oGMo

Competition _is_ good. There are 5 major reader/store combinations now (including Sony and Apple). Much like game consoles, the main thing for any of them to survive will be selection. Unlike consoles, "porting" books doesn't take much, so hopefully once a publisher gets a book in e-reader format for one platform, they'll try and maximize coverage.

Of course, this is why "evil deals" that are _anticompetitive_ are something we should watch out for and not support. I'm not going to name anyone specifically here---you can all think of at least one---but we should be wary of these from _any_ vendor.

@Faceless Troll

Er, why yes, rendering exactly the same scene but at slightly different angles every other frame _is_ easier than emulating a high-bandwidth specialized processor's hardware that's only one generation removed. Crazy isn't it? =P

@rhimbu

Call me back when you can achieve an arbitrary number of multi-gigabit wireless connections in close proximity (i.e., the same room) for a few cents per controller.

Wired is not going away anytime soon beyond the casual user.

@crunc

Pretty much the crappiest possible video, even the next one in the list is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNb18aFSQ4

They had one of these at PAX the second or third year, tried it out myself. Doesn't work very well. Moving forward isn't so much about "pulling" at the floor with your feet so much as "shifting weight so the thing moves." And it keeps moving for a second, so there's a bit of drunken-lag-staggering .. turning immediately is nice, but you can't _change directions_ immediately, and you can only move fairly slowly. Not immersive.

@Delta

Yeah, but you could say the same thing about the web ... "HTML is not a programming language or application platform, it's a solution for delivering documents to a computer. There's no way you'll see the web delivering the same kind of content as a native application." And, really, that's still true. But it doesn't mean that HTML5 can't make the web an even crappier place than it already is.

Seeing "MeeGo" my first thought is always this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migo

@PBB

Easy. It all comes down to what's the most critical thing anyway: software. All Sony has to do is offer software that actually really takes advantage of this. They've already demonstrated some interesting concepts (unlike Nintendo), if they can turn them into actual games that are fun, they'll have the advantage on Nintendo a thousandfold.

Nice in theory .. attach a tagged clip to each power cord, then you can just assemble them, lego-style, into a power strip wherever convenient. You can see both what each cord is as well as not having to worry about wasting outlets.

Unfortunately the monkey gets wrenched when you have to move something in the middle and don't want to lose power to everything after it.

This is probably a good practical demonstration of the different advantages of arrays vs linked lists. ;)

If they have a warrant, seems reasonable. If they don't, it's not. Why is this not simple. Worry more about: 1) laws that allow warrantless access and 2) people who have access anyway without a warrant.