Josh

Also keep in mind that those areas that are 11 years old still look as they did 11 years ago.

None of them. How they're used bores me to death.

The appearance and *practical* implementation of lore is what helps temper the same-old-cliche trap in fantasy MMOGs, IMHO. IOW, making the gameplay such that the differences (which are usually in the lore) have an impact.

Everyone is talking about Elves so I'll try to use that as an example... In WoW, Elves bore me to death. Not because they're Elves (most other races do, too), but because there's no life behind them that one experiences. It's the same everywhere; static. Houses look different, NPCs talk a little different, but it's the same general gameplay. The implementation, the gameplay, is what makes it boring.

In EQ, you have three different races of Elves: High, Dark and Wood (Tier', Fier' and Koada'Dal, IIRC). They all talk differently, like WoW, and their architecture differs, like WoW (though more extremely), but gameplay-wise they generally serve opposing deities, making in-game use of them different and important, which helps keep it interesting.

Elves of another race (or perhaps the same race in certain circumstances) may kill you on sight. Sullon Zek server (IIRC) was a deity-based PvP server, which was interesting to play. I actually got my Dark Elf to the point where he could wander around Felwithe without worry of being attacked, except by the High Elf king, but I digress...

What exactly does multitouch in a browser let you do, other than zoom in/out a page to make parts of it more readable?

@impunchy: Except 60 GHz wouldn't make it through a brick wall, and probably not a sheetrock wall. I wouldn't want to sit in between these things either...unless it was cold in the room.

I'm pretty sure you mean "the big one-zero" not "the big ten-zero", which would be 100, would it not?

Either they updated it without notifying, or you're backwards, because 300 MBps is pretty fast.

Um, just adding a RAID controller with or without cache won't make something perform faster. Usually, putting disks into a RAID makes them perform slower, in fact. RAID 0 can often perform faster than a single drive, and RAID 1 can for reads if the controller is good, but most RAID types perform slower than a single drive. RAID was created (and is mainly used) for redundancy, not performance; I wouldn't expect it to work faster than a single drive. You're adding complexity and another process to go through, even with one SSD. What I would expect, however, is this to perform faster than a single spindle drive (at least for random I/O).

Of course, if I cared about any of this crap, I would get a RAM drive and not even bother with this crap.

Dumbest idea ever.

If you had actually looked into the product, you would know that you do not need multiple units, one of the $200 packages gives you everything you need to monitor your power meter.

Regarding keeping your computer clean, I find it useful to install VirtualBox and use a VM in that to do things that may be problematic, or just to test things out. It's a free VM application, like VirtualPC or maybe Parallels and it works fairly well.