jviddy

This one sentence:

"If you're building a house, you'll need solid foundations. But you don't design the foundations first and then ask, "What can I build on top of this?"

is brilliant. So simple, so obvious, but so right.

One perfect idea, distilled to it's essence can be easy shared in less than 140 characters. No all idea's but some. It's just a matter of finding the right idea and taking the time to express it correctly.

Having said that, I'm really not a fan of twitter, but that's for completely different and unrelated reasons

It that it covers foreign persons who are believed to be outside of the US

This seems to point towards a battery lease solution.

Having to worry about the relative cost of your battery vs the one you are swapping for could make this a bit of a lottery. Also possibly bribing the attendant to give you a much newer one instead of the old creaky pack that no one wants.

The article makes an interesting point.

If Microsoft had said that this is a completely digital system where you can download the games, or if preferred pick-up on physical media would the response have been any different.

Or are there too many people who fear change

Another sad day where the indignant vocal minority have spoiled it all for the rest of us.

I don't think there was anything in the early schema that would have impacted the way I use the system (apart for multi day internet or server outages) but plenty of benefits

Game sharing was a huge positive step, even though I felt that most publishers would ignore or disable (like game sharing on the DS).

Not having to swap physical disks would have made life much easier and increased my playing time. I'm fairly lazy when I've settled down for an evening in front of the TV. A usual XBox session involves playing what ever game is in the drive till i get bored (anything from 15 minutes up) switching to something downloaded so i don;t need to get up (normally trials). Getting bored again and flipping to TV or a movie.

The ability to choose from my whole library with leaving my seat would have been a revelation.

Also, my two year old has lost my Forza disk, which really sold this idea.

My biggest issue with digital downloads is the cost.

My experience with Xbox live is that digital releases are launched at a price and stay there, apart from limited time promotions, for a long.

I can go on to Amazon or into HMV and get major releases from a couple of months ago for half the RRP, normally significantly cheaper than download. Plus i can give the disc to one of my friends when i'm done.

As someone who's never owned a mac pro can someone give an indication of how often "power" users are upgrading their CPU.

When I was a windows desktop user (up until about 8 years ago) I found that everytime i wanted upgrade the internals the CPU socket had changed along with the Mobo chipset necessitating a upgrade of not just CPU, but Mobo and memory.

I can understand swapping out gfx cards fairly regularly but are there that main users who completely gut their mac pro on a regular basis?