Why not ban certain classes of vehicles? The ones targeted are precisely the ones that currently emit the most pollution/CO2, hence are likely targets for a ban. They also take up more space (parking) and are more difficult to drive down typically narrow European lanes. If you've ever tried to drive a car through Paris, then you KNOW this makes sense.
In reality, I doubt there are many SUV's in Paris... SUV's are a uniquely American fascination (bigger is better, right?). I particularly like the fact that SUV's are quite rare where I now live (Finland)... I can see in traffic, it's easier to navigate in a crowded downtown, etc. Every time I go back to the US to visit family I hate that suddenly I'm surrounded by the damn things.
True, but who's saying that these engines use a typical mechanically belt-driven water pump? They could be using electric water pumps which continue circulating coolant even with the engine not running. Of course it would slowly cool down if the engine is not restarted within a short time.
Actually, engines and their cooling/heating systems can lose quite a lot of heat very rapidly in extreme cold. Here in Finland it was ~ -15-20c a couple weeks ago, and after stopping the car for 30 minutes the engine cooled completely. It was fully warmed up to 90c when I stopped. I left the store and drove home using side roads instead of taking the highway, and the engine never did reach normal operating temp (it hit about 55-60c max). The distance was ~6 miles / 10km. And this on an engine with both a turbocharger and supercharger which generate more heat compared to a normally aspirated engine.
Under the same temps I've also noted a fully warmed-up engine dropping in temperature ~15-20c when stopping at traffic lights for a couple minutes.
One step above rent-a-cops? You certainly are giving the TSA a lot more credit than they deserve. Imho, a couple million years of evolution are still needed for your typical TSA employee to achieve the level of a typical rent-a-cop.
Good point, the answer is profiling. This is precisely why Israeli security is so good at it's job. Unfortunately, practically everyone in the US seems to think that profiling is a "bad idea". While I agree in principle, it has proven to be a working system for the Israeli's. Until we get over our nervousness of profiling, security is not going to improve beyond what we have today. The problem is, successful profiling to weed out the "bad guys" requires intelligence, people and problem solving skills that the TSA clearly lacks.
You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled Security Theater...
I think you meant 9500 Pro > 9700. The 9550 was handicapped even more compared to the 9500 Pro (one of ATI's great naming disasters, and don't get me started on the 9600 Pro that had only 4 pipes). On the 9500 Pro all the mod did was remove the clock lock that ATI had put on it. Both the 9500 Pro and 9700 had 8 pixel pipes, but the 9700 had a wider memory interface, 256-bit if I remember correctly, compared to the 128-bit interface on the 9500 Pro. So while you could get the pipes on a 9500 Pro clocked up to 9700-levels you were still handicapped by the 128-bit memory interface compared to a real 9700. I know all this because I had a 9500 Pro that I bios modded to remove the clock lock. In many games that did not stress the memory interface it was close to 9700 speed (the fillrate was very close), but across the board it did not match a real 9700 due to lack of memory bandwidth. I actually still have this modded 9500 Pro in a box of old boards.
In this case, it appears that you are actually unlocking the disabled shader cores, but as I'm not familiar with the memory interface on these new boards it could be similar to 9500 Pro / 9700 from years ago. I have never seen a board that could have the memory interface unlocked/widened, because this is usually a hardware decision on the PCB and memory chips installed. A wider interface leads to a more expensive PCB design due to the number of additional traces required. You can't unlock traces that don't exist in the first place.
All the more reason allow and encourage updating your phone. It's akin to running a pre-SP1 WinXP or similar directly connected to the net. If you are running an unpatched OS, whether it's your phone or your PC, the end result is the same. Your device will be owned. The security of your data and device are at risk if not kept up-to-date.
I'm just glad this mobile phone catastrophe is a mostly-US thing. The US really needs to open up its mobile phone market and get some REAL competition started. Compared to the rest of the developed world it's still in the dark ages. Let's start with a list of things that most if not all EU states have in a fairly competitive mobile phone market: Number portability, got it. Device portability, got it. Unlocked phones, got it. Phones without contracts, got it. Pay-as-you-go SIM cards available at any kiosk, got it. Data plans that don't suck your bank account dry, got it. Reasonable (cheap) text message cost, got it.
I read all the time about the US mobile market, and as an ex-pat living abroad for more than 10 years, I wonder why do you still accept it? It's light years behind the rest of the developed modern world. You have so much lock-in and control exerted by just a few monopolistic mobile operators across the whole US. I live in a country with a small population of only 5.2 million, and last time I checked we had at least double the number of operators compared to the US and real price competition. Sure, phones are going to cost more if you buy them without a contract and I'm not disputing that fact. But the fact is we can and it's easy. And I'm not talking about buying an "unlocked" phone from ebay from a dubious gray market reseller, I'm talking about walking into any mobile store in any local mall and making a "normal" purchase with a full warranty, support, etc. I can buy a SIM from any mobile operator (or the local kiosk) and pop it in my phone. It will work. Phones are not locked to the operator and doing so would go against anti-competitive laws here. Most of the "tricks" I read about by the US operators are simply illegal here. The operator would never be able to get away with these tricks here, they would be out of business, if not from lack of customers then the government would go after them for anti-competitive behavior.
I really tire of reading about topics like this, the US should be leading by example instead of looking like a third world dictatorship (or more accurately an corporatocracy) that is behind the times. Seriously, this is the picture seen from outside the US, I know it hurts but it's the truth.
Not to sound troll-ish here, but that didn't work out too well for OpenBSD recently now did it? FBI backdoor anyone? And I would put the OpenBSD people near the top of ideologues in the open source community.
Not saying you're wrong, but based on recent events even that position is tarnished a bit since nobody seems to have spotted the backdoor in 10 years.
That's fine, but how about the Broadcom wifi in two slightly older Dell laptops that I own? Both are from 3-5 years old and both are perfectly serviceable laptops. Both are a nightmare every time I install a new distro, because I have to figure out which specific revision of which specific wifi chipset is in the damn laptops. Then I have to find a working driver from god knows where, sacrifice a couple of goats, and in the end MAYBE my wireless will work. On a good day. When the sun is shining on me.
I know some people will say just replace the wifi cards with something more open, but why should I have to replace perfectly good hardware that works?
I'm all for keeping the kernel clean, but please, distro makers... make it easy to find and install the non-free bits that are needed to operate non-free hardware. It's ridiculous to expect that everyone builds their computers from only free and open hardware.
At least in modern ubuntu releases, this is fairly easy and automated with the Hardware Drivers app. This is sorely missing in Debian.
Here, here... where are my mod points?!? You just earned all of mine for the next year for this post. Absolutely and totally nailed the point so many are missing.
It's not long before all the valuable freedoms we and our forefathers have fought and died for are long gone.
1 square mile, are you fucking kidding me or what? More like 130,596 square miles and the 8th largest country by land mass in the EU with the sparsest population density. It is roughly half the size of the sate of Texas.
What word in "population density" do you not understand? It makes no difference the total size of the land, the metric is population DENSITY. As in, the number of people per sq. mile, kilometer, inch, meter, etc.
And don't tell me I don't know the size of the US, I'm American-born and raised, living abroad, and I've been to at least 40 US states and hundreds of cities and towns, not to mention over 20 countries around the world.
I hate to say it, but if I compare both the broadband and mobile phone markets of the US to Finland (or Sweden, or Japan or South Korea, or...), you guys are still in the dark ages. Why you still accept it is beyond me.
Exactly, stop making excuses. I am in Finland where the population density barely crosses the 1% mark, and we have great broadband and phone coverage over 98% of the country.
As a long-time gamer, I want to thank EA for letting me know that the last 25 years or so were wasted on a failed game model. I had no freaking idea!
Seriously, I am starting to believe that the top game execs make these ridiculous statements only to get press coverage. Practically everything they spew is garbage, not worth the time it takes to read the headline.
I play both online multi-player and stand alone single-player games very regularly, and I'm sorry EA, but you are full of shit. If you don't want to make the kinds of games I am likely to buy, I'm sure someone else will, and I don't believe I'm alone in this. I spend a significant amount of my disposable income on gaming, which from the sound of it will not be going to EA in the future. Sounds like EA wants to be the next shovelware king, and charge you a subscription each month for the privilege.
WTF... GM's working on projects like this... when they were about to go under and had to be bailed out by the government? Un-fucking-believable.
This kind of project is fine in a *healthy* company that's making enough money to fund itself... but why the hell didn't this get shut down under the bailout terms? How is this project making any money to help pay back the bailout? I always felt the bailout was a bad idea, and now we see crap like this. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the politicians who voted for the bailout have these robots at home, you know, otherwise known as... "campaign contributions".
And just how exactly is Joe Grunt Sixpack supposed to know that shutting off valve #3983 on a control panel full of other valves, controls and switches, is going to have a positive effect on the flaming inferno on the next platform?
Not to mention, in these days of litigation-happy and point-your-finger gotta-blame-somebody corporate culture, do you want to be the one to find out?
Sorry, just isn't going to happen. You can't have a solid set of contingency plans when your original design is full of flaws. Especially on something as operationally complex as an oil platform, there is no "shut off everything" button, and there shouldn't be for good reason.
As a longtime Linux user, I could care less that I need a closed-source binary blob to run my graphics card. You know what? I'd rather trust the guys at NVIDIA to write a solid, good performing driver for their own hardware, than have a buggy less-capable equivalent even if it's open source. I have had multiple Linux boxen at home running many different generations of NVIDIA hardware, with few problems over the years. Apart from forced driver obsolescence (old hardware not supported in the latest drivers), which admittedly is a non-issue, I've not had any problems with the binary drivers from NVIDIA under Linux. They just work.
On the other hand, nobody could pay me enough money to run AMD graphics cards in Windows and suffer using their Windows drivers. Admittedly ATI made major driver quality and stability improvements around the R300 launch, but not much has improved since then. And that's 8 long years ago.
The DEC Alpha EV6 bus was licensed for the original Athlon (and continued with the Athlon XP). EV6 in the original Athlon form was a 100MHz double-pumped bus (200MHz effective) and very good in its day, far better than Intel's 100-133MHz bus at the time. In fact it was a major contributor to the Athlon's long-term dominance over comparable Pentium's for some time. In the end, it reached 200MHz double-pumped (400MHz effective) speeds. Intel didn't match that until Netburst, and we all know how well that turned out...
I don't recall any CPU-specific features were licensed from DEC... but I could be wrong.
I live in Finland, here are some stats to chew on. I work for a medium sized company (~350 employees) and get 44 paid days off per year, including national holidays and vacation time. That translates into 4 weeks vacation in the summer and one week vacation in the winter, plus national holidays. A normal work week is 37.5 hours/week (7.5h/day) for white collar workers. Plus, I pay little (practically zero) for my healthcare (I'm healthy and rarely sick, plus no insurance premiums).
Of course, we pay for it in taxes. VAT is currently 23% for most goods. But as an ex-pat living abroad for more than 10 years, I gotta say the quality of life is better here. So says Newsweek, which recently rated Finland #1 in the world as a place to live. I have to agree with them. The winters are a bitch though, if you can't tolerate cold and snow, it's not for you.
I believe the Blizzard reaction was justified because RealID was going to be used in their forums. You know... where everyone in the world with a Blizzard forum account will be able to see it. Dumb idea.
This on the other hand, is very different. I didn't RTFA, but from the information in the news post, only friends to whom you send invitations will be sent your real name.
Entertain me here, but I would guess that if you are sending an invitation to someone specifically, you already know them and they probably know your real name anyway. If you are the sort of person who sends invites to people you don't know, then you deserve what you get if unknown_person_a gets your real name along with the invitation and does something bad with it. That's just being Darwin stupid.
At least on the surface, this is FAR different than Blizzard's RealID fiasco.
Exactly. I'd say it's more of a case of the competitors closing a gap on the Wii, while the Wii is still significantly cheaper than either.
Plus you have to consider that since every single Wii ever sold has motion control out of the box, every single game can be developed with motion control as a standard feature. For the PS3 and Xbox... developers have to consider developing games for consoles that may or MAY NOT have motion control capabilities. Remember folks, this is an EXTRA COST option on PS3 and Xbox... it means you can't take it for granted that motion control is available. As a developer you have to support both non-motion control and motion control controller interfaces for your games on those platforms.
From a dev point of view I'd much rather develop for the Wii than to have to take this into account. For the Xbox and PS3, the early adopters have already bought the "upgrades"... where does the growth then come from now that the honeymoon is over? I'd be interested to see the installed-base numbers of consoles vs. motion control devices sold separately. Probably not a pretty picture.
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Why not ban certain classes of vehicles? The ones targeted are precisely the ones that currently emit the most pollution/CO2, hence are likely targets for a ban. They also take up more space (parking) and are more difficult to drive down typically narrow European lanes. If you've ever tried to drive a car through Paris, then you KNOW this makes sense.
In reality, I doubt there are many SUV's in Paris... SUV's are a uniquely American fascination (bigger is better, right?). I particularly like the fact that SUV's are quite rare where I now live (Finland)... I can see in traffic, it's easier to navigate in a crowded downtown, etc. Every time I go back to the US to visit family I hate that suddenly I'm surrounded by the damn things.
Hey, wait a minute, Iraq is pretty far down the list, load up the bombers again!!!
So, are you proposing that the offenders be drawn and quartered? Where are the torches and pitchforks?
I mean come on, we are human after all and humans make mistakes. They have owned up to this mistake and you seem to want to make an example of them.
But then, I suppose *you* have never made any mistakes. It must be great to live in a world that is so black & white.
True, but who's saying that these engines use a typical mechanically belt-driven water pump? They could be using electric water pumps which continue circulating coolant even with the engine not running. Of course it would slowly cool down if the engine is not restarted within a short time.
Actually, engines and their cooling/heating systems can lose quite a lot of heat very rapidly in extreme cold. Here in Finland it was ~ -15-20c a couple weeks ago, and after stopping the car for 30 minutes the engine cooled completely. It was fully warmed up to 90c when I stopped. I left the store and drove home using side roads instead of taking the highway, and the engine never did reach normal operating temp (it hit about 55-60c max). The distance was ~6 miles / 10km. And this on an engine with both a turbocharger and supercharger which generate more heat compared to a normally aspirated engine.
Under the same temps I've also noted a fully warmed-up engine dropping in temperature ~15-20c when stopping at traffic lights for a couple minutes.
VW has been selling a fair amount of start/stop diesel-engined cars here in Finland and I've not heard of any problems.
One step above rent-a-cops? You certainly are giving the TSA a lot more credit than they deserve. Imho, a couple million years of evolution are still needed for your typical TSA employee to achieve the level of a typical rent-a-cop.
Good point, the answer is profiling. This is precisely why Israeli security is so good at it's job. Unfortunately, practically everyone in the US seems to think that profiling is a "bad idea". While I agree in principle, it has proven to be a working system for the Israeli's. Until we get over our nervousness of profiling, security is not going to improve beyond what we have today. The problem is, successful profiling to weed out the "bad guys" requires intelligence, people and problem solving skills that the TSA clearly lacks.
You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled Security Theater...
I think you meant 9500 Pro > 9700. The 9550 was handicapped even more compared to the 9500 Pro (one of ATI's great naming disasters, and don't get me started on the 9600 Pro that had only 4 pipes). On the 9500 Pro all the mod did was remove the clock lock that ATI had put on it. Both the 9500 Pro and 9700 had 8 pixel pipes, but the 9700 had a wider memory interface, 256-bit if I remember correctly, compared to the 128-bit interface on the 9500 Pro. So while you could get the pipes on a 9500 Pro clocked up to 9700-levels you were still handicapped by the 128-bit memory interface compared to a real 9700. I know all this because I had a 9500 Pro that I bios modded to remove the clock lock. In many games that did not stress the memory interface it was close to 9700 speed (the fillrate was very close), but across the board it did not match a real 9700 due to lack of memory bandwidth. I actually still have this modded 9500 Pro in a box of old boards.
In this case, it appears that you are actually unlocking the disabled shader cores, but as I'm not familiar with the memory interface on these new boards it could be similar to 9500 Pro / 9700 from years ago. I have never seen a board that could have the memory interface unlocked/widened, because this is usually a hardware decision on the PCB and memory chips installed. A wider interface leads to a more expensive PCB design due to the number of additional traces required. You can't unlock traces that don't exist in the first place.
All the more reason allow and encourage updating your phone. It's akin to running a pre-SP1 WinXP or similar directly connected to the net. If you are running an unpatched OS, whether it's your phone or your PC, the end result is the same. Your device will be owned. The security of your data and device are at risk if not kept up-to-date.
I'm just glad this mobile phone catastrophe is a mostly-US thing. The US really needs to open up its mobile phone market and get some REAL competition started. Compared to the rest of the developed world it's still in the dark ages. Let's start with a list of things that most if not all EU states have in a fairly competitive mobile phone market: Number portability, got it. Device portability, got it. Unlocked phones, got it. Phones without contracts, got it. Pay-as-you-go SIM cards available at any kiosk, got it. Data plans that don't suck your bank account dry, got it. Reasonable (cheap) text message cost, got it.
I read all the time about the US mobile market, and as an ex-pat living abroad for more than 10 years, I wonder why do you still accept it? It's light years behind the rest of the developed modern world. You have so much lock-in and control exerted by just a few monopolistic mobile operators across the whole US. I live in a country with a small population of only 5.2 million, and last time I checked we had at least double the number of operators compared to the US and real price competition. Sure, phones are going to cost more if you buy them without a contract and I'm not disputing that fact. But the fact is we can and it's easy. And I'm not talking about buying an "unlocked" phone from ebay from a dubious gray market reseller, I'm talking about walking into any mobile store in any local mall and making a "normal" purchase with a full warranty, support, etc. I can buy a SIM from any mobile operator (or the local kiosk) and pop it in my phone. It will work. Phones are not locked to the operator and doing so would go against anti-competitive laws here. Most of the "tricks" I read about by the US operators are simply illegal here. The operator would never be able to get away with these tricks here, they would be out of business, if not from lack of customers then the government would go after them for anti-competitive behavior.
I really tire of reading about topics like this, the US should be leading by example instead of looking like a third world dictatorship (or more accurately an corporatocracy) that is behind the times. Seriously, this is the picture seen from outside the US, I know it hurts but it's the truth.
Not to sound troll-ish here, but that didn't work out too well for OpenBSD recently now did it? FBI backdoor anyone? And I would put the OpenBSD people near the top of ideologues in the open source community.
Not saying you're wrong, but based on recent events even that position is tarnished a bit since nobody seems to have spotted the backdoor in 10 years.
That's fine, but how about the Broadcom wifi in two slightly older Dell laptops that I own? Both are from 3-5 years old and both are perfectly serviceable laptops. Both are a nightmare every time I install a new distro, because I have to figure out which specific revision of which specific wifi chipset is in the damn laptops. Then I have to find a working driver from god knows where, sacrifice a couple of goats, and in the end MAYBE my wireless will work. On a good day. When the sun is shining on me.
I know some people will say just replace the wifi cards with something more open, but why should I have to replace perfectly good hardware that works?
I'm all for keeping the kernel clean, but please, distro makers... make it easy to find and install the non-free bits that are needed to operate non-free hardware. It's ridiculous to expect that everyone builds their computers from only free and open hardware.
At least in modern ubuntu releases, this is fairly easy and automated with the Hardware Drivers app. This is sorely missing in Debian.
Here, here... where are my mod points?!? You just earned all of mine for the next year for this post. Absolutely and totally nailed the point so many are missing.
It's not long before all the valuable freedoms we and our forefathers have fought and died for are long gone.
1 square mile, are you fucking kidding me or what? More like 130,596 square miles and the 8th largest country by land mass in the EU with the sparsest population density. It is roughly half the size of the sate of Texas.
What word in "population density" do you not understand? It makes no difference the total size of the land, the metric is population DENSITY. As in, the number of people per sq. mile, kilometer, inch, meter, etc.
And don't tell me I don't know the size of the US, I'm American-born and raised, living abroad, and I've been to at least 40 US states and hundreds of cities and towns, not to mention over 20 countries around the world.
I hate to say it, but if I compare both the broadband and mobile phone markets of the US to Finland (or Sweden, or Japan or South Korea, or...), you guys are still in the dark ages. Why you still accept it is beyond me.
I've got karma to burn...
Exactly, stop making excuses. I am in Finland where the population density barely crosses the 1% mark, and we have great broadband and phone coverage over 98% of the country.
As a long-time gamer, I want to thank EA for letting me know that the last 25 years or so were wasted on a failed game model. I had no freaking idea!
Seriously, I am starting to believe that the top game execs make these ridiculous statements only to get press coverage. Practically everything they spew is garbage, not worth the time it takes to read the headline.
I play both online multi-player and stand alone single-player games very regularly, and I'm sorry EA, but you are full of shit. If you don't want to make the kinds of games I am likely to buy, I'm sure someone else will, and I don't believe I'm alone in this. I spend a significant amount of my disposable income on gaming, which from the sound of it will not be going to EA in the future. Sounds like EA wants to be the next shovelware king, and charge you a subscription each month for the privilege.
WTF... GM's working on projects like this... when they were about to go under and had to be bailed out by the government? Un-fucking-believable.
This kind of project is fine in a *healthy* company that's making enough money to fund itself... but why the hell didn't this get shut down under the bailout terms? How is this project making any money to help pay back the bailout? I always felt the bailout was a bad idea, and now we see crap like this. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the politicians who voted for the bailout have these robots at home, you know, otherwise known as... "campaign contributions".
And just how exactly is Joe Grunt Sixpack supposed to know that shutting off valve #3983 on a control panel full of other valves, controls and switches, is going to have a positive effect on the flaming inferno on the next platform?
Not to mention, in these days of litigation-happy and point-your-finger gotta-blame-somebody corporate culture, do you want to be the one to find out?
Sorry, just isn't going to happen. You can't have a solid set of contingency plans when your original design is full of flaws. Especially on something as operationally complex as an oil platform, there is no "shut off everything" button, and there shouldn't be for good reason.
Whatever.
As a longtime Linux user, I could care less that I need a closed-source binary blob to run my graphics card. You know what? I'd rather trust the guys at NVIDIA to write a solid, good performing driver for their own hardware, than have a buggy less-capable equivalent even if it's open source. I have had multiple Linux boxen at home running many different generations of NVIDIA hardware, with few problems over the years. Apart from forced driver obsolescence (old hardware not supported in the latest drivers), which admittedly is a non-issue, I've not had any problems with the binary drivers from NVIDIA under Linux. They just work.
On the other hand, nobody could pay me enough money to run AMD graphics cards in Windows and suffer using their Windows drivers. Admittedly ATI made major driver quality and stability improvements around the R300 launch, but not much has improved since then. And that's 8 long years ago.
The DEC Alpha EV6 bus was licensed for the original Athlon (and continued with the Athlon XP). EV6 in the original Athlon form was a 100MHz double-pumped bus (200MHz effective) and very good in its day, far better than Intel's 100-133MHz bus at the time. In fact it was a major contributor to the Athlon's long-term dominance over comparable Pentium's for some time. In the end, it reached 200MHz double-pumped (400MHz effective) speeds. Intel didn't match that until Netburst, and we all know how well that turned out...
I don't recall any CPU-specific features were licensed from DEC... but I could be wrong.
I live in Finland, here are some stats to chew on. I work for a medium sized company (~350 employees) and get 44 paid days off per year, including national holidays and vacation time. That translates into 4 weeks vacation in the summer and one week vacation in the winter, plus national holidays. A normal work week is 37.5 hours/week (7.5h/day) for white collar workers. Plus, I pay little (practically zero) for my healthcare (I'm healthy and rarely sick, plus no insurance premiums).
Of course, we pay for it in taxes. VAT is currently 23% for most goods. But as an ex-pat living abroad for more than 10 years, I gotta say the quality of life is better here. So says Newsweek, which recently rated Finland #1 in the world as a place to live. I have to agree with them. The winters are a bitch though, if you can't tolerate cold and snow, it's not for you.
True, but the Apple Lawyer Tax will be higher.
I believe the Blizzard reaction was justified because RealID was going to be used in their forums. You know... where everyone in the world with a Blizzard forum account will be able to see it. Dumb idea.
This on the other hand, is very different. I didn't RTFA, but from the information in the news post, only friends to whom you send invitations will be sent your real name.
Entertain me here, but I would guess that if you are sending an invitation to someone specifically, you already know them and they probably know your real name anyway. If you are the sort of person who sends invites to people you don't know, then you deserve what you get if unknown_person_a gets your real name along with the invitation and does something bad with it. That's just being Darwin stupid.
At least on the surface, this is FAR different than Blizzard's RealID fiasco.
You don't really think the labels would allow themselves into an agreement where ANYTHING of value would go to the artists, do you?
I mean come on, they can't even PAY most of the artists in any meaningful manner...
Exactly. I'd say it's more of a case of the competitors closing a gap on the Wii, while the Wii is still significantly cheaper than either.
Plus you have to consider that since every single Wii ever sold has motion control out of the box, every single game can be developed with motion control as a standard feature. For the PS3 and Xbox... developers have to consider developing games for consoles that may or MAY NOT have motion control capabilities. Remember folks, this is an EXTRA COST option on PS3 and Xbox... it means you can't take it for granted that motion control is available. As a developer you have to support both non-motion control and motion control controller interfaces for your games on those platforms.
From a dev point of view I'd much rather develop for the Wii than to have to take this into account. For the Xbox and PS3, the early adopters have already bought the "upgrades"... where does the growth then come from now that the honeymoon is over? I'd be interested to see the installed-base numbers of consoles vs. motion control devices sold separately. Probably not a pretty picture.