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Totally agree! Luckily the DMCA isn't law in most of the world. And at least a couple countries protect the rights of the purchaser to use what was sold to them. :)

Almost all games on Steam have launch sales or pre-order discounts. Ex: -DragonAge had a sale for $30 USD on launch. -Borderlands was $30USD during "Black Friday" -L4D2 was $35 if you pre-ordered a pack with your friends. They also have periodic 50-80% sales. I've picked up many $20 games ($30...

Perhaps, but that right costs you more money. Dragon age was $30 on steam, while it was $50 + Tax + Shipping for a DVD. My opinion is that losing that right saves me money and hassle. Okay, so you buy it for $56 taxed and shipped, play it, and now you want to sell it. You find some sucker that...

Steam is close enough to the line that I wouldn't call it borrowing. Everything degrades. Your DVD could die, and then you need a new copy. Do you pirate it? Re-buy it? With Steam, you don't have to. Yes, but.. 1) I got tons of fun out of L4D. If it's gone, then that was money well spent. 2)...

Nope. Just recently I transfered my L4D2 folder to a friend's computer so he wouldn't have to re download it. (8GB!) Worked absolutely fine. It picked it up under his account and started using the files. He was playing in minutes. :P Everyone likes to slag Steam's DRM, but it's the only DRM...

It's powerful enough - but don't expect emulators for all of those to exist at launch.

Hey, are you aware of GOG? I like what they're trying to do - DRM free games. Ever talk to them? A web based app store like that would be pretty sweet.

I prefer a menu. I've always found the Linux/OSX "icons all over desktop" thing to be sloppy. IMO /pandora/apps should be menu apps, and /pandora/apps/desktop should be desktop apps. ;) Since your desktop can still overflow (hiding some of the icons), desktop should probably also be visible in...

Them's fightin' words. :P And I don't even love linux! I would say your post is shortsighted. A hardware upgrade allows developers to slack off and avoid optimization. It's already powerful enough - there's no reason to divide the community.

Hmm... doesn't bug me. You've waited this long - you can wait another week or two to make sure you don't get sub-par abused hardware. Meanwhile, it doesn't matter if Engadget gets one where the NAND dies in three months from all the flashing. They get to do their review, and they get a free...

I don't know, because I don't have one. But I've seen many unhappy threads from people that discovered it's not quite as easy as it sounds. Good thing there's an IRC channel for when you get stuck. :P And last time I looked, stuff like video acceleration wasn't guaranteed to work smoothly...

It seems to me that less purpose-built ARM devices don't have truly stable OS's. Judging by the hassle to get Linux running properly on a Beagle, I'd probably just go x86. http://ncix.com/prod...anufacture=ASUS Ion platform seems nice. Even has video acceleration under Linux. (VDPAU) And you...

Guys, if you want more batteries, just buy them from Craig. Weren't they $19.99 each? Way more affordable than this...

You guys need to learn how to search Google. http://images.google...&gbv=2&aq=f&oq= You know what I see? People holding EXTREMELY POWERFUL devices in their hands! The Pandora just can't match that. It's a total failure.

Got some - but Texas is a bit far away. ;) Woot does however ship to zipcode 12345 - Schenectady, New York :P

320kbit CBR mp3's.

This is incorrect. If I could be buying stuff off Woot, I assure you I would be.

:blink: I think the SSD you're actually referring to is the FusionIO IoDrive. The consumer ones, which can be had for under $1000 (cheaper than the highest end OCZ SSD) have read speeds of over 700MB/sec in real-world scenarios, and 1000+ MB/sec in specific benchmarks. Of course, it's a PCIe...

mbps == mbit You're looking for: MB/sec The fastest SD cards are almost 300mbit, and the fastest HDDs are almost 1.8gbit. The fastest SSDs are almost 12gbit. Keep in mind that bits used may not correspond directly to MB/sec transfer speeds, because of error checking bits and stuff.

Uhh...wait, what? You can completely replace the entire windows shell. :blink: It's not recommended, because Explorer is highly functional and expandable, but you can if you want to. (Note: Explorer is also a mostly undocumented quagmire.) Lucky you. Every single one of those had severe...