Adam Zey

@shimrra74 Or, FF games of its time are overcomplicated?

Don't get me wrong, I love me my FF 4 and 6 and such, but Mystic Quest is a darned good game in its own right.

It's incredible that people are still making DooM mods 17 years after the game was released. I bet if you sat down a 1993 John Carmack, showed him Crysis, and then told him that people would still be making mods of his DooM engine, that he'd have called you mad.

@Lordd G From what I'm getting, it seems to be the Megaman equivalent of Super Mario Crossover, except from the original developer instead of as a fan game.

@wemustcontrolpeople I spent a few seconds trying to figure out why robot Hitler didn't have a mustache, before I started reading the article and realized that it wasn't supposed to be robot Hitler.

@Firewave My Dell laptop, whose battery I used heavily, had 20% capacity after 3 years. I think 80% after 3 years is a pretty huge improvement. I don't understand why anybody would complain about this improvement.

I was tempted to buy an XT, but unfortunately, this drive falls short in two important factors.

First, there isn't enough flash in the thing to serve significant amounts of data without spinning up the disk. I have a very light laptop (13.3" screen, 3.2lbs), and the current 7200RPM disk causes a decent amount of vibration. If the XT shipped with a significant chunk of flash, I'd be able to run with the spindle spun down for the vast majority of the time.

The second problem (and this one is actually fairly contradictory to my first reason) is that it doesn't spin up the disk soon enough. More detailed reviews show that the XT won't spin up until it can't serve a read from flash. The problem here is that you'll start doing something, the first few reads will be served fast from flash, and then your whole system will pause while it spins up the disk to serve the next few reads. What it *should* be doing is spinning up the disk *while* serving stuff from flash so that it's ready by the time it hits something that isn't cached.

@thelebrity There are two reasons. One is that standard 2.5" notebook drives are far too large to fit into a tablet. The standard thickness for these is 9.5mm. There are two other common thicknesses, 12.5mm (larger capacities available), and 7mm (for slim notebooks). The other is that rotating magnetic disks don't work well in something like a tablet, since you tend to move a tablet around a lot.

Tablets use flash for storage, since it has no moving parts. There's no particular reason that a tablet couldn't have virtually any amount of storage space, but consider this; my Intel solid state disk cost more than the most expensive iPad when I purchased it. So if you wanted to get a tablet with a lot of storage, get ready for the cost to go up quite a bit.

@jamesyboy Your bad luck, then; there have been no availability issues at a wide variety of retailers. NewEgg, for example, has all three capacities (250/320/500) in stock.

I'm not sure why anybody would BUY the first two, though. The 250GB drive is $100, and the 500GB drive is $130. There's virtually no price difference between the drives.

@bleep Another issue is speed. I can type several times faster than I can write.

So my Fido data plan, $30 for 6GB, would get me over 2000 minutes of airtime... Not bad.