Why Are You Telling Me

So, in addition to dropping the price on the Xbox 360 to $299, Microsoft dropped this little news bit on me as well:

My question, and the reason I'm showing you guys it, is why did they put this on my 360? I mean, I'm not going to go out and buy a 60 Gig model, now am I? If I wanted more "Gigabytes for the buck, I could just grab their (outrageously expensive) 120GB hard drive on its own. I wonder, and this is what the real anouncment should have been, if they're planning on releasing the 60GB hard drives on their own in August as well, and if so, if they plan on selling them for less than the $100 they're currently charging for the 20GB model.

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Back-Up Brain

I saw this article about 5TB 3.5in HDDs, and it contained a bizarre quote.

...two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

My question is... do they test that? I mean, yes, I'm sure there's some obscure way of quantifying human thought or whatever they're saying it could store. But the real implication, the way I read it anyway, is that "two of the drives will [...] store everything in your brain." Which I think is pretty cool.

The idea that I could go to the doctors office with a couple of hard drives, and they could copy everything in my brain, as a back up in case I had some accident in brain surgery, or I suffered some form of brain damage. My question is though, aside from storing the information in a safe place, is what can be done with my brain copy? Will I be able to think as a program on a computer?

Will I be a robot with a 10TB brain? o_0?!

I Want One Of These

Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW | Autopia from Wired.com

Probably doesn't go fast, but as long as it'll go the speed limit, 200+ MPG is very enticing.

Also, I'm considering moving to Canada. I've already got an invitation to visit for new year's eve, and I'm saving my pennies as we speak, but depending on how much I like it, I may end up staying there for good. My dream job is still to be an in-home computer technician, something that is good in any area where computers exist. So I may fish around while I visit and see if anyone wants to take me on, or if there's any place I could put down roots and start up.

Why do they start each commercial for the new X-Files movie with "From the creator of the X-Files"?

"From the person who brought you the X-Files, the X-Files!"

Um, duh?