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It feels like just yesterday when I actually closed tabs, now I just leave them open all the time.

I don't know how I feel about such short travel on keyboards. I already like having a keyboard with big, loud, beefy cherry switches. It makes me feel like my fingers are punching people through the internet when I get on a rant.

I give you all the internets.

Years of building up to this media hub. Built my first WMC system in 2007 on a low end celeron. When I upgraded my gaming rig, I took my old Q9300 system and rebuilt it into a media center with a 4 TB RAID 5 array my Xbox 360s are my extenders, and I have multiple because I spent a few years repairing them for spare…

We run a number of emulators and 3D games on my media center as well. It's our replacement for our Wii, and it plays games like SSF4 when people come over. I also use GPU accelerated video decoders/encoders, so a bigger GPU helps offload the CPU when it's connected to an extender.

when I said tool I meant it more as a limited product for specific purposes. iPads can't replace a laptop just yet.

Well shit, I'm getting a new car. AND I'm putting one of these in it. Suck it Trebek

I have needs for secondary systems. My primary workstation is for rendering models and triple screen gaming. My media center needs a new GPU.

Is it sad I'm willing to sell a kidney to get one of these? I've had to give up buying PC parts in the last few years, so I'm guessing my current gaming rig will have to last me a while. Oh well, at least I bought two GTX 580s

In general I mean rebuilding web content from the ground up. We have somewhat of a scattered mess with HTML, JavaScript, PHP/Python, Flash, etc. I'd much rather see a full fledged browser VM that runs pages as we run apps today, albeit more portable than the 15-80MB apps. Little technical details such as live-loading…

Much of the rich internet media has been moving away from ActionScript and Flash though. The introduction of the Canvas tag allows for direct drawing and input in a web browser using JavaScript, which in some cases runs much faster than ActionScript has in the past. Using HTML5 and JavaScript pushes for centralized…

I call bullshit on Apple killing it, and Apple kicked flash off the device as a competitive point to the industry. Because flash was a cross-platform API, apps could be written for both Android and iPhone using flash, then deployed in a browser based application shell. By removing flash it forced developers to use…

That's usually how it works, and if it's successful then it tends to hit general privileged staff, etc as a "tool" more than a replacement for the essential system.

Live tiles aren't the answer though. Sure, you can pop open your start menu and see small bits of information at a time, but as for notifications on an application changing status the Taskbar has done beautifully for years.

This is just hard for me to see in general. It's targeting the play side of Windows, and not the work side of it. I'm not specifically saying for enterprise/business vs home, I'm saying "I'm going to play an app" vs "I'm going to get work done"

We just live out of our basement in the summer. It's a good 5-10 degrees colder in the summer, without the need to run the AC non-stop.

Precisely. At the time it was the logical evolution of the mobile PC. capacitive touch screens of that size were too expensive for a relatively unknown and untapped technology. At that time, people were still using a stylus with their palm pilots and smartphones were just starting to crawl out of the primordial pool.…

Windows 8 Desktop Edition. $89.99, requires Windows 8 to install.

Honestly, I don't think you could have said it any better.