So two things. 1) This is rented content, I don't see what the big deal with DRM is on content that you don't actually own is? When you stream netflix, you are effectively "renting the movie". 2) Yeah, I could go to the torrent site, download a hi-res version (Several hours, or days, depending on how obscure the title is), convert it to a lower resolution so that it will fit on my phone, upload it to my phone and then yay! I didn't have to pay for anything! OR, when I'm waiting at the DMV to renew my license, I can simply browse thousands of titles and start the movie immediately. Wake up people, not all DRM is bad, Netflix streaming to devices is a GOOD THING that I'm happy to pay for. All the hours I'd spend, finding, reformatting and uploading to my phone easily justify the 10.99 I pay a month (And hopefully cheaper soon once they come with a Streaming only plan!).

There's an advantage to having a PC in the living room that can handle web access, music (Itunes Library Sharing), I also might want to use it as a media server (still working out the details). I want to have the flexibility that a PC allows.

"As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it." See its that kind of SHORT TERM thinking that makes all of our jobs nearly impossible. This whole concept of "Now" is short sighted (quarterly earnings that don't allow companies to invest over the long term, etc.) So my director asks me to deliver him a tasty pizza. I have the ingredients for the pizza, but no pizza oven. But he doesn't care how I do it, he jsut wants his pizza. So I go and borrow the pizza oven from Finance to get it done. Finance has a nice pizza oven and the pizza comes out fantastic. I deliver the pizza and the Director is satisfied. Now he wants me to make pizza's for the whole management team. I really only had enough ingredients for one pizza, and I still don't have a pizza oven. I have to water down the tomato sauce and get cheaper cheese, I also have to get the dough in bulk and nearly expired. Then I go to finance to use their pizza oven again and they say I can't, cause its end of the month and they need it. So I then have to build a pizza oven out of tinfoil, toothpicks, an office fan, three empty diet dew bottles and 14.4 Modem. The pizza takes a week to cook and tastes like cardboard. But I delivered it. Also, I do kind of care how my pizza was made. If someone made it with a tasteless odorless rat poison. Sure I might enjoy eating it, but when I'm getting my stomach pumped 2 hours later I mgiht have second thoughts. YES, i do care.

I'm having a terrible experience with my HP Printer. I purchased an HP 1000 about 7 years ago. The thing is tank but it is NOT SUPPORTED in Windows 64Bit Operating Systems. (Please don't tell me the answer is to change over to linux) HP's answer is upgrade my printer, but the one I have is perfectly fine. I've been very happy with its quality, but I'm not sure if I'd recommend it for the "Long Haul" especially if you're using any windows products.