raburns: You should be thankful, then, that your life allows you that benefit. The norm, for the majority of people in the world, is to have little to no access to equipment of this sort. To have to move to other cities or make appointments for specific dates, with waiting lists, to get treatments or analyses or scans.

In some places pregnant women would be pushed as far ahead of the waiting list as possible (that is, not ahead of other pregnant women), which usually means you're still waiting, but you wait less.

There is a huge world outside your community that doesn't have ready access to equipment nor an "affordable private sector" to rely on (20 GBP can be two weeks worth of wages in places I have lived in).

"Ever heard of pidgin or digsby? "

Well... Obviously not. You wouldn't be asking that if they were.

And I know it's supposed to be a rhetoric question, except it isn't and it doesn't work. It just feeds on the image of arrogance people who actively avoid learning about computers see in those that do.

Ehrm. No. The Homebrew scene was pretty much already solidly established by the time GTA came out. Really. It was. I know because the damn thing required a firmware upgrade and for a while it didn't fit anywhere.

The backup of my own original bought by me originally and not an ISO downloaded from the net, I obviously mean.

I almost agree with this.

Obviously reporting whenever there's downtime is not only filler content but barely above treating your readers as stupid sheep.

That's where I disagree with you. I think it's site that report the downtime the ones treating users like stupid moronic lemmings. Apple takes advantage, which is to be expected.

It doesn't help that blogs fight each other to see which one's the first to post about the yellow post-it image each time. It's ridiculous but in the end it fosters a stupidly simplistic sense of "discovery" that seems to translate into excitement to the readers.

I stopped commenting on the downtime announcements but I can see what you did. It actually helps pointing out those times sites like engadget don't report the store's downtimes (even if, like in this case, it's because they were asleep or not paying attention)

You're confused. You think the store HAS to be brought down. You fail to notice it is brought down on purpose to maximize blogger's attention.

This is easy to verify if you actually paid attention to all the changes, even to Apple products, done every day. Most don't warrant major publicity and others actually avoid it.

Bringing the store down has become the online equivalent of clinking your wine glass so people will pay attention to what you have to say.

You bring it back up and hordes of bloggers inundate it, searching for the differences (which are not always obvious, but it's a game anyway and they're happy to play "search the eggs"). Free publicity you get and you don't even need to issue a press release.

Well. I'd actually like for XBMC to be open ported properly to Linux to it can be included in things like the freecom mediaplayer and other media disks. Their player interfaces are usually teh suck.

Other than that, I'd like to be able to use it in my far-less-bulky Wii.

In reality I'd like to be able to keep using it in my Xbox, but the thing has started hanging and freezing up on me. I'm not surprised, as the thing has seen five houses, three cities and two continents in its 7 years.

I personally like it a lot for documenting travels (for sales trips) and for leisure trips, where I cross the travel log with the pictures I take and geolocate them.

I'd like to see a mix between this and Sparkfun's Geochron and a dash or amaryllo's.

I believe providing a Memory Card slot is vital, instead of providing these crappy memory capacities.

Also, the difference of this with the earlier one is 3 additional MB. Not really worth the doubling of price.

I wouldn't mind it if manufacturers stopped beating around the bush and gave us what we all know they already can.

Big capacity and/or flash reader
chargeable through USB
standalone or slave-receiver (through USB)

Even bluetooth is optional to me. I just want a coordinate and trip tracker.

That this one is much smaller, mainly.

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