It's the Xbox Zip for me, or maybe even the Xbox Orb.

This device was never intended to be an iPad killer. Amazon itself said as much. The linked article makes it sound like it was set to be an iPad killer by "important people," but the link just links back to another pcmag.com article. What a joke.

The fire is not intended, has not been intended to be an iPad killer. It's a cheap tablet device that does what many people need it to do without all the extras that the iPad has that some people will never use. It's one of the primary reasons I returned my iPad and got a Color Nook and rooted it - the Nook did everything I wanted a tablet to do at a fraction of the price. If I were to do the same thing today, I would buy a fire instead of a Nook.

Feet / Flintstones ... that's how they drive. With their feet. It's hard.

Too poor, you don't even have feet to drive.

?? Seems to make the most sense to me.

Slowly and carefully... You'll probably never get done and in the end you'll be applying similar band-aids to get things running/keep things going as your predecessor did. Then you'll leave and someone else will come in and the cycle will start all over.

Good luck and god speed, sir.

This pretty much sums it up.

I also wanted to point out that Ubisoft is not releasing a PC title because of all the piracy... so in effect, they'd rather get 0% of nothing instead of >0% of something.

Yeah... that makes sense!

Where are you getting your "standard" pronunciation definition? I've heard both ways equally... though I am assuming you really mean by "comp" + "arable" as "comp" + "rable" with the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The two common pronunciations of that word are as you describe the first, and the second pronunciation completely or nearly so drop the first "a" sound by extending out the "r" sound or it being covered up by the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The "ar" in "arable" being overshadowed by the emphasis on "a" extending out the "r."

I have a number of machines running integrated graphics for numerous reasons. Least of which is the kids machines - you sure as hell don't need a discrete graphics card to play stupid little flash games and do homework.

Machines that are for checking email and surfing the web... don't really need discrete graphics either.

Plenty of reasons to use integrated graphics.

That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Haswell, which is due in 2013.

So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink from Sandy Bridge if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Haswell based.

That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Broadwell, which is due in 2014.

So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Broadwell based.

It is false because of these two statements:

[quote]The controller is fine for FPS[/quote]

It's not "fine" for FPS gaming. It may be "adequate", "marginally acceptable," or possibly even "workable." But it is not "fine." Fine implies that does everything required of it, and being as it has almost no precision, it falls short in that area (as well as others, but you only need one area to be less than "fine")

[quote]games and HDTVs have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do.[/quote]

HDTVs do not have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do. SOME HDTVs may have the same amount of lag as some monitors, but I have yet to see an HDTV that has the same or less lag than the best monitors for gaming. I'm not saying they don't exist, I've just never heard of nor seen them.

I'm not making any statements either way on he rest of your post, so don't take what I write next as a condemnation of the rest of your post:

The guy IS a religious nut. He believes in an imaginary man in the sky that watches everything he does. That is pretty much the definition of a nut. It's not a "quick to label" thing - it's simply a statement of fact.

Oye... I take it you've not actually played the game if you think it's a BC sequel. It is definitely a BF2 sequel. Is it the greatest game ever in the BF universe? I dunno, that's a judement call I suppose... but BF3 is definitely far more like BF2 than anything like BC/BC2.

Lots and lots (and lots!) of bugs to work out, for sure... but certainly no more bugs than BF2 had when it launched. At least I can play it for more than 10 - 15 minutes at a time without something going tits up like BF2 was on release day. The classes are actually reasonably balanced from the start (surprise!), though they can use tweaking. It's not a perfect game, but it's certainly not a BC sequel.
   

Um... no. No, and also, no. If you think a controller is fine for FPS gaming, you are not very good at FPS games. This is a fact, not an opinion. The controller does not offer the precision that a KB/Mouse offers, plain and simple. The best console player in the world of any given FPS game will get schooled by an average PC KB/Mouse player. The speed and precision just aren't there with a controller.

Anyone who has progressed beyond just sitting down to a quick game of deathmatch to something resembling competitive play will tell you straight out that a controller is a joke for serious play. The fact that you think an controller is fine for FPS indicates you've not progressed beyond the occasional game with your friends on a Saturday night, therefore, you aren't really qualified to make a judgement call as to whether or not a controller is "fine for FPS."

Many HDTVs introduce a lot more lag than a monitor, so your argument there is also false. Although, many PC monitors do have quite a bit of lag. Again, if you're buying a monitor for gaming, you should make sure you get one with low latency.

Really? The first device you've ever seen doing this? I guess you've never see a bathroom stall in a public place with a SLIDE TO LOCK. Or maybe you've never flown on an airliner and use the lavatory with a SLIDE TO LOCK.

I mean, you can be forgiven for that, since locks on doors and other devices that SLIDE TO LOCK & UNLOCK have only been around a few thousand years.

Since the OP is intending to run DD-WRT on it, it doesn't really matter... but this router is a piece o' crap with the stock firmware. The external drive function has never worked properly, Netgear has known about the bug and never bothered to fix it. The drive(s) will go offline for no explicable reason and require a power cycle. If you aren't using that portion of the router, it's probably fine, but since I purchased this router for my parents house and purchased it explicitly for the extra drive connectivity, I am rather displeased. A quick scan of the Netgear forums reveals that it's a known issue, many people have it, Netgear just doesn't care and won't issue a fix for it.

Netgear can go piss up a pole.

Wow, really? Synaptics might have a few things to say about that, since I was using their products and experimenting with multiple touchs on their touchpads in 2003, a full 4 years before it was even a gleam in Apples eye. If I were Synaptics, I'd be suing the shit out of Apple for patent infringement... even though a touch pad and a smart phone are two different things, Apple can sue Samsung for making their tablet, you know.. rectangular! Why not sue Apple for making their phone rectangular, just like a touch pad!