Did anyone else notice that Google Maps doesn't work anymore, or is it just me? Well, I'll use WiiEarth (homebrew) meanwhile.

Maybe people will find new ways of injecting code and running their own stuff through manipulated SWFs - not sure if that's possible at all. If Nintendo intends on updating the browser once every three years, that's less often than their pushing of homebrew-disabling "updates".

Chrono Trigger probably won't be released on the Wii, because Nintendo just recently released it as a special version for the DS. But of course you can use Bannerbomb, The Homebrew Channel and SNES9xGX to get a ROM running... Same with Yoshi's Island. There's a DS version, although totally different from the original, but no VC for the Wii.

...but it still sounds like the usual support drones trying to get rid of you, as to increase their daily call rate. Also, support working through a fixed script is a showstopper for me. I stopped using product support for everything but very specific questions about particular pieces of hardware. Usually I'm pretty good at getting things working on my own. Chances are that not even the designated support is able to help me if something really doesn't want to work.

1. My account is already deleted. If you still have a record of it, you're clearly not "deleting" stuff, as you say on the account page. If you can bring up ANY piece of information about the contents of my supposedly-deleted account, I will take legal action.

2. You're not supposed to take rantings against companies personally. I liked Last.fm while it lasted. I'm just "not happy" with that corporate decision. If we're all really misinformed... good enough. Still, that won't bring me back as a user. You lost me.

3. "I'll keep an eye out for you." - Is that a threat?

I cancelled my Last.fm account immediately after I read this article. Fu** them for this.

I shouldn't have done this from the start. I feel stupid. I should've seen something like this coming.

Additionally, there is still the problem of content creation - which game studio has the time and resources to generate that much actual game content nowadays, not just pre-rendered ultra-HD cutscenes or music? MGS4 is a pretty good example. It takes an immense amount of work to create a game with that much detail that it fills up a Bluray disk.

Most of that space could be filled up with procedurally generated environments, but that's just the same "more of the good old stuff" philosophy that Sony's been following with the PS3. Once you max out one factor (horsepower), the highest possible output becomes dependent on other factors.

I also shoot exclusively RAW, but until very recently I only had a single 4GB card. When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, I took ~14GB worth of pictures with that card. Since I had my Asus EeePC 900 and a 2.5"-120GB-USB-Disk with me, I just moved all images to the HD every night.

For organisation... someone else said it already. SD cards should be considered somewhat unsafe storage. There's no reason for me to have several of them, except old cards that I didn't throw away yet, because they're still functional - but I don't carry them with me, I just store them somewhere - empty.

You mean with real keys, like any old non-touchscreen phone? Next thing you say that office applications should be client binaries, not run off the web! ;-)
The only new thing would be the phone saying the number you just pressed, but you kinda already have that, too - DTMF tones.

Then you're not looking hard enough. In fact, you must be not looking at all to not see the obvious benefits of nicely-layouted GUIs. I'm fairly sure you've heard the term "user interface design", so why are you ignoring what dozens of highly intelligent people have been teaching for decades? Besides: Just having a GUI for editing config files doesn't take away your favourite way of editing them or whatever you wish.

Nothing against that, but every learning curve has its optimum steepness. Before you can learn to properly edit config files, you first need to:

1. be aware of their existance (!)
2. know their location
3. know how to start a usable text editor as superuser

All of which are non-obvious things for first-time Linux users, IMO. And you still wonder why Linux distributions aren't more popular than they currently are? :-/