I totally agree with you on a quite case being the optimum solution and also what I would preferably do but, some people also don't have the space if they're living is a really small place.

Another incentive for it would be if they already have a highly spec'd computer or don't want another computer drawing power and raising their electric bill but really want an htpc setup in a different room, couple this with wireless usb and they have a pretty quick solution since latency isn't really an issue when watching a movie.

Also since GeForce GTX 460s go for about $200 now I can see this card go for $250-$300.

Not trying to persuade anybody either way, just putting out some points for way some people would want to go the wireless route.

Do people still remember it's not an option for some people to run cable in the walls because they live in an apartment, their landlord won't allow it, or they don't want cables running along the floor?

I own both the keyboard and mouse for my DC, only got it to play UT, I was never online with my DC though, and I always kicked my friends' asses when they came over.

I live in Pittsburgh which I know has access to fast connections. But I only have access to 1.5Mbps DSL at where I live in the city, and YES I'm IN the city not in the surrounding areas, which actually have access to faster speeds.

And if you're going to say it's an abuse of the term average, give us some sources. I'm not here to argue, I just want some facts.

Learn to read and see where he's going with his post. He makes a very good point.

I'm surprised it took this long for that come up. Also with the latest updates I hear it's even easier to gain root access to the nook.

Last time I checked, when you traced an IP you got something like this, pool-XXXX.pitt.east.verizon.net. And that wasn't even using a tracer, that was from my IRC client.

Guess you missed this part from TFS:

They tried, the county denied.

This AC has a point. And the post doesn't deserve a -1 Troll, even if there are royalties to be paid. I remember there being an HTML5 article a few weeks ago talking about the YouTube beta and how it's supported in IE, Chrome, and maybe Opera and Safari (don't remember) and since YouTube used h.264 for it's videos the AC still has his valid point.

Would you rather be sent to "Carrousel?"

snow how!

Except for the fact that they both have windows mobile applications and Tom Tom also has an iPhone app, and a Garmin one is to be released soon.

Then just in general:
The only things this does is a) hurt the consumer buy having them pay more to have a separate navigation system and b) the cell phone companies and manufactures that sell the smartphones some people won't be buying because they can't also navigate on it.

If something like this ever came to the states, I'm sure there would be a huge uprising. I use my smartphone to get traffic information and if I need to go someone I usually don't travel to like most GPS users.

That could be one of the reasons why the 1.13 D2 patch isn't ready to be deployed.