *each quarter* and you can see how more and more people are depending on Netflix (and other services) to fill their video entertainment needs. The name for the trend is cord-cutting .

So based on that I would surmise that a substandard Netflix experience would be a dealbreaker for 1/3rd of all internet customers and a larger proportion of *high speed* internet customers (since people who don't need to stream video opt for the cheaper services).

This is like buying a computer case from Newegg, paying for 3 day UPS shipping, then the UPS driver that shows up to Newegg and demands a tip to pickup the package because it's too big and heavy and without the tip the package could take much longer to arrive.

The shipper shouldn't get to charge twice for a shipment. Likewise ISPs shouldn't be allowed to sell data delivery to its customers then try to also extract fees from the data providers.

I opened the link scrolled through it, only to get all excited that my card (the R9 290) was trouncing everything else in one of the charts!

Then I realized I was looking at the temperature charts....

Yes! As a convenience we could require users to login via google+ !

I was referring to the cost of Cobra. I was referring to him not being able to bend far enough to take the huuuuuge price you have to pay to keep your insurance via Cobra (most of which I understand it the employer portion which is no longer being payed).

Due to a pre-existing condition, he couldn't bend over far enough.

There's still potential for the Ouya 1.0, the Tegra 3 chip it uses has been demonstrated (by nVidia) to be perfectly capable of game streaming.

So if steam machines pick up, with proper support, the Ouya 1.0s could easily become the streaming machines of choice.

Well for you there's In-home Streaming

Per Valve:

The streaming function doesn't require a beefy machine ( even Tegra 3/4 devices can handle it).

In an accident, the vehicle occupants are ejected clear across the state border.

What impy is referring to is say for example, you're in a vehicle. The vehicle (and you) are moving in the game, but your head (and body) is not so won't be experiencing the actual acceleration. Or for a FPS you might jump down a ledge (in game) but again, the whole time your feet are firmly planted on the ground in RL. You would need a system with actuators to jostle and tilt you in the right directions to simulate that. Something like this .

If I recall the earlier specs, it had a gyro and accelerometer (like a modern smart phone) so it could track your head *movements* but it had not reliable way to position your head in 3D space (any effort to do so would require initial calibration (tell the SW my head is right now 5 ft from the floor) and go from there and hope the errors don't creep up over time. The external camera they added (which gets pointed to the user) seems to be a more robust way to determining the exact location of your head and thus matching it to the virtual world would be easier (and more accurate). The separate reference point eliminates creep up errors (accelerometer detected .5cm down but only 4.998 up when you slouched and re-straightened). Quick google search yielded this: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133905-oculus-rift-is-the-world-finally-ready-for-virtual-reality-games

So in short, the better they can match RL movement to the VR world (not just lag, but precision of movement and overall head location) the lesser the chance of nausea.

And I believe this is why the consumer version has been delayed. They've identified possible sources for the VR nausea (lag, lack of head *position* tracking) and are working to resolve them.

I'm OK with the delays while they iron out these issues as I'd prefer a VR headset that has a lasting market presence to one that is introduced and in bargain bins in 3 months due to wide spread reports of users getting sick with minimal use. That said... I'm am seriously giddy about this thing.

Motionjoy bad! Scarlett Crush Productions DS3 driver is where it's at! Even supports up to 4 controllers!

There's various solutions already for getting the DS3 to work under LInux