True that. I can remember a couple years ago when I purchased on of their early generation Agility 120gb models. The firmware randomly crapped out after I'd had it a couple months, but at the time I thought it was a general drive failure. The disc identifier on BIOS boot-up was all borked.

It was only a few months later when I googled that error purely on a whim I found it was a firmware issue... God the rigmarole I had to go through on their support forums with a (admitedly awesome and helpful) support guy to get a new version of the firmware for the drive... Gargh.

To the drive's credit, a couple of years later and it's still humming along. I just wish it hadn't been so damn hard to get that firmware upgrade.

...Of how many iPhone charges you could get out of those pesky rainforests...

Could inductive chargers be considered a diaphragm?

Me Linux Isos be needin' the vast capacity affored by ye spinnin' drives. Far better dubloon/GB ratio. That said, I be sailin' the seven seas o' tha intertron on me SSD. Arg.

They're living in 1986? The rest of us are living in 1984 and seem to be pretty accepting of it.

Affordability.

Availability.

Transferability.

Convenience.

This is what curbs piracy. You're not going to stop broke fourteen year-olds from downloading movies with hollow rhetoric and invented damages. However, you can quite easily get a family of four on a modest income to pay $10 a month for Netflix. Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.

2 groups of drug dealers shooting each other in the street and taking each other out. As long as no one else gets caught in the crossfire, I'm OK with it.

200ms? Bah. Back in my day we used to play TFC with 400ms pings from Hobart to Melbourne across Bass Straight and we loved it. 15 miles and snow might also have been involved somewhere.

I'd make one very simple addition to all insurance building systems:

while(true) {
DontBeBastards();
RememberYoureDealingWithHumanBeings();
}

...I blanket-block all ads. As much as I don't like ads, I'd tolerate them if they had the trust they need to _earn_ to run Javascript/Java/Flash content on my machine.

Sadly, there's no ??? step in that process.

But the last time I did a local search on my PC's C:\ drive and didn't have ads all up in my shit, it just felt like something was missing.

I'm just glad Microsoft was listening.

Clearly when someone tells you that they don't need to learn how to land the X-ray machine is the point you should be ringing the FBI.

Microsoft stuck the clutch on their paradigm shift.

I'm sure my digital android clone will be very happy with this. Meanwhile squidgy, slowing decaying meat-me will be sitting in a rest home wishing he'd been able to evolve into an energy being faster. Sorry, but this is the same problem that exists with teleportation in any of its proposed forms. Destructive brain downloading processes or atomizing my... stuff to re-assemble out of different atoms at another point aren't really helping me that much! We need to go full-on Cyberman. That's the only compromise that'll work.