Do you think this will foster any improvements from telcos? Somehow I doubt it. It seems like they'd rather keep bitching and moaning than try to provide competitive service. I mean, isn't that what the RIAA does with peer 2 peer and bit torrent?

Trouble is, I'm sure there's some bit of our tax money being used to make this failnet, whether or not we as citizens use it. If my city decides to do something like this, I'll be sure to attend every city council meeting and read everything I can about it to try to gauge how well-built the network will be.

Ok, that's kinda funny! Here's your +1, my good AC! I'm with the GP: I only play a few games, but none of them will work well in Linux. I've even grown sick of trying to get WoW to run in wine (granted, I tried on my old laptop with a 945GM chipset, which was notorious for linux incompatibility). I'd like to learn to set up a complete linux shop, but our engineers need AutoCAD software that I doubt would work in linux. Even if it did, we don't have the know-how in the company to set up all our customizations for it in anything but Windows. I'm excited for Windows 7. I hope our company migrates to it soon. XP is started to feel really dated.

As much as I'd like to agree with him, I think someone's reaching just a little too far...

It must be nice to have that kind of disposable income...

I do what I've always done: shared. Passed the controller back and forth. Or played multiplayer games.

Oh boy, somebody's going to have stealth helicopters do a drop on their house from that comment... have you heard any thumps on your roof lately?

Meanwhile 5 US pilots retired very, very rich on sandy beaches of foreign countries...

This has a 17" screen (only 1440x900) with HDMI outputs. The gateway p-7811fx has a 17" screen that is WUXGA+ (or something, correct me if I'm wrong on that name) that is full HD.

I have this laptop (well, the q701 model (9700GTS, 200gb HDD). The flames have kind of grown on me. But as a desktop replacement, I rarely close the thing (the heat comes up through the keyboard (nothing scorching, yet) and closing the lid while it's running will eventually melt or wear out your screen. Plus, the speakers are muffled, and this thing sounds GREAT with 4 harmon-kardon speakers and a subwoofer under it). I rarely see the design as it sits on my desk. A few cons to this particular model: the keyboard feels cheap, glossy, and flexes to the right towards the (not a con: full number pad). The screen is only 1440x900 (but it has HDMI for my (future purchase of a) 42+" 1080p tv). There's little else (so far) to complain about.

My kingdom for mod points! Thread is over in one post!

Grown up name? How is Suse (which brings to mind a certain doctoral author of children's books) any more grown up than Ubuntu (a foreign language word representing the philosophy behind the distribution and FOSS as a whole)?