Yeah, and they prolly killed the multiplayer part - Power Struggle was one of the greatest game modes I've seen. But most people can't understand beyond team deathmatch so they dropped PS from Crysis 2
And now we gonna get yet another mindless shooter with replay value based on pointless ranking system. And when you reach level 55, you can go once again from start! Great feature, right?
(Sorry for this little rant here, had to get it off my chest
I do not see why should Microsoft make a convenient and fast browser?
MS made IE9 so fast as a prank on all slashdotters - right now its pretty much the only browser can render slashdot threads smoothly. So cruel.
Dave! I'm home!...
I think that's a fantastic gesture on their part. Yes, it's all in good fun, but look - one of Redmond's lawyer types could've gotten a hold of this, and gotten some judge to issue an injunction based on a combination of ip violation/unfair competition/market image tarnishing/some other frankly-my-dear-I-just-don't-give-a-damn excuse. Yeah, it'd never hold up, but nothing stopping them from just being dicks.
Instead, they took it in good fun, and did the human thing - exhibited humor. Yes, they're still evil, blah blah. But this has that WWI 1914 Christmas Eve soccer-game feel. So let's acknowledge it with good cheer.
You pretty much defined Stockholm syndrome.
Putting aside $ per GB (matter of time):
There already are 500 GB SSD drives - OCZ colossus.
160 GB, IMHO is more then enough for apps/OS (and thats what SSDs are great for considering their pros/cons)
Nobody forbids you to use HDDs for mass storage (with large files and decent sequential speeds of HDDs it all works nicely)
In the end, the only problem is the price. With improvement to technological process, popularization and popular demand rising we may hope for them to drop soon.
I would compare it to flash drives beating DVDs - DVDs are great way to store something cheaply and pretty reliably. But for day to day use - moving presentation files, large data files and one-time-OS-install-use, flash sticks win for me. I've even disconnected my failing DVD burner and bought 8GB stick to replace it.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
