Where exactly do you get one of these "perm emails" that aren't tied to any sort of service that might go down or disappear in the future?

XBMC has plugins available as well that let you play stuff from Youtube/Hulu/etc without leaving the interface, I'd suggest those, it's easier than loading up Firefox.

I didn't really like using the wireless keyboard, so I use an Xbox 360 controller to control mine, it works very well. I'm still running Windows 7 on my Revo, so I just use Xpadder to bind the controller's buttons/sticks to keys, that lets you set it up to work pretty much however you want. I'm sure a similar thing is easily possible through Linux as well.

Yeah, could be a factor. I've ripped all the DVDs that I own so that they're all available to browse and play without disc-swapping anyway, but I also have a PS3 hooked to the same TV, so I just play a DVD through that if necessary. An external drive could be an option as well.

I use an Acer AspireRevo 3610 nettop running XBMC as my media PC. Has direct HDMI output, it's totally silent, and some of the newer nightly builds of XBMC support GPU video decoding. XBMC has plugins for watching youtube, Hulu, etc through it easily as well.

Not really sure what else to say, highly recommended, it makes a great media PC. You should be able to find the 2GB RAM model for somewhere in the $300 range.

Only samzenpus does that. I guess the quality of the stories he posts is so low anyway that they figure adding a photo can't really make things any worse.

I don't know which theaters you guys are going to, to think that they're dying. Every theater I've been to on a Friday or Saturday evening recently has been absolutely jammed, you can hardly walk through the lobby.

Reminds me of that old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."

Do you speak Japanese so fluently that you can pick out a poor actor or a good one? Can you tell when someone is "overacting"? Things like that take an extremely high level of proficiency in a language. I think this is often why people prefer the Japanese voices, because they don't know the language, so can't tell when someone's doing a poor job of it.

Only the first two pictures are relevant to the Waveface Light, which is the netbook that opens into a tablet. The next two are for the Waveface Ultra, some sort of flexible phone.

But yes, it should be "by removing the keyboard", not "by removing the PC". What does that even mean?

Yeah, slashdot would wreck facebook and myspace, look at how much of their traffic we make up! http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+myspace.com+slashdot.org/

We're almost off the axis, boys, keep it up!

I like being able to hold (and turn the pages of) what would otherwise be an 800-page hardcover book in one hand while standing on the train, then slip it in my jacket pocket when I reach my stop.

If you do all your reading at home where you don't need to carry your books around, there's not really much reason to have one.

The problem is that people believe it's real medicine, and so they think it'll actually work. And when it doesn't, they don't necessarily go look for the stuff that actually will: Homeopathy Kills a Child

Here's a direct link to the video, since the blog embedding it seems to be on the way to going down: CubeStormer

vim + xdebug - looks something like this (not my screenshot, just random google image search).

Indeed. I used to try out all these PHP IDEs, I used UltraEdit for a long time, etc. Then one day (for some reason I don't recall), I decided I wanted to take the time and really learn how to use vim properly. Now I can't go back. All those other editors feel clunky, underpowered, and slow. vim has all the same capabilities if you take a little time to figure out how to use (or enable) them, and working in it is considerably faster and more efficient.

I've found that almost everyone that prefers an IDE over vim doesn't actually know how to use it.

Apparently it's to "make Firefox feel faster". What a terrible decision, I had to immediately figure out how to change things back.