I notice the difference between playing FPS games with wired and wireless mice. I would not react well to anything like this -- especially while I'm busy downloading my err.. creative commons.. music and movies.

The only answer that would not surprise me would be "a university/PhD grant."

In a supposed attempt to perhaps be neutral, I find myself apparently with a somewhat limited number of options for commenting, including: I may or may not understand all or some of your prose, all of which I may or may not agree or disagree with. I hope I have conveyed my interpretation without ambiguity.

I wonder if the constants are optimally tuned?

Ah yes, let's filter light from getting into the cockpit. A-grade idea there!

It sees one guy, he gets one cup. http://www.efukt.com/2339_1_Guy_1_Cup.html (WARNING)

Or at least you tell yourself you think they're 18 or over.

My argument had little to do with your supposed point.

By your logic, you're implying your own idiocy.

Wait.. "Wii" <--> "next-generation graphics" ?!

Written by a commoner.

So this is Obama's new plan for space..

If you can get USB working at 1MHz I'll give you a medal.

Except for the occasional Windows reboot because the serial port is locked after your app crashed.

This is especially true in low-frequency micros. Not only does USB require complicated software both on the chip and on the pc (not to mention the licensing issues), it uses a lot of cycles just processing the stream. With UART any jack-ass with a C compiler can write the next killer text-based rpg in no time.

Also to note, you can do cool things with serial. e.g. A BlueSMiRF device can sit on the outside of your serial device (just connect TX/RX and give it power), and it instantly transforms it to a Bluetooth signal. You can then read and write to serial via any computer with Bluetooth (pretty neat). Should mention this does break poorly-written timing sensitive serial applications like some bootloaders. But there you have it.