Pff thats nothing! I run Windows. Do you see ME getting money for my pains? NO!

Ehrm...I dont suppose I could interest you in some cialis or viagra right?

We subpoena'd your ISP to get your home address. Pack your bags and get ready for a trip.

Sincerely,

The RIAA

Am I the only one who's worried by this development? I mean, that new Clippy is bound to possess some kind of AI right? For that kind of cash I certainly expect it to be fairly smart.

Now figure in how good MS programmers are at proper code hygiene. Imagine digital Clippy corpses all over the sourcecode. Add internet access. Add sites like /. where we're all collectively spewing how much we hate Clippy and how bad we want it to stay dead.

I cant help but envision Clippy, out for revenge, armed with nuclear weapons.

Well this article does mention the RIAA so your mental link with Felching is understandable. Worrying, but understandable.

Even if this spokesman expressed the RIAA's official stance regarding DRM, this is no guarantee that it ends the stream of stupid/evil/meanspirited/frivolous lawsuits. You only have to look at their trackrecord to believe that. Common sense has never stopped them before, has it?

CD's are for pussies. I don't use harddisks either. All my backups are done by the 20 illegal Chinese that sit in my basement remembering 0's and 1's for me. If you feed em reasonably, they last up to 80 years!

I used to have a library membership but at that point I was a big fan of Fantasy, and most Fantasy series I was interested in were multi-part. The library would have parts 2, 4 and 7 of a series, making it hard to really get into it. I never had the patience to wait for the missing parts to get returned. So I started buying the books instead. I re-read all of them several times and they look nice and decorative so its win-win :)

FTA: The prototype works with a Vista host but the hardware comprising the NIC is based on a Linux stack.

There's no way im touching that man. I know what happens when matter and anti-matter collide...

Past tense for Tweet is Twat. All the article is saying is that there's a reason for that :)

Actually I did use one and I clearly recall that for that time it was really quite good. The games were simple, aye. But you're forgetting that the games you could get were made by Philips itself, who wasn't -and never has been- a game developer like Nintendo. It died before major developers could get the most out of the box.

Your remark about the input being weak falls short because it had virtually the same controller as the SNES. Storage capacity is also a moot point because the SNES didn't have any capacity either and im fairly sure you can put more on a CD than on a SNES cartridge. On the cost note, it was probably more expensive for US citizens than for us in the Netherlands. Philips being a Dutch brand and all.

And that little snide at the end: "Philips, cm'on" really doesn't make any sense at all. I don't know why you're railing the way you are, because clearly you've never actually played with a CD-I.

On that note, I've always been amazed with Philips' choices on the CD-I. Does anyone else remember that thing? It was miles ahead of its competitors in interactive media, but it was sunk because Philips didn't want to allow the porn industry to get their hands on it.

I'll sure miss it. I remember fondly how I could give my friend Timmy Schneider a ceisure from the other end of the planet, just by giving him the URL to any given Geocities site. *sigh* Those were the days man....

As has been said before, Correlation does not equate to Causation! For at least a decade now, the games industry has shown an incredible growth. Its bigger than motion pictures! We can safely say that more people have been gaming, its become less of a social taboo (or sign of nerdiness) and more mainstream. I think it would be safe to assume that with more people gaming, there are also more people going hardcore. Its better to say there are "more gamers" than to say there are "more casual gamers".