Quark999

Bleh. I don't know why people enjoy first-person shooters that much. There's nothing adventurous to me about pointing and shooting at objects in a world like it was fun to pull a trigger.

See what I did there? It's all about STORIES, and most shooters are really bad at them. Still - people buy them. Why?

Slap me senseless - that banner HAS to be alive! After the correction, they have now corrected the correction - it now says "in time for christmas", just like everywhere else.

I'll grab some popcorn and watch as this thing mutates - they might change it as we speak :)

Interesting! The screenshot of the German add on Engadget still says "from October", whereas the actual banner on the o2 Germany page now says "in autumn".

Either someone made up a month and now they realized, or someone let slip the exact date as it is planned at the moment, and they didn't really want to let it slip.

My guess is the latter - they're currently aiming for October all over Europe, but there might be shortages/problems/strategic decisions to tweak the date, which is why they don't want to commit.

Still, even the German "autumn" that they have now is more than the press release originally confirmed.

First of all, I rent. I can't start drilling holes into walls.

Secondly, for three years I fought with crappy wireless routers that would reset themselves in the middle of the night. Even if they didn't, I'd get something like 3 Mbit/s while standing right next to then. My roommate started to think that our 12 MBit/s internet was supposed to be that slow, because he didn't know any better.

I eventually gave up and succumbed to a pair of NetGear HDs. I've NEVER had a problem - they're as solid as a cable, and I get 100 MBit/s + actual data rate out of them.

This has been in two seperate flats, plugged into different power outlets. That's European power, by the way, maybe results on US cabling is different.

But I don't know why everyone keeps shooting down Powerline, yet spends years trying to get stupid Wifi working in a steel-and-concrete encrusted basement. I know SO many people with Wifi issues, yet when I tell them about Powerline they're totally flabberghasted.

If you don't need Powerline because your Wifi works, then fine. But if it doesn't (and it never did for me), then you'll be happy to know that there's a rock-solid alternative (in most cases). It's at least worth a shot!

And Gigabit, mhmhm. Will probably be something like 300 MBit/s in reality, but still. I'd just have to move my entire TV and audio equipment off the wall to get to the Powerline adapter. That's how often I had to unplug it - NEVER. It's burried deep behind tons of cables and equipment, and it hardly gets warm at all.

Have you ever *been* on a roller coaster with a soundtrack? Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris was the first one, and it's synchronized with the track - meaning if the train is lighter, it goes through the musical segments more quickly. Was quite amazing in 95, with onboard flash cards holding the music back then.

Then there's obviously Rock'n'Roller coaster and Space Mountain in Anaheim, and Hollywood Dream: The Ride at the Universal Studios in Japan. That was obviously the "inspiration" for this (it's the same chain after all), but somehow Engadget only started to care once it hit the homeland a year or two later.

I love having a soundtrack - saying a soundtrack on a roller coaster is unnecessary is like saying the same about movie soundtracks. Sure, you don't NEED them - but they make the experience much more intense.

And waste a lot energy creating the Hydrogen in the first place. The same applies to "bio" fuels grown on fields - in order to turn that stuff into real fuel, you need/lose that much energy that you better off powering a generator with it directly and running off REAL electricity.

Daisy-chaining: And then the guy in the middle gets up and leaves - and the Command & Conquer session by the guys around him breaks down. Been there, done that, with 10Base2/BNC/Coax cabling. There's a reason why everyone dumped it as soon as 10BaseT became affordable...

"... is one of the first consumer-level packages designed to give 3D content creators a look at their work on a standard LCD." What does *that* mean, considering that the package comes with an entire monitor?

The lack of WVGA support for the Xperia X1, or the Touch HD is a major bummer, and I have no idea why it would be so difficult to implement...