wrong context. but consider back during the Ma Bell era when phone service was stupidly expensive for everyone and you had no choice in the matter at all. a bill by actual usage plan probably made sense to alot of americans financially.

Except that noone seriously considers the iPhone a serious gaming device, especially not the gaming community. Just because Apple wants it to be one doesn't make it one.

And to be honest, I think it's far more plausible that Nintendo would get Skype onto the DSi than the iPhone ever becoming a legitimate threat to Nintendo's portable marketshare.

You may be a part of the homebrew community, but you don't seem to understand that one simple fact about it.

Why do they hack devices? The same reason the first man climbed Mount Everest. Because it was there. And once one person opens a crack you can be sure that others will help force it wider.

On one final note though, if Nintendo were to create a sanctioned Homebrew Channel it would probably be the smartest move they would have made in the last 5 years.

Portable game systems are now competing with cell phones

No, they aren't. Go read an NPD sales chart and try to claim that the DS has seen any loss of market share to the iPhone. And by the way, who are you to declare that handheld systems only interest 8th graders? Last I checked I'm 22, I still like my Game Boy Advance, and I want to get a PSP.

First of all, there hasn't been any announcement as to the existence of a next-gen handheld, let alone its components. Secondly, this story is stemming from a rumor that the Tegra chip might be in the currently non-existent handheld.

The idea is interesting, the execution is intriguing, but the problem it solves isn't necessarily a problem. The video goes to great lengths to say that current window management systems are arbitrary and messy, but this is the problem. Alot of people arrange those windows intentionally to specific positions to better enable multi-tasking. Additionally, the concept seems to completely forget about the existence of task bars and minimizing in current windowed GUIs. Furthermore this solution isn't even all that superior anyway what with all open programs being oriented horizontally. It sounds like a good idea at first as it allows you to simply flip through your programs, but this is an example of an interface being built around an intended feature instead of the other way around. Any more than a few programs open at once and I can see it becoming very easy to lose track of where the program you were just using is, at which point you have to shrink the entire application space until you bring up their own version of alt-tab, at which point you've pretty much used a more cumbersome method to perform the exact same window management technique that the the video initially comdemns. The final issue that I have with it is that it nearly eliminates the desktop and all it's utility, opting instead to hide it most of the time behind every program you are working with. You can't use it as a quick workspace for file management, or a temporary destination for works in progress, all it's good for is widgets that you can't even see unless you hide everything you are doing at the moment.

I wonder when they are gonna realize that we aren't listening..... mostly because of articles like this one...

This used to be a common feature for a short period of time. I wonder why it died out.

My guess would have to be that if you don't improve with the game's curve, the curve gets easier, and could take out the challenge of a section that you'd rather force yourself through. *shrug*

fun fact. anyone downloading junk from these sites is probably downloading an encrypted container file like rar or 7zip, under a completely false filename.
another fun fact. the most popular, and therefore hardest to police sites are all free to use, with improved premium access being a pay-to-play option, not a mandate.

Next time get off your high horse and do a little research before flipping out on this crap.

*slow clap*

How much crack do I have to smoke to be as optimistic as you are that Comcast won't abuse power? Cause I got a dealer right here and he's giving me a good bulk discount.

Anonymous will NEVER try to abuse this. Nuh-uh. Won't happen.

*facepalm to unconsciousness*

Lightdrive Engine? Sounds better for marketing at least.

No spy is as pervasive or unstoppable as the internet.

It's not as prevalent or widespread, no, but it sure as hell is already a reality. Especially for comic books, a 5 minute search can typically yield complete collections of comics pertaining to whatever character you feel like reading for a while, and then with a handy program called CDisplayEx, you can read them page by page with great ease, even turning the image 90 degrees to get a larger image on your screen.

The tools are there, the materials are there, it's just that the community isn't yet, and neither is the awareness of the piracy.

General rule. If it could be pirated, it can and will be pirated. No exceptions.