"just wave your DAP in the general direction of the payment terminal for it to register."

uhh, no. it's more of a "put your wallet on top of the reader and wait for the beep" kind of thing.

Wow. Lamest off-topic thread, ever.

Anyway, I'm weary of HP laptops because they're quite often lemons. Just look at all of the "remanufactured" HP laptops that retailers sell. My laptop is an HP (x1000), and the video card died in it due to poor design. I was lucky to find a replacement for

Korea is blanketed in DMB, over which many television stations are now broadcasting. Cell phones now have DMB, laptops are coming with DMB, there's even cameras that are have DMB receivers. DMB = television everywhere and in everything.

The Rapsody is a device you hook up to your computer, leech a bunch of video with it, then hook it up to your TV to watch. The writer's equivicating this with a PMP is odd, as we also have DMB PMPs--they're a whole other beast.

Better to buy a cheap xbox, hack it, and install the mature xbmc for the media center option. Not that it wouldn't be an option with the msntv2, but I doubt that it's development is going to go very far.

Further, the engadget article here is incorrect in stating that this hack requires hardware mods, look at this quote from the linked article, "...running without any hardware modifications..." You just need to make a separate adaptor to access the serial port, not mod the box.