Seriously... the women in my life that stress eat know damn well what they are doing which only compounds the stress. I simply can't see how this isn't going to be offensive to women and come of as a product from a group of arrogant, jack-ass engineers.

If it's CAV format laserdisc then this is a real find!

Here is a response I wrote for Game Zero about the whole "Nintendo is gonna fail" stupidity... back in 2000... still relevant.

The Future of Console Gaming: Part 2 - The Five Year Plan

I know it's not fashionable these days, but I found many of the conferences in Second Life to be almost as productive as RL versions and way more productive than video chat, etc... It's too bad that that platform lost focus and didn't continue to evolve. :(

We used to use ViceVersa Pro to sync our team but eventually moved over to Plastic SCM which has been friggin' awesome. It not only supports code, but also art assets. Plus it has the best support for branching. One team can be working on a branch specific to one project, while another works on a second branch while the main trunk stays clean and build-able. You can even have developers run their own local repository on their desktop/laptop and have them replicate/merge either on a schedule or when they connect to the LAN (if they work offsite alot).

You only bring stuff back to the main trunk when you're ready to merge a branch back in. You can even merge branches separate from the trunk. We check everything into it, code, art, and our Doxygen output. It's been a time save on orders of magnitude.

Not trying to be a sales pitch, but you should check it out.

I would suspect that it's more a case of users at the front end of the purchase curve tailing off after too many cases of "oops, I can't download it again because the publisher pulled it", crap I can't easily share it with a friend (who probably also has a different brand reader, even if their own reader supports lending), or even the... loss of the fun of "gee let's stare at the shelf and stare at my books"... Let's not forget the fact that there's no discount that one would expect in an electronic book since all of the print material publishing cost has been removed from the picture.

I know I initially purchased a few e-books but the novelty soon wore off and the price simply hasn't come down to where I go "$20" for this printed copy or "$20" for this e-book... just give me the print version that I can throw on the shelf and anyone in my family can read anytime they want.

I want a cheep device that simply mirrors my screen (from whatever device, like a VNC viewer) to my TV over my LAN. Give me that and I'll be a happy camper.

Wonder if there is a relationship between this prism and the one in the news recently.

Relevant...

https://www.nlets.org/mission-vision

Then read this...

http://psc.apcointl.org/2010/08/26/nlets-prism-transactions/

Actually, it's quite possible. There are frequently dedicated fans for MMOs willing to reverse engineer the servers and setup hosts to keep the clients usable. For instance, consider Phantasy Star Online. There is a free private server distribution called Blue Burst that can be configured (along with some LAN trickery) to allow Dreamcast, Xbox, and early PC versions of the game to still authenticate against a server so they can simply boot!

While PSO fans can get pretty nutty, I'm going to go out on a limb and say WoW fans are even more fanatical and one of them will come up with a solution.

Well, they said save game data will be stored on the cloud. That right there would be the needed internet connection... and that alone will prevent me from buying one. Period.

The Final Cut covers a future where the recorders are embedded in peoples heads at birth and how that plays out. The ending really sums things up.

>The other aspect of this I find troubling in a consumer product, is that SO MUCH money is spent getting rid of glasses - Lasick, contacts, etc. - that I can't see how they can find much of a market that wants bulky things you have to wear on your head all the time.

Yes, until Google Glasses or a derivative is integrated into your contact lense...

Someone's bitter.

So, wait, if I read this correctly, it only seems logical to imagine that radical polar shift could be related to global mass distribution. If the polar ice were to vanish tomorrow, wouldn't the denser mass areas be located on one of the larger continents... potentially leading to polar drift towards that mass as it pulls closer to center (like a dancer or top spinning)?

I wonder if anyone has ever correlated radical polar shifts with global mass distribution?