Microsoft has just flipped the switch and allowed people from Malaysia to activate their SkyDrive accounts. Check it out if you're looking for a storage in the clouds solution.

Now if only they have a download counter for the files for those who are interested in those kind of data.

Wow... check it out it comes wrapped in the weird sponge like material.

Let's rip it then!

It comes with a stand cum posing rod so you can make some nice poses.

I don't think the move set matches the person.

The joints might make the thing look a bit weird

But they do the job and allow a nice range of movements.

I personally like this system better than the Revoltech one because Revoltech joints don't stay in every position, it's like they have specific notches when you move the major joints like say the leg or arm. While this gives the Revoltech a stronger stiffer posability, it limits the movements since you HAVE to lock the joint at a notch and not anywhere you want it.

This has got to be the best pack in accessory in my opinion, a nice ziploc bag to keep all the unused parts from getting lost! ;)

What the fark have I done!!!!????!?!?!? Why did I hit the buy button??!!?!?!?!

It happenned so fast...It's all a blur now.. I saw it, I knew I wanted it and... I fell off the wagon.

IT!

Bloody hell the product status changed from ships in 24 hours to unavailable AFTER I hit the buy button.... I hope I managed to secure one... no I hope I didn't... did.. didn't! DID!

UPDATE : ORDER SHIPPED!!!!

I finally had an opportunity to make a real life application with Linq, and I must sure the experience has been GREEEAAAAATT!!!

It's really something to go from using table adapters, TSQL code, to do all your queries to a simple syntax like

query=from authors in ctx.authors where authors.name.startswith("john") select authors

directly in my code to do selection. Why is it easier and how different is this from using typed data adapters? well the main difference is the speed at which you can make a new query.

With a typed data adapter you'd have to fiddle around with a designer to create your queries, slowing down developement time. With Linq, you just keep pounding away on the keyboard to build your data layer and queries, so the time for code to go "from brain to actual code" has decreased, thus improving developement time.

Either great, there are some developement choice changes that come with using Linq, and I'm still fiddling with it to see if it can be as flexible as a dataconnection in a pinch.