joe

I really don't believe that restraints encourage "extreme eating" with large portions.

A large appetizer is meant to be eaten by many people. I'm not that far out of college but I've ordered dishes of meat covered nachos that had at least 4000 calories. Those dishes cost 10-16$ and are shared with 4-6 people. That is plain and simple.

I am dismayed at the broccoli and chicken dish being so unhealthy. I don't eat at chain restraints but I'm CERTAIN I would have ordered such a dish.

There is a fundamental failure of the general American educational system in food. I was lucky to go to school in new York state growing up. I was even luckier that at a young age my father was diagnosed with high cholesterol.I was luckiest to have a family that cooks at home. I don't think that many Americans have a good food education.

That problem is solved through sustained education at schools and public health campaigns. What ever happend to that? I have a feeling if the money that was spent restricting rights was instead spent on education people would be able to make smarter choices.

No one should be saved from food. If you are educated on the risks and choose to indulge in high fat cheese, pate, chicken Kiev , or French fries; enjoy them they are some of the finer things in life.

The Wii sales are average for jan and feb. That mean AVERAGE. Feb sales of game systems are usually pretty poor.

The internet and forums pitched the Wii as the best thing ever and everyones mom and uncle will get one. It still has the sheen even though it has very very few popular games. I'd put it on par with the PS3 as far as quality games go.

The wii isn't living up to the hype. The units aren't there, the games aren't there, the developers aren't there.

Only the internet cares about this stupid console war and most people are plainly happy to pick from the THOUSANDS of games for the PS2. Along with literally dozens of A-AAA titles for $20-40.

The PROJECTED pie in the sky numbers for game systems sales by each console maker are still less than just the sales of the Gamecube.

The reality is the the more people bought Dreamcast systems than PS3+Wii+xbox360

The most profitable part of next gen so far has been xbox live fees and microtransactions.

When it comes down to it the internet has been pretty crappy the size of ADVERTISING budgets is the best indication of sucess.

Nintendo spent $200 million advertising the wii for christmas and sold 4 million by Jan 1st. They spent very little since and in 2 month have sold less than another million.

If the Wii was really the phemon that investors and the internet though it would be it should have similar sell number to the DS. It's doing medicore.

And to anyone who thinks the Dremcast was dead BEFORE the PS2 launched. Nice revisionist history.

The PS2 launched at $300 and is a valid comparison to the $400 dreamcast and the $400 Xbox360. Only after a refit did the PS2 price drop. It had market dominance long before that.

Well one the Brittish launch has a great game going for it.

Resistance Fall of man deals with an unstoppable alien menace being well.. stopped by the British.

Even at the end of the game british commandos keep up with the "superhuman" American killing machine.

Nationalism can go a long way to selling a system.

Jsn
- you have never used a PS3 for media and it shows.
The PS3 is very strong as a home mdeia center.

While the web browser needs some work but is a boon when I want to check out tv schedules or movie show times.

The cd play back is good. It is a bit noisy for the quite movements on classical music CD'd.

The MP3 playback and encoding is every bit as good as my PC with iTunes.

The video playback doesn't stream that is true. It does handle playing my whole video library quite well through.

DVD and Blueray play back is flawless. I'd need to upgrade my whole system to get better playback.

I like the picture handling cabilities. It's nice to just plug in a camera and show off mt pictures. Copying to the hard drive is easy also.

I don't know how the 360 works since I don't own one but I have no problems with my PS3 and recommend it. For people with nice A/V systems $600 is an acceptable price for such a component.