The perfect tri-fecta of women, coffee, and beer is, 'cold and bitter'! :-p

"...don't think that was a problem which the people originally started worrying about what people knew about them were concerned with."

Still trying to parse this. Will get back to you when parsing is completed... ;]

I believe his point is that his handwriting, (w/pen & paper) is already not legible. So using this tech won't help him.

No, but it might take a brain surgeon.

Sorry, but I won't believe it until confirmed by Netcraft.

"Delivered"

That has to be one of the funniest things I've ever read! (I just hope it's not one of those, "it's funny 'cuz it's true", type of things).

Thank you. You should quit your day job now.

That **whooshing** sound you hear is the spinning knife-blade hands of the robot army coming for you. Better hurry and put your affairs in ord - wait... what...?

Ok, never mind. It was just the sound of the joke going over your humor-devoid cranium ;-)

"Perhaps. But the hats are AWESOME."

Yaahrrr... but gettin' the peg-leg and hook installed can be a mite painful.

Switzerland != Sweden. Please stop posting while drunk.

But couldn't the tarball be used to repair the pothole instead?

These car analogies sure can be confusing!

That's all true. I just find myself in airports without a free connection a lot more often than I find myself at McDonald's. That McD's are offering free wi-fi won't bring me in. Free wi-fi at airports, while not likely to happen for the reasons you mention, would still be much more useful - at least for me.

Meh... please notify me when wi-fi is ubiquitously free at airports.

When the movies are sent to you, do they arive in any type of packaging that indicate what type of movie you are getting?

Netflix sends movies in a Tyvek sleeve with a label with the title, plot synopsis, and a few other details. This, in turn, goes in a paper envelope that hides everything on the label, except a barcode. I don't know what is encoded in the barcode; if I had to guess, it's a unique identifier Netflix uses for inventory purposes. Without a way to tie that to a movie title, the only way someone's going to know what you're ordering from Netflix would be if someone intercepted your mail and pulled out the movie.

Make a game based around tanks, rogues, and wizards, each countering the other, each with limited self-healing capabilities and very limited AOEs. Blur the lines by allowing tanks to use crossbows, rogues to use bows, and wizards get to create awesome light-swords that cut through everything.

That's just one approach. Another is to allow some classes to deploy "mines" or create temporary "walls" (think necro from diablo creating a wall of bone).

Anyways, that's a couple off the top of my head that don't involve being just one in the crowd.

-Jeff

People still need to buy a 3D capable TV and I expect for a good while yet they will command a premium for a relatively useless feature. Furthermore, even if the PS3 does support 3D, it will probably do so in non-optimal way. After all, the PS3 doesn't strictly support HDMI 1.4 and is probably bandwidth & chipset constrained. I expect if Sony do offer output might have to output 2D + z buffer or some crappy side by side output, neither of which is optimal. The PS3 might also be able to output anaglyph for people on older TVs (red / cyan).

It's certainly a nice freebie to get in a PS3 and it will certainly accelerate the format, but 3D is still strictly early adopter for a few years yet. There are too many standards to implement (and iron the kinks out of), gen 1 TVs with rudimentary support and a large price, much user confusion and a dearth of content. Once some of these issues are addressed I believe it will become a popular medium.