After my IT consulting company cratered under the weight of the economy, I got involved with an Energy Supply Company, that I will not spam you with. Now that I've gathered a few hundred customers, who are all given the option of having their bills go down using traditional energy sources or having their bills go up using Green-e Certified energy (wind power here in NY) exactly ZERO chose to pay an extra $0.02 per KWh to go green.

Is there really a difference? Isn't hyper-real just another word for fake? Is it possible to be fake in the wrong or right direction?

When my old TV finally gave up the magic smoke, I replaced it with a modern 240Hz LCD panel. The first show we watched on it was Lost. Everyone immediately said it looked fake. It was compared to a low budget History Channel documentary instead of a high budget network show. Within a week or two no one I lived with seemed to notice the difference any more. It was just different, therefore something for most people to complain about, until it became the new normal.

tooooooo the machine.

The current awesome sauce that powers the Home of the Future at Disney Land is LifeWare http://www.life-ware.com/ Right now it is all Windows Media Center based, and extremely expensive. They have however seen the error of their ways, and plan on being compatible with Linux and Mac OS in the future. More info here: http://www.life-ware.com/products/evolving-tech.php

Sell it. The 360 is made to play games, and none of the games out there seem to pique your interest. It'll do some other stuff, but it doesn't do any of them wonderfully. If you want a cheap yet robust media player set-top box, you want a Popcorn Hour C-200. It only plays media files, and it plays nearly every format under the sun. It won't play video games though.

(Score:5, Ironic)

Pretty much anything. Lunix existed before JeffK!!. http://lng.sourceforge.net/

You're overthinking it. Its FOR adults or FOR mature people. As in mature people can handle this. I thought it was obvious that Grand Theft Auto 3 isn't considered mature content, but it is reserved for a mature audience.