This Slashdot story paid for by Heritage Auctions ... hoping that at least one Slashdot reader has $250K to drop.

Don't most Slashdotters who have to deal with Windows actually like Windows 7?

Does it still have the broken document button that many home users accidentally enable ... making it identify itself and render in IE7 bugs mode?

To me that was / is the most backwards thing about IE ... that users might actually be running in IE7 mode without realizing it.

Is this really news for nerds or stuff that matters?

Sure we all read books but why is this interesting?

You just underscored the problem ... it's the off-tv stuff that is the killer feature. But the gamepad looks like the Fisher Price version of the iPad ... priced like a console ... so it's more like a DS upgrade ... sorta ... or an expensive something or other ...

It's certainly a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and makes you wonder why airport fees are so high when these agencies seem to be committing to the wrong technology over and over.

The TSA has to remove the Rapiscan machines because they couldn't patch the software to remove customer-specific imagery? Why use them in the first place?

I wonder how much money was flushed down the drain on those babies ... I wonder how long the new machines will last before they get replaced ... and now small airports are back to full body cavity searches which is why these machines existed in the first place ...

I disagree. Kids and Teenagers drive console sales .. especially Nintendo console sales. Parents don't generally go to a store and let the sales drones tell them what console their kids want. Other kids do. The Wii just happened to be fun for parents and turned them into kids for a little bit. Sales drones have nothing to do with it.

I think the problem is that the original Wii kids have grown up now. Happens to Nintendo every couple generations. Wii isn't cool anymore.

The WiiU looks like a bulky Fisher Price iPad and the original Wii fans who were kids 6 years ago are older now ... they want something a little more grown up. Happened to Nintendo before when the original Sony Playstation came out and all the Nintendo fans had grown up ... good news is nostalgia will bring them back eventually ...

Agreed .. gotta be the cheapest .. or it's dead.

Other points:

1. The Name: WiiU is not different enough from Wii. It's hard for the market to understand want kind of upgrade they are dealing with. Is it like a DS to DS Lite? Or is it like a GameCube to Wii? We all know it's an upgrade (U) but since we all have a Wii is it worth the upgrade to get the U? The naming convention does not help in the decision and does not feel like something really "new".

2. The Game Pad: The box photos are confusing. Is it a consol or a tablet? It's not easy to make the connection that it's both. It looks more like you are buying a bulky iPad ... I like Sony's "possible" approach here by saying you might be able to use your iPad or iPhone as an accessory with the PS4 to expand the game. Unfortunately that will make the WiiU Game Pad even more confusing. The Wii Remote was easy to understand ... a magic wand. The new Game Pad is hard to understand because it seems like that is what you are buying.

3. The Console Itself: In the context of the product photos it looks like an old CD Drive and not worth mentioning. Pictured beside the Game Pad no idea what it is. They should have put a High Definition Television behind all the photos to remind people that the WiiU is a full-fledged console and not a bigger DS or iPad wannabe.

4. DS ... WiiU ... for some reason the WiiU looks more like an upgrade to the DS line ... instead of an upgrade to the Wii Line

5. Hardware specs. Nintendo got beaten up bad about how inferior the hardware specs were on the Wii. They fought back with awesome gameplay. This time around though they should have ensured the specs would be a non issue so the media is not focused on the same problems that plagued the Wii initially. This will hurt them this time around now that everyone else has caught up.

6. Price of Games ... considering the console is so expensive Nintendo should have done something to reduce the price of games. That would have been a revolutionary idea for consoles if they could pull it off. IPad and Android will keep chipping away at their market otherwise because of $1 games that are decent.

I want the current Full Site that is subtly tweaked for Mobile ...

Best new feature of Mobile Site:

The link at the bottom right corner that says: Full Site.

The forward and back buttons at the top right dont really work as expected.
They look like the browser forward back buttons but go to articles I have never been to.
Or most times when I click them there is a huge lag and nothing happens.

The articles are all cut off on the homepage so you have to tap everything which is really annoying!!!!

Scrolling is really choppy (iPhone 5 here)

The formatting of the comments does not look good. Hard to read threads and easy to get lost.

The site doesn't look like Slashdot because we all LOVE the green bars and they are gone. :-(

YES

If the mobile site still LOOKED like Slashdot I think people would be more open to it.

But it looks like any Generic news site ...

I remember when they redesigned Slashdot 5 years ago ... and the new design retained the "feel" of the old design. The mobile site does not retain the Slashdot feel. Even hardcore old school Emacs guys have a certain affinity towards the way things look and feel here. So don't mess with that.

Why not create your own site then? Sounds like you've got some great ideas there!!

I third that. I don't understand why we need a dumbed down version of the site when my phone can display the full site just fine? I'v enever had a problem browsing the full site and prefer it.

I'd say they have high piracy because after you purchase your first upgrade you realize Adobe's ripping you off ... and you don't want to keep giving them money for new version which basically amount to bug fixes.

- I remember Photoshop CS ... mostly how buggy it was ...
- Then getting excited about upgrading to CS2 ...
- After upgrading to CS2 realizing it did not offer anything new really ... smart objects but not much else compared to CS ...
- Mucho money spent over multiple version with only minor incremental upgrades and mostly bug fixes each time.

Photoshop CS3 was a worthy upgrade but only for speed and stability (again not many new features). So even with CS3 you were basically paying for bug fixes.
Anyhow CS3 was the last good version of Photoshop as far as I am concerned. Everything since then has been MEH.