actually i think its quite fitting to have the curves and whatnot. i mean Tron was just a representation of the state of the art at the time... there was no ray tracing, no vector based lighting no bump mapping, hell Mandelbrot sets only started making their way into computer graphics in 1981 and Tron was released in '82. in the same way, this Tron:legacy represents the cutting edge of what is available. Disney/Pixar is the tip of the spear when it comes to digitalization in movies. they give ILM a run for tis money. not to mention that even for the purpose of the story technology is so many light years from where it was in 1981. My Phone could likely have done all the "CG" work in the original Tron. we have the internet, now and things are measured in Gigabytes and Terabytes and even substantially larger orders of magnitude. the creation of a virtual world that is curvaceous and complex is almost necessary to the storyline. how could you justify the sheer number of FLOPS at your fingertips not representing a fundamental shift in the way the grid looks and feels?

thankyouthankyouthankyou! i've been telling everyone this but... i dont think my friends are geeky enough to get it... at least, not in a zen-digital-jazz kinda way.

i was surprised to see people pooping on the soundtrack, personally i think its an amazing testament to their versatility. i hear everyone crying for more "Better, Faster, Harder, Stronger" but the movie wasnt wall-to-wall action, any movie has an ebb and flow and an arc of a storyline, i think the key for them was to tone it down enough so that the music wasnt a distraction from the dialog which oftentimes overlaps. If you look at it as a Soundtrack first and foremost, i think in many ways it compares with some of Hans Zimmer and John Willams' best work. do i think that the track 'The Game Has Changed' is better than the Dark Knight theme, even though there is much similarity? yes. Would i put "End of Line" on equal footing with the Imperial March? yes. some my cry heresy, but if you look at the tracks side by side, its clear they belong in the same space. even the more traditional sounding tracks like Adagio for Tron are beautiful and organic and have a very timeless quality about them. what other artist can do such variety of work and still be unmistakably two French freaks in Cyborg costumes?

i think too many people were looking for Homework, when they should have been looking for Tron:Legacy OST.

makes me wish i actually signed up when i was reading this back in high school... its ok, i'll let the other old fogeys think i'm young and devilishly handsome, it gives me an air of superiority via vitality.

wait, what? i seem to remember there being US troops in a part of the world that has its fair share of sand.

and yet for the sake of campaign contributions corporations are people, funny how that works, eh?

no, since it doesnt exist. note the absence of unicorns, pixies and honest politicians.

missing option: Data, Possessions

my thinking is that since the phone ties into Zune Pass and Xbox Arcade they probably had to honor their own agreements with their developers and provide DRM at the OS level a la XBox 360.

as i understand it the card is locked using the 2.0 spec and there is no software on Windows or Linux that i know of that can provide the low level command to flip the read/write switch to allow the card to be recognized, let alone formatted. anything you stick the card into wont recognize the card as even being there.

Right now its everyone *but* microsoft spreading FUD. the fact is that MS was always very clear about how they would support SD cards, they didnt want to, but their OEMs forced the matter. from the beginning MS said it would not be swappable and that it would create problems. this is why most OEMs didnt add slots for SD Cards. Additionally those that did, have them internally. all carriers consider anything beyond removing the battery "not user serviceable".

Additionally they likely did it this way to meet the needs of their content providers, i'm thinking specifically of the RIAA clauses that probably exist in all the Zune pass contracts they have. Also the DRM is likely a selling point for app developers.

not that i agree with the way its been done, but MS isnt really to blame here.

the SD card for the Samsung Focus is located by the SIM card slot and does not have any such labeling. i believe the only other phone that has an SD slot is the HTC Mozart, which has the slot buried deep unter the board and is stickered to void warranty.

considering the phone can sync with the USB cable or over WiFi i'd find the SD option to be the most cumbersome.

not always, but generally i dont find a phone conducive to performing that many tasks at once. usually ifi'm doing more than two things, i'd rather be in front of a KVM, preferably with dual display outputs. of course this is all personal preference and thats why there is no such thing as one 'best' its all about finding what meets your specific set of needs most efficiently.

The fact is MS didnt want to at all, its Samsung who is including the SD slot. MS told the OEMs they advised agains SD storage, Samsung forced the issue.

btw, Samsung is one of the largest makers of SD cards.