No problem. They're the ones with the modge-podged non-make-sense-ical electrical infrastructure.

Kobe is part of the western grid, which is separate from the grid that Fukushima fed into...so somewhat strangely there is plenty of power for this thing to suck.

This cluster is in Kobe, which is covered by the west electrical grid in Japan, which is incompatible with the east grid, where Fukushima is located.

You might be one of the lucky ones. Mine was plagued by restarts, lockups, and severe backlight bleeding. I ended up returning it. But the gaming...oh the gaming! Dungeon Defenders sucked way too much of what should have been studying time.

Tell that to cities like Seattle where landfill space is scarce enough that recycling is the only economical option...and that's without touching any possible environmental arguments.

Huh. Didn't think about it that way, but it makes sense...even if it is unfortunate from a consumer's perspective.

Uh, nothing in the OP's comment says that they didn't know students get hardware discounts. E.g. I can know there is a student discount and still think that this perk could serve it's purpose better as a discount...since they could increase the student discount. I'm not "blathering on" about anything. You made an…

What, what? These gift vouchers could be shelved, and an additional hardware discount could be put in their place. Your comment is framed somewhat oddly - why can't the discount to students be larger? By pointing out that students already get a discount, you're perhaps unintentionally advancing the idea that "well…

aaaannd the discount could be bigger? It's not like there is one set size for a discount and anything over that size has to be paid in some sort of swag.

It's not like they can't figure out where the towns are now: the rockets just aren't very accurate. It's like threading a needle drunk, which I can assure you is no easy task.

I can't imagine who possibly could have thought this was a good idea/has even the slightest, tiniest, miniscule...st chance of being successful.

Absolutely spot on.

Hey the Wii did the same thing and look at how it sold. I wish Nintendo would put some beefier hardware in its hardware, but the market isn't exactly encouraging it.

Your stance is debatable, but Nintendo needing to be "rescued" is not. The Wii and the multitude of DS incarnations have outsold their competitors handily, and Nintendo has posted profit after profit. If this is a company in need of rescue, I can't imagine the situations that Sony and Microsoft must be in.

I think you got it. Pentile sucks, but I can't imagine it matters if you can't see the pixels...because that means you can't see the pentile arrangement. It might not even be possible or feasible yet to fab a 25600x1600 traditional RGB style display.

They aren't actually a ""tax free superstore" for everyone" - I can personally attest to them charging sales tax in Washington state for years, and from the comments it looks like they do the same in California, and probably elsewhere as well. So the doom and gloom around here seems a little overkill, since it isn't…

Hmm. That's a thought. Though you're right, it really doesn't make sense in this context...or maybe any.

No I get that, which is why it confuses me there isn't complaining about the sales tax in general...just over this aspect of it. If you hate sales tax for internet based companies for the sole reason that it makes your purchases more expensive, shouldn't you also hate sales tax in physical stores?

That's essentially what brick and mortar retailers already have to do. 7 Eleven is going to have hundreds or thousands of different tax rates to apply. But if that is or was the argument, it still seems silly to me because that's a reason to change the tax code or the approachability/accessibility of the tax...rather…

Why is everyone bitching about "big government" over this? Amazon is a retailer, so why shouldn't they pay local sales tax? Especially as the internet represents begins a bigger and bigger portion of our shopping it doesn't make much sense to exempt it. What it sounds like to me is that no one likes the sales tax...so…