Time editorial (sort of) explains why video games are a good economic indicator

I agree. Fuck you Jim Cramer.

Honestly, Jon needs an award or something for that epic piece of entertainment and reality. Best thing to happen on TV ever!

Stewart did good. What Joystiq and apparently it's readers don't get is that Cramer did good too. If you really think that Cramer shouldn't be listened to, you probably didn't understand the interview on any intellectual level above that required to watch professional wrestling.

There are thousands of blowhards who helped tank the economy, and the several hundred in Congress are 1000 times more culpable than Cramer was on his worst day. But who owned up to their part? Just Cramer, and now he's explaining how hedge fund antics work like only an insider can to everyone who watches his show. The people who really screwed us over are still in Congress--in even greater numbers than before the crisis began--and they're getting ready to extend their earlier mistakes with massive economic restructuring using the same principles they used to tank the housing market on a scale 100 times larger.

If Stewart wants to really make a name, now he needs to ask some similarly tough questions to Dodd, Franks, Pelosi and Reid. Preferably before it's too late.

In response to point #1, it's a pretty lousy shoop, check out the fullsize image:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20050523,00.html

it has a very Locutus of Borg quality to it.

my first thought was borg also. i need some TNG.

Exactly. This year's big release schedule has just been somewhat different. February was light last year, heavy this year. March had some good stuff this year, but not near what last year had. This April was a joke compared to last April, though this May looks better by comparison (though nothing will stand up to Wii Fit)

It's completely true that 50% fail?

What's the error code it's throwing off, or is that some special thing for the cover?

Yeah, there's no way to get an Xbox 360 to display that light pattern, at least without modification. The Xbox 360 error codes involve either one, two, three, or four red lights, but none of them involve a green light.

The Time cover is Photoshopped, and very poorly at that: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20050523,00.html

OMG, that's just full of win. They sent you back a DOA Xbox?! Seriously?! This 360 failure rate thing is so bad, so ridiculous, it's puts a smile on my face every time I hear about it. Really, WTH is Microsoft doing, this the first time in history that a console ( any electronic device) has died prematurely to such an extent. It's been a couple of years now and they still can't get it right, or is it that they don't wanna get it right ( don't be a cheapskate MS, fix the consoles properly).

The PS3 is just as powerful as the 360 (if not more so), yet it doesn't overheat, so why can't MS stop the RROD. Either their R&D department is incompetent or they don't wanna spend money on it. Now seeing all this negativity about MS, some of you might think "OH, He's a PS3/Wii Fanboy." Wrong, I like all consoles and they all have exclusives I wanna play ( Halo 3/GoW anyone?!), but I also want my console to damn well work.

I've held off on buying a 360 cause of the constant failures, cause really, when I start playing Halo 3, I don't wanna stop half way just cause my console died from overheating. Finally, I plan to buy a 360 Elite in October, and I'm praying it's a Jasper unit. Cause recently I found out MS is STILL shipping Falcon and Zephyr models, repackaging them in the new double game Xbox 360 Elite bundles.

Aw, I got down-voted, either this is the work of a troll or Xbox 360 fanboys in denial.

@Peter R.

Or it might be because you're an enormous douche and your post had nothing at all to do with the topic at hand.

The internet isn't like a river, it's like a plumbing system. Pipes and whatnot.

it's definitely not a large vehicle used for the shipping of materials in bulk quantities

i have that magazine, and that's totally shooped

crap. edit button plz. :( "3" should be "green" I FAIL.

how many books a week do you read, just out of curiosity?

who needs books when Jon Stewart interviews authors?

Still... He's brighter than you.

i dont see what makes you think the daily show is untrustworthy, you can pretty much count on them not to lie

much of the daily show is more realistic and what is actually happening, than what you would find on a "real" news station like fox

Really you want a link to the Torture debate, because what you saw as destroying I saw a man ignore every, question Stewart had. He even tried to give prepared answers to Stewart and when he saw Stewart was not asking the questions he thought he had practiced he got flustered, that is why he kept repeating the same things over and over again.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=226121&title=Cliff-May-Unedited-Interview-Pt.-1

That is where the interview begins.

and don't forget about that ps3 controller that looked like a boomerang

I dont understand what you're saying, are you saying that magazine covers are made using photoshop or it's impossible to find a picture of a magazine cover that hasnt been changed?

I'm saying that any magazine with a photo on the cover has been doctored in some way.
this is a pretty famous example:
http://enakoala.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/redbook_faithhill121.jpg
look at her arms, face and waist.