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Give the money to big companies like Northrop, space/defense...they emply so many people and they in turn hire so many vendors/suppliers/builders, etc...it would help, and leading tech can show kids that science/engineering are cool and they can in turn help with the future science deficit in this country and do all sorts of great things making even more jobs!!!!! I hate to sound Reagan-esc, but give to the large companies, not rich people.

Seems cool, but complicated. My wife could NOT handle this, but she could handle the iPhone.....and I still want to withhold judgement until I see the 3rd party apps.

Looks nice though.

I'd just sell it as a digital camera with a phone, instead of a phone with a camera.

Where are the ads in the new 360 dashboard? Looks like they may be cleaning this thing up?

Microsoft's XBOX 360

OK, my only two "problems" are:

Download again. Is it downloading only the license, or does it repeat the entire download.

2) Download history is a mess, which I think is only sorted by date? No search feature. I've downloaded hundreds of items, I'm sure some people have downloaded much more than that. Now, to have to go into this messy list, find each item and hit download again.

Bad implementation in my opinion. The tool should say, would you like to transfer all old licenses? Y/N. That's it, if you say No, maybe give a list of all items with old licenses and have check boxes, so you can grab whichever ones you are most interested in at the time.

Also, I guess, without looking at all of the pictures (I can't get too much, since I'm on travel and on a cruddy PC), does xbox.com even list the items you need to download again, or does it just have that one image with the quantity of items which need to be updated and it's up to you to figure out which ones to get?

Sigh, keep working MS.

My kids are 14 months and 2 1/2 years old. Both pick up the controller and play. I keep them to "easy" games like geometry wars (I wish they had an "invinceble code" or mode) or Super Rub-a-Dub, the girl likes that. She tries Ms. Pacman...

Her favorite, since most kid-friendly is Boom Boom Rocket....since it has the freestyle mode, any button can set off a firework and you can't die. More games need to be like that for kids. Just anything for interaction and see something "pretty" onscreen.

He holds the controller and just moves the sticks and presses buttons but can't really do anything. Which is how she was, but now she has a general idea. He'll get there.

For some reason I made him a silver account/gamertag, but not her...I'll have to set them both up with gamertags and PSN accounts.

Old P4, 1GB ram, 128MB older GeForce video card. Can't play any new games on it with any decent graphic settings.

For a person that cares about HD, I wouldn't think you'd write such a flippant comment on 24p. Also, many TVs are starting to accept that source and show at 72 or 120 hz. And I know some people don't see the judder, unless you point it out to them, and I hate that especially on the credits, and scrolling tickers sometimes that it is impossible to not notice. And sometimes nearly illegible.

Maybe I'm a purist, but I'd think most people seeing one way versus the other would deifintely prefer to choose the 24p when projected right.

I won't even get into the "artistic" aspects that some will discuss, because those are less pronounced to me and a high-speed scene on film can suffer from "motion-blur" so to speak, which is annoying and I'd prefer everything shot on digital and post-processed to use 48p, if you want a film like transfer, but with more frames for those fast scenes...

/rant

I'd agree with a hard volume rocker, external speakers, and say 32 GB, that'd cover my current music collection and such. More codec support also.