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While I agree that a display and buttons are a good thing, I don't think the additional cost will come out positive in the long run

Many have tried, but none have had commercial success in trying to turn the TV into a computer, or vice versa.

Personally I am much more interested in products that are coming up with new kinds of user interfaces that actually fit the way people want to use media (or course Tivo is the best exmaple for video). If you want to look at a gadget that REALLY does music right, take a look at the SLIMP3. GPL'd server handles all the music catalogue and UI work, with a stateless client that can go in any room (not just with the TV). It's really the only product in this category that actually works as advertised and is not a pain to set up and use (just unloaded my Audiotron on Ebay - got three Slims now and I love 'em!).

Come on, we've been expecting that ever since they patented one's and zero's.

But I thought Microsoft owned that patent? Is SCO also claiming rights to Microsoft's IP?

did you write this article?

Stephen Hawking has a much better system.

As seen here, Dr. Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest people in the world, has already perfected an exoskeleton for the disabled.

Well, I'm not sure about president, but for the California recall I would vote for Galactus (the onion)!

Who's Georgie, he's not on my list of candidates.

For those that missed it The Onion's focus report is here

ACLU defends Nazi's right to burn down ACLU headquarters

Heck, if he wouldn't have created all those habitats
for homeless people they wouldn't have to create this database.

That this is starting to read like a The Onion article? You know, one of the recent ones that starts with a moderately amusing title - "SCO claims 'All your code base are belong to us'" - but then just dribbles on and on until you get tired of reading it.

SCO are trolling for dollars. We should stop helping them out by disseminating their bullshit. We shouldn't even bother to refute it, because by doing so, we make it looks as though there's something there that needs refuting. Nuh huh. Until they back up their claims by listing the source, there is no story here. They're simply begging for publicity to sell shares to pointy haired morons. Let's not be a party to that any more.

The BBC is reporting this? Wow, from the title, i would have thought that it would come from one of these fine sources.

Actually, the Onion previously reported that North Dakota is harboring nuclear missles. It was the United Nations, though, not Iran who sent the inspectors...

I can just picture the next headline at The Onion:

Iran Sends Weapons Inspectors to US to Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction

I'm sure global warming would go away if only those brave Republican scientists could find a faster way to clean up all the toxic fossil-fuel deposits polluting the subterranian portions of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge and other national parks.

I liked what The Onion found out about Gigli. :)

Spend time outside or something. There's so much more to life, and the Universe, than movies. I blame Slashdot, I blame ThinkGeek, and I blame everyone and anyone who's ever dramatized actors or rockstars or athletes. What ever happened to using one's brain? Society is heading down the tubes. Where are family values? Where are the American jobs?

Uh-huh. I bet you don't own a television, either, do you?

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

Why are there so many articles about it?

This reminds me of The Onion article "US Dept of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out of Past'" . :-)

the U.S.'s exponentially decreasing retro gap is in danger of achieving parity with real-time historical events early in the next century, creating what leading retro experts call a "futurified recursion loop," or "retro-present warp," in the world of American pop-cultural kitsch appreciation.

Such a warp, Williams said, was never a danger in the past due to the longtime, standard two-decade-minimum retro waiting period. "However, the mid-'80s deregulation of retro under the Reagan Administration eliminated that safeguard," he explained, "leaving us to face the threat of retro-ironic appreciation being applied to present or even future events."

"We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis situation in which our society will express nostalgia for events which have yet to occur," Williams told reporters.

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

You forgot to mention this

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

See, but we all know that movie would have done fine if J-Lo and Affleck were to die horrible, gruesome deaths.

I'm pretty sure he has. Now where the hell did I see that... (fumbles around)... Ah yes, here it is

Is all well and good, but Don't Come Crying To Me When You Need Someone Who Speaks Elvish.

Exactly! $4 pirated CD's are no justification for reducing cd prices!

The recent class-action lawsuit against the music industry that found them guilty of price-fixing does.

The fact that an artist has to sell a million copies just to break even shows that the industry has gone to levels of gluttony that shouldn't be supported by our dollars.

And if you think the record industry is justified in taking that much for its operating expenses, hop over to The Onion, pick up a copy of The Tennacity of a Cockroach, and read the interview with Aimee Mann, an artist and industry insider who's one hell of a straight-shooter.

And just to make up for my mistake, here is a parody that pretty sums up my last comment ... that the quality of today's music seems a bit canned to the passion of some of the FUNK we had just 20 short years ago.

The Onion Mothership Accidentally Descends On Hootie Concert

Point is ... aside from crime syndicates popping Madonna CD's, I think the other crime affecting CD sales is pandering to the "American Idol" crowd.

You mean like this?

Instead of my usual rants about pretentious non-tv owners, now I just refer people here:

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/doesnt_own_telev ision.html

Also, to become truly proficient in any app, it's a prerequisite that you learn the keyboard shortcuts; if you don't, you cannot be considered proficient.
area man knows all the shortcut keys

So you write for the onion? Must be a cool job!

It also made the front page of America's finest news source with a nice photograph, though it seems that they have taken it off their web site or at least google was unable to find it. But, don't panic! Those of you who are really interested can still order a back issue. What you need is volume 39, issue 14, dated April 16-22, 2003 (weird: the hardcopy says April 17-23! Do I sense a conspiracy here?).

It also made the front page of America's finest news source with a nice photograph, though it seems that they have taken it off their web site or at least google was unable to find it. But, don't panic! Those of you who are really interested can still order a back issue. What you need is volume 39, issue 14, dated April 16-22, 2003 (weird: the hardcopy says April 17-23! Do I sense a conspiracy here?).

The Onion comes to the rescue again here.

ASCII, UNICODE? English?
Very little research shows that standardization of all kinds promotes the general welfare, though some non-standard implementations are amusing.

Bill frist is such a dashing guy, no wonder he got the high bid in the White House bachelor auction :P

There's always this baby

I can't believe that they haven't used this patent.

I'm sure this would top office in terms of revenue production.

In case anyone missed this, here's a slightly on-topic classic Onion article:

http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/counterpoint_t ec hnology.html

--falz

Somehow I am reminded of this.

Has anyone else ever read "the end of the game" by Julio Cortazar?

Propz go to the olson twins' long lost sister!

Why don't people work on making more of Stephen Hawking's exoskeleton?

Mary-Kate and Ashley's third sister has just been found alive! Please celebrate this astonishing discovery by purchasing all Full House episodes on DVD. Praise the LORD and Bob Sagget's amazing humor!!

The recently found triplet will be feature on the next Girls Gone Wild video: Wet and Wild Spring Break in the Basement.

Kid Rock starved to death on the cold streets of LA! How many more of our best and brightest must we lose before you dastardly filesharers change your ways?!!

It's not as appropriate but still funny.

s/Kid Rock/movie star of your choice.

Kid Rock Starves to Death

SCO is coming dangerously close to infringing on Microsoft's patents

Frankly ive always felt that unless the cause for war is good enough for the commander in chief to pick up a gun and lead the troops off to battle in the name of truth and honor and whatever else he might be fighting for, then its not a good enough reason to send a single lowly infantryman.

Indeed!

This kinda looks like one of The Onion's sponsors.