The iPhone or a smart phone of some sort is just the beginning of a wearable pc, it's a component in the mess. Bluetooth and other wireless technologies need to further develop and better batteries. No component except the central unit should be bigger than a bluetooth headset. Until they get that far its never going to catch on.

We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first reasonable wearable computer.

/me winces as he remembers all the web vulnerabilities on the PIX.

In reality I would wager less of the dd-wrt routers would get patched, but only because a lot of them were deployed by non-professionals who will likely not see the news.

What you're advocating, in a round about way, is security through obscurity.

Security through obscurity doesn't work.

All security through obscurity does is propagate a false sense of security that you're safe because you've not heard any major news headlines telling you that you're vulnerable... meanwhile, you've been rooted for 3 months.

PunkBuster works... sometimes.

Nothing is original it can all be floated back to 7 basic stories (or is it 9? shrug) using that theory. *rolls eyes*

WoW wasn't tremendously innovative, however it did implement some innovative ideas (at its release). What it really did was show a level of polish at release most game releases lacked. It had an interesting game world that a lot of people were familiar with and loved and easily recognisable class functions that weren't tremendously complex to play (unlike say eq1, uo, ac, or daoc by comparison) that increased its playability considerably.

WoW and EVE both innovated at least some degree, especially when compared to the MMOs that followed them.

If the beta was any indication, I'd move along. It was at best describable as "the worst of the barrens" most of the times with rampant kill stealing and other lovely fun behavior.

meh, my post forgot to login.

Why buy a 5 digit id when you can get an AWESOME 4 digit id with a long history of apathy and months of not posting at a time... rofl.

... child molester gone... I care?

yes it will persist because a lot of it is due to price... $400 for a console is absurd.

You can have a ton of fun with a wii just like a 360 or ps3. They each have their strong and weak points but in the end it comes down to fun and graphics isn't necessarily the top of the fun list.

What? Who cares if these idiots like it. Who cares if they consider it "rude"? If they need a laptop they should go buy a laptop or piss off. My computer is not a school resource.

... to do over I'd have stayed in academia. Get your masters, get your doctorate, and get a job in academia somewhere. There is no better job when you factor in wage, stress, and vacation time.

Bush isn't president anymore.

I would argue that casual gaming doesn't mean the end of hardcore gaming, but rather in the run will lead to more hardcore gamers.

People start casually and move to progressively more challenging games. Some of the people who were hardcore become casual as time constraints effect them more.

They compliment each other and aren't mutually exclusive, they go in cycles.

There is NOTHING about WOWs end game raiding that can be considered casual. To be successfully takes a huge time dedication, ditto on PVP.