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Jeff - the screen clicks in 4 directions, and the display shows you what each direction will do (context sensitive), it's actually really intuitive.

What brilliant news. I was planning on replacing my 2Gb U10 (that broke because I jumped on the screen) at the beginning of November (so that I have something to listen to whilst participating in NaNoWriMo), and if it's in black, that's so much better.

But Pi had no steampunk at all. It was set in the modern day, albeit with a pretty large supercomputer.

It looks like a fracking Cylon.

I thought they couldn't get much smaller than the U10. Though the U10 does have it beaten on battery life (20).

How are people in the UK getting hold of these? They aren't meant to be released until the 23rd! (I want one so badly it hurts. It hurts my SOUL)

It's a fake. The "$599" is not centered, it's has no perspective, it's not even the same colour.

The point is that DRM will drain battery life (and to a much lesser extent storage space), because you need to decrypt the file to play it. The codec only matters if you want a detailed analysis of it. Most mp3 player CPUs don't have FPU's either, which will just add to the processing time and battery drain.

you seem to have forgotten the huge technical hurdles that we are about to hit - the existing phone networks simply cannot handle this. There will be huge amounts of lag and slowdown for ages until the networks catch up.

(unless google use all that dark fiber it bought up ages ago and goes into telecoms)

F.E.A.R.
"First Encounter Action Response"? What the hell kind of name is that for an elite paramilitary group, let alone a game?