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WTF am I supposed to do with PS1 discs? PS1 died more than a decade ago. If they're going to release this at least update the discs so the games work with PS3 or wait for PS4 to come out. What a waste: Buy 3 games you can't play (the majority of people most likely don't have their PS1 any more) and get 2 games on a disc for PS3 that were already released on other systems. For 80 bucks?! Get more inventive Capcom.

@Axtor People aren't going crazy with lawsuits. Sony simply broke the law and now get to pay the price. I hope they burn for it. I was going to buy a PS3 then they removed backwards compatibility, now this garbage emerges. I'm glad I purchased a 360, not to mention the much wider range of titles to play now.

And don't joke yourself, just because a company puts some twisted EULA in stating this or that doesn't mean they can make blanket statements in how a consumer uses a product. Simply put you can't take away consumer's rights in a Warranty/EULA/ToS etc. One of the reasons we have a legal system is to KEEP those rights as so many companies seem to think that just because they are huge monstrosities and people can't understand legalese they won't put up a fight. We now live in a society where marketing basically runs society which is sad since once we go down that road we can never come back; marketers know how to use addiction to keep people happy. People like the quick fix nowadays and that will never stop unless a. we teach our children not to or b. we vote with our wallets. Getting the plebs to do either is an impossible task because ignorant people truly believe ignorance is bliss.

Judging by the last screenshot I'd hazard a guess that he designed the case. However, regardless whether he's a high school student or an adult this sort of feat is not *that* special other than the wow factor and the self satisfaction of completing a project like that. Most who read these sites like engadget etc can do this stuff. Also note that he may not have paid for this out of pocket. How many kids do you know walking around with a $400+ camera (taking the many stills) + whatever camera was actually filming that they themselves bought? I'm not saying great for the kid, but don't blow something as simple as this out of proportion as many of us did this before it was mainstream and everyone got credit for it at the swipe of a hat. Now if he had done this AND created his on distro of Linux then I'd congratulate the kid. Hell even if he dev'd the whole thing himself then actually marketed it; as I assume this was something along those lines.

It is interesting to see all the posts about how flash doesn't work on the OS X, yet people still choose to use it anyways. I wonder how many people would second guess their purchase of a Mac were they told a good percentage of sites (ie: Hulu, etc) would not work when they took the machine home.

The same case probably holds true for the Iphone but to a lesser degree. Fortunately for me I knew that the Iphone didn't support Flash when I purchased it. I unfortunately did not know the full extent of the reasoning behind it until after my purchase. Before then I was fully against buying the Iphone for the very reasons people are complaining about SI and Playboy being available while other small dev apps were removed. These are the same/similar tactics that MS uses/used all the time to stamp out small developers.

What I find interesting is that the large majority (frankly largest user base too) have nary an issue with Flash on a PC. Yet there is all this complaining about Flash not working and causing crashes on OS X. It is just as likely that there is something wrong in the OS X code helping to crash Flash. I'm sure quality control is very high over at Apple, considering the CEO, but that doesn't let Apple of the leash in my book especially when it seems their OS and other items built on their OS seem to have a major problem with Flash.

Whether this is problem is actually Adobe's or Apple's I don't know since neither is ever going to really own up to the real cause. I would also argue that Flash is *not* out the door anytime soon. Flash is just as popular now as it was when I was back in middle and high school. Sites like Newgrounds, Hulu, Youtube, etc keep Flash in the forefront of entertainment websites. So what you wish/hope for and what is actually reality are two totally different things.

The only people who moan and groan about it are web standards purists and the large sites actually using web standards are fewer than those that don't. Go complain to a Fortune 500 about web standards and see what sort of response you get. I don't care if you're a Flash developer or a web developer. Unless you have clients blowing up your skirt to get you to dev them a site for a Fortune 500 Fortune 30 no one cares. You're small potatoes and what you do doesn't affect the majority of the internet.

Unfortunately for all of the Apple fanboys the reality of the matter is that Apple did an excellent job at developing and marketing the Iphone. So much so in fact I went out and bought one, this being the first and thus far only Apple product I own. But with that marketing prowess comes the masses of people who don't care much for all of the "elite think" garbage and just want a product that works and is convenient. Those same people are going to want choices and when Apple restricts those choices (both on the App Store front and with this Flash issue) those same customers will leave as soon as they came. Many folks don't know about flash not working on the Iphone, ATT *doesn't* tell customers of this fact. While there is the 30 day return policy for cellphones that then becomes lost revenue for the company; and a potential future customer of Apple.

What I feel like when I came here to read this article was this : "You're not an Apple fanboy, we don't care what you think. Return the purchase and continue on with your life outside of our 'elite circle'." While that sentiment may carry on with the fanboys for life, the fact of the matter is Apple is starting to get mainstream attention which brings mainstream issues. Forcing those new customers to that mentality is only going to work on a handful of people.

The issue isn't about how you may or may not work. The issue is the overall way in which Office Depot works. Just because they don't send a memo specifically stating "lie to the customer" doesn't mean that it isn't handed down thru the chain of command in no less terms. There are many ways in telling an employee to do something and hint hint nudge nudge if you don't you'll lose your job. In this economy not many can argue with what they're told. Paying for a lawyer isn't really in the cards and if you could afford a lawyer why work at OD?

I'm more than positive Best Buy does crap similar to this, Wal-Mart I'm sure is just stuck with lazy people and isn't even in the same category as Best Buy or Office Depot.

After Circuit City and (maybe) Office Depot I can totally see a slew of stores going out of business because of poor/unethical business practices geared towards customers. I for one will be happy. It will lead to down times for sure, but it'll clean up this crap of poor ethics in the business world (hopefully) and lead to better service from stores towards the consumer. Back in the 50s you'd be hard pressed to find some ass who'd sell you shit just because he had it and you didn't need it but he'd find some way to make you believe you need it. That is why I like places like Radio Shack. They're helpful when you need them and don't push crap to you (at least in small locales). In malls and stuff I'm sure they try to push stupid crap.

Why the hell do they release these expensive as items during a global recession. I realize it was probably in dev long before the recession, but come on really? Who do they expect to buy these other than Hollywood yahoos. Most of the people who have disposible incomes for this wouldn't even know how to use it let alone buy it.

Its not "cool" enough for some of those people. Most probably have a crackberry or whatever new fancy flip phone that doesn't even trickle down to the middle class "uncouth" due to costs.

You caught that too eh?

Amen.

Is it me or do none of the screenshots show the display actually rotating when the phone rotates?
I realize its a pre-release phone and may still need some work, but that is a pretty large part if you ask me.

Android + HTC = Funness!

Hopefully the phone is done well. From what I've seen of the G1 and the way android works I haven't been very impressed. I'm actually quiet looking forward to WinMo 6.5 but good Lord its going to take forever (4th Q 09!! come on). Granted since MS has a pretty large stake in this area already they have no one to worry about yet... Just about all the new LGs coming out are using WinMo 6.1 :( I hope you can upgrade to 6.5 when it comes out.

This phone looks awesome. I'm glad I've been holding out for a new phone. I've been stuck using a Moto Razr after my HTC 8125's battery kicked the bucket.

I've been waiting for a decent touch screen phone to come out and the initial HTC's didn't wow me too much. I liked touchflow, but things seemed to small too much. I guess after playing with the iphone I got a little spoiled. So now all I need to do is make sure any phone I get has exchange access which most higher end phones do.