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The OP was being pretty facetious, but mentioned specific titles (Mario Kart, not Mario in general.) It's pretty unfair to bitch about them producing the same game over and over when it's really just the character appearing over and over.

Quality? Nintendo USED to be about quality back in the NES days. That was 20 years ago. 75% of Wii games since it's inception have been shovelware.

Nintendo allowed plenty of third-party shovelware on the NES and SNES. Nintendo's first-party titles are generally pretty good.

Hell, does the new controller won't even support Dead Space/GTA/etc.

What is this i don't even.

But that said, I think the Wii U is likely to flop. Nintendo was smart with the Wii to sell it for profit from day one (unlike most other console makers), but they got lucky that the gimmicky controls, the hype, and shortages inflated the demand. I'm not sure lightning is going to strike twice. And that controller looks horribly awkward: http://www.viddler.com/v/7d40ebdc?secret=78568394

Oh really, you are offended eh?

http://www.viddler.com/v/18c26af3

Video didn't work for me either on chrome. Direct link does.

"Planting a tree: you'll plant way more trees if you pay (i.e. reward) people to do this. If me and a friend were planting trees, I'd damn-well compete with the bastard to make my tree better."

But for how long? A lifetime without pay?
    "The Man Who Planted Trees"
    http://www.viddler.com/explore/Ms_Valerie/videos/240/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Planted_Trees

See also:
    "RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

After that experience, will you work to secure the funding for more tree planting across the planet? Or will you move on to your next paying job?

And will you work together with your "friend" to refine you best practices for tree planting for the circumstances? Might you even sabotage his effort to look better?

Competition has a lot of costs in tasks that can be refined by thought and cooperation. For example, maybe together you could have built a GNU/Linux-based robotics platform that planted trees across the cosmos?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running

Spoiler, but worth seeing if you already saw the movie:
    "Silent Running Final Scene - Joan Baez (Rejoice in the Sun)"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0JGjKYVdU

Grades are as a problematical way to organize a 21st century society if you are concerned about its overall long-term health...

"There is no such thing as a "spirit"."

How do you know? Are you perhaps a physical creature on a spiritual journey, or a spiritual being on a physical journey, or are you something else entirely? Maybe somethings will forever be a mystery on this plane of existence...

There is one:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/mobileburn/videos/418/

Yes, in this video he pulls off the back and you can see the micro sd card slot.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/mobileburn/videos/418/

Because there's never a reason that a passenger would want to take a phone call. Or for a driver to call 911 for any reason...

I've had two friends go through DUIs. They didn't hit anyone or cause an accident yet were given DUIs for driving while intoxicated. The reason being that their reflexes were slowed due to the alcohol in their system. Distractions like handheld devices can cause just as much of a distraction and liability while driving.

So what do we do to people who have DUIs? It varies little state to state but in Virginia, they make you hire a lawyer and then you might have to spend a few days in jail and you might not be able to drive for a year and a number of other really awesome things. But if you want to drive, you have to get an Ignition Interlock (Car Breathalyzer) system installed on your dime. And pay for it to be calibrated.

Strangely, if you are pulled over for something else and are found to be using your phone (a secondary offense so you cannot be pulled over if the police see you doing it), you get hit with $200. Well, after the number of accidents caused by it, I don't understand why society doesn't treat it the same way. Give them the huge punishment like alcohol, make their insurance skyrocket and make them pay for the installation and maintenance of these systems on their own cars. And make it a primary offense so people can be pulled over. I mean stuff like this is funny but it's a serious threat to our safety.

I don't like what this man is proposing but I think this should be treated just like drinking and driving. I like how drinking and driving stats scare you. Well here's a pretty scary stat: talking on a cell phone causes 25% of all accidents! In this proposition's defense, I think reducing accidents by 25% supersedes the times when a passenger or driver would ever want or need take a phone call or dial 911 but I am all for making offenders go through the financially crippling proceedings that are affiliated with drinking and driving. That'll make people think twice!

http://wetab.mobi/en
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/
http://www.slashgear.com/dell-streak-5-inch-3g-android-mid-leaks-2161220/
http://mashable.com/2009/11/12/vega-android-tablet/
http://www.slashgear.com/icd-vega-and-ultra-android-tablets-hands-on-video-0869180/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4OCItW6ecc
http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/4d5337e2
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/quanta-tegra-2-prototype-hands-on/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/msis-10-inch-tablet-launching-this-year-at-500-patently-ignor/

Yeah, I to wouldn't want to run my whole desktop on a smartphone... and not on an iPad either. Probably better to design an UI which work well on the smaller screen ..

Depending on what it is.

...said the Jew.

That's not to condone or forgive anything at all, but it's important that we understand why a deeply civilised nation went so catastrophically off the rails in the first half of the twentieth century, if only to look inwards and ask ourselves, each and every one of us, what would it take for me to go down a similar road. Only then, I believe, can you try and avoid it. Again, it's too trivial to say "never" without thinking about it: we're all human and all capable of extreme actions in extreme circumstances, I believe.

Off the rails? They went from being an economic train-wreck to an industrial, economic and military power that could rival or surpass the US in about 5 years! Your country should go so far off the rails!

To go down a similar road requires only opening your eyes.

  It's not something to try and avoid!

Meh. Jews. We know all about them.

:spit!

Meh. Jews. We know all about them.

:spit.

Meh. Jews. We know all about them.

:spit.

It surely looks like a real device to me: http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/1095/4.249

It'll be interesting to see if/when OnLive launches how this affects the gaming industry. Moving everything to a single-platform online-only producer-to-customer distribution model is definitely going to throw a wrench in the current business model. Also makes me wonder if OnLive's potential for success is part of the reason why we haven't heard any news on new console development in awhile...

Except that Google Voice transcriptions are done server-side and don't have to be done real-time. Compared to that the phone is actually much less capable in this regard.

Are you speaking authoritatively here? I ask as the Engadget Nexus One voice recognition video kind of looks like the processing is being done locally, and obviously in this case is would need to be performed in as real-time-as-possible in order to be useful. I guess it could be that the phone pre-processes the voice before consulting a database run by Google... but I'm speculating!

Hacking your brain remotely is also a possibility. See this interview with a further "Stargate" member, that remotely viewed various locations using brain power. http://www.viddler.com/explore/monkeyclaus/videos/1/

The Woz apparently has a jailbroken Iphone and has done it for others:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/23/

they plan on going after him? Speaking of which, how much of apple does he own?

I don't know why anyone hasn't mentioned viddler yet. It seems to have pretty decent resolution. ( i haven't put it to the test so I don't know). However it also has the added benefit of users being able to embed comments at _specific points_ in your video. That's pretty neat. Especially if you want those comments. e

You can also see that with the n800 and n95, the reviewer has to use two hands to use certain browser features. That can be awkward if you don't have anything to put the device down on. The iPhone can be operated just fine with one hand.

Heh, the reviewer just tried using touch again on the n800 and immediately switched back to the stylus. I cringe every time he reaches for the stylus. I don't understand why stylus interfaces suck. It defies common sense. They should be really nifty, but it just doesn't work out that way.

Anyway, back on topic, judging from the video, the n95 seems a lot like the very best cell phones I've seen, maybe a bit better. Almost everything works, but it takes a little extra care and effort to do fundamental things, you run into limitations, and you have to learn a handful of tricks to keep things working right. (The reviewer says he had successfully loaded the normal, non-mobile version of gmail on the n95, but he couldn't demonstrate it for the review because he couldn't remember how.)

For me, that just doesn't cut it. Every time you consider pulling out your phone and checking out something on the web, there's a little voice in the back of your head that asks, "Is it worth the effort? Is it going to piss you off and ruin your day if you spend half an hour trying to work around some limitation of the phone and never get to see what you wanted?"

With the iPhone, you don't worry about running into any limitations or needing to clutter up your mind with tricks and techniques for using the browser. You just pull it out and use it. That, for me, is the threshold of acceptability for a web browser.