Yeah, this.
I've got a couple of guys at work that are Windows Phone fanatics and I have to say MS has put together some really compelling devices. And Continum - which is super cool even in v1 - will be the only way to fly in enterprise...if they can get apps.
MS needs to get over...
This. Additionally, the equipment that runs these plants is entirely "vertical" (in that the only industry that uses it is the water treatment industry). As such, the people that support the equipment and software systems in the event of outage/breakage are few and far between.
To prevent...
I've been using ATI/AMD cards for years. They're powerful, fast and overall seem to last a really long time. They're also by-and-large more economical than their competitive counterparts.
This is like a white trash version of the Windsurfer parabolic antenna (which works great, by the way):
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/
Studios and content owners don't want to get the idea. They're faced with some business-altering problems (or problems as they see it, rather than opportunities, anyhow). The biggest problem is the expectations of the content owners are playing against the expectations of consumers...
Epic fail. Price, technology and, well, the retail outlets themselves are woefully out of touch with what consumers want.
Who green-lighted this? They should be fired repeatedly.
I'm running 6GB of triple channel Corsair RAM in my system right now and it's super-fast. Corsair kicks a** for the same reason Chuck Norris does: simply because they know how.