You think the A-10 is viable against modern handheld SAMS? They even have them in Syria.

yeah, you're right, sorry for being emphatic in my opinion. I hope that people read your post as inspiration to keep people from being a condescending ass.

Good points.

L4D is a great example of something that is just not as good single player. Period. It's a social game and playing it with a headset is amazing if you have a good crew.

The difference is presence. They mean that your brain accepts the visual scenario as "real".

This thing where the PS4 isn't powerful enough is flawed logic.

The PS4 won't be able to push it's current games into that resolution, but if you can simply focus on performance (60-120 fps) and gameplay. There are a number of 3D games that, while dated, still have a solid art style going for them with unique enough gameplay experiences that people still play or will play at a discount price. Point is, lower the demand of polys and textures and you have plenty of horsepower for keeping the latency down and frames up.

Maybe you're old, maybe you're just not keeping up on what technologies and programming can do with this thing. OculusVR isn't just TRICKING everyone. The applications are many and there are even more unexplored ones.

Gaming
Medical
Remote Telecommunications (http://youtu.be/yUu1ZQDCGp8)
Military
Transportation
Logistics Coordination
Out of Body Experience Generator
Arcade Laser Tag

Point is it's not going to be a niche, it's going to be a lot of niches.

Starship Troopers is SO unrealistic, sheesh!

Unless MS makes it so that the steam app CAN'T live on windows, it's going to work there as well. If I buy a steambox, and then want to put windows on it, and run steam on top of windows, how is it NOT a steambox?

Seems like the implication is that it can do more than just pass through. I suspect it can manipulate the video stream as well. Imagine having live tv you can watch in a game. Locations like apartments, in front of electronic stores, up on a giant screen in times square! I think they've already kind of shown the idea of watching a football game overlaid with your fantasy football league app. Examples Here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/entertainment The xbox can also presumably talk to your cable box, or an alternate media player (xbmc?) through HDMI using CEC. A scenario might be that you're playing a game and your girlfriend comes in and is like "Yo babe my show is on in 5 minutes!" So you can finish up your game and change your video sources' channel and later switch to it. All while hanging onto your xbox controller, no changing remotes or paying for expensive programmable ones. The "snap" verb refers to the windows RT/8 "metro" style. You're not using windows on the system, you're allocating a variable width vertical slice of screen real estate the the other interface. Sounds like it could be pretty cool. I'd want my steambox to be able to do that too.

I believe that a Steam Box will be a modified PC running linux or windows that is designed to have a steam shell for maximum gamepad gaming. You'll use the same Steam account over however many systems you have, as it is now.

I only play EXCLUSIVE games! If it's available on more platforms than one it's DUMB! In that case, there will be plenty of Steam games that aren't on consoles.

No it doesn't. It says the tidal variation is much greater. It says the average sea level is 8 inches higher on one side.

https://www.humblebundle.com/ Most Humble Bundle stuff works on Linux too, and comes with a steam key to boot.

Amazon Glacier is supposed to be pretty cool for long term archival. It's cheap per gigabyte, but the caveat is that there is a wait time to pull your data out of their archives, so it's not suitable for something that needs to be online immediately. Haven't tried it quite yet, but the idea makes sense to me. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

I recently bought a 3TB drive and filled up my case entirely. I took out my old 750 and 640GB drives and got an Orico 2 Bay Drive dock. One will consist of an encrypted volume filled with all my non-video media backups and virtual machine disk images, and the other will contain my system image via windows backup. I'll probably update the backups ever month or so. Plus I can pull the drives out of this thing and store them in a cool dry place in static bags in case my computer gets struck by lightning.

I agree with your views. A cheap, low wattage AMD chip is plenty fast and makes modern OS's go fast. Problem is Intel's stuff is at LEAST a little better, cheaper and lower wattage. If you can save money with an AMD chip, invest in an SSD as well. As far as I'm concerned that is going to make a desktop snappy almost regardless of (modern) processor. If you haven't used one before you don't know how slowly you've been using your system even if you have a top end Intel.