I sincerely hope that those concepts are truly alien to any passers-by. With luck, their best approximation of a cruel dictatorship would have wizards riding unicorns through the sky carrying banners reading "MAN I BET YOU JUST HATE YOUR FREE CHEESEBURGERS AND WEEKENDS AWAY IN VENUSIAN PLEASURE DOMES, PUNY EARTHLINGS. WHATEVER."

I love G+, I do. It's pretty, it's barebones and it doesn't try and sell my friends' pastimes to me (Hi, Facebook!) It's where I post stuff so Manageflitter can tweet it for me. Now maybe my conscious decision to drastically reduce my social graph has something to do with it, but G+ just feels very... unbusy.

That said, I get lots of discussion with "randoms" on G+ compared to Twitter.

For about 6 months, it seems. I'm an ex-PC builder/gamer that switched to Mac and Xbox, and I did it because I got sick of the constant upgrade cycles involved in keeping a gaming PC relevant.

Aaand my mod points timed out yesterday. Curses. Parent is the comment you should all be reading.

You're really gonna blame this on Christmas? You're really trying to tell me that Instagram users WOULDN'T have otherwise taken a billion anachronistic photos of their Wii U/cheap tablet/etc. that look like they were taken in the eighties? I call boolshit.

I'd bet money that a Lamborghini has gotten SOMEONE laid.

Idiotic for driving drunk. Even more so for admitting to doing something illegal, stupid and dangerous to self, and admitting it to people who apparently have an interest in the subject's well-being.

(Not) Looking forward to reading Cory Doctorow's summary of this on boingboing.

Answer: Having to find something other than VR to talk about, and too much sci-fi. HTH.

This is the most ridiculous complaint I've ever heard. Greater variety in LEGO bricks? STOP IT NOW! EVERYTHING MUST BE RED 2X4!

I grew up with LEGO and I still regularly purchase, build and play in my late 20s. The new pieces are AWESOME. So are the new colours. Pick a brick and LDD make prototyping, buying and building your own creations a snap (though you have to manually generate a parts list these days). If that ain't enough to keep LEGO fun and interesting, trade in your kid.

Didn't RTFA because WTF.

As a former Linux user and current Mac user with concerns over Apple's direction, this is the most exciting Linux news I've heard in a while. I realise it's probably a ways off, but if I could run eg. Reason on Ubuntu and there was a nice *step style WM (with a real maximize button!) I could be sold :)

I love my 360, don't get me wrong. It came out on top this generation and has provided me with tons of enjoyment, as well as providing by far the most sane experience on any console since pretty-much ever. But the XBox dashboard is about as consumer-oriented as a TV stuck to receive only a shopping channel. A shopping channel for MARTIANS.

And yet, I've received complaints from customers buying laptops (not what you'd call sleekbooks or netbooks or ultrabooks or ANY kind of book) that expected it to include an optical drive, which was absent. "Not all laptops have a DVD drive", I guess everything old is new again in portable computing :)

Back to the slashmydots' comment though, I think you're missing the mark a little on the demographics that tablets are aimed at. Typing? Printing? USB storage? These were the kinds of things that tablet users already begrudged about their computing experience. And I use my tablet as my PRIMARY web browser. I only browse a "real" browser if I happen to be doing "real" computing on my MacBook.

You should totally aks them again.

Actually, you still need to buy the content. So whilst I agree that Doom 3 is not the most fantastic game, I question your understanding of the topic at hand.