As a software engineer I've spent the last ten years making processes and information more efficient and productive. At the same time, I've wasted tons of dollars on useless gadgets and crap; anything that breaks within a year. My resolution for the new reality is to look at purchases as investments rather then toys.

But like everything, I'm always fighting off the temptation for instant gratification and nerdfull preoccupation.

For this new economy I want to reward useful gadgets rather then gadgets that only keep me busy for a week.

Where's doom? Screw productivity, I need me some games!

No button! No thanks...

yes please

For me, I just want a phone that will have 8 gigs of music, push email (preferably exchange and imap), a slim form factor and somewhat easy to type on interface. I worry mostly on the typing...why can't they make force feedback lcd's already?

I did this to my macbook pro some time ago, but had alot of issues with parallels and using the harddrive as a separate windows drive. The problem all stems from the fact that the Macbook pro assumes that your IDE connection is a dvd player rather then a harddrive, so it attempts to boot off of it even thought the secondary harddrive isn't bootable. I eventually got around it by cloning drives, etc...but the effort involved was herculean to my noobian brain.

I got a bootable dvd firewire drive as an addon, which works, but it won't play a dvd movie from the remote, because it's looking at the harddrive.

It's a nice hack if you need more harddrive space, but you'll have issues.

HD DVD Drive

The hardware is besides the point I think. Sony should really team up with Google and kick start their online gaming world. It makes some sense for both companies. Sony can make good hardware, even if it looks like the PS3 is a debacle, but software doesn't seem to be their strength. Google on the other hand could really create a cool online gaming universe for Sony and both could compete with Microsoft.

I think it's a slight fish eye lens, because his arm is way too long as well. Or it could just be the curve in the background.

I'm thinking though, "how the hell do they pick their booth people and what are they thinking when they do?" The two dudes seem so normal and plain, I'm thinking of starting an agency in asia.

What gets me more is not the ad itself, which manages to be both in bad taste and offensivie, but the comments of some of the posters that seem to deny that racism exists and is a decisive issue.

I think there are more then 300 hundred comments on both posts about this ad. This issue is getting more comments then the latest treo.

I'm more shocked by some the commenters then the ad itself.